LA Tolteca

Great service, great food and a lot of it. This is my favorite Mexican restaurant. I've eaten it many, but... more

Great service, great food and a lot of it. This is my favorite Mexican restaurant. I've eaten it many, but this is best. more

Love the atmosphere, small but cute. Food is priced right and tasty, love how they give you chips and salsa (2 types) right off the bat-free! Sometimes there is a wait because the place is small but its well worth it. Flan is delicious! more

This place might be hard to find being it is in Bel Air (off I-95 exit 77 towards Bel Air), but definitely worth checking out. Prices are very good (Combination dinners $8.25) and very good magaritas (19 oz $6.50, 14oz $5.50). The place is small and popular, so you will have to wait for tables (average 15-20 min wait). This place has the distinction of making it to Carl Ripkin's TOP 10 best of Maryland. You will notice a few Polaroid?s of CR on the wall. The service is ok, but not great, food is exceptional. My colleague had the shrimp fajita (delicious!!) and I had the basic (taco, enchilada, Chalupa) dinner. It is very authentic to the nature. This place could improve in it's size and service, but overall its well worth the trip if you?re near Baltimore. Pros: Food, Prices, Drinks Cons: Service, location more

This place is awesome! Absolutely the best, most authentic Mexican anywhere around Baltimore. I've been to Mexico several times and this food reminds me of the food there. They also make their own salsas. The red salsa has a spicy kick to it. And if you want to go up a notch, as for the green salsa. Once in a while, they even have a salsa more spicy than their green. And when you talk to the wait staff, you can actually find out which of the waiters made the salsa that day!!! I would warn you to go early and/or to expect a wait. Even on weeknights, there is a long line. Lunch is a little easier to get seated. However, once you order, food usually comes fairly quickly. Prices are very inexpensive for lunch and dinner. Portions are fairly large, especially if you eat the tortilla chips, you will not leave hungry. For vegetarians, they also have a vegetarian selection on their menu. Or if you see a combination that looks good from the meat portion of the menu, you can substitute (such as ask for the taco to be a bean taco or the enchiladas to be cheese). We have tried almost every restaurant in Bel Air, and this is just about the only one we actually go to. We have La Tolteca at least once a week, and sometimes more! Pros: Delicious food, hearty portions, inexpensive Cons: Long wait to get seated more

I went to Mexico back when I was a teen and lived in Saltillo for about a month or so. I loved the food, but once I got back to the states, I never really found a place to get it. I don't count Taco Bell or Chi Chi's as real Mexican food. I remember loving refried beans in Mexico, and then trying some from a can here in the U.S. It reminded me of this dog food called Red Heart that my mother used to feed our dog. I swear, it looked and smelled exactly the same! La Tolteca is the taste I remember from Mexico. All of the food I've had there has been excellent and authentic. Their lunch menu is superb with fantastic prices. Try the fajitas. They could do a little better with making sure their employees have a firm grasp of the English language, but hey. . . it's a Mexican resturant for crying out loud. Pros: Great authentic food. Prices. Cons: Tiny parking lot. more