El Pocito Restaurant

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Address: 203 S 17th St , McAllen 78501, TX, US

Phone: (956) 687-7696

State: TX

City: McAllen

Zip Code: 78501

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Reviews

This town’s best kept secret, till now! This humble hidden gem that offers a slight blast from my past is situated in the alley between two busy streets in our downtown area. It is not a sit down type of restaurant. In fact, there isn’t even any parking. You need to be creative with making room to park your car and walk in to place your ‘to go’ order. The small staff of maybe five workers are clearly very organized with their structure. You see one lady manning the gorditas station while the other one is manning the tortillas de harina station. They each knead and roll their dough with their hard working hands and they then place it onto the large griddle. It’s truly a work of art right before your eyes! If you order masa to go, you will get to witness first hand, how they grind the maíz right in front of you. Great field trip for those who want to see how our traditional gorditas and tortillas de harina are made. Now for the food. Their menu is very limited. However, it’s all you need. The gorditas I order happen to be the best ones I’ve had in the valley.

Ok so I looked this place up here in Yelp and I don't feel that the reviews pay homage to the actual historic place we have here at home.  When I walk up to the place, I'm immediately taken back 35-40 years to the tortillerías I used to visit as a child in Mexico. The smell of freshly cooked tortillas hit you a few yards before getting to the door. Old-school screens on the door and windows allow the rich aroma of tortillas and beans to permeate the surrounding air.  The griddles are hot and the long time chefs are busy cooking tortillas and gorditas for pending orders. The menus is simple and the prices are good. Now, you might be tempted to ask, "what's the big deal, it's the same breakfast as other places?"  The big deal is the food is fresh. The bigger deal, is that they ground the maíz and do the nixtamalization process all in-house; making the corn tortillas as fresh and natural as possible.  For the lovers of flour tortillas....those are good too.  Made fresh when you order; or...if you take flour tortillas home, they hold up well for a couple of days in the fridge. Don't buy too many and not eat them right away, there are no preservatives so they won't be as fluffy or as good as when they are fresh. That is expected from fresh foods like that; the same thing happens with Breadsmith bread, it's great, it just doesn't keep a long time like store bought prepackaged tortillas/bread.  Now, El Pocito has been around for over 100 years; even surviving the pandemic. The head chef has been there over 30. The prices are good. The food is good. The process is traditional and the tortillas are great!  Let's all visit El Pocito for some tacos and gorditas. Let's keep them around another 100 years.  Oh and it's cash only and they are closed Sundays.  We'll see you there!

Bought different gorditas here to give them a try and there wasn't really anything exceptional, the filling were just okay in general, the barbacoa was good, both the picadillo and asado de puerco were just okay.  The taste of the gorditas is really good, I just think they are a little to thick.  The place doesn't look very clean or welcoming.  Overall I don't see myself returning to buy their food, perhaps to buy their flour tortillas although I didn't try them, they do look very well made.

Recommendation from ArnieTex YouTube video for local recommendations.  Truly such a great food experience to see everything be in house made and with its great taste.  For any other southern, the fresh dough would fit so well as fried corn bread that I want to try with some rich chili to truly savor the juices that these gorditas can truly absorb and compliment.

I love corn maza, they were out of stuff. Still goood, will go back at an earlier time. GooodFood: 4/5

When I lived in Austin back in the 90s, I would eat two of the gorditas before I would return.  Now that I live here again, I visit this place at least once a month. If you are from McAllen and you don't know this place, you need to try the gorditas rellenas. They are all good.Food: 5/5

Finally got 2 C wut erybodys raving about the best gorditas, etc, etc....jst bought a dozen of plain gorditas 2 share with the family & I can honestly say that the smell in there was really enticing, but the taste just didn't "wow" me. I don't kno, guys..."I gotta catch a glimpse of these warlocks"....i think I'll go bak next week when we in the valley again...give em a chance 2 redeem themselves...convince my palate, tummy & hubby....we shall C... Vincent Price laugh

Wish they were still open, ordered some gorditas located in the rear of the old location. Everything made from scratch! AmazingFood: 5/5

Food was amazing! Brings childhood grandmother cooking vibes! I definitely will be back and recommend it to everyone!Food: 5/5

Just pick up and go, but it's the only home made place that tastes amazing! All done right on front of youFood: 5/5

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