Start with tacos
Order three, all different. Try the red salsa on one and the green on another and you will know within two bites how the kitchen thinks. Everything else on the board follows from that.
4.4 out of 5, 1,234 Google reviews
Sit down.
The plate does the talking.
A Mexican kitchen on the east side of El Paso, cooking tacos, enchiladas, caldos, menudo, fajitas and tortas for the people who grew up eating them. More than one address in this city, and the same board of cards at every one.
Card one of the board
La Tabla
Six cards, one board. Turn one over and it tells you what comes out of the kitchen behind it. Prices and the full board are read to you at the table, so call if you want to know what is on today.
El Comal
El Sarape del Valle sits at 150 S Americas Avenue, out on the east side of El Paso where Americas runs down toward the river. It is the kind of place where the tortillas arrive before the order does and where the person at the register recognises half the room.
Over time, 1,234 people have gone home and written down what they thought about it. The average they landed on is 4.4 stars. That number is not a slogan. It is a thousand families quietly agreeing about a plate of enchiladas.
There is more than one El Sarape del Valle in this city. Same board, same kitchen habits, different corner. Call the number and we will tell you which one you are closest to.
A thousand people do not agree about anything by accident.
What the block says
Straight off the Google listing. No editing, no cherry picking, no invented quotes.
4.4
Average Google rating
Rounded to one decimal, exactly as Google reports it.
1,234
Reviews written
People who ate, left, and then came back to say something about it.
915
One area code, more than one door
Several El Sarape del Valle locations serve El Paso. One phone number gets you to the right one.
How to order the first time
Nobody hands you a manual with the chips. Here is the short version, written by people who have watched a lot of first-timers stare at the board.
Come early and eat breakfast
Desayunos are the quietest good decision on the board. Eggs, beans, tortillas, coffee, and a dining room that has not filled up yet. Ask what is being made that morning.
Bring the whole family
Fajitas and family plates are built for a table, not a person. Order one more thing than you think you need, then take the rest home. That is how it is supposed to go.
Americas Avenue is the road the east side takes toward Ysleta and the bridge, and this stretch of it has been feeding drivers, shift workers and families for a long time. El Sarape del Valle is one of the reasons people pull off it.
Come eat
Walk in, call ahead, or send a note. Hours shift with the season, so the phone is always the fastest answer.
Americas Avenue
150 S Americas Ave
El Paso, Texas 79907
- Phone
- (915) 790-0206
- elsarapedelvalle2@yahoo.com
- Hours
- Call ahead. We will tell you what is open and what is on the comal.
- Parking
- Lot out front, off Americas.