We happen to be in the neighborhood and stopped here to eat. It's in the back of grocery store…read morewhich is fine. Food was ok. Prices were good.

Great food, always great flavor, great service, friendly atmosphere, and even better prices. Nice…read morelittle restaurant inside of a grocery store. One of Belvideres best kept secrets!

While driving back to the Twin Cities from Chicago a few weeks back we needed a place to stop for…read morelunch. I opened up Yelp and found this little taqueria in the cute downtown of Belvedere so we decided to stop here. The inside definitely makes you feel like you're at a family owned restaurant. It reminds me of all of the pizzerias I went to as a kid in New York. The staff are all incredibly friend and funny and were cracking jokes the whole time to our table. They offer a wide selection of Mexican specialties from some of the more common ones to some of the harder to find ones. Lately, I've been on a Gordita kick so I ordered the Gordita dinner. The rice and beans were so good, and the fresh tortillas, along with the beautiful meat inside were all perfect. I wasn't expecting to have such incredible Mexican in this part of the US, but I need to reassess my biased because this was fantastic. Highly recommend!

Used to come here for their cow tongue tacos or for their filling steak burritos, but it's been a…read morewhile.

Had a pretty okay lunch at this Mexican restaurant in Belvidere. It has a pretty nondescript…read morelocation on a dead end street to be honest. Taqueria El Torito is serious authentic stuff. A lot of the familiar items. You can even get exotic things like tripe if you like it meaty. Found out about it while looking up the Mexican restaurants around here. It's certainly got lots of competition to be sure. There's shit tons of these. A pretty boring place inside. Really not much of an atmosphere with it actually pretty quiet. Has no alcohol. It's about $3 to get the Jamaica. This is a hibiscus beverage that's good stuff. As for the food it's mostly authentic. It's about $12 for the Taco Salad. Choose a meat or get it with toppings that include avocado, cheese, lettuce, onions, tomatoes, and more. The rest of the menu is meaty with animal parts such as tripe. Got a menu full of classics. It's located on North State Street at Old Beloit Road. There's a plaza behind the gas station and next to a laundromat that are things to look for because it's hard to find coming from wherever.

Really delicious and tasty food! GUARANTEED!!! If you eat spicy, you will definitely like the spicy…read moresalsa! Amazing I love the Al pastor and tripa tacos The service was excellent! They welcome us in and said we could seat anywhere! We were there around 1pm and it wasn't crowded! I notice people were ordering to go! Overall, if you happen to be around Taqueria El Torito, please try it! Delicious, tasty and good family ambience!

Out of all the other restaurants, this might be my favorite in belvidere. My favorite spot for…read moretacos and I always visit when I'm in town. I usually order their horchata too but they were out and I tried their Melon aguafresca and it's my new favorite!

Found yet another locally owned Mexican restaurant in Belvidere. Gomez is actually pretty clean and…read morespacious compared to many others around it. It also has a pretty big menu. Actually impressive how much one can get. The prices are okay for portions. Coming here the first time we had assumptions about what it would be like of course. It's actually a lot better than expected. The thing is it still needs lots of improvement after several years. A lot of confusion about what got ordered. Pretty slow and took forever to get service. As with any of these places, there has to be alcohol. It's about $11 for a margarita. These come in a few flavors including peach. It's about $9 for the Vegan Burrito. We each got this and this is filled with avocado, beans, and other stuff. A lot of the menu is meaty. They have chips and guacamole for one of the few choices for vegetarians. A lot of authentic items. They even have tongue and tripe. Getting anything here is a chore. It's closed Mondays. There's not much to get for vegetarians.

The food was delicious ! Fresh tortilla chips with a nice homemade hot sauce, and I ordered the…read morecarne asada steak plate! Tender juicy steak made myself like 4 juicy tacos with the works ! My wife had the chicken enchiladas also was delicious ! They had flavorful horchata and margaritas good desserts the staff was friendly highly recommend!

Quinta Carmina's food is really good, and their menu is pretty extensive for a small place. Their…read morechips and salsa are always top 10%, and I enjoy the quality of their steak, fish, and chicken. Their meals are well-presented, and the atmosphere is pleasant. The service is quick and courteous. My only annoyance in this restaurant has been the overpowering odor of perfume (or deodorant?) worn by one of the regular waitresses. It is slightly obnoxious from a distance of 10 feet, and absolutely eye-watering from 5 feet. I try to sit as far from her as possible. Otherwise, this is one of my favorite local restaurants.

Certainly wasn't sure about this Mexican place in Belvidere. De Juan looked like it was pretty…read moresketchy even from the outside. It's at the end of a pretty crummy strip mall and that's saying nothing about the kinds of people. How bad would it be inside? Turns out not that bad to be honest: cheap looking but okay though. After thinking about it we went inside and got seats at the bar. It had a few others in there and it looked pretty okay. The menu is basic Mexican American stuff. It's about $7 for cocktails. Luna Azul is a blue margarita. This was an innocent looking but strong one though. As for the food, not bad. There's the basic types of stuff. It's about $11 for a burrito. The Vegetarian Burrito is among these. Very stuffed with onions, peppers, and whatever. Comes with a cheese sauce on it. The burrito without it is maybe even better it seems. Honestly it's a place that needs to be given a chance and not passed up just because of the sketchy area. It's for sure not authentic, but it's still mostly okay though. There's plenty of choices for meat eaters as well as vegetarians.

Well as everyone said it's in a strip mall but recently painted and spruced up a lot it's small…read moreand independently owned. My friend loves the margaritas here and so we both got large ones and I upgraded tequilla but shouldn't have bothered. It's just a margarita, or I shoulda just got a shot. It's my opinion margaritas are kind eh, unless you really know how to make them super traditionally with lime, tequilla on lots of ice and salted rim. Anyway it wasn't bad, I'm just picky when it comes to mixed drinks. So I got the ground beef taco meal with rice and beans. It had some pretty runny "sauce" and the beans and rice were standard. I was ok with everything but not impressed quite frankly. Especially when the bill came. For taco meal, a margarita large it was $36 before tip. Making it in the forties with tip seems just kinda ridiculous. I know prices have gone up everywhere but geez. I probably won't make a trip to go again but overall just ok, except for prices. Friends looked good. Service was great anyway.

If I could give this place zero stars i would. The food is alright but here is my problem. I LOVE…read moreTACOS like LOVE TACOS however im not a fan of the beans. When i ordered the 3 taco dinner it comes with rice and beans. Tell me why when my tacos got here that I had been craving like a mad man I didn't have steak tacos. I had steak bean and rice fucking tacos. There were bean shit all over ALL of my tacos. Now you can understand since I dont like beans how upset i was and obviously still am. Completely RUINED MY DINNER. fuck yall.

The burrito dinner was a good size. The steak fajitas had good flavor. The elote mexican corn was…read moredelicious with plenty of spiciness! The steak tampiquena dinner was good the meat was tender. I wish they would have incorporated chihuahua cheese or queso fresco into the recipes. The red salsa wasn't very spicy. I would come back again!

I received outstanding service today. The younger girl working the drive thru today was very kind…read moreand made my day. I wish I caught her name!

Where do I even begin? Worked here for over a year and wouldn't even recommend this place to the…read morepeople I don't like. First off, one of the managers, Emily admits to her co workers that she goes 3 weeks without showering. (Probably longer, just what she told multiple people, and she sure does smell like sour panties.) Not only does she stink, but she admitted to having bed bugs and fleas for a few years now and has given them to multiple employees there, including myself on multiple occasions. She also eats her scabs off her head (probably not scabs probably just dirt build up) she does not wash her hands and touches food with bare hands. If you ever got sick after eating here, well that's probably why. Well that and they also never do their food safety checks lol they just write random shit down everyday. Like leftovers? Good, that's what they serve at 2pm, yesterday's leftovers. Yep Taco Bell is food poisoning central. Not just this one. All of them. This just happens to be the nastiest one I've been in due to personal hygiene issues. Oh yeah, that sign that says the check the bathroom every 30 minutes.... lol I think I'm the only one that ever did in the year I worked there. On my days off nobody cleaned it ever. Definitely wouldn't sit on the toilet seat if I were you. One time there was the same dirty footprints on the toilet for over 2 weeks. I got UTIs left and right working there due to holding in my pee bc of how nasty it was. And if you were thinking of working here, I'd think twice unless you wanna be sexually harassed by your boss (Jerry) & thrown under the bus for his mistakes. & his boss Pam will make you think she's different but she must've trained him to be that way, because she won't respond to any complaints, just try to keep Jerrys image looking well. Maybe she doesn't care bc she just wants to retire. Either way it's messed up because she was aware of every complaint I have discussed in this review. I believe their solution was moving him to the state street store after I quit so he could mess that one up too. It's sad really that they are so desperate they need to hold on to all these wart of employees. Jerry also steals money from his store and employees. If you ever have money go missing and tell him, you'll notice he doesn't do anything or care. Why? Because he's the one doing it. Ask him what happend at Sbarro and the cleaning company.... They also will not pay you your PTO after approving it, if you work there. Which is illegal. But hey what can you expect from a company that has been sued for not properly paying employees? I fully expect there to be another lawsuit soon If you ever go there and wonder why it's taking so long for someone to help you, they're probably doing drugs in the back of the store or having sex in the cooler. Yup you read that right. If you're gonna work at or eat fast food, go to McDonald's. They treat their employees better and their crew people make more money than a manager at Taco Bell.... And they are clean and actually check the food for food safety issues. Needless to say I'm glad I got out of there. It's 2025 people you don't need to work for some run down fast food place that serves alien food out of a bag. And you certainly don't need to be eating that crap. I now work as a sole proprietor off of an app on my phone and I make double what that hell hole was paying. Smarter not harder, and remember eat literally anywhere else.