Taco El Botanas

Thank you, Leo. We couldn’t have been happier with you guys. Great food. Great communication. Everything as promised… all the guests raved!

Leo and his crew catered my twins’ first birthday party at a park. From my first phone call it was seamless service. Super easy to book, flexible with food and times and they showed up early to cook and everything was ready when guests arrived. Several people commented on how great the food was and what even better idea it was to get tacos catered. The bang for the buck is probably what I’m the most emphatic about– I don’t think I could feed 50 people any other food for that good of price and ease of service. I would definitely recommend Leo for your next party!

We used Taco El Botanas for our Halloween event at our office on the 29^th of October. It was, by far, one of our best events we’ve had. Everyone loved the food, and I loved that it was ready by the time we needed it ready. Leo and his staff were professional, kind, and just great people. I look forward to using them again.

Leo and his staff are AMAZING! We booked his team for my daughter Olivia’s first birthday. They were punctual, professional and the food was FANTASTIC It was an incredible hot that day and they worked tirelessly through the whole event. We had wanted to find a vendor to cut fruit and sprinkle chili… we had no luck and when I mentioned it to Leo he said NO PROBLEM just buy the fruit you want and we will cut it for you. Unbelievable service. We will be booking in the future and will recommend them any time possible. In the end, he packed up all the leftovers for us to enjoy at our after party again… impeccable service. Thank you Leo we look forward to working with you again. The Ollisons

This is my go-​to caterer for our neighborhood block party. Leo and his family are fabulous — efficient, timely with good communication. They bring everything we need — tacos, hot dogs, drinks, snow cones and churros — so I don’t have to stress!
Party On Taco El Botanas!!!

I rely on Unilocal reviews for everything and have always had similar good experiences when a place has high ratings… until now. It is so disappointing to have to write a bad review, and I don’t do it lightly because I understand how it can negatively affect a business. But I feel the need to share my experience with Taco El Botanas to prevent others from going through the same agony. First let me say that this review is strictly about customer service, not the food. I did not even get the opportunity to try the food and I’m sure it is wonderful.
I booked Leo about 2 months ago for a baby shower. First conversation was easy. I gave him dates, times, and location. He said he was available and to email him the information, which I did. In my email I asked him several more questions to which he never replied. I gave him a week, still no reply. So I called to see if he received my email. He only texts back and states that he can no longer do my event anymore. When I try to get clarification, I realize that he has my date wrong. So back and forth through text and email and finally he says, «Oh yes, we can do your event. I told you I was free that day.» Whatever. I didn’t want to make a big stink about it. I asked when he needed a final headcount and payment, he said 1 month prior. I asked if I could give him a headcount 2 weeks ahead instead of 1 month and he said that would be okay. I also emailed him and asked him to send me an invoice or at least a list of what’s included in our agreement. He never did.
So now it’s about 2 weeks before my event and I haven’t heard from Leo. I called him and left a message. I get a text a few minutes later stating, «…I have been trying to call you about the event next week. I will not be able to cater your event next week due to doctors orders.» That’s it? What!!!
I am not giving this business a bad review because they cancelled my event at the last second. I am a doctor and totally understand that there are unexpected medical issues that arise. I wish Leo the best with his recovery. I am upset and disappointed because I feel like communication was poor and instead of taking responsibility for the issues, he blames the customer. He said he DID email me back and HAS been calling me, but I never received any of those things. I verified that he had my correct contact information, but where are the email and phone call logs? Shouldn’t I have something that shows up on my phone that states I missed a call? It does for every other call I miss. Then he tells me that he hasn’t heard back from ME. What!!! If I had not called tonight, I have a feeling that I would have showed up to my event of 70 people with absolutely no food. That would be a nightmare, just like my experience with this business.

Leo and his crew deliver.
I’m going 5 stars because he catered my wedding. everything was clean, neat, organized straight solid. The price was amazing compared the other 3 caters i called.
Every guest was pleased with the food and speed of service. They were 2.5 hours ahead of planned meal time, cooked on site, fresh. As with most weddings somethings change last minute, they were able to roll with the punches.
They are a small team but deliver big.

I went back and forth between 3 and 4 stars.
I wish Unilocal let you give half stars!
Let’s start with quality of the asada, chicken, pastor, and bacon dogs! Mediocre in my opinion. I would rate ⁷⁄₁₀. Rice however was probably a ⁹⁄₁₀!
The good:
The crew was all friendly! However I felt like 2 of the 3 did most if not all of the work while the other person sat in the car. But I won’t judge cause I don’t know the situation.
The crew arrived about 1.5 hrs before serving time for a party of 70 to set up and prep.
The set up was nice, clean and professional looking. Everything was provided by the company.
Price was decent. We paid a little over $ 500 for tacos, rice, beans, bacon wrapped hot dogs for 70 guests
The bad:
I hadn’t heard from the company for a couple weeks so I called them 3 days before my event. Usually company’s I’ve hired call to confirm a couple days to 1 week before. It just makes me nervous because this company doesn’t require deposits so it’s easy for them to just forget or not show up to your party.
I wasn’t told what was needed as far as set up goes, what time they would arrive, if there was a deposit, what kind of payment they accepted, etc. I had to call and ask, or email multiple times just to get answers. I started to feel like a pest having to call or email all the time and not always getting a response.
One of my guests also found a piece of paper (which I looked closely at and saw that it was a piece of a receipt) in her beans. When she approached Leo his response was «oh okay» Granted, I wasn’t around for his response, so I don’t know what he said so I won’t hold that against him, but I did see the the receipt mixed in with the beans :/​I do think they should a little more careful
They didn’t tell me to have containers ready for left overs. When I asked they told me they don’t provide any nor did they bring any and when I went to grab some they had zip locs and containers ready… ?? So I was confused why they told me they didn’t have any again. Again if they told me to provide these things prior, it wouldn’t have been an issue.
My recommendation would be to make a confirmation call a couple of days before the event to confirm details with a customer and just go over what you require for a set up, the remaining balance and containers for left overs.

The same thing happened to me as the other review. I called Leo on a Saturday and he said he had the date available. Tried to book it Sunday and he never got back with me. Called Monday and he said he would call me in 2 – 3 hours, that was at 3pm waited until 8:30 pm and called. Love said the date was booked. Very disappointed.

Taco El Botanas provided catering for my low-​key backyard rehearsal dinner and it was great. They arrived on time to set up and provided delicious food at a really reasonable price. There was so much food leftover despite everyone going for seconds and thirds, plus they had add-​ons such as churros, bacon-​wrapped hot dogs etc. They bring all of their paperware as well making it really easy for any host or hostess; all you need to provide is the venue, the drinks and the guests.
Leo was very professional and responsive. Though they don’t have a website, it was easy from the Unilocal reviews and talking on the phone with Leo to figure out what to order.

Very frustrating experience! After having a phone conversation with Leo about catering for my son’s 1yr birthday party, I agreed to hire him for the event. I asked him if the date was open and he confirmed it was. I told him to reserve it for my event. The next day, I sent a follow up email confirming the reservation and asking about the specifics of the packages. He promptly responded by addressing some of the questions but not all, I sent a follow up email and he didn’t respond for couple days. He finally responded almost a week after I reserved the date with him stating that he doesn’t have availability anymore on the date I requested. I planned everything around his confirmation of the reservation and now I have to start from scratch. NOT DEPENDABLE AND DISHONOST, BE AWARE!

We used Taco El Botanas for my daughter’s fist and stepson’s 11-​year combined birthday party. From start to finish, Leo was super-​professional and helpful, and his #1 goal was to make things easy for us. He totally succeeded! The food was sooooo good, they stayed the perfect amount of time, set-​up/​cleaned-​up with no issues, and had the good sense to offer snow cones upon ordering (it ended up being 95 degrees the day of the party). The kids loved them, and the adults did too (making them «grown-​up»). Those little touches made for the perfect day. Not to mention they were the most economical of all the taco caterers I consulted.
I’ve never hosted a party where I actually got to enjoy the day, and thanks to Leo and Taco El Bontanas, I enjoyed every moment. Will definitely use them again!

I had been searching for taco catering for my birthday party for weeks. I received a few referrals from friends but they were so expensive for what they were offering and the time they allotted for service… so I went to my ever so faithful Unilocal and found Taco El Botanas; 49 reviews and 5 stars; I took the chance and so happy I did.
Leo and his crew arrived on time, set up was easy. service started a little later than we had planned, which was fine because guests were busy drinking, but Leo also stayed a ½ hour later.
He served:
Carne Asada Tacos
Chicken Tacos
Potato Tacos
Cheese Quesadillas
Beans and Rice
Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs
Now, I personally didn’t have any tacos the night of the party but me and a few friends ate our weight in bacon wrapped hot dogs :) All of my friends loved all the tacos, quesadillas and beans and rice– the food was served hot and well seasoned. At the end of the night he packaged up all left over food for us and thoroughly cleaned up.
Fast forward to Sunday night… tired from the party, not wanting to do a single thing but relax– reheated the leftover asada, chicken, beans and rice– it was as though it had just been cooked! If leftovers were as good as they were, then I have to bank on my friends when they said the food was absolutely delicious the night of the party. I received text messages the next few days following the party commenting on how good the food was and requests to forward Leo’s information; which of course I happily did.
Thanks for helping make my party a huge success Leo– I will definitely be calling you again for future events :)

Man thank god for Unilocal
I hired them for my wife’s birthday 2 yrs ago
And lost his number and moped for a while
He was super nice and made a special menu for my wife we loved it and guess who will be catering my next even as soon as get ahold of him
Yup very good food and amazing service
And no tho is not a fake post
Ill keep u posted

We had a bachelors party at Streets of Willow Raceway with approximately 100 people present. Leo and his crew showed up an hour before our scheduled lunch. They setup and were ready for our guests right on time.
We chose the carne asada, pollo asada, and pineapple bbq pork tacos. Fresh and tasty! And there was plenty of food to cover all guests.
Will definitely call Leo and the rest of the Taco El Botanas crew if ever we throw a shindig in the LA area.
Thanks Leo!

Used these guys agin for my hubby’s Bday and had many out of townera that were here for a family wedding… Once again we were blown away. They showed up early for prep, had tons of amazing food for our guests. Tacos, quesadillas, guac, salsas, chips. And big warm smiles… Seriously a very sweet family… Will use them over and over again!!!
See you guys in the spring for our next party!!!
Thank you!
— Lizzie

We had Taco El Botanas cater or rehearsal dinner bbq. Leo and his crew arrived early and delivered amazing food, and my whole party was raving. We even had left over food that Leo was so generous to leave with us. I highly recommend them for any event!

I just had Leo and his crew over this past weekend for my son’s birthday party and the food was a hit! Most people went back for seconds! We had about 50 guests and lots of yummy leftovers! I can’t say enough good things, from my initial contact, to confirmation a few days before the date, to showing up early with everything needed, clean, professional, and last but not least the delicious food! I look forward to using them again and hope that my friends do too so I can have some more of Leo’s delicious food! I took a chance based on all the good Unilocal reviews and I’m happy to review as another satisfied customer!

I hired Leo and his Crew to cater my 150ppl wedding and they did an AMAZING job! I had no complaints. Food was great, service was amazing and they were professional. I know we had a slight issue coordinating the time for set up but our communication window was open.
My guests LOVED the food, and I was VERY pleasantly pleased.
Price was one of the best quotes out there, and better believe I did my shopping, and with the service I got… I was sooo happy.
Thank you Leo! I will definitely refer you and call you again for any taco catering I may need in the future!

I was looking for taco catering for my daughters birthday party and found that Leo’s prices were reasonable and he was was easy to book with. The food came with a choice of 2 means, rice, beans, salsa and other condiments. It is always hard booking a service without a referral, but based on the other reviews I decided to go with them. They came early, set up on time and the guests enjoyed the food. We also asked for bacon wrapped hot dogs which the guests also liked. I did forget to let folks know that that quesidillas were included. Leo and his family were keeping an eye out for any unwelcomed guests at the park. We had people trying to get free food. Thank you Leo!