Tacos Matamoros
“My only minor gripe is that it was a bit uneven – some of the cake was soaked, while other spots were a bit dry.”
“I've gotten lengua tacos at most of the taco joints on this section of 5th Ave in Sunset Park, Matamoros has the freshest meat.”
“For appetizers we ordered some chips and guac, pretty tasty too and came with both green and red salsas.”
Tacos Matamoros
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
8 reviews
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Amazing place for tacos. Spicy pork, beef tongue, chorizo and al pastor are all great options. Don't get the head meat, it's too fatty and not especially flavorful. Porkchops were also delicious. They were tender despite being the lean cut ones. I would love to try their other items another time, probably within the next two weeks when I get my twice a month taco cravings. This is the place to go.
This is a casual mexican restaurant with amazing tacos. I'm almost never in Sunset Park but when I am, I come here. My favorite of the tacos is the al pastor. The small tacos are 4" double corn tortillas. So fresh. They give you a green tomatillo and red (smokey) salsa on the side. We also got a super taco (6" and had tomatoes, sour cream, and lettuce) and a tamale. Both were good but the regular tacos are the standout. The toppings on the regular tacos are onion and cilantro.
I also really liked the nachos. They were individual chips arranged in a circle covered with beans and cheese. The jalapenos, lettuce, and guac are in the middle of the circle. It's a small portion (probably 12 chips total). The food came out very fast.
There service was OK. The waitress didn't speak english so we had to point and talk very slow but our order was still slightly wrong. Getting the bill and our change also took awhile.
But you don't come here for the service – you come here for the tacos! Yummmmmm.
I have to agree with other Yelpers on some important points.
Service: Really slow! Terribly slow. I tried to consider the fact that it was Cinco De Mayo and the restaurant was pretty big, but it's not an excuse because it wasn't like they were short on staff. We had to ask multiple times for the check and waited a really long time. Staff were running around and it was a bit hectic.
Food: Between 2 people we ordered 9 tacos (1 large because lengua only came in large), regular nachos and 1 tamale. We had a Corona and Strawberry margarita (only flavor available that night). I was so disappointed when the nachos came… They were the saddest nachos I've ever seen in my 21 years alive. Roughly 10 pieces of chips with cheese unevenly spread, sloppy lettuce and guac in the middle… Like I said, it was really sad. But.. it tasted kinda good. Haha. Moving onto the tacos, they were so good! Flavor was definitely there. Our recommendations: get lengua (super tender) and al pastor but you can skip the roast pork becausae its lacking flavor and is very dry
Okay, so…the food here? AWESOME. I strongly recommend the tacos or burritos. Really delicious and filling, but also incredibly fresh ingredients.
Why do i give it only three stars? DO NOT DINE HERE. THE SERVICE IS SO RUDE. They make you wait and don't speak to you while you are just sitting there waiting for someone to even bring you a glass of water. If you're going to order, either get pick up or delivery, because the servers will ruin your food experience!
Food: 3.5/5.0
Service: 3.0/5.0
Value: 3.0/5.0
Decor: 2.5/5.0
Overall: 3.5/5.0
Sampled a bunch of stuff. Food was good but everything felt a bit undersalted. Wanted to really love this place but just couldn't do it. Still closer to four than three stars though. Service was actually pretty good when I went.
There is certainly no shortage of Mexican food along 5th Avenue in Sunset Park but this particular spot is definitely worth mentioning. This is authentic Mexican food at its best. I can't believe that I hadn't come here sooner. Anyhow started with the Pina Coladas which were good. For entrees we decided to go with the Mixed plate of enchiladas and the Carne Asada. The Carne Asada was delicious. I was very pleasantly surprised at how tasty the meat was. The enchiladas were a hit as well. The "mix" contained 1 chicken, 1 beef and 1 cheese. Notably my favorite was the cheese followed by the chicken. The service is quick and friendly you really can't go wrong! Cant wait to come back and try the tacos.
I was recommend to come here by someone and they bragged how this is the best taco place ever and extremely authentic and that I must try it. Well I gave it a try and I don't think I would really go back unless I was in the area and I was extremely hungry.
We walked in and we notice that people started seating themselves so we sat down. We noticed that the one waitress and one waiter were running all over the place serving tables and more and more people just kept coming. It was going on thirty minutes and no one approached us so we got ahold of someone finally. The guy comes over with the menus and said they were are wrong and were suppose to wait for someone to seat us but we told him everyone was coming in and seating themselves. Than finally a waitress comes over who spoke almost no English and couldn't understand what we were saying. We order and it took another thirty minutes to get the food.
I got a chicken quesadilla and a chicken taco. The chicken quesadilla was extremely weird and came with a ton of mushrooms in it. I think there was more mushrooms than chicken in it and it way over powered it. The chicken taco wasn't the greatest I had. The chicken was really dry and tasteless to me. I really wasn't to happy especially after waiting so long and dealing with bad customer service. I see they were really busy so I don't know if we just had a bad experience or that's how it really is. Maybe one day I would give it a try again but I wouldn't go out of my way for it.
I was really excited to try Tacos Matamoros. You see, Matamoros is actually my last name so I was all about checking this place out. That and I love tacos.
There were four of us in our party. When we walked in for a late lunch the restaurant was pretty empty, just two other tables were taken. We were seated quickly. We looked over our menus and ordered a variety of tacos in the small and large sizes. I thought we were pretty clear to the server about what we each wanted but when the food came a short time later, my tacos were all large, when I requested small, and my brothers tacos were all small when he wanted large. It wasn't a big enough thing to complain about, we ate them anyway.
Overall the food was good. The salsa was seasoned perfectly! Our tacos were also pretty good. Afterwards we requested the check and the server took so long that we had to ask twice and finally ask someone else. Also, I went to the bathroom and there weren't any paper towels so on my way out I mentioned it to someone and they just looked at me like I had three heads and walked away. Okay then…
So. Final thoughts, food is tasty and fresh. Service is rotton.