La Placita Restaurant

Great food. Amazing prices. Great service. Definitely worth coming here! Love the tacos, not greasy at all. The tortillas are special.

The food is not the best.. The owner is a Rude af... she smiles to her best interest... she's rude nasty and treats her employee HORRIIBLE... I'm going to report her.... Then she only wants cash now cause she doesn't even have money to pay the rent space!

One of the best spots in town for authentic tacos and burritos! The owner is SUPER nice and generous. My boyfriend and I both enjoy the food and the hospitality. Highly recommend!!

Top notch tacos! Dine in for the best experience! Great no frills atmosphere, chill vibes, super friendly staff, and authentic LA Mexican food. Quickly becoming a staple when we're in the area!!!! Can't recommend enough.

I LOVE their tacos!! Everything tastes so fresh & flavorful, we always choose this place whenever we want to get tacos :) Their sauce is also really good!

Went back one night only to find out they closed over an hour before I got there. The nice owner refused to let me leave and started up the kitchen to make me her 4 taco special. I felt kind of guilty knowing that based on the price, there can't be much of a profit margin, but she still made me the special with a smile and enthusiasm. Honestly, it made me feel like one of my friend's moms was cooking for me when I was a kid. I dug through my wallet looking for cash but only had a 10. Of course she adamantly refused to take it and almost chased me to try to get me to take the change. I didn't. I actually wanted to leave her a 20. She's got a customer for life.Tip: the sushi spot next door has a really good omakase dealTrivia bit: the movie Friday After Next was filmed almost entirely in this shopping plaza.

The food was under average, wouldn't go back. The service was good. I won't be going back

I enjoyed the tacos and the shrimp tostada. My fiancé liked the quesadilla but was mad at the tacos since he gets an upset stomach with onions and asked for his tacos without onions. Of course they came with them still lol. Oh well. Took him like 15 mins to get them all out. The shrimp was fresh tasting, and they were huge! Only thing I wasn't a fan of was the salsa, but I didn't need the salsa anyways. I would definitely go back

I have stopped by twice after having this place recommended to me by a friend. Each time I got the four tacos and a drink special for $5. I will return as the tacos are authentic and tasty. There is limited seating if you seek to sit, but I take it to go so not an issue for me.

Tiny spot in a strip mall that has the taste of freshly prepared, homemade Mexican food. There are 1,000's of places you can eat from that surround this place and serves the same thing. But I'd rather support a local business owner who works hard everyday and serves fresh food than another place that has a chain around the South Bay. Don't count calories here and forget your macros, this isn't the place for that. The tostadas that came with the shrimp cocktail were just fried so it was crisp and hot. The cocktail was swimming in shrimp, sauce and avocados. The sauce was runnier than I'd like, which was one of two drawbacks for me. Four tacos (2 lengua, 2 cabeza) were quite filling for me and these were the best part. You can get other meat fillings as well, but I prefer the more exotic stuff and I wasn't disappointed. Not too salty or fatty, you can taste the meat here instead of being buried under condiments. Although, if that's your thing, go ahead and use the hot sauce and sweat some more. No such thing as eating neatly here, so grab those napkins. Mmmmmm....Drinks are bottled, but I believe you can get some others in a cup, but not sure where the dividing line is on that. The other drawback was, since Torrance was experiencing a heat wave when I came here, it was steamy in the shop despite the window a/c going full blast. Felt like I was back in TJ all over again. If this bothers you, come later in the day when, hopefully, it will have cooled off. Or visit later when it's not so hot. Prices are reasonable with combo plates are available as well. I think I'll stick with the tacos, though. Great place for when it's too hot to cook, but you still want hot food and you don't want to go far for it. Some of the better shops really are the small guys tucked away in a corner. Happy eating!!