Don Pancho Taquería

I should have known why our food came out in only 10 minutes…
Wasn’t impressed and won’t be back. Clearly they scraped the bottom of what was left from the day for our carne asada burrito and enchiladas rojas. The latter wasn’t very hot and the tortillas were firm. Not a ton of flavor all around, and the carne asada seemed dry, burnt and bland. Rice and beans were pretty bland too.
Didn’t feel like it was worth the $ 20 that I paid. Spent more than 20 years in San Diego and have been to Mexico many times. I know good Mexican food and this isn’t it.

We came in about an hour before close and were the only people in there. Did a to-​go order for three different meals for less than $ 25. The only thing that was a little weird is that on the enchilada plate it was expressed that they cannot be different kinds. Other than that, very good food at a good price.

Enchiladas verdes… really good. Really sweet/​nice staff, too.

Best bang for your buck. Authentic and very generous portions. What a hidden gem in the midst of fancy schmancy restaurants!

Ordered 4 tacos for $ 5 at don Mancho! Not only is that a great deal but the tacos were on par with a much pricier establishment like Por Que No. The ambience of the place was lacklustre but unlike Por Que No, there was no line and I got my food in under five minutes. Would highly recommend this place for a good, cheap authentic taco

Hate to do it. This was my first time here. I was told that the food was great and pretty cheap. I’m from Austin Texas. Not to brag but I know my Mexican food. The food tasted like watered down meat. I ordered about 30 dollars worth of different stuff. Every bit of it was terrible. The salsa tasted like they had been filling it with water all day. If you have bad salsa you have bad food. I don’t think I will be coming back. The ceviche had ice all over it. When my girlfriend ordered the food the cook rolled his eyes and grumbled something and walked away. 30 dollars spent (wasted) they couldn’t even put all the fixings on the burrito! I hope to get a reply from the owner soon. No one asked me how my food was. I was prepared to explain why it was awful. Don panchos NO THANK YOU!!!

These are the best tacos I’ve had since leaving Texas. OMG, they are so wonderful and I will not waste my money elsehwere! Unfortunately, I live entirely too close and have to practice extreme willpower or I’d be there
. $ 5 for 4 tacos or $ 4 for 4 between 4 and 5PM for happy hour. These prices cant be beat and the quality and authenticity are unreal. Get in my mouth, NOW!

Solid Mexican food on a budget that makes for a nice reprieve from the trendier (and pricier) establishments surrounding. The young man working the cash register was so polite that 24 hours later I’m still appreciating how human he made me feel. Ordered it to go — food was ready quickly.

Nice people but the food is not very good. The rice and beans were pretty bad. I had the enchiladas and the cheese wasn’t completely melted. My husband had the fried fish which he said had no seasoning. The food is just blah. Maybe it’s their taco special that gets them the good ratings.

4×4 tacos are the business! It’s a nice little spot for Saturday morning breakfast. Picky kids? They have chicken nuggets and French fries. The menu is huge — I’ve tried several items but the tacos are the best, hands down. Go for the chicken or carne Asada.

Don Pancho has good, solid burritos. It’s amazing how many great street taco and authentic Mexican places I’ve found since moving up here. I figured that when I left Texas that it would be one of those things that I would miss a lot (along with great bbq, which I’m still having a tough time with that one) but I keep finding really good food.
DP has a great selection of meat choices (and veg options for some of you out there) and the prices are good. I’ve been here a few times and I’d get there more often, but I no longer live in the immediate area.
I enjoyed the sauces that they had and they had some nice kick to them. I always like to have my tongue on fire. I always say that if I’m not sweating, then it’s not good. I had beads of sweat across my bald noggin.
Good food, good sauces, good prices. Enjoy.

I love this place! Good pricing and good food and the people are very nice. This place is wayyy better than la sirenita

Hands down the best tacos and Mexican in Portland. Portland has food trucks. It has «Mexican» restaurants. It even has some Mexicans! I went to college in Southern California and nothing fulfills my need and desire to eat delicious tacos and radishes like this place. In l. a this place would be a go to spot. It’s an la 3.5÷4 but in Portland it’s a 5. I dunno why the idea of a taco joint is so hard to do, but they do it super legit here. Thank you Mexico and thank you don pancho. Whoever you are.

This is my «go to» lunch spot when I’m on Alberta for whatever reason. There are a few taquerias I like better, but the Don Pancho folks are always friendly and always serve me good food.

Portland loves their fusion too much. Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with it, but sometimes I feel like there’s a lack of authentic stuff, and then when one actually pops up, a gaggle of idiots come leave bad reviews saying it doesn’t taste at all like the fusion stuff they had. The «authentic» term is over-​used, but I’m not saying that authenticity necessary makes it good, but you have to understand for people who grow up on this stuff, how much you care the old-​school, authentic style when you’re deprived of it.
Real good mission style burritos. Everything about it tastes awesome. You know the two somewhat minor but very telling signs of a great burritos joint? One is a house-​made salsa bar with actually spicy sauces in there. Two is real, fresh tortillas. There’ll the little things that are often overlooked, even in an otherwise great burrito joint. This place has em both. As well, everything else tastes great. The rice has always been hot and tasty, not just like filler, I enjoy just as much when I get a bite with more rice. The lengua is melt in your mouth tender and full of flavor.
As a certified burrito enthusiast who has eaten tons of em from San Diego to LA to Santa Barbara to San Francisco, I can say this is by far the best Mexican joint I’ve found in Portland so far — or Oregon for that matter.

It’s not the best place for authentic Mexican food in Portland, it’s the ONLY place. You can keep that weak hipster garbage that pollutes PDX (if I have one more taco plate with smoky chipotle salsa, I’m gonna smack someone with a My Bloody Valentine LP), this is el articulo autentico. I’m just a little biased; I’ve been spoiled by top of the line Mexican food in LA. But, tasty, well done sopes, nachos, and cheese enchiladas shows that this is by far the best mexican restaurant in PDX. No one else here knows what they’re doing.

To tell u guys the truth, I didn’t like this place at all, and I’m Mexican! Lol
There was no favor to the food. I order a torta and a sope and they didn’t have to taste. Not even the sauces. And I ordered an agua fresca mango flavor, didn’t taste like it. It tasted like water with sugar.
I give it a two star cause of the prices, the food, 0 stars.

Typical Taqueria. There’s a market attached to this one too. Food was good, prices were pretty cheap (4 Tacos for $ ⁴⁄₃ Enchiladas for $ 9).

I’d been meaning to try this place for a long, long time, I finally put a reminder to do so on my phone during a three day weekend. Today was that third day. I was looking at the menu and I’d almost settled on a quesadilla when I saw a sign attached to the bottom offering for sale gorditas.
Some worthless hippy of my former acquaintance ranted at length once about how «real» gorditas were SO MUCH BETTER than what Taco Bell called the same. I probably ended up making her cry over it, and we weren’t even dating! *rimshot*
So you see, authenticity is a dirty word to me, I have no idea nor care if the gorditas Don Pancho served to me fit someone’s arbitrary notions of food purity, but it was pretty damn good. I was expecting a fat taco, I got a sandwich on crispy bread.
When I picked it up the very friendly lady behind the counter handed me a silverware rollup: «You might need this». She said. So I did, to enjoy the steak salad that was left behind once my sammich shuffled loose this mortal coil. Into my stomach.
They had bottled beer and fountain pop, plus what seemed like the normal range of south of the border bottled soft drinks. I got a beer. Three day weekend, y’all.

I don’t think there’s a better quick Mexican place in all of Portland.
Oh. I’m sorry. I mean, if there’s no better real and authentic Mexican food in Portland.
As a Mexican, from So-​Cal, Portland has pissed me off with their hipsters and hippie types demanding Mexican food places in the fair city of Portland carter to their desires that they forsake the traditional food of their people to that which fits their vegan and vegetarian friendly ways.
Note to white privilege types… no true Mexican food is vegetarian. Well, okay, enchiladas can be, but not much else. True Spanish style rice is made with chicken broth, beans made with lard… get the fuck over it. It’s how we’ve been doing it for centuries because it tastes better.
Don Pancho does all of this right. Their rice and beans are great. Their meats ever so delicious. They place Spanish language TV and soccer on their tiny television. And their salsa bar is pretty awesome. It reminds me of places I use to go to in Baja California, when my grandmother lived there. No place in Portland reminds me of that. Except for this place.
In short, if you want to know what real Mexican food tastes like, unaffected by white influence, Don Pancho’s is the place. And most likely, the only place, in Portland.
It’s also inexpensive, like good Mexican food should be.
I wish there was one closer to where I love. But for now, I will travel up to Alberta to get their amazing food. It’s sad more Mexican food in Portland isn’t this good.

Had a carne asada chimichanga here that was pretty decent. You can’t get a chimichanga just anywhere, you know… Although the rice was coooked perfectly and had good flavor, the meat was underseasoned and made me think to myself that I could’ve done better with a vegan burrito… now THAT is bad news.
They did offer some nice cinnamon tea on the house, which was interesting.
Hype.