This neighborhood taqueria features traditional Mexican fast-food dishes like burritos, quesadillas, nachos and tostadas. The menu also offers quite a few vegan and vegetarian selections. Outside seating is available. La Burrita is located one block from the UC Berkeley campus, in the heart of North Berkeley's shopping district.
Taqueria La Familia specializes in back-to-basics Mexican and South American cuisine. Standards like enchiladas, burritos, tacos, and quesadillas are available, as well as more site-specific inventions such as "Mole Pablano," a grilled chicken dish served in Mole sauce, and "Carne Asada Tampiquenia," grilled steak with chiles. Located on Shattuck Avenue, towards Oakland (South Berkeley), Taqueria La Familia is a great restaurant for a quick, casual lunch or dinner.
Gordo Taqueria offers delicious Mexican food and friendly service to tits customers. The menu includes chicken and beef tacos, quesadillas, burritos and chips with salsa. It also has the Super Burrito, which you can get with chicken, carnitas, beef, chile verde or beans and cheese. The Food Network declared it one of the city's top burritos, and the website http://burritorobot.com named it the second-best burrito in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Original Pollo is a locally owned diner with lots of windows and a friendly, local atmosphere on Berkeley Square, downtown. Its focus is fresh, simple food and everything is made in-house. You can get standard breakfast favorites like grits, omletes, bacon and toast, lunchtime burgers and sandwiches or a little bit of an international flair with a falafel, fish and chips or a gyro. Original Pollo has lots of regulars who keep coming back, so it must be doing something right.
La Mission Taqueria specializes in serving Mexican-style cuisine. Its lunch and dinner menus includes baja fish tacos, mole poblano and gourmet burritos.
