La Plaza Market, Mountain View CA

You can't ask if the sweet bread is of the day because the cashier tells you NO all angry. If you don't like serving people in a good way, change jobs!

Could be better, associates and or staff members trying their best to be knowledgeable about certain missing store items that's why I had to grade this one a 3 for now thanks!

Ed the store is very small and one can barely walk with the carts especially when there are some people and then line up to be served.

Great staff. Good selection of food. Great fresh tamales. On the weekends, you smell the mesquite grill with fresh whole chickens
Love the taqueria

Nice market for produce and meat. Their Mexican cheese collection has good variety. They have breads daily and a food counter outside for tacos.

Amongst the Mexican/Latin markets in the Peninsula, we have found this to be one of the best for both fresh produce and tacos. (Warning: As with most street tacos, pls exercise caution. Asides from finger sized bone shards that can be dangerously sharp, we have gotten a lot of rocks in our pollo and Al pastor, and have bit down on more than one just so, quite painful, and once cracked a tooth).

Fresh chickpeas, tomatillos, nopal pads, white onions, peppers, purple field corn for making fresh masa, they have it. As always, use common sense and judgement when selecting your purchases. Sometimes I have had to throw out half of the corn I bought bc they are full of holes, and float.

Order at the taqueria and pick up groceries, and your food will be ready by the time you are done.

It's a solid go-to for a quick weekday lunch, when you are busy working and don't feel like cooking.

On Friday afternoons we have seen them smoking chicken outside and have tried them a couple of times. They look great, but taste a bit like chicken ham, due to high salt content. We think they brine them.

Good to know for the tacos:
Go early for chorizo, they sell out if you go too late in the afternoon.
The tacos lack consistency in amount and freshness level, but generally the pollo asado is a safe bet. Sometimes it does have a bit of warmed over flavor, or tastes like their leftover rotisserie chicken heated up.
We have needed between 3-7 tacos per person for lunch. (We only eat one of the two corn tortillas they give you per taco, if you eat the two tortillas per taco, you probably need less.)
Depending on who is assembling that day, you may get more or less meat, and fixings (onion cilantro radish salsa). We just order a couple extra tacos to make sure we have enough.
We think the flavor of Al pastor is spot on. However you get lots of pure fat. See pic for two Al pastor tacos, and the amount of visible pure fat that was picked out (some got spit out in a napkin, so it's not even all of it) So if you really want some, order double the amount, so you can still have meat after removing the huge fat and gristle chunks. Also don't recommend Tuesdays when they are a dollar, you get even less meat than usual. Really wish they would fix this problem, we have tried complaining (in fluent Spanish) but it's met with an 'oh well'.
Carne asada sometimes has gristle but some days is good.
Carnitas have a piggy odor and flavor so we avoid these.

I like the store, but the employee Juan from the butcher shop is a bit dirty, he is always eating and serving people.

I like the store but every time that I'm visiting the store, the employee Juan is always eating and helping customers, he doesn't wash his hands, it's disgusting.