The Uber app to order here is not bad. Fairly user friendly. I ordered for a group. The tacos of Tripe were tasty. Good flavoring. And notes were minded (I asked for one cooked extra crispy), and the other taco we added mozzarella. Unfortunately they did not add much and they put it directly on the taco and it did not satisfy. Also ordered a beef fajita torta - the bread was good- toasted nicely but the tomato started to make the corners soggy and wet. The taste of the whole sandwich was very good. Then we ordered 2 quesadillas - one chicken and one beef fajita. Unfortunately they were not satisfying. The cheese pull was non-existent. They didn't put enough cheese!! That's a BIG no-no. It's a quesadilla. You get a quesadilla for the cheese. On top of that, both meats (chicken and beef fajita) were dry and over-cooked. Unsatisfying! And they're not cheap. $9 for a large quesadilla. Not going to order quesadillas here ever again. No good. If I want tacos I would order from here, but not anything that should have cheese. read more

Tacos La Bala - Beef fajita torta. Tasty. Very satisfying. Have it fresh when possible - with takeout you run the risk of sogginess. - Mexican Near Me - Houston, Texas

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The best authentic tacos. Place is a whole in the wall with excellent food and counter service read more

Excellente servicio y calidad de alimentos. Recomiendo la Torta de la barda o Quesadilla grande con fajita, acompañado de un litro de Horchata o jamaica. read more

If I could give it 0 stars I would. I ordered 2 chicken fajita tacos from Uber eats and I got beef I don't eat beef called the store tried speaking to the lady and she hung up on me, called back then she acted like she didn't speak English when we had just had a whole conversation in English. Terrible! read more

I feel conflicted writing a review for this place because I'm mean and selfish and I would prefer this place to stay a secret forever and ever, but, SUPER authentic hole-in-wall Mexican place, you should/have to order in Spanish. Huevos a la mexicana were delish, beef fajitas bomb dot com, sauces were very gucci. read more

Tacos La Bala - Breakfast tacos, HTX - Mexican Near Me - Houston, Texas

Food was delicious! The food was fast and delicious. The green sauce was okay but the red sauce was hot. It's a small restaurant and with covid I would suggest ordering to go like I did. read more

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I often picked up tacos here for our UberEats customers.Today, I tried Pollo-chicken tacos.I waited for 10 minutes.That was amazing! Currently, the restaurant is closed for dine-in. But we still can eat to-go.The restaurant is available for UberEats.Please try it! read more

Tacos La Bala - a close up of a taco - Mexican Near Me - Houston, Texas

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The tacos are still my fav here. The tongue and fajita beef are top notch. With nothing but little chopped onion and cilantro in some fresh corn tortillas they are about the most authentic Mexican tacos I have had in Houston. Cheap too! This trip I branched out and got the $4.50 burrito. The fajita beef was the same lovely spiced seasoned chopped beef in the tacos but with that creamy white Mexican cheese and lettuce all wrapped tightly in a flour tortilla. It ain't tiny, I'll give them that! It's a beautiful thing... Cold side, warm side...all in a big ol' mouthful. I would so get one of these to go and take it home for some football watchin' this winter. I'll grab a couple tacos too just for an appetizer. This was our 3rd trip here since we discovered the little place a couple weeks back. We love it. I think they have beer and sangria but whenever I can get a cold Mexican Coke or a Topo Chico, I'll pick one of those. Order at the counter, English on one side of the menu/Spanish on the other. Cash only. Few table cramped into the place so if you come at a busy time you may not get a seat. It's clean and well lit. Don't be freaked by the location. This place rocks! It doesn't hurt to know a little food ordering Spanish but it's not required. read more

Tacos La Bala - Order at the counter - Mexican Near Me - Houston, Texas

Have been thinking about going here for some time, but always get seduced by the new Pico's Bakery and can't quite make it another 100 yards towards Hillcroft. Today was the day. I was taking friends to the airport and thought we should have some tacos for the road, so I stopped in to get some ..... Entering, the first thing I noted was that the place was filled with latin families having breakfast. Always a very good sign. Bowls of red-stained pozole, tacos, menudo on the table and everyone was all smiles. Also, on the table were a set of bottles of a mossy green and a ochre red salsa. I am liking this place already. Minimal decor, but clean as a pin and pleasant. The counter is set up behind glass in an odd "greenhouse" but the lady at the window could not have been more pleasant. Not a lot of english, but hey, I speak spanish and it's tacos, so who cares? I ordered a couple of the machicado (eggs with dried beef) and eggs with potatoes and chorizo on homemade flour tortillas for me and some plain eggs/potato tacos for my friends (they are going to Boston, so guess why they don't want spice or salsa?). The order was processed quickly and delivered in a bag with lots of napkins and little bottles of the salsa. I got to the car and pre-doctored mine with salsa, lime and made sure there was plenty of cilantro and onions. There were. The green salsa was a nice roasted poblano salsa with a deep flavor and a bit of a bit. The Machacado was well flavored and the dried, salted beef managed to be both soft and crispy at the same time. The chorizo and potato was ok. I would go back for another machacado gladly. My friends said their tacos were fine, but really...eggs, potatoes, tortillas! That is like having a 4 year old tell you that their chicken mcnuggets were memorable. Please. I have a copy of their menu and saw many items I want to go back and try...certainly barbacoa, but also the newly chic cochinita pibil and lengua. Items are available throughout the day and into the evening and include the usual tortas, burritos and quesadillas. Did I mention that nothing is over $4.95? Can't wait to go back. read more

Tacos La Bala - The kitchen greenhouse. - Mexican Near Me - Houston, Texas

I love Tacos La Bala. I work down the street and have been coming here for a few years now. The tacos are so good + their prices can't be beat. Great service, too. The ladies who are at the register are always sweet. Oh, be sure to try the table salsa. It's green w/ jalapeños + avocado. My fave. read more

Mexican street food for sure = love!! One Sunday afternoon, I decided to find menudo (due to a horrible, horrible hangover). Looked up Yelp and found this place. La Bala looks dangerous on the outside and shares the building with a liquor store (so.... yes, a bit ghetto lol) but the food more than makes up for it!! Check it out, you won't regret it :) read more

I am from San Antonio and this is by far the most authentic Mexican food you can find around the Houston area! I have lived in the Houston area now for almost 2 years and have been looking for good authentic Mexican food diligently and until today I could never find anything that was even decent. This food here is amazing! read more

Tacos La Bala - Mexican Near Me - Houston, Texas

Tacos de barbacoa were 5 star! Very meaty tacos and double corn tortilla. Very cheap for what they were. Can't wait to be back. Made my birthday breakfast something very pleasant! On top of all there was a lady offering free cookies which I didn't try because I had already bought so much bread from a Mexican bakery nearby but definitely a nice gesture. read more

So good!! Real Mexican tacos such amazing service as welll coming every Friday for my cheat day

$1.00 for a jalapeño pepper!?! Give me a break, what a rip off. For cleanliness it doesn't seem to be a priority in this place. Prep guys not wearing gloves (not the one cooking ) read more

Summer is officially here yet the allure of hot tacos never fails to persist. Since this stretch of Bellaire Boulevard is home to a lot of Latin Americans, it was a natural outgrowth that some great and not-so-great places would spring up to offer a reminder of home via food. Having read Tom W's review as well as the other 4 reviews so far, I decided to try this place out. (I've actually visited twice now.) Set in a new large strip shopping center, the spacious clean eatery has two order windows to queue up. The fluent bilingual staff take your order, you pay your cash, and they issue you a pager common to the likes of Chili's or Applebee's. Meanwhile, you take a seat at any of the clean tables and can watch any of the LCDs tuned to either a Spanish-language soap opera (first time) or to a World Cup match (second time).* Each table is preset with a roll of paper towels, squirt bottles of red salsa, green salsa, and a mocajete filled with a chunky green salsa slurry. Tacos are made to order so expect about a 10-minute wait before the pager goes off. I ordered 3 tacos, all on corn tortillas: al pastor, fajita de pollo, and avocado. They come fully dressed with cilantro and onions and a wedge of lime unless you specify otherwise. Each one was $1.45 and a can of Diet Coke will set you back 85 centavos. Results: The avocado was fantastically buttery but even better when I slid a chunk off to fit in some chicken fajita from the other taco. Dollops of the fiery green salsa improved it to a higher level. The chicken fajita one sang with the squeeze of lime and green salsa while the al pastor one excelled when paired with the red habiniero-laced salsa. All in all, this place is the real deal: Lots of Latin Americans eagerly chowing down on these tacos tells volumes of how the community rates these meals. If you go, don't mind the Asian dude eating tacos (that's just me). Heck, pull up a chair. * Do I have to tell you that I was more intrigued by the Spanish telenovela on the first visit than the World Cup soccer match during the second? Not because I'm not sports-minded (Cameroon lost to Denmark) but the soap opera had lots of scenes with hot shirtless men in it. Who couldn't love that? As for story: who needs to know story? read more

Hands down my most favorite taco joint that serves authentic Mexican Tacos. Absolute best and spiciest salsa that does not play. Heads up though this place is super tiny and has limited tables and parking. It's counter service and a quick bite to eat kinda place. read more

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Taco's La Bala reminds me of growing up in the Valley - It's a place where gringos aren't treated like cultural pioneers, but rather like minor annoyances only delaying the real customers from ordering. sigh. I'm only slightly kidding. In all honesty, Tacos La Bala is great, it's on Bellaire between Chimney Rock and HIllcroft. It's a no frills place where you order at the counter and pick up your food. The Conchinta Pibil is the best and the tortas aren't half bad either. Just recently I was able to get 10 tacos, an order of nachos and a beer for $20. No joke. And 3 tacos are enough for one person, but if you want to man up - go for 4. Interesting story - I go to Taco's La Bala and order several tacos to go and a beer (for the wait). The man who takes my order, who might be the only guy in the establishment that speaks English outside of myself, begins to prepare my order off to the side. All of a sudden he comes back and says, 'Excuse me sir, I can't give you your beer to go.' read more

THESE ARE REAL MEXICAN TACOS! Stopped by here to grab some breakfast on a saturday. Place was completely dead, there were only like 3 to 4 groups of people, granted I was here kind of early though. The location is brand new so the restaurant is very nice and clean, far from the typical hole in the wall establishments that the area is known for. There are a bunch of flat screens on the wall playing the world cup which is nice to watch while waiting for the food. I got dos tacos de barbacoa con tortillas de harina. Which means 2 barbacoa tacos on flour tortillas and they were delicious. The quality of the meat was kind of skeptical, it had some fat in it, but overall the taste was fantastic and the tortillas were hand made. Overall a solid addition to the booming area and I'll be checking it out quite often. read more

This place is kind of hard to locate with all the construction and busy work around it. The lady at the counter didn't speak English so I did my best to point and speak broken Spanish. I ordered the fajita, barabacoa and deshebrada taco. The tacos were so good! Moist and tender. Try eating the tacos with the green spicy sauce that's on the counter for a nice kick. Overall, I enjoyed my experience and will come again. read more

Tacos La Bala - Mexican Near Me - Houston, Texas

I was craving some authentic Mexican food so my friend and I ventured outside of our usual Mexican restaurants. I got the deshebrada torta. It was really juicy with a puddle of electric red juice on the plate. Once it touched my skin, the juice turned orange... I wonder what spice that is. The meat was kind of tough but I'm not the biggest meat eater. The lettuce, tomato and avo were the perfect balance. There were 3 sauces on the table. One of which was a homemade tomatillo salsa with real avocado's in it! Yum! The other were a green sauce and red sauce. My friend got 3 fajita taco's with the typical onion, cilantro, and lime. He couldn't finish the third because they give a hefty amount! I also got the horchata, it was a little on the sweet side. However, it did taste good with my torta! I'll be back to try the tacos! read more

The one and only, no one beats the original Tacos La Bala. I've ate here since I was little and the burritos from here are still the best! I've tried many other places, but the flavor from here just can't be beaten read more

Went in there because my coworker said that they are really good. But in my opinion, it's a mediocre. Their food isn't bad, but it seems like there's something missing in their flavor. It's a reliable place to grab some food, but definitely not in my list. read more

Average this out with my previous review, because this is based on a bad experience there over this past weekend. All of the good things of my previous reviews basically stand, but with a few negative additions below. Basically, several mistakes were made. The first is that I got the wrong meat in my tacos. I asked for some of fajita and some of the trompo, and unfortunately they gave me all fajita instead of a few of each. Additionally, the meat was full of gristle, so it wasn't as good as it normally is. Another problem was with the barbacoa, which was extremely greasy. I've had good barbacoa in Mexico, and I've never seen it as greasy down there as it was here. The final bad thing was the jamaica. For those of you that take out the trash, and leave the trash can sitting out in the sun, you know that smell you get when you take off the lid? Water that smell down and put it in a drink, and that's basically it. It's like they let the jamaica leaves sit in water to rot or something before cooking it. I don't really know, but it was actually disgusting and while they did provide an alternative drink, it was so disgusting that I doubt I'll go back to Tacos La Bala for a few weeks. read more

My friend showed me this joint, and it's the real deal. Everything feels right... Spanish soaps just go hand and hand with delicious Mexican food. Chris D's review nails it, you don't feel like a foodie... a cultural pioneer, you're stepping into a joint that sells honest food to real people, and you can't beat that. I ordered 3 pulled pork and 3 barbacoa tacos... just so tasty. It's a shame I didn't discover this place before I left for college, I'd probably go more than twice a week. read more

AUTHENTIC MEXICAN STREET FOOD! Great whole in the wall place. Don't be fool by the looks, this place stays packed. Very small eating area so I'd recommend call it in for pick up and enjoy it at home. They have your basic meats when it comes to tacos and tortas such as beef, lengua(tongue), al pastor and my favorite TRIPAS (tripe). I have to say NO ONE makes the tripas like they do. Anywhere else they run bland or overcooked. Here, they cook them PERFECTLY, with a lot of flavor. They also have your mexican sodas and Aguas frescas like horchata and limonada. Great, great food. Customer service has room for improvement, they aren't mean or rude, more like they are just super busy so they don't dwell too much on customer service. Thats my only tip for them. Aside from that, this place is my number one taco spot! read more

Excellent Street Food style tacos, period. They have great Tortas, their chicharron is awesome. If you are a fan of Taco truck tacos, this place is for you. read more

This place is GOOOOOOOOOD !!!! I mean GOOD !!! the food its amazing .... The tacos taste just like I am eating in Mexico City..... read more

Great place for a quick bite, the fajita was very tender and flavorful. Definitely a must try.

this place!! Best Tacos in Houston!! Small place, big flavor. Very friendly staff, small parking but the wait is worth it!! read more

Tacos La Bala - Authentic Mexican food in Houston, tacos, quesadillas, burritos, tortas, tostadas, sopes. - Mexican Near Me - Houston, Texas

If you are ever in the hood and want some good food on a budget, then this is your spot. The tacos are stuffed with meat galore. They would be much more profitable if they would chill on the meat per taco (My humble opinion). Fajitas with tortillas de maiz. Plain and simple. Mission accomplished. read more

The tripa tacos and burritos are awesome. Has delicious menudo. Super crowded but very friendly staff

Great for their traditional "Tampiquena" style tacos (cilantro and onion), bean+cheese+meat gorditas, and fajita tortas. You can't go wrong w/either of these three choices. The fajita meat seems to have more flavor and is softer in texture compared to the steak (slightly higher fat content), but the steak isn't bad either if u're counting calories. Red sauce is my fave, and don't be surprised when u see oil dripping down your taco... It's most likely from the sauce and NOT the meat! :p This is one of my faves for traditional south of the border taste and authenticity! read more

Awesome authentic Mexican food. I had the carne asada tacos and they were perfect. The meat was perfectly cooked, and not very fatty, which can often be a problem at other taco places. The salsas were flavorful and a little spicy, but not too bad for this gringa. read more

After reading yelp reviews I decided to give this place a try. The restaurant looks kinda iffy from the outside but inside it's clean. I dragged my husband with me and we both decided on the barbacoa tacos. And they were delicious! The barbacoa isn't greasy and everything is made fresh. The green sauce in the bottle isn't too spicy. Not bad at all and the best part is it was only $18.02. I'll definitely be coming back for some good tacos. read more

I really can't say anything that hasn't already been said. The tacos are soooo good, My favorite is the barbacoa...

Coffee is fresh and the breakfast was good for the price. Look forward to trying their lunch or dinner.

I would have given them zero star if that's an option.....After I placed a to go order, they gave me a buzzer, which I guess is supposed to BUZZ?? I understand there are many people there, so I patiently waited for over 30 mins....then I finally went up to them.....apparently many people were doing the same thing where they are asking when will their orders be ready....after standing there for 5 mins....one of the ladies finally looked at me like....what you want.....I asked her when will my order be ready.....She spoke to me in Spanish which I had no clue what she was saying.....Then the other lady came and did the same thing....Looked at me.....like....what you want......I asked her when will my order be ready? I have waited over 30 mins.....she looked at me and said....I have called your number....I was like...What? I had a buzzer, not a number card.....The thing is....I stood super closed by the whole time....so there is NO WAY I could have not heard her if she called a number.....(giving the fact that IF she called the number in English).....I told her I never heard her calling a number....she gave me a dirty look and said "I CALLED YOUR NUMBER",,,,,WOW, that was RUDE! I do not expect to get a service at this restaurant, but I did not expect a hassle to pick up my order with nasty attitude. The food was okay. Of course I won't be coming back here. read more

Best tacos in town no doubt! I've tried many places but none come close!! Full of flavor!!!

When I met this place be delighted with the taste so authentic and delicious, it is very small but worth the wait because everything is very tasty! read more