Best Mexican food in San Antonio period!…read more A lot of protein for ya buck. The Chicken, steak tortillas salas are all 10 out of 10.

Fast, friendly service. Chicken is delicious and affordable. Whole chicken comes with rice, corn…read moretortillas, jalapeño and onion and salsa. We always add charro beans to our order. Perfect for 2 ppl.

I've driven by here so many times on I-10, and the smell is so enticing. Today I was in the area…read moreand needed a quick bite. The smallest plate available was half a chicken! We got three meals out of that. The price, with tip, was $15. You can't beat it for freshly made, tasty food that was ready fast. The workers were very nice, too.

As we pulled into the Al Carbon Pollos Asados parking lot, I had a feeling this spot had all the…read moremakings of a great chicken spot. It shares parking with a gas station, has maximalist branding with a cartoon chicken holding two big thumbs up, there were no vacant parking spots, the blue sky looked straight out of a Windows background, and the smell of Northern Mexican style marinated fire grilled chicken cooked over charcoal was waging war on my nostrils. This spot is about as authentic as it gets: Mexican music blasting from the speakers, a colorful interior with papel picados and Mexican murals lining the walls, and a server that only spoke Spanish. I legit feel like we were in Mexico. We got coke zeros because we are skinny legends, and they served it with a styrofoam cup. Soda just hits different out of styrofoam. I got a half chicken with a side of rice and tortillas that ran $11.44, DIRT cheap. It also comes with a huge bottle of avocado sauce so you don't have to continually ask for more which is HUGE. As always, I must rate the chicken pre sauce, because otherwise we are just rating sauces. The chicken itself was a 7.9/10, but please keep in mind this is a much tougher grading scale than restaurant chicken. My only gripe was that the chicken was a bit dry to be considered truly elite, but an explosion of flavor, avocado green sauce, and vibes made up for it. It's places like this that make me hesitant to rank chicken from restaurants, because although the chicken itself was an 7.9/10, but I would recommend ANYONE to go here when in San Antonio. IG @jnov_ Tiktok @jnov__

New to the Alamo Ranch area. Trying the Birria Quesadilla & Street Tacos…read more We will definitely be back

Really bad experience. The customer service was horrible and extremely rude. We felt rushed the…read moreentire time we were trying to order, like they just wanted us to hurry up instead of actually helping us. They also had no water and barely any drinks available, and then charged us $13 for TWO tacos. The whole experience was ridiculous, overpriced, and uncomfortable. If you're going to charge those kinds of prices, the customer service should at least be decent. Definitely would not come back.

Follow them on socials for specials sometimes it's buy a whole chicken get one or half free or a…read morebaked potato. Super fast and good food Usually pay $22 or less for chicken and rice and beans

Yikes! A health score of 84? Had I known this... Probably wouldn't have eaten here…read more I caught the health score here on Yelp as I was standing in line to check out AFTER eating lunch. I searched high and low inside the restaurant for the posted score... They do not have it posted! Big thumbs down! I don't quite remember how this joint ended up on my "bookmarks". In any event... I found myself south of town this past Friday and decided to give it a shot. No private parking lot. I parked on a side street about a block away. This translated into walking in front of/being pestered by an employee of the "CBD" store next-door. Once inside, I waited too long for someone to approach my table. However, I can say the food came out quickly. I had the half chicken meal... Which comes with everything you would expect from your classic "Mexican red chicken" joint. Except the flavor. They forgot to bring the flavor. The chicken was juicy and cooked well, but totally bland. I expect more from a place like this. Then, don't even get me started on how long it took me to check out. Ended up in a line at least 10 people deep and waited...and waited...and waited. Finally, I got to the front...handed her a twenty. She handed me back a ten. I left. Plenty of better pollos asados places in town. Don't go out of your way.

Wow! Great find in my old stomping grounds…read more.. This used to be a churches fried chicken that my family ate at every single Friday for about 25 years. Was happy to see that the place is still being utilized and turns out it is wonderful! The chicken and the steak bites are delicious, as were the burgers that we tried and the chicken salad is delightful! Give this place a try!

False advertising on Uber eats, chicken was dry, salsa is salty, rice was soggy and when called…read moreabout missing items the guy was rude. Sounds like bait and switch scam

This family operation is serving up some dreamy dishes on the Northwest side of town but it's the…read moreTorta de Milanesa de Pollo that might be a nightmare for other Tortas in the SA food game! The Torta featured an oversized portion of breaded chicken, what seemed like an entire avocado, Queso fresco, Lettuce & Tomato and a refried bean spread on freshly toasted bread. I added her magical smoked salsa roja which was so damn good. Five star sando, for sure! Everything is prepared with by owner and chef, Mama Lola, w/ her Sous chefs (her 20 something kids) while hubby Ismael helps folks out front. This is so the kind of business this page is for; small, local, family owned food business deserving of a shoutout I will definitely be back to try their Quesadillas Pollo Pibil (Yucatán Style) 2 for $7 and oversized Carnitas Burrito!

This food truck was in a small food truck park, and the tacos were very good! Make sure to try all…read morethe flavors of salsa as they had about 3 different kids. Service was great, and the food was fresh and flavorful!!

This was a nice surprise treat. I don't agree with the bad reviews, and it was just shy of a 5. Let…read moreme address those bad reviews. The fries...these were a huge surprise! When I opened my plate, I was like great, crinkle fries usually mean bad fries. The fries were crispy but soft on the inside. Dare I say someone working the fryer either knows double frying, or resting refry...plus the seasoning sprinkled atop added to the perfect cook. I can't believe I'm saying that about fries. So please don't make me look bad and serve dry over cooked fries for anyone else that reads this and tries them. The Mexican burger, although a good burger, is not a classic Mexican burger. You can't just throw avocado and extra mustard and call it that. Seems to be the theme in town with places that sell it. I can count on one hand the places in town that sell a true Mexican burger. It was also a bit of a hot mess, but still a great patty and decent flavor. The birria was good. Just a tad bit over salted. Which compared to the 90 percent of other places that serve extremely salted birria in town, makes it a winner. Great tacos, great cheese, and the consume was delicious as well. We like them a bit more on the crispy rather than soggy, and they hit it out of the park on that. Again, you salt in stages, not at the beginning where the salt gets condensed in slow cooks. Just a guess. The mini tacos, I usually don't get them. We made an exception this time. Glad we did. The tortillas were nice, they were thin, and weren't para fried like at other trucks. What I mean is the tortilla wasn't tough. The asada was seasoned adequately, and they didn't skimp on the portions. What would have been perfect was some pickled onions. We added charro beans for a small charge. Those were good too as well as the rice. I feel like more and more places are starting to charge for what used to be beans included with your tacos. Overall affordable, great flavor, and decent portions. We would come back!

Worker was rude when I told her they forgot my onions cilantro and most important thing consome for…read moremy birria tacos. Live 20 mins away I'm not planning to eat it dry. I feel like she needs to give me everything I order when I'm close to them again in the future or come deliver what I need to my house since it was their fault. All she said was have a good night can't deliver or give you a plate next trip. Ridiculous

Great spot for tortillas, barbacoa, tamales, & menudo. The place is straight forward…read more Walk in, look at menu, they sling it over to you and you're out in less than 5 minutes. I like showing up early, the spot can get packed but the line also moves. They sell avocados too and other food items to compliment your breakfast.

Let's start off with the highlight barbacoa was very good true all meat was maybe just a lil dry…read moreand that's why won't get 10/10 but it was a strong 9/10 then the menudo smelled amazing very good ratio of meat and hominy also plenty of meat but lacked just a lil bit of flavor nothing a few pinches of salt and limón and some salsa couldn't change 8/10 after mixed 7/10 before adding anything the salsa was good as well to add flavor nothing spicy at all just a lil watery tho no worries still good but the tamales is where the let down happend 3/10 super dry not a lot of flavor but good ratio of meat to masa so I'd give a 4/10 will be back for barbacoa for sure not sure about the others