Taqueria Cuernavaca

Ordered three tacos, typical flavors, and they were pretty good. Hot and flavorful. Service was good. Salsa delivered with the lunch was excellent. Cucumbers, radishes, and limes included. The only negative was the rice and beans, though flavorful, were room temp. Not good. Nice counter employee. It's in back of a Mexican grocery. Very interesting place. Lunchtime on Friday was packed. Had to wait on a seat. Recommend for sure.

LOVE LOVE LOVE this place! It's inside a mini mart for anyone who gets confused when they go. I can go to this place 5 times a week. SO good. I order the mojarra frita ... i think that's how you spell it. They fry the fish soooo perfectly! Crispy and flavored well! The rice and beans are really good too! They come with tortillas to make your own fish taco, which I always do. All of it is just amazing. And of course my boyfriend loves their tacos. 10/10

I want to state that the Mexican food we ate here was delicious, and I rate the food 4 stars, but Covid-19 measures were a 1 star, and that's being very generous!Taqueria Cuernavaca is easy to find if you know where it is. It's at the rear of the Quick Shop Food Mart #2 store, so you have to pass through the store, pass the electronic games, and then pass through the dining area. Before you even get into the store, though, you have to get pass the potential parking challenge first. The free parking lot is small, and the lot is shared among businesses. Fortunately, I was able to get one of the three open spaces available when I arrived.The wearing of face masks is very lax here. R and I walked past about 6 people, customers and employees included, and none of them were wearing masks. The dining room was void of customers, so we chose to eat in. The employee who took food orders at the counter wore her face mask when we got there. She answered our questions about the food.I love beef flautas, but, apparently, that's not one of the options on their menu, and I didn't want chicken flautas. I opted for the carnitas burrito, which included beef, rice, beans, avocado, pico de gallo, onions, lettuce, and other stuff. R ordered two carnitas tacos, that had onions and cilantro. I ordered a small papaya juice and R ordered a small melon juice, both of which were made at the taqueria.The employee at the food counter gave me a check, which I was supposed to walk to the register at the front of the store and make a payment. While I was in the process of paying for our meals, R sat down, and the same employee who took our orders brought a basket of corn tortilla chips and two small bowls containing a red hot sauce and a green hot sauce. The sauces were nice and spicy, but the chips were stale. Within 5 minutes, our drinks and food was served to us. My burrito was absolutely big and stuffed! So much so that I was full after eating only half of it. It's a good thing that they cut the burrito in half after wrapping it in aluminum foil and serving it, because I was able to take half home and ate it later. The carnitas meat had a good flavor and was delicious. The green chile sauce added some spicy heat to the burrito. The papaya juice was very refreshing and had a subtle flavor to it. R said that his food and drink were very good.Toward the end of our meal, three food customers came into the dining area and ordered food. They didn't wear face masks, and the employee didn't say anything to them regarding the wearing of face masks. Then, out of all the booths and tables, they decided they were not going to social distance and sat down in the booth right next to ours. Definitely not appropriately socially distanced. R was done eating by that time, and I hurried to finish my half of a burrito, and wrapped up the other half to take home. I was very disappointed with their laxness of following Covid-19 guidelines.I won't be coming back for any of their delicious food until after the pandemic ends. This business does not seem to care about peoples' health.

Hole in the wall Mexican joint in the back of a supermarket that sells amazing flavors. Go for it. Fried fish was spectacular. Ceviche is so good. Tacos are great. Chorizo torta was delicious. So good.

Good food authentic and very flavorful definitely a hole in the wall but great food and great portions for the price

My friend heard about this hidden mexican restaurant from a friend. You would never know this place existed otherwise. It's literally a supermarket and you walk to the back where there's the restaurant. It's bizarre because they also have gambling machines. Is that legal? Walk to the back and sit down. They'll come out with menus for you. The food is SOOOO cheap for what you get. I got the chicken enchiladas with mole sauce, which came with rice for $8.00. And it was large enough for lunch AND dinner. They also come out with free chips and 3 different types of salsa. This is very authentic mexican food for sure. The only downside is that they actually charge for water. I think it's $1.50 for a large water. Luckily I had my own bottled water.

Kudos to Stephanie M. for getting the FTR (First to Review) for this hidden taqueria. How anyone would know to look inside this non-descript Mexican supermarket for a restaurant is beyond me.Taqueria Cuernavaca is located inside "Quick Shop Food Mart #2" (storefront sign sub-heading: "Supermercado Y Carniceria") on Roswell Road inside the perimeter (ITP). If traveling south on Roswell Road, the food mart is on your right before the light with the Kroger shopping center. It's on the same side of the road as Kroger. The business can be difficult to find if you don't know what to look for. Here's a storefront picture: http://s3-media1.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/QPA1IfbdR2SG_D28JzF-cw/l.jpg.Quick Shop Food Mart #2 is pretty like like a gas station convenience store without the gas station. Walk past the counter and aisles of products and you'll find a big open space with lots of table seating. In the very back is a kitchen, a small counter for the cash register, and a refrigerated meat display, much like you'd find at a deli. The display is filled with all sorts of cuts of beef and pork. This is their carniceria.I stopped by for a Wednesday lunch just before noon and my friends and I were one of only two tables seated. The place was dead. By the time we left, just before 1pm, the place was busy. Besides us, the clientele was 100% Mexican workers.For a dinky taqueria tucked away in a convenience store, I was surprised at its menu. It looked like a full service Mexican restaurant menu offering the following items: chilaquiles, fajitas, sincronizadas, chicken wings, huevos, flautas, ensaladas, nachos, tostadas, carne asada, mojarra, camarones, coctels de camaron, caldo de res, enchiladas, tamales, burritos, tacos, tortas, picaditas, quesadillas, huaraches, chuletas, chiles rellenos, and then some.The portion sizes here are huge. I saw someone order one order of fajitas ($12.99-$13.99) and the serving size was ginormous. I've never seen a single serving of fajitas so big. I should've taken a picture. The fajitas are probably the most expensive thing on the menu. Most other entrees are under $10.00 each, unless it's one of the seafood entrees, which are around $12.00 each.A good thing about the menu is it's colorful, filled with pictures, and there are many English translations -- very helpful if you're not familiar with a lot of authentic Mexican foods.I ordered two Tostadas de Tinga ($2.99 each) and a Cecina taco ($1.79). All tacos are $1.79 each and they offer the following meats: asada, cecina, pastor, lengua, caveza, chorizo, chivo, res, barbacoa, pollo, suadero, and carnitas. There are a few meats on the taco menu that are hard to find elsewhere in Atlanta, even at other authentic taquerias. I also tried a Tamale de Maiz.Tostadas de Tinga are spicy shredded chicken tostadas. Ingredients on my Tostadas de Tinga included shredded lettuce, beans, spicy marinated shredded chicken, cheese (fresco or cotija - I couldn't tell), and a creamy white sauce on top of a hard circular corn tortilla. I ordered two because I thought they would be small. I was wrong. They're pretty big (for a $2.99 item) and bigger than what is portrayed on the picture in the menu. The tostadas were freshly made and packed with plenty of meat. Tasty and a good value.Like the tostadas, my Cecina taco was packed with plenty of meat. In this case, cured beef (cecina). This was a traditional Mexican taco, so all it had inside was the meat and chopped cilantro and onion. There was so much meat in this taco that I had to add sauce to it to make it more juicy. Too much meat is not a bad thing, but it didn't help that cecina is a tougher meat. The ingredients were wrapped inside two corn tortillas and packed inside foil. The taco was accompanied with fresh cut lime wedges, cucumber, and radishes. I really liked the freshness of all the ingredients.Speaking of fresh ingredients, I went back into the kitchen because I needed to go to the restroom. There's only one restroom for this place and it's inside the kitchen. I noticed two cooks in the back chopping up fresh vegetables like onions, so I already had a sense that our food would be fresh.I really liked the Tamale de Maiz (2 for $2.00). I like tamales, but I'm not a big fan of opening up the leaves and eating them the traditional way. It's cumbersome. The tamales here are "de-leafed," so all you have on the plate are mounds of yummy masa (corn-based dough) topped with a creamy white sauce. I could have done without the sauce and just ate the masa. It was dense, but had a smooth and appetizing consistency. The tamales were sweet, almost like a dessert. I recommend this dish.There was only one server and two cooks, so the food took a long time to come out. We waited 15 minutes for our dishes to come out, maybe more. The staff was friendly and spoke English.They have a TV here that is tuned to a Mexican TV news channel.Cash only.

The food is tasty, overall a little warmer than what you'd typically find. I ordered the enchiladas mexicanas, all with chicken. Plus for me, it came with a well prepared and tasty skirt steak and grilled onions. There were three varieties of the enchiladas, so you get a bit of a sampler. In addition to these I had a chorizo taco and carne asada taco. While the corn tortillas aren't hand made, the chorizo taco stood out. The meat was cooked so it had a little crunch. Add in some fresh squeezed lime slices, onions, cilantro and some pureed jalapeño salsa and I had a pretty good street taco. The salsa that came with the chips was a little sweet but had enough additional heat to keep me eating!As others have said, it's in the back of the mercado, and the service was fine, nothing great, nothing terrible. Side note, went there actually looking for tamales. Since being spoiled in San Antonio, it's been my side quest to find tamales - good tamales. Sadly, while this place used to serve them, they are not in the menu, and upon asking, that was confirmed. The quest continues!If you're in the neighborhood and was something a little different than your typical Mexican American fare, stop in!

the food is boom I loved it so much I was super surprised on how fast the food came.And the drinks were amazing

Very Good food at good price; environment is rough . Only BR is in the kitchen ; dont see how DOH allows customers to walk thru the kitchen.Will use for take out or for lunch w/ my work crew.