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Tamales Nelly

4.4 (28 reviews)
Closed 11:00 am - 8:00 pm

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Pork w/red sauce and Chicken w/green sauce
Sergio A.

I have no idea why the CENSORS AT YELP CHOSE TO PUT MY REVIEW IN YELP JAIL. Nelly's Tamales is located in the Chow Public Market. This sweet lady prepares tamales every day. Dozen $18, Half-dozen $10 - Pork w/red chili, Chicken w/green chili, Cheese with Jalapeños, Potato with Jalapeños and Veggies. She also will take a special order like Chicken with Jalapeños or Pork with green chili with four days' notice. She has frozen and fresh tamales, so you can also pick up ones that are not on the menu in a frozen condition. The standard daily offering at her little stand is pork with red sauce and chicken with green sauce. In addition to tamales, she offers tacos, enchiladas, burritos and quesadillas. The fillings are Chicken, Asada, Adobada and Cheese served with rice and beans. The masa is smooth and pale. The tamale fillings are very generous. She has three heat levels of salsa to go with the food and I found the hot to be delicious. I detected habanero in it - yum.

Asada gorditas and tacos

Tamales Nelly is the best place to satisfy your craving for Mexican food. They serve the most delicious asada tacos around, and their gorditas are fantastic. Plus, their tortillas are made fresh!

Street tacos and a tamale
Andrew W.

Reminds me of a taco truck, and I mean that in a positive way. Street tacos were a reasonable $3 a piece and pretty tasty. I'll happily come here again.

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Caitlin A.

Tamales Nelly has the best authentic tamales! I stopped by today and grabbed a half-dozen fresh and a half-dozen frozen. Choose from jalapeño/cheese, chicken, or pork tamales. Great find and a nice opportunity to support a small, family-owned business. (Check their website for business hours. They open daily at 11am.)

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3 years ago

Love their pork tamales.. we got a dozen when we had family here from Ohio... they had never had them before.... We ate them all!

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3 years ago

Great tamales. I prefer the pork. Second choice is the cheese and jalapeño. Get extra salsa.

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3 years ago

Passing through town and I got the Chile Relleno- it was delicious! Enough to fill me up, and didn't waste any food. Yum yum

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3 years ago

Went in first time today. Had the tamales plate. Good news is it wasn't bad. Just okay Food. I was underwhelmed

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3 years ago

Ordered tamales for Christmas time. Paid a descent price only complaint is I wish they had more meat in them. Kind of skimpy.

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5 years ago

Small family establishment with great service and phenomenal, authentic Mexican food.

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5 years ago

Best Tamales we ever had. Great family business. The Tamales weren't dry and the fillings were delicious. Thank you.

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4.2(16 reviews)
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I'm very happy the Genki food truck exists! I have fun finding them staged around Boise and…read moregrabbing some delicious takoyaki. It's rather difficult, if not almost impossible, to find delicious, authentic Japanese cuisine in the Treasure Valley. This small food cart is an Idaho gem. I've tried several of their food items, however this review will focus on their namesake dish, takoyaki (octopus ball). For those who don't know, takoyaki is a popular Japanese street food with bits of chopped octopus and dough inside a slightly crispy shell garnished with takoyaki sauce. I was very happy with how similar the snack tastes to the ones I've had in Japan. Genki serves these in 6 pieces ($6) and there are several sauces available. I like to top mine with sriracha to add a kick. It's a wonderful mid evening snack! My only complaint is on a couple visits I found my takoyaki to be rather old tasting, like either the oil hadn't been changed in a while or the octopus was overdue. It's happened less times than more so I'll still continue to eat this unless it becomes more frequent. Genki use to be very active on the Street Food Finder app but this summer they seem to limit their postings to Facebook and Instagram, so if you want to find them you'll have to go either of those routes.

Nice to see a little exotic flavor in the Boise food scene. Fresh Takoyaki made right in front of…read moreyou, and quick. They have octopus and BBQ pork, which I had never seen before. Of course I had to try both. 6 dumplings made for a big snack or a small meal. I would have preferred them slightly more crispy, but that's an easy fix if you ask. Topped with bonito flakes, Japanese mayo, and teriyaki sauce for a nice mix of savory and sweet flavors. The pricing doesn't make a whole lot of sense: $4 for 4, 5$ for 6, $7 for 8. Sort of de-incentivizing ppl from going for 8. Just a thought.

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Andrade's Restaurante Mexicano - Taco and enchilada lunch

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3.9(355 reviews)
1.9 mi
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We are working in Boise so trying lots of places. We crave Mexican food so tried this. It's a big…read moreopen restaurant which is odd but hey it works I guess. The salsa isn't my cup of tea it reminds me of Pace picante mild. I had fajitas and the tortillas were basically street tacos size which makes sense because there was not a lot of steak in the fajitas it was mostly veggies. For $23 I expect at least 1/4 lb. Others got the chimichangas and they liked theirs.

My friend listed off a few differnt joints as ideas for lunch today. Andrade's was one of them. I'm…read morealways down for Mexican food for lunch so Andradre's was today's pick. Walking in, this place is so colorful and vibrant! I love the pretty water fountain as soon as you walk in and the pretty art piece that was hanging above it. The whole venue looks like a fiesta so you know you're about to have a great time! We got sat. A sweet gal dropped off a couple waters, chips and salsa. Nothing like starting your afternoon with chips and salsa! Adri came shortly after and grabbed drink orders. I got a virgin mango margarita today. She asked if I wanted the rim salted or tajined. I totally would have but I have to watch my salt intake. Without the salt and tajin, that mango margarita was money! It was so good! It was perfectly blended! It had a good amount of mango to it. It was absolutely delicious! For lunch I got a shredded beef taco and shredded beef enchilada for lunch. It also came out with a side of rice and beans. The plate looked fabulous! I appreciate the peas and carrots in the rice! It added another texture to it. The rice and beans were nice and hot! Super tasty! The beef in my enchilada was tenders and flavorful. The sauce was rich in color and flavor. I like that there was a slight heat to everything. It wasn't overwhelming. I didn't get a chance to eat much of the taco. I did take a bite and it was good! I do wish that the tortilla didn't get all soggy. One side of the taco was great but the other was drenched in fluid. I also did find hard pieces of rice in the side of rice i got. Kind like it's been sitting too long and it dried out. It wasn't the best the chew. I'm happy I got to try this joint out today! Adri was fantastic and did a great job taking care of us! My margarita was top notch! The food was good and the venue was so much fun. Looking forward to coming back and trying other goodies of their menu with another bomb ass margarita!

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