Regular, Super, Super Wet or California? How to Order a Burrito at Los Altos Taqueria in Mountain View
A burrito menu looks simple until you read it. Los Altos Taqueria in Mountain View lists seven burritos, and the names, Regular, Super, Super Wet and California, do not say much about what is inside. The listings do. This guide puts the ingredient lists side by side, explains what each name points to, and tells […]
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 […]