El Michoacano

The food here is delicious ! El Michuacano is a very nice funny man always making conversation with his customers. Will definitely come here again

I bought 2 tacos and a horchata. When I got my order they charged me 5.44 unless their horchata is 3.55 then I will change my review. When I confronted the woman about my order, she was adamant that she charged me for 1 taco and horchata. My mistake for not getting a receipt and trusting this establishment. Also horchata is too watered down.

I come from a German /​Mexican heritage and grew up with my grandma cooking truly traditional Mexican food like adobo, mole, cabeza, lengua, chicharrones, carnitas, and homemade tortillas. This place comes as close to my grandma’s cooking as it can get! If you’re a fan of the more traditional Mexican foods, they offer a wide variety of these, not just the Americanized faire of muscle meats of chicken, beef, and pork. Those are good too, but I prefer to stick to the previous foods mentioned. They also have an excellent salsa selection and the owner is jovial and friendly. I particularly love that they offer burritos in the traditional way of just lettuce, cilantro, your choice of meat, and lime. Those simple flavors make for an excellent eating experience. I recommend this place to anyone who loves traditional Mexican food.

I cant believe this place has such cheap prices. The food is good enough to charge twice the amount, For both portion and quality. They dont even cheat you like other places. Some of these restaurant s will fill your order up with toppings (i.e. lettuce, rice), so not the case here.

Authentic and fresh! That’s all I have to say from a random stop at this awesome restaurant. Even though I was skeptical at first, even after Unilocaling it, this place is much better than many other authentic Mexican restaurants I’ve tried. They deserve more recognition.

For Familly style food and environment, this is good food not fast food. Authentic Mexican food.

Excellent carnitas and adobada! Love this Cute and quirky little place. Really nice people.

Good Mexican food.
Friendly and attentive service.

I’ve been coming here every weekend for the past few months. The food is always fresh, and service is prompt and friendly. I’ve tried the adobado, carnitas and carne asada tacos, and they’ve all been excellent. Meat is flavorful and tender, and the produce is always fresh. Even the beans and rice are great. My favorite part of the meals here are the wide assortment of salsas that are homemade and SPICY. This place is off the beaten path and worth a try if you’re looking for quality Mexican food.

this place is dead. dead as can be. but why?
this is as authentic as you can get at any mexican restaurant in Sacramento and it is delicious!
the food is not nasty greasy like most places you’ll find around the Sacramento Area. The food simply tastes homemade. its amazing.
I’ve been to the location on Fruitridge but that location has now been bought out by another person, same owner of the location, just different resaurant. its now called LA MICHOACANA. interesting.
this was my first time at this location, and i love the owners. theyre so nice, well maybe because my bf’s family really knows them, but he was super inviting of me and made me feel at home and catered to my every need.
both times i have at at el michoacano i have gotten an adobada torta. to die for! so good. the adobada is so good and not greasy at all like i mentioned before.
i love it here. i want more: p

We eat here every chance we are in the area. Great food!

They have all of my favorite and unusual fillings at El Michoacano: buche, chicharones, cabeza, longaniza. The food is homemade and fresh and it’s SUPER clean inside. I recommend longaniza tacos — so delicious!

The ambience was a bit weird. Came on Monday following the New Year. sometime around 1pm. Walked in and there was no one in sight. Then we saw a lady mopping the floor. We thought the place was closed but the open sign was on. None of the burners were on and we didn’t see any food lying around in the kitchen. There was salsa at the very small bar. The place was clean and not a single piece of food, plate, cup, silverware lying on any tables. We asked the lady if the place was open and I figured she said yes… she barely spoke any English. They don’t have nachos (boohoo). Ordered a combo with rice, beans, carne asada taco, and adoboda taco. Rice was fluffy and fresh. Beans were very thick and lukewarm when they should’ve been a bit more runny and piping hot. Tacos were tasty and I liked the toasted corn tortillas. The carnitas was crispy, they way they should be. Salsa bar was plain with 3 types of salsa… not assorted pickled veggies. We were given a paper place of generic store bought chips. We ate those before the food got to us and asked for me and the lady gave them to us without any issues. We asked for coke, but were informed they only had pepsi and then we were handed diet pepsi in a can. We turned around quickly and for regular coke but the lady said they didn’t have any. So we got Jarritos mango and mandarin. Jarritos Mango rocks!!! I will return but perhaps on a busier day to get a better feel for the place. It felt really odd eating there with my bf and no one else around… the place just felt really sterile.

I thought I wasn’t hungry, but this all changed when my mom brought me to El Michoacano. This is one of those places you really can’t judge from the outside. It’s located in a small, run-​down strip mall. It looks like it’s in the process of being remodeled, so it really looks horrible from the outside right now, but I have hope that it’ll be nice once it’s all done.
We went on a Saturday, about 1:00 p.m. and the place was pretty empty, except for the two ladies working there.
My mom and I had:
–Chips and salsa (free): These chips are pretty generic, but the salsas are really great. There was a green salsa, red salsa, and pico. The pico was nice and spicy and very fresh tasting. The green salsa was good too. The red salsa was my favorite. It had a very nice deep flavor to it, and as I was leaving, I saw someone order a tub-​full of the red salsa.
–Adobado (marinated pork) taco ($ 1.89): A small street taco filled with plenty of flavorful pork, lettuce, onion, and a bit of cilantro. The adobado was absolutely delicious. Since these tacos come with two tortillas per taco, my mom and I just each took one tortilla and split the meat up to make two smaller tacos. Delicious!
–Adobado (marinated pork) burrito ($ 3.89): This burrito is my ideal burrito. It isn’t filled with rice or beans or random fillers. It’s filled with pork, lettuce, and onion. The tortilla is nice and thin, while still holding in all of the ingredients. Also, the tortilla is great because it has a nice crisp grill to it.
These items were both made right when we ordered them and came out nice and hot.
–Horchata (about $ 2): I don’t really care for horchata, but my mom likes it and she said that it was pretty good, as usual.
We also ordered an adobado torta (about $ 5.49) to-​go. It was ready in about 5 minutes. The torta was made with a dense bread, lettuce, tomato, avocado, and pork. They also included a jalepeno pepper on the side. My sister had the torta and she said that it was pretty good, but that there was too much bread.
Overall, the food tasted pretty good; some items are better than others. It is pretty out-​of-​the-​way for me to visit this restaurant, but it’s a good option for those in the area. Hopefully after the re-​model, the place will be more presentable on the outside.
Notes:
–The ladies working there on the weekends only speak Spanish.
–The strip mall has their own parking lot.
–Try the adobado!

I was born and raised on these tacos. I have been going here for 30 years and not much has changed. The staff barely speaks English so you know you are getting authentic Mexican food. I love the tacos de adobado. The flavor is great and the prices are cheap!

I’m the worse person to bring to a mexican restaurant because I’m really picky and I like fried tacos. I’m embarrassed to even admit that on Unilocal.
I went here with a couple of co-​works and I’m glad I came. It was kind of intimidating because all my co-​works spoke spanish and knew what to order right away. The cashier even spoke to me in spanish at first and thankfully I understood (thank you high school spanish class). The menu is self explanatory but I’m such a dumby with mexican food… My co-​worker suggested the «taco de carnitas.» It was do great! The meat was so tender and it reminded me of filipino lechon (pork) in a way. It had the perfect texture and amount of fat on it.
They also just serve mexican sodas (the ones that come in bottles), cool drinks like horchata and I believe it was jicama.
I would usually stay clear from hidden mexican restaurants in strip malls but I would definitely come back again.

This place is disgusting. Sure, the people are nice… but the food was disgusting and the prices are way too high. The horchata was lame too. I will never go here again. I couldn’t even chew the meat, it was so over cooked and full of grisel.

This place is a hidden gem! I used to eat here regularly when I lived in Sac years ago and decided to check it out during a recent holiday visit. The burritos are a little smaller than they used to be, but this place is still a great place to grab some semi-​authentic Mexican food.
The basics: The place is clean, the food is served hot, and they have good service. (These are the essentials, but I’m surprised at how many places are just filthy or serve luke-​warm food. Why even bother??) This place is spotless!
The rest: They have tacos, burritos, tortas, tostadas, and quesadillas, and a huge selection meat choices from beef, chicken, and virtually every part of the pig — carnitas, al pastor, lengua, buche, etc. The meat is delicious and the items are prepared right in front of you with basic toppings that don’t mask the taste of the meat. For instance the burrito comes with onion and cilantro, with a lime and hot sauce on the side. That’s it. They mad-​dogged me during my first visit over 20 years ago when I asked for cheese on my burrito. After trying it their way I quickly learned why.
All-​in-​all this place is great and I’m glad to see it still standing after all these years. If you’re in the area, you need to go check it out.

The grandaddy of authentic Mexican tacquerias in Sacramento! I used to go to the original El Michoacano when it was a trailer located in front of the Reno Club on 12^th Street across from 524. The trailer is immortalized in a cheesy painting at El Michoacano #1. The original tacos are great, but the thing to get here is the Huarache, which resembles the footwear that it is named for. It’s kind of a cross between a taco and a gordito and starts with fresh masa that is flattened to an oblong shape to about triple the thickness of a tortilla and griddled. They are then topped with your choice of meat (Carnitas always seems to be my choice). One is a meal, two is dangerous. El Michoacano has seen a lot of competition come and go on Franklin (and elsewhere), but it still has the best tacos in my book. If I lived closer to it, I’d weigh 300 pounds.