Back-to-School Family Dinners, Made Easy
Late August in Mountain View means the same thing it means everywhere: homework routines restart, after-school activities pick back up, and the 15 free minutes parents had in July evaporate. Los Altos Taqueria isn’t announcing a back-to-school promotion this year — but the menu itself, priced and confirmed, already does a lot of the weeknight-dinner […]
Mexican Food Near San Antonio Station & The Crossings
Mountain View’s San Antonio Road corridor has changed fast — The Crossings brought dense housing and office space to what used to be a quieter stretch near the Caltrain tracks, and San Antonio Station now moves commuters through the area every day. Los Altos Taqueria has been cooking a few minutes away, at the corner […]
What Is Menudo? Los Altos Taqueria’s Weekend-Only Tradition
If you’ve scanned the Los Altos Taqueria menu and stopped on the line that reads “Menudo (Weekends Only) — $13.52,” you’ve found one of the most misunderstood dishes in Mexican cuisine. It isn’t a side dish, it isn’t a snack, and it definitely isn’t the 1980s boy band. Menudo is a soup — specifically, a […]
National Watermelon Day 2026: Our Honest Answer, From Mountain View
National Watermelon Day lands on August 3, 2026 — peak season for the fruit and peak temperatures across Mountain View. Plenty of food blogs will tell you exactly where to find a watermelon agua fresca today. We’d rather give you a straight answer: our current menu doesn’t list a flavor-specific watermelon drink, so we’re not […]
Los Altos Taqueria: Mountain View’s Jalisco-Style Taqueria, Since 1997
At the corner of Old Middlefield Way and Rengstorff Avenue in Mountain View, Los Altos Taqueria has been cooking Jalisco-style Mexican food since January 1997 — long before Google, Intuit, and the rest of the tech-campus skyline reshaped the neighborhood around it. The name references Jalisco’s Los Altos highlands region, the origin of the family […]