Tacos El Rancho

Andrea R

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March 21, 2025

Affordable, authentic, tasty street tacos: I always get the same thing, two carne asada and two al pastor tacos with everything, to go. It's more than enough to be a filling lunch, I can share one with a buddy, and on a normal, non-Tuesday, it costs me exactly ten dollars and one cent. Plus a quick tip of course. In ten years, this place hasn't changed the great food or friendly service. It's gotten an upgrade remodel a few years ago, and the prices went up a little. Still the best deal going for real street tacos in Westminster. Pictured here is the nice little self-serve condiment bar. I like to load up on the limes and carrots. Not all street taco places will let you do that, but Tacos El Rancho has it going on. ;) Or...you could go right across the street to Del Taco and get less food for your ten dollars. That's less tasty and less healthy, too. Nah.

OC Vaulting

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December 22, 2025

Boo!👎👎 Ordered carne & cheese ONLY burrito, specifically withOUT beans/rice, but it was packed full, rendering it inedible 🤬 Because it was drive thru, error not discovered until too late...😞

Krystal

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June 30, 2024

Very clean, there is booth seating, counter order, Taco Tuesday deal $1.50/taco. They put the salsa on your taco and the salsa bar is just carrots and jalapenos. There is hot sauce on the tables. I ordered the beans and thought it was bland and straight from the can. I wasn't impressed with the taco either but it was still a good deal. The hotchata and aguas frescas is good. Plenty of parking.

J T

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September 17, 2021

First time back at this restaurant in over at least a year. Really dig the remodeling. It looks much cleaner and spacious. The tacos were awesome as always. Had the asada, chorizo, lengua, and the cabeza tacos--all good! We also ordered the all meat asada burrito for the first time. All I can say is wowza!!! Food here tasted great and the prices are very easy on the wallet. For all the taco Tuesday people out there, they have taco for $1.29 each!!!

Jay Keyes

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December 23, 2019

I like menudo, but I acknowledge it's a tough sell to a lot of people. It mainly consists of spongy, rubbery, chewy pieces of honeycomb tripe (stomach lining from a cow), and this is before you add the obligatory gooey and slimy pata (pig foot) into the bowl. Preparing menudo from the raw will trigger a gag reflex or worse from those unfamiliar with the stench of stomach bile. None of this will stop me from evangelizing menudo when it's done right, like it is at Tacos El Rancho in Westminster. Eating good menudo is like eating life itself -- it gets me going on weekend mornings regardless of how many drinks I downed the night before; the sensation of menudo gently brings me out of a nauseous, head-splitting, hung-over stupor and convinces me that today is the day I will accomplish great things and become a great man. The magic isn't just with the simple broth, which is similar to red pozole -- just red chiles, epazote (like oregano, but more pungent and peppery), onion, and garlic. Pozole does not have the same impact on me as menudo, so I've concluded that it must definitely be the organ meat that makes menudo special. The nasty chunks of cow stomach that have been simmered low-and-slow in the aforementioned broth until they become tender enough to chew will take on the flavors of the surrounding broth like a sponge. There's something about the soft mouth-feel and assertive flavor of this meat combined with the chiles and seasoning that kills hangovers dead. During my early morning visit to Tacos El Rancho, their menudo had me in a hypnotic trance -- I could not stop spooning the broth into my mouth. It accommodated a huge pig trotter in the middle of the bowl, and the lava-like red broth was medicine. Each bite brought me closer to the light. I've maybe had finer bowls of menudo, but I never stopped to think to write about them like this one.