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    Monster Tacos

    3.4 (139 reviews)
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    Updated 3 months ago

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    Moderate noise
    Good for groups
    Good for kids
    Outdoor seating

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    Annette G.

    This place has very delicious food. Must try nachos fries and tacos. Their sauces are insanely good and their signature way they toast the tortillas for the tacos is what makes them even more delicious then just its flavor. I've actually been. Coming here for quite some time 7+ years and I visited their truck in the very beginning over 10 years ago . They've been serving the same quality with such good energy for that long. They have BOGO deals on uber eats and available on other delivery platforms as well. The monster items are 10/10 shrimp and asada meat on your burritos, tacos & anything u order. Family owned and treat their customers like family. Located in a safe and nice area of gladselle park.

    Karl K.

    Monster Tacos crushed it. The wet burrito was massive and loaded with flavor, with the perfect amount of sauce and cheese without being a mess. The tostada was super crisp and stacked just right, and the al pastor tacos were straight up fire. Tender, juicy, with that perfect little char. Everything came out fast and hot. Easily one of my new favorite spots.

    Monster Tacos? More like Tiny Tacos. These things are smaller than my hand. Total ripoff --overpriced, underwhelming, and not even filling. Don't waste your appetite. And! they only gave us one red sauce :/

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    Claudia S.

    This taco truck is the worst. Never ordering again because it was highly disappointing food. I tried their fried hard shell tacos (tacos dorados) and I feel like they're packaged not freshly fried tortillas. To top it off they came stuffed with refried beans and maybe two pieces of chopped chicken such a scam. The fish and shrimp tacos were also skimped on with protein as they put a whole lot of lettuce, tomato, onion and cilantro to fool you into thinking it's a big taco. Don't even get me started with the rice. The rice is overwatered and loaded with tomato sauce so much that it's not fried but instead mushy tomato rice. Absolutely the worst. I don't recommend this taco spot when in the eagle rock area, just go to Angel Tijuana Tacos!!!

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    Nakia D.

    We were looking for tacos in the eagle rock area and came across Monster Tacos! The reviews were hit and miss and not super recent so it was difficult to make a decision to try this place. I started off with two carne asada tacos, a hard shell asada taco and cheese quesadilla. The carne asada wasn't super flavorful, but i squeezed fresh lime juice and that seemed to help. They were NOT stingy with the meat either!!! I ate one taco with red sauce and the other with green sauce. The sauces were good and had a lot of flavor. The hard shell taco was so yummy! The shell was fresh. It had beans, carne asada, lettuce, sour cream, and crumble cheese. My daughter had the quesadilla and she said it was yummy. I enjoyed my tacos so much i actually ordered two asada and another hard shell. I didn't catch the name of the lady who helped me but she was very nice and patient. I will definitely be back some time for that hard shell taco!!!

    Adriana F.

    Would not recommend at all! My coworker and I ordered through DoorDash like an hour ago. I don't care if the food is cold it was the avocado for me, they gave me 4 tiny little pieces of avocado when I paid for Extra BTW. And also the avocado they put in it was old, black, expired whatever you want to call it. It was the avocado that had to be thrown away but they decided to put it in my food. Refund me if you are out of avocados or something. As a matter of fact I have worked in a restaurant before and the owner should never allowed this food to be served. On top of that it's over priced and doesn't taste good! Will not come back.

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    Theodore B.

    Al Pastor Burrito is one of the best very well cooked and best burritos in the glassell park neighborhood out of all f the other food trucks that are out here and they have affordable prices yay you can not go wrong with this food truck plus they're licensed with the city's health department grade A and food handlers license /permit for the county of Los Angeles and I also work for them as a private security officer I give this food truck a complete 100% satisfaction and quality of food o

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    Kristine K.

    i always get the al pastor tacos, but i've tried pretty much everything on the menu. the nachos are good, the tacos are better; they're pretty greasy but that just depends on if you're into that or not. i used to order for delivery through doordash but lately i've been driving there for pickup. it's decently priced food, the service is pretty quick, and there's always parking since they're directly outside of a shopping area parking lot. i haven't had a bad order yet, so i'm not sure why some of the reviews are so low.

    Alice Y.

    3.5 rounded up. I was craaaaaaaaving nachos but didn't want to deal with parking for king taco so decided to doordash from Monster Tacos. I ordered nachos with extra meat, which I def recommend to have a good meat-chip ratio. The cheese was cheese, nothing amazing but nothing terrible. They were actually really generous with it. Reading other reviews I thought the cheese would come on the side but mine didn't but the chips weren't soggy or anything so i had no problem with it. I didn't like that they skimped on the onion and cilantro though. All in all pretty good.

    Monster Taco- Shrimp + your choice of protein with avocado onions & cilantro.
    Frances T.

    Ohhh emm geee... only saw the reviews after eating the food! Luckily for me, I didn't find anything gross in my food, nor did it taste disgusting. Crossing my fingers I don't get food poisoning either. I found this place on door dash and of course when in LA you gotta have Mexican food. Let's get down to the food. Surprisingly, the monster nachos were SoOo good! It actually might be better than carne asada fries! The chips were freshly fried and crunchy; dripped with golden nacho cheese. For the protein, I opted for al pastor. The meat was cooked and seasoned well. Not dried out as some complained about. I also had the monster taco with al pastor. It included shrimp, avocado, onions, and cilantro. The flavor was there, but it definitely needed salsa and lime added to it. And I suppose it's called monster because it's twice the size of a normal-sized taco. Overall, my belly was satisfied and my taste buds were content. I'm hoping though I don't wake up with Montezuma's revenge. Oh! And did I forget to mention how cheap the food was? Nachos were only $8 and the taco was $5.

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    Excellent burritos! The quesadillas are great, too. Delivery is fast, and pick up is just as easy.

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    The carne asada Meat tastes weird and old. It's chopped into little small pieces of meat that was refried again.

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    Food was amazing but a little costly. I got 2 quesadillas and 6 tacos with 2 sodas for $45. Definitely worth it.

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    Sooooooo good. Tried the surf n turf monster burrito and was so impressed. REAL AVOCADO INCLUDED. Enough said.

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