Emilio's Grocery

We have been back here a number of times and the food is usually excellent and authentic. I don't like the tortas here but I like most of the tacos.I love these restaurant-store combos so I was excited when hubby wanted me to come here. They have all the normal options so I tried my usual. They also have a salsa bar so you can grab lots of different stuff. Much of it was too spicy even for me. I was excited to see pico with and without cactus.Their drinks are fantastic. I loved my horchata and it didn't have that chalky aftertaste that some places have. Their chicken has a special flavor to it that makes it delightful. I wasn't a big fan of the carnitas because I don't like the cueritos, which they usually add to the carnitas (even if you ask for it without them).To Try: Taco de pescadotaco de pollo rostizado Loved:- Drink: Horchata- Taco: Pollo Asado- Quesadilla: al Pastor (Joel likes)Liked:- Taco: Al Pastor- Taco: Camaron- Quesadilla: Pollo AsadoOk:- Churro: Fresa- Flautas- Taco: Carnitas- Taco: ChorizoDisliked:- Churro: Crema- Drink: Tamarindo- Flautas: Pollo- Sope: al Pastor- Torta: Chorizo- Torta: al Pastor

At Emilio's you can order a hot meal from there indoor eatery and shop for groceries while your food cook because they will send u a text once your food is available for pick up.While you're there do not forget to check out their sauces and condiments because they offer an array of flavors and spice profiles to suit your needs.Be Blessed...

My friend recommended this place strongly. So I had to try it because he's suggested some good places before. I was glad to find the food is super authentic. I have been looking for a good authentic spot that is regularly good. This place is it! I love the tacos here but not the carnitas because they come with too many cueritos even if you ask not to have them. So I won't get that here. The tortas here are good but the chorizo torta wasn't the good idea I thought it would be. The chorizo tacos are much better. I'm always happy to return here and we come here as often as I can come up with an excuse to.

I love Emilio's burritos tortoise, the restaurant is kept clean but you will need to call in your order because they stay busy

Located in an unassuming strip mall, this charming shop doubles both as a Grocery as well as an awesomely authentic Mexican taqueria, so I am very glad that Kristina M suggested this as the 2nd stop on the UYE Tamale Tour she organized! The location has plenty of parking and it was hopping busy on the Saturday mid-morning when our group of 6 arrived. We couldn't find any spare tables to sit and eat, but the turnover is quick and by the time we paid for our food, there were some empty chairs available. Staff were super friendly and helped us despite being extremely busy!I split a chicken Tamale 6-pack with x2 others and my Tamale was delicious. Loved how fresh and creamy the corn covering was. The chicken was also well seasoned. There were some other things that I'd like to try as well on their menu and definitely plan to return. What slightly sucked tho is that I paid as much for my real fruit juice (aka no fake stuff) as the Tamale! How can you attempt to eat/ drink healthy when the good real stuff costs so much??? (Ok, rant over)I also did some shopping at the grocery- picked up some beautiful, ripe guavas and also Yelper Daniel C recommended the sugared dry fruit - I got fig and papaya - super delicious if a bit too sugary! I really wanted to pick up the freshly made chorizo from their butcher section but their version has both beef+pork so decided to give it a skip. I also spotted a lot of other great stuff in the grocery like dried sassafras & hibiscus flowers and then some stuff that I just wasn't totally sure about - it's always cool to encounter foodstuffs that you haven't eaten/ experimented with previously. I will definitely return!Yelp Review: 23/2017

I just thought this was another grocery store or Super Mercado. Didn't know they had such a nice dining room with such great food. I had the Chile rellano. It had a different spin on it, but I liked it. Wanted tamales but they evidently don't have them every day. I'll be back!

Native to Texas (now in Alabama), I'm just your regular cowgirl lol just kiddin'. Not all texans are cowgirls. Anyways I did grow up eating authentic Mexican food. When I read about this place from my fellow yelper, Shaun, I decided to try this place out! Shaun did not led me astray! Although I didn't try what he had but my experience was just the same. It was one of the best tasting tacos I've had in a long time! Don't be afraid when you first walk into this grocery store. Steer ahead and walk to the window. The menu is obviously in Spanish. I ordered three (steak) beef tacos and one beef quesadilla. It's not ground beef of you are wondering. At first glance, the tacos seem small but (fanfare sounds)...it had plenty of flavor. What lacks in size, makes up in flavor! Squirt your lime on them, add a small amounts of hot salsa/verde salsa mixture and have at it! The first bite is just as good as the last bite! It had fresh cilantro, and white diced onion on flour tortilla. They run about $1.69 a pieceThe quesadilla was pretty good. My husband loves quesadillas! It had authentic queso fresco, same flavorful diced steak, shredded lettuce, tomato and cilantro on flour tortilla. It was about $5.00. You can't bet these adorable meals. When you are done, make sure you check out the grocery! I bought a big ol pack of blue corn tortillas for a whopping $3.00.Hope you will come and support this little store!

I'll start with the grocery store component. The place is super clean and modern looking. It's a small market but packed with with lots of things you just won't find many other places in the area. We came for plantain and oxtails. They also had short ribs and an assortment of other meats. Everything was fresh and reasonably priced and business was booming! I will 100% be back for the grocery store. Now the restaurant I will not buy from again which is a shame. I was the only one who stood at the cash register for several minutes and no one came out. I see a little button so I push it and still no one comes out. More people come in line now and a woman walks over to start helping. I place my order and take a seat to wait. Within 5 minutes everyone behind me was helped and I am still there waiting. After 15 minutes I finally get my food. Heads up - they have a salsa bar that includes like 8-10 yummy looking salsas plus guacamole, lime, and pickled onion/carrots/jalapeños, etc. When you dine in you are free to eat those but when you take out you can only get a predetermined green and red salsa or you have to pay extra. Seems a bit silly to me but okay. I ordered a horchata (large was $2.33 so great price and it was yummy!) and an al pastor torta ($6.99). Unfortunately there was hardly any meat on my torta at all. Not even one serving spoon full so I was very disappointed. Maybe they had run out? I will say that the bread was fresh and soft but I couldn't even taste the meat and am including pics too show how little meat there was. For these reasons I won't return to eat.

Ok I'm from California and know what true authentic Mexican food tastes like. It kills me to know a lot of places out here call themselves authentic when they are nothing of the sort. This location is by far the BEST and close to authentic Mexican food you can get. Everything here is freshly made. I've been to many restaurants where they serve you so called "fresh" salsa that looks like liquid tomato paste with no flavor and I know it's from a can; it sure taste like it too. This place makes all the salsas fresh and makes them right! They all have great flavors. I tasted all of the different ones they had. From pico to hot and they are made correctly. As well as the guacamole. I've been disappointed by many restaurants out here that don't know how to make it. My wife makes it better than most out here. This place makes the guacamole fresh with the correct flavors. I was very impressed. I tried the asada quesadilla and it tasted amazing. It had enough cheese and meat. I was surprised that it had lettuce and tomato slices in it, normally it doesn't, but the flavors from the asada null the veggies out. I also tried an asada and chicharon taco. Both were excellent and have a good portion of meat on them. What also made the quesadilla and tacos better was the homemade tortillas. This place makes them and I can taste it. All other places make their stuff with store bought and these are the best! I've boughten asada from the grocery side before and it was great. Tastes like back home. I was completely impressed by all the food here. At least all that I tried. I can definitely say that it is worth the drive for anyone to come and give it try. I will for sure be coming back.

Just had a horrible experience at this establishment. Food inspectors should be called on them. I called my order in @12:12. Two tacos de asada and 3 sopes de pastor. Was told they were busy and it would be 20 mins. I went at 12:27. There was a line but I figured it wouldn't effect me since I called my order in. Paid and stepped to the side. People went and came. Yet my order was nowhere to be seen. My lunch break was running out. I figured I can eat in the car! . 1255 and nothing , so I get in line (4 guys are in line) . I reason that if make it ti the register and I don't see my order I would get a refund and make it somewhere else. This is where things get bad. I reach the register and ask for a refund expecting a fast transaction after I explain what has happened. Nope! They take my receipt and go into the kitchen. I wait for mins, so many that a line has formed again. This is crazy I thought. So I started to press a doorbell on the register over and over again and again. I can hear the staff get mad in the back! I had to annoy them as much as I was. This is where it gets even more bad! As I'm ringing the doorbell. A previous customer comes back because he got the wrong order (he left like 15+ mins earlier). It's my order. An employee apologizes and takes it to the back. He is upset too. The order he brought back was mine. So what do they do! Two mins later they act like my order magically got finished and send out a different employee to hand it to me!!!!! I said "No! That's the food he brought back ! I'm not going to take that!" Annoyed they take it to the back for the next sucker that orders that. That food should of been thrown away! Who knows what that guy did to it! Finally, defeated and annoyed they sent the manger who gives me a refund and apologized. Emilio's should be ashamed to try to resell take out food that was brought back to another customer! That has to be some kind of health/food violation! I will look into it. I recorder some of this too as evidence.