La Tonelteca is a thriving Mexican franchise down here in the state of Delaware. So far I've been to two of the chains, one in Millsboro and one in Rehobeth beach. This one in particular had a larger interior than the previous one, but the food and service and atmosphere was the same. Pleasant, predictable and portioned fairly - that's what I expect when I come to La Tonalteca. read more

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We had the best, most caring waiter. Im a vegetarian and my friends are not. There is something for everyone here. I had the spinach quesadilla and it was out of this world. So we're the baked beans and everyone had a blast. Great margarita and thank you Jose for serving us! read more

La Tonalteca - The bartender took our picture after a wonderful dinner! - Mexican Near Me - Millsboro, Delaware

Awesome service, excellent food. Very clean and comfortable. We will definitely return.

Always great food and guacamole! We usually sit at the bar and get great service. The portion sizes are always large so there's leftovers to go home. read more

Service is great and for the price the food is very good! I do like their Skinny Margaritas too.

I've been by here many times heading down Rt113. Decided to stop in and get a late lunch. There were only 3 tables with customers, so we were seated immediately. They brought us chips and salsa. The salsa had some large chunks of tomatoes, which we weren't a fan of, and the chips were thicker than what we are used to . It was fair on flavor. We ordered beef quesadilla and a large burrito with everything (see pics) . The main food was good along with the rice and refried beans. Our tab came to $36 with a 20 oz. Draft beer. read more

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I love I love this restaurant. I have been there several times and the atmosphere is amazing. The service is amazing. The food is amazing. I cannot say enough good things about this restaurant. They are so accepting of everyone that comes in and they can't. They cannot do enough for you the drinks the margaritas are delicious all different kinds of margaritas. My favorite is the peach their menu goes from $10 to maybe $22 so it's not extremely expensive. You can add things to your menu so I highly recommend you give it a try. I don't think you will be disappointed there is an outside eatingwith the fall and there is plenty of room inside there is tables there is booths and like I said the waiters there are very very courteous and cannot be more kind and helpful read more

La Tonalteca - Mexican Near Me - Millsboro, Delaware

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I love this place!! The parking lot is huge and so is the restaurant itself, but inside isn't particularly loud or crowded. The food is ready quickly but not so fast that you feel rushed. I've been here twice now and both times my food has been fantastic. I love their burritos and enchiladas. However, if you're on the more particular side, make sure to specify exactly what you DO want in your meal -- my moderately picky sister was a bit disappointed to find some surprise vegetables in her tacos that weren't listed as included on the menu. After picking them out she liked her food, though. I'll eat pretty much anything so the surprises were fine with me, and I can't wait to come back again soon!! read more

La Tonalteca - three enchiladas - Mexican Near Me - Millsboro, Delaware

Restaurant to have big gatherings Food is great Staff is friendly It's a go to any day of the week read more

Our go to Mexican restaurant for quality food. Great service and nice ambience. Good location, close to Lowe's, BJ's and food stores. read more

La Tonalteca - Queso and chips - Mexican Near Me - Millsboro, Delaware

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I had the worst Huevos Rancheros' ever. overcooked eggs with a very small amount of liquid hot sauce. If it wasn't for the spice I wouldn't have known it was there. I've eaten Huevos Rancheros in New Mexico, Texas and Pennsylvania and they looked nothing like what was served here. Wife had beef fajitas and the beef was close to leather. Will never return. This was the Millsboro, DE location. read more

I have never stopped here as I travel back and forth to the beach. It's on the main road and in the parking lot near Roses. Wanted a quick dinner and decided to check their Menu. This is a large restaurant, plenty of space and a nice bar in the middle. They have a large variety of dishes and some a la cart sides too. My server was so friendly and helpful. I decided to go with the Texas Fajitas and it's a combination of chicken, steak, and shrimp. They give you complementary chips and salsa. The salsa is very good !! My dish was very flavorful but missed some spices and I would have preferred rice with my refried beans. So, fajitas were good, but not great. Service, however, was outstanding! I will go back to try something different next time. They have a lot on their menu to choose from! read more

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Not as super impressed as I was 2 years ago. I wont be hurrying back here anytime soon It was my friends birthday and she wanted fajitas and La Tonalteca was relatively close. It started with ordering a pitcher of margaritas and 2 glasses of water. We wait an insane amount of time meanwhile eating chips and salsa with no drink. Our mouths are as dry as the Sahara. Finally the waitress appears with no water or pitcher and hands us 2 margaritas in glasses. UMMM??? Huh? Fast forward fifteen minutes later we receive 2 waters and pitcher of margaritas. We ordered BEEF fajitas #202 and #210 Tacos de Carne Asada chicken and we receive CHICKEN fajitas. REALLY? So we return the chicken fajitas and receive beef fajitas but no tortillas to eat them. After waiting ten minutes we receive the tortillas. Can it get any worse? The food is now cold. I don't even want to eat the food now. I ask for boxes and she is not returning with boxes. YES!@@@@!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its getting worse. The waitress tries to give us the bill and no boxes . WAIT . STOP . ITS Kackys birthday . Please sing to her. I told you from the beginning its her birthday. I have to go to the hostess stand and tell the hostess to please sing to my friend because its her birthday and explain what's been going on with all the mess ups. Lady in charge at hostess stand says "Were going to make up for this". They did sing and bring her fried ice cream but the ice cream wasn't fried!! LOL They did wipe whip cream on her nose and that was cute. By no mean did they make up for this. Funny ...Funny. I wont be returning anytime soon. You couldn't make any of this stuff up. This restaurant is not worth all the hassle.... read more

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Definitely not as good as when it opened. It is not bad, just average with too much sauce and not enough meat. Guess it is the economy

Excellent Food and Service!! Would definitely recommend and return!! Very clean and beautifully decorated. Very Friendly and read more

Service is friendly, prices went up, portions went down. Kinda sucks. I never see this place busy. If someone says the food is "VERY GOOD", that's not true. They have their downs and ups. The cooks do NOT know how to cook a steak. You ask for RARE, they give you Medium to well done. I want my damn cow bleeding, thank you. I used to get the nacho plate and it was so much food, I could take it home.. Now they downgraded plate size and so are the portion they give you. I rarely eat here anymore. read more

The food is very good here. The decor is beautiful. The service is usually fair to good. The staff really doesn't know the menu when it comes which sides come with each entree which makes ordering difficult (forget about carry out). read more

Great food! Great Service! Great Prices! What more could you want!!! Millsboro Tonalteca read more

Good Mexican food! I've never eaten at the restaurant, always takeout. The food is made to order and they have good Margarita deals too!

Best everything Spanish , right downto the best chicken taco salad Chata Horchata & flan

I grew up in Arizona and I first saw this restaurant years ago in Wilmington. It was called La Tolteca back then. It is Mexican food that was so similar to AZ and yummy. Their house margaritas are great and enjoy their comlimentary chips and salsa. I like their chimichangas which are small, but very tasty. I also like their chicken enchiladas with verde sauce. On most plates they give you a salad which includes sour cream, guacamole, tomatoes and lettuce. You usually have to pay extra for that in other places. Not here. The chicken and beef tip dishes are excellent. I wouldn't order the ground beef dishes again. I just think the flavor wasn't there in the dish I ordered with ground beef. I go there at least once a week. It has great prices and great food! read more

I lived near a mexican restaurant in new castle county called morelia's (close to christiana hospital) and it is the best tex-mex food I have ever eaten - I did live in houston,tx many years ago. now, la tonalteca is chain with decent to good food service is quick and I do like the lunch specials. but, sometimes, the food is a little better or little worse, so I guess depends who is cooking. overall, I would say better than chill's or chi chi's which I do miss read more

Really?? This restaurant wants to be a Tex Mex, but the menu items are just pathetic. There was a time when quick Mexican meant going through an order line as your meal would be assembled from a half dozen pans on the warming tray. Imagine using those half dozen ingredients to create thirty more dishes, and you have the idea. Now imagine those options coming straight from a can. What I have described would be better than what we got. You got it? Now imagine stereotyped decore that might be mistaken as a farce or spoof on the stereotype. These were brightly colored, faux rustic Mexican peasant festival decorations. Then there was the beer. Draft beer and bottled beer are two different things. While it may involve a communication problem, one of our party is fluent in Spanish. It did not help. We did not enjoy ourselves. Eat well, tip well. read more

La Tonalteca - Just another dio - Mexican Near Me - Millsboro, Delaware

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So, as an update, we have started visiting La Tonalteca again but only for their mediocre Fajitas and enchiladas. I will never order a steak here again. Overall, their service is good, but the food is inconsistent, but it's close to home and good when we get a craving for Mexican food. read more

The millsboro location is the fourth tonalteca I've eaten at -- I've already tried the ones in rehoboth, millville, and milford. I like them all, and I usually get the same thing -- enchiladas rancheras -- two cheese enchiladas smothered with pork and sauce. The tonaltecas are pretty consistent in quality, so you really can't miss with any of them, but millsboro really nailed this dish. It was the pork that did it. Some pieces were crunchy and crispy, like potstickin good, and others were real tender and juicy and fatty. As you may have guessed, I'm kinda serious about my pork. It also didn't hurt that my tortilla chips were served warm and crispy fresh out of the fryer. Thanks, millsboro tonalteca! read more

La Tonalteca - Enchiladas rancheras, a margarita, and warm chips and salsa .. yeah baby!! - Mexican Near Me - Millsboro, Delaware

Great food but you will pay a lot for it. Family of four, you will not roll out without paying less than $75. The servers are polite and on point. I do recommend this place after payday. Same folks from the previous business. read more

Where do you eat while at the beach and your friend is Vegetarian and does not eat seafood? Exactly. No delicious seafood for us. Luckily, I found a restaurant with a few reviews (6 at the time) and 4 stars. Went to their website and there was a whole section titled "Vegetarian". SCORE! I am tempted to make this a 5 star review, but it has to be the best of the best. If Yelp had partial stars, this would be a solid 4.25. First, it was easy to find despite my Windows phone sending me in the wrong direction. Next, there was plenty of parking but it is the off-season at the beach. There were noticeably quite a few cars at 6pm on a Friday night. A good sign, right? Right! We headed straight to the bar because it wasn't 7 pm yet...Happy Hour time! Insert frowny face right here. It should be stated on the website that there is no happy hour on Fridays and Saturdays. Major disappointment because we are big happy hour diners! We probably would have gone elsewhere if we were not starving. We also try to make lemonade out of lemons so we sat down at the bar anyway. Glad we did! We had so many drinks to choose from. Margaritas? But which one? At least 10 different flavors and just as many different tequilas. Daquiris? Si. Any flavor your heart desires. (Peach seemed to be a favorite tonight) Beers? Tons. How to choose? My suggestion is to wait until a really cute server walks by and ask him for recommendations! He swore by the Golden Margarita which comes with Gran Marnier...top notch indeed! The best part is the price...at $7 a real steal! Mmmmmmmm....sipping margaritas and noshing on chips and salsa (so chunky and mild...until all of a sudden your tongue starts tingling!) trying to decide which of the yummy entrees to order. Soooo many pages to look through. I know! Start with an appetizer! I wanted to try the queso with beef or the chile dip with enchilada sauce....mmmmmm. Sigh, we got guacamole (note to self: find new friends who can eat meat!). Delicious! Cool and creamy and only $3.5! Nine different entrees for my vegetarian friend to choose from so no wonder she kept changing her mind. She went with the Super Combo ($10) because she wanted to try the chile relleno. You gotta love cheese if you order this dish. The cheese enchilada and the chile were both SMOTHERED in cheese. There was a side of beans but I couldn't find it under all the cheese! She let me try the chile relleno and it was so scrumptious. Yum! Bet you are dying to know what I picked! It was a tough choice. Do I go with a combination dinner where I get to choose two items from: quesadilla, burrito, enchilada, taco, chile relleno, tamal, chalupa or chile con queso for only $8.50? Am I hungry enough to choose the Grande Special Sampler which comes with a chulupa, chile relleno, beef enchilada, beef burrito and a beef taco for $15? Trust me. I had not eaten all day and was hungry enough to try. I gave the bartender my three choices and before I could even close my mouth, she replied, "Texas Fajitas!" Excellent choice. Tender slices of beef, chicken AND shrimp covered the hot plate! I was using the flour tortillas at first adding sour cream, onions, tomatoes and bell peppers which made my taste buds so happy with every bite but I soon realized that I couldn't keep it up if I wanted to finish my plate. Sigh. Sometimes, you should just go with your gut and NOT eat the whole thing! I dug into all the tender meaty pieces and seriously cleaned my plate...I hate to waste meat. By the time we left, we were literally rolling each other out the door. Our tummies were happy and the wallet was barely any lighter from our $44 dinner. We are going for seafood tonight. Don't tell my friend, but if she were to suggest we go back to LaTonalteca, I would happily change our destination! read more

La Tonalteca - Texas fajitas. Steak, chicken and shrimp. $14.99 - Mexican Near Me - Millsboro, Delaware

Food was incredible. Ambiance was incredible. Prices were incredible. I loved everything about this place and if I lived closer, I'd come here all the time. Unfortunately we ate too fast to take pictures but the servings are hefty- no one left even a little bit hungry! read more

We were greeted at the door by a friendly face, quickly shown to our table, and then quickly visited by a friendly server. He answered our questions and recommended some dishes for us. The food came out quickly, it was delicious, and overall the experience was very pleasant. We are going back soon. read more

Always great food and great staff!! It's nice being ablff we to order food for pickup and know it will get to you hot and fresh and packaged in a way that protects the integrity of the food. I told the person on the phone taking the order that I was really craving their nachos. I asked could he offer a similiar item more designed for delivery. He told me "No" lol he said he would make sure my nachos would be just like I was coming into restaurant to eat! So I ordered them and they came in separate containers and hot and fresh and easy to assemble myself! I try not to be a pain in the rear when I order delivery. I try to order items with realistic expectations.They really went above board to make me reassured I was a valued customer and it really shows in the quality of service and food! Thank you so much Tonalteca!!! read more

Stop for dinner on the way home from the beach and so glad we did! Huge restaurant allowed for social distancing even though it wasn't super crowded. Very impressed with the ambiance and decor. As soon as we pulled up and walked in I was happy about picking this spot off of a quick Yelp search (didn't get a chance to look at pictures, read reviews, etc.). Food was superb, service was fast and the thing I was most impressed with was how clean everything was which is super important these days. I wish this place was closer! Will definitely return the next time we are in Delaware! read more

Don't go to this restaurant. They sat us down and we waited for a server for 20 minutes no one came. They were not even busy. We got up and ask if someone will come to our table. One of the servers said he will be there in a minute. 5 minutes later no one came and we got up and left the place. No one even apologize. I would highly recommend NOT going to this restaurant. read more

The place looks nice , the food is good a bit pricey. My biggest problem is when you leave there you smell like grease. Therefore I rather not go there. read more

Really good fajitas and clean tables. Also really Nice waitress who isn't pushy, sat me in a quiet area, and just let me eat in peace. read more

Went there for lunch. Had very limited choices for vegetarian (like 2) What I did order (spinach) and it had a horrible after taste. Won't go back unless I know they got a new chef. read more

One of my personal favorites in Millsboro De. Staff is great, food is priced affordable and delicious. Again I've always had a good meal and experience here! read more

This place has got some great food but it lacks one thing. He service is HORRIBLE! I am not kidding you we saw about 5-7 families walk out because no waiter had arrived to their table! We had to ask for a different waitress because the first one had a really nasty attitude. After eating we told the manager that the food is really good but the service is horrible. Then the manager was saying that it's not the service that's the issue, and that it's the clients. Which manager blames the restaurants issues on the customers? She's (The manager) the reason why this place is mismanaged. read more

We love the food. The Nachos, fajitas, frozen mango margaritas are our faves. It's so good.

A real gem. The burrito was delicious. The churros for dessert was fantastic. The hand painted chairs are incredible. Highly recommended.

I've been wanting to go here for months but am always working when the mariachis are scheduled to play. Stopped in with a friend. Was excited to finally get to try the food. We arrived around 7pm. The place is beautiful and nearly empty (Labor Day weekend). We sat at the bar. They have a bar top game which was entertaining. This was good because nobody acknowledged our existence for at least 15 minutes. We both ordered fajitas. Everything was like shoe leather. I didn't eat any of mine. When our server/bartender came to deliver the check, he saw that I had only taken one bite of my food. He didn't ask if I liked it or if I wanted to take it home. He dropped the check and walked away. I will not Return. Very disappointed. Margaritas were lame and premade. Do not waste your time. read more

La Tonalteca - Shrimp and steak fajitas look great NOT! - Mexican Near Me - Millsboro, Delaware

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