REVIEWS AND PRESS

Orange Coast Magazine
Excerpt from article "World Cuisine" by Vivian LeTran
March 2004 Issue, page 110

"...Orange Coast Magazine wants to pass the word on just where to find the county's most authentic ethnic restaurants." Taqueria De Anda was listed under the authentic Mexican Favorites.

The Orange County Register
Excerpt from the Food Guide by Tenny Tatusian
April 30, 2004

"There are some six Taqueria De Anda restaurants in the county but the Chapman Avenue store in Placentia serves up the best barbecued pork burrito sliced directly off the spit."

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Danny
April 19, 2004

"The best Authentic Carne Asada Burrito in Southern California. No fluff-fluff lettuce here. Great food, simple but effective menu, as it should be. Viva Taqueria De Anda!!"

The Orange County Register
Excerpt from review by Tenny Tatusian
June 27, 2003

STUFF BURRITO DREAMS ARE MADE OF

With five restaurants in Orange County, the de Anda brothers have been making tacos and burritos for 22 years. Their stores are unadorned, and the menu above the counter is in English and Spanish.

Their burritos are packed and feel like they weigh 5 pounds. The fillings range from chicken to beef head, but the real gem here is the barbecued pork. You can't miss it once you make it to the counter. It's layers of marinated pork and onions impaled on a vertical spit that rotates slowly before a broiler for hours, creating luscious, caramelized pork that's sliced off.

But that's only part of the story. The other achievement among the de Andas is their rice. It's an unusually aromatic Spanish rice that tastes like nothing else. Pair the rice with the pork, throw on cold, diced onions and a splash of chili sauce, and life will once again hold promise.

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Michael Alarcon, Editor

Taqueria De Anda serves the basic elements of unbelievably delicious Mexican food -- carne asada and carnitas straight from the grill, hot and ready tamales, corn tortillas, agua frescas in large chilled jars, and fresh guacamole and salsas. The beauty of all this great food is that you can get it any time of day or night. Having midnight snack cravings? Throw on a robe and slippers and rush over for a torta (commonly called the submarine sandwich of Mexico). Of course, you can't make the trip to this taqueria without trying a taco. There are plenty of varieties, including beefsteak, barbecued pork, chicken, carnitas, beef tongue, beef head, beef brains and buche (Spanish for stomach).

Epinions.com User
August 29, 2000

Wow! Them are good tacos! I find myself craving the slightly larger than silver dollar tacos of Taqueria de Anda at least once a week. Unfortunately I make only make it there one a month of so. Even so, each time I go, I have a hard time deciding which kind of taco to get. They have pork, beef, chicken, head, tongue, and a few others. They pretty much just have tacos and burritos, but what they do make, they make very well.

The way they make the tacos is very impressive. It's not that there's much to each taco (meat, cilantro, onions, sauce), it's the way they put all but the sauce on the tacos, then throw the sauce up in the air and catch it with the rest of the taco, completing their masterpiece.

I usually eat 4 tacos, and they run about $1.25 each. It's quite a deal for such authentic food. My wife usually has 3.

I know there are quite a few locations around the LA and Orange County area. My advice is to find one an try it. You may get just as hooked as I am.

AOL Digital City Users

May 12, 2003

Nice greasy Al Pastor tacos after drinking all night and putting as much hot sauce on the tacos is the only way to go!!!

April 21, 2003

I give it an A plus

February 27, 2003

Truly authentic Mexican tacos. Not Americanized. Yum!

January 27, 2003

They're a small chain. We've been going for years. This is the real deal and has not been americanized. The carne asada is the best anywhere. Too bad they don't serve of all things....BEANS! Definetly not for the faint of heart! Taqueria rocks.

November 12, 2002

ITS THE BEST TACOS YOU CAN FIND HERE IN ORANGE COUNTY PPL

October 28, 2002

Since I was a kid my dad used to take me to this place to eat. It hasn't changed a bit. The carne asada tacos are still delicious and the aguas frescas are well-made. The place is great to have a family dinner at. The Mexican atmosphere that it delivers is amazing. The food is exceptional; no other mexican food restaurant in OC can beat it.

October 16, 2002

They definitely have the best carne asada tacos that I have tasted and I have been to a lot of these tacos stands in the area. Tastes best as a midnight snack.

October 07, 2002

Not sure if this is the same place as the original in fullerton, another in la habra...but if it is... the best tacos you will find anywhere. my daughter coined it *little tacos* years ago.... daddy can we have little tacos for dinner?.. lol..... 24 hours and just plain simple great tacos... the best in OC,, and so cheap its amazing.... steak, cilantro onions and served with salt and lime wedges.... cant be beat