El Tepeyac Cafe
El Tepeyac Cafe
2 eggs over easy, topped with cheese, and original salsa ranchera with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Mexican sausage in scrambled eggs served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Mini served with 1 egg, regular size with 2 eggs on top and sour cream, rice and beans on the side.
2 enchiladas in red sauce topped with2 eggs. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Scrambled eggs with sauteed onions, jalapenos, and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Eggs, potatoes, bacon, cheese, and beans.
Eggs any style, rice, beans, and tortillas.
Eggs any style, rice, beans, and tortillas.
Eggs any style served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Original pork chile verde or salsa ranchera. Add cheese for an additional charge.
Machaca served with guacamole and chips.
Freshly made chips smothered with melted cheddar or jack cheese, guacamole, beans, and sour cream. Add protein for an additional charge.
Feeds 5-8 people.
Our own recipe of delicious meatball and vegetable soup with a side of rice and tortillas.
May contain bones. Add pata for an additional charge.
Lettuce, tomato, cilantro, jack cheese, avocado, and tortilla chips.
Lettuce, tomato, cilantro, jack cheese, bacon, avocado, and tortilla chips.
1 piece.
Cut potatoes fried and salted to perfection.
Seared pork meat simmered in our traditional red tomato-based chile verde recipe; served with rice and beans.
All burrito options come with rice, beans, and guacamole topped with cheddar or jack cheese and sauce.
Feeds 6-8. Comes with choice of protein.
Seared pork meat simmered in our traditional red tomato based chile verde recipe with rice, beans and guacamole. Topped with chile verde sauce.
Shredded chicken breast with sauteed onions and tomatoes topped with ranchera sauce. Served with rice, beans, and guacamole.
Shredded beef with sauteed onions, tomatoes, jalapenos, eggs, and cheddar cheese topped with ranchera sauce. Served with rice, beans, and guacamole.
Beef with rice, beans, onions, cilantro, and guacamole topped with ranchera sauce.
Shredded chicken breast with sauteed onions and tomatoes topped with cheddar or jack cheese and red enchilada sauce. Served with rice, beans, and guacamole.
Shredded beef with sauteed onions, tomatoes, jalapeos, and eggs topped with cheddar or jack cheese and red enchilada sauce. Served with rice, beans, and guacamole.
Beef with rice, beans, onions, cilantro, and guacamole topped with cheddar or jack cheese and red enchilada sauce.
Cubed steak simmered in a sauce of tomatoes, onions, and jalapenos with rice, and beans topped with more steak picado served with a side of guacamole.
Shredded beef with sauteed onions, tomatoes, jalapenos, eggs, beans, and melt cheddar cheese.
Comes with rice, beans, onions, and cilantro served with a side of guacamole.
Green chile with cheddar cheese, cooked in an egg batter with beans and ranchera sauce all wrapped in a flour tortilla.
Comes with rice, beans, guacamole, and topped with ranchera sauce.
Pork chile verde with beans.
2 soft tacos served with rice, beans, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Served with rice, beans, lettuce, and tomatoes.
2 taquitos. Choice of shredded beef or chicken. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Shredded beef with sauteed onions, tomatoes, jalapenos, eggs, and melted cheddar cheese. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Mini served with 1 egg, regular size with 2 eggs on top and sour cream, rice, and beans on the side.
Choice of chicken or beef taco. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, and tomatoes.
2 enchiladas in ranchera sauce topped with 2 eggs. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Served wth rice, beans, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Seared pork meat simmered in our traditional tomato based chile verde recipe and served with rice, beans, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Pork meat simmered in red chile sauce served with rice, beans, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Green Chile with cheddar cheese, cooked in an egg batter. Served with rice beans, tortillas, lettuce and tomato
2 enchiladas in red sauce topped with 2 eggs. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Choice of chicken or beef taco served with rice, beans, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Egg omelette with guacamole and covered with original ranchera sauce. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Served with rice, beans, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Cubed steak simmered in onions, tomatoes, jalapenos and tomato sauce. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Served with rice, beans, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Served with rice, beans, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Freshly made chips smothered with melted cheddar or jack cheese, guacamole, beans, and sour cream. Add protein for an additional charge.
Prepared on wheat bread with mayonnaise, lettuce, and tomato.
Prepared on wheat bread with mayonnaise, lettuce, and tomato.
Prepared on wheat bread with mayonnaise, lettuce, and tomato.
Prepared on wheat bread with mayonnaise, lettuce, and tomato.
Prepared on wheat bread with mayonnaise, lettuce, and tomato.
Prepared on wheat bread with mayonnaise, lettuce, and tomato.
Prepared on wheat bread with mayonnaise, lettuce, and tomato.
Served with rice and beans.
Served with rice and beans.
Mexican Coke, sweetened with sugar cane.
Detail on the Manuel's
7/28/24: Okie de Pollo Burrito -- fireeeeeee!!!
a plate of mexican food
tacos, food
a close up of a plate of food
Steak Picado Burrito
food, ribs, bbq ribs
Outside sign
Cigar like taquitos
$9
Beef taquitos with guacamole
Crunchy Chicken Taco, smothered in lettuce and cheese.
Sign of restaurant from parking lot
outside
Tostada de pollo
2 Beef taco ninjas under all that cheese. Served a la cart.
Carne asada nachos and the Hollenbeck wet burrito
Parking lot
Menu
a man leaning against a building
Another hair
Andrew K.
Feb 9, 2025
To many, Boyle Heights is the mecca of Mexican food in Los Angeles. El Tepeyac Café remains one of the landmark restaurants in the neighborhood, attracting loyal patrons and legions of new customers for nearly 70 years. A family-owned business, the Rojas family has prepared delicious, traditional Mexican cuisine with recipes passed down through generations. This quaint cafe is arguably one of the most famous restaurants where you can enjoy a burrito. El Tepeyac Café serves some of LA's biggest, tastiest burritos, including the Manuel's Special - a gargantuan 5-pound burrito!Not to be outdone, their taco and enchilada combination plates are wildly popular and what drew me to the restaurant. A combo includes a huge hard-shelled corn tortilla taco stuffed with chicken or beef, enchilada in red sauce, and rice and beans. The portions are generous and the price, at $13.22, is very reasonable. I enjoyed my dish but did not feel anything was exceptional.If you are dining alone like I was during their busy lunch hours, you will have to eat at the counter and be lucky if there is an open seat. Good food, large serving sizes, reasonably priced dishes, and great service. I look forward to trying one of their famous burritos on my next visit here.
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Stewart L.
Feb 9, 2025
have been coming to this Boyle Heights institution, which we still call Manuel's, for over 40 years. Our parents brought us here practically every weekend for breakfast, when there was invariably a long but fast-moving line, and proprietor Manuel (Rojas) himself offering tequila shots at the door. Back then and maybe now, they only had menudo on the weekends. Back then and maybe now, lots of USC folks came here. Manuel has passed on, but his family still runs the place, and it hasn't changed its appearance at all, and the menu is pretty much the same too. Service is still quick and friendly. Ordering to-go at the window outside is equally quick. They now work with some delivery apps too.My go-to dishes then and now are the huevos rancheros, machaca burrito (not the Okie machaca), and the tacos and taquitos. The taste and size of the dishes have not changed. Their ranchero sauce is chunky with onions, peppers and cheese, their salsa moderately spicy. Their guacamole is loose because it has both lettuce and tomato. It's nice sometimes when things are as you always remember them.
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Yesenia E.
Jan 1, 2025
Small family owned Buisness. An East LA staple. Service was magnificent The portions are HUGE. you can easily feed two fromOne plate. The wait time was about an hour. Food taste was delicious
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Nicole P.
Feb 10, 2025
This is an iconic staple in the Los Angeles area. I've been there a handful of times but have never left a review. I ordered a hard shell taco and it was good. The hard shell, the loads of shredded beef and cheese and with the salsa was in my opinion, delicious and flavorful. We also ordered the original Hollenbeck burrito wet with cheese. The burrito had lots of flavor, especially the pork meat. We sat at the counter and our waitress was this sweet older lady. Her name was Mary. The chips and salsa were good too. Go early as it's a small restaurant and if it's busy, you'll have to wait.
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Nallely O.
Jan 30, 2025
The portions are huge here! We got the chile colorado, taquitos dorados, and an asada burrito. We really liked the taquitos dorados and the chile colorado. My husband didn't like the asada burrito that much. The guacamole and beans were delicious! He wanted to order a drink but they don't serve drinks. Although they did bring out a shot of tequila on the house! The place is really small inside and they have an outdoor area. It does move pretty quickly though and we didn't have to wait long.
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Edward C.
Dec 22, 2024
I was looking for the best menudo in LA and this place was ranked #1 on Yelp. I got to say, it definitely delivered on the menudo!I think they have their own parking lot too, I went on a sunday at 10 AM and waited about 45 minutes until we were seated. But once we were, they came by and took our orders, within 10 minutes our food was on our table. The place was pretty packed and it looks like lines do move pretty quickly. The menudo had all the good stuff: tripe, pata (pork feet), tendon, etc. The corn tortillas were so nice and chewy and you can tell it was homemade. They had crazy large portions, I would recommend a small size unless you are HUNGRY.
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Tom G.
Oct 27, 2024
I've been back again only this time I brought a friend who had not visited in 34 years (him). You should have seen how quickly he wolfed down his dish! Otherwise, I'm pleased to see there was a bit of a line waiting to get in at the lunch hour. It's always a good sign when a place is busy. Aside from covid times... Manuals has always, almost always had a line to get in? Covid wasn't kind to almost any business... Especially restaurants. I guess you'd have to convert your restaurant to heavy delivery only since during covid nobody was coming out in person. Anyways, my Hollanbec (misspelled?) was totally a tornado on my taste buds... Yummy beyond compare. It was a time traveling blast into the past! Yeah I've been coming here for over 40 years... That's how long I've been with my wife... Actually let me think about it... I think I could come in here for almost 50 years? Does that make me some kind of antique at oh Tepeyac? Anyways, is there any other way to justify five stars other than having faithfully been a frequent visitor spanning half a century? Dang... What I'm really trying to say is I would like to award award 50 stars... One for every year!
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Jean B.
Feb 15, 2025
The food was delicious and served right away. The prices are very reasonable. The staff are very helpful and polite. The place was clean and decent. The only thing is they did not have more of the vegan/vegetraian options. I highly recommend this restaurant.
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Reginald M.
Jan 31, 2025
Home of the Best Burrito on L.A. I was just in L. A. and got one to go. Real serious Mexican food made authentically.
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Al C.
Jan 24, 2025
Food is good along with the service and vibe of an old school legendary place to eat mexican food.Only disappointment was that they offer you chips and then charge you $3 when the bill comes.More the principal than anything.
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