El Rayo Taqueria

26 Free St, Portland - 04101
176 reviews
Mexican
(207) 780-8226

It's all right. Had the Quesadilla. Salsa seemed hard to come buy. No Salsa Station or anything. None was given as a courtesy with the chips. Found that odd. Maybe my server simply didn't give me any. There was a tiny cup of Pico that was grotesquely insufficient. One bottle of Hot Sauce on the table of an unknown brand. Was hot,but not good. An array of bottled sauces should be offered. Cholula, Tapatio , Etc. Think they charge for every dab of this and that. Sour Cream was $2. The Steak Quesadilla was decent, but not over the rainbow good. Needed seasoning. Could have used some of that missing salsa or hot sauce. Might go try the tacos. I heard they are good. We'll see.

Well, I figured I would get something to eat while I was waiting to head to last nights show at aura. While my beer was very nice and cold, my tacos were the worst tacos I have ever eaten anywhere I’ve been for tacos. They were stuffed so much they had gotten soggy by the time I was given my food, and, they were accompanied by two big handfuls of iceberg lettuce, which had no reason to be on my plate other than to hide the actual taco in some weird way of plating them. My steak was very tough, and tasted as if it had been in a steam table for most of the night. Idk who cooks here, but you guys gotta step your game up! Last time for a long time for me.

Enjoyed the atmosphere and the food here. I had a chicken burrito and my wife had fish tacos. I thought the food could use a bit more pop but I definitely liked it. Maybe I was spoiled by the tex-mex in San Antonio.

Absolutely horrible, we chose to eat here because they had outdoor seating and out dog was with us. When the food came out I was shocked, I expected MEXICAN tacos but instead I got a plate of lettuce with uncooked tortillas. The meat was cold, they charge you for chips and salsa which had absolutely no flavor whatsoever. The fact that they charge around $4 per taco is ludicrous,My school lunch had more flavor than this. The food definitely isn’t worth the price, we couldn’t eat the food and had to throw it away because it was atrocious. I’m sure there are plenty restaurants that are much better if your looking for Mexican food, even chipotle is a much better option than this.

Love this place! Staff is friendly and food is delicious here. Highly suggest the loaded tot nachos

VERY good food! It's always super fast for pick up, too. Very accurate on getting your order right a must have if you are intown!

Absolutely delicious Mexican food and with some clever innovations. I love the calamari rice bowl! Very reasonably priced, pleasant waitstaff, very clean and open.

Absolutely horrid. If I could give it 0 stars I would. What a waste of money eating dinner here. Everything was over priced. Honestly, for a good street taco I will pay my weight in gold. This was not worth a dime. Taco Bell can do better. Flavorless, ultra dry, basically 75% inches of the order was just shredded lettuce. Not really sure what I’m paying for if all you’re giving me is ice berg lettuce. All set with that.

Good, quick, cheap Mexican food. Love the $7 rice & bean bowls on Wednesdays! I've also had enchiladas and tacos and everything has been great.

All I can say is that this restaurant was fabulous!! At first I didn't think I'd like it because I'm a vegetarian but WOW, it was some of the best food I've ever eaten!! Everyone working there was so sweet also!! I'm from Florida, on vacation but I will definitely be back! I give this restaurant 6 out of 5 stars!!!♥️