Find fantastic, all-you-can eat Mexican food at La Fonda Mexican Buffet

Leslie Trejo (left) and Angelica Resendiz (center) stock 4 mouth-watering entrées astatine La Fonda Mexican Buffet. | Jordan Wood, EastIdahoNews.com

IDAHO FALLS — For 5 years, La Fonda Mexican Buffet has been delivering nan champion successful authentic Mexican cuisine to Idaho Falls.

The restaurant, owned by Angelica Resendiz, sells delicious tacos for $1 aliases $2 a portion (depending connected nan size). On Taco Tuesday, tacos are disposable for 75 cents each.

The all-you-can-eat buffet features tacos, drinks and 3 main dishes that rotate each time for $12.99.

“Sometimes we person pork ribs and greenish salsa pinch nopales (cactus),” said Leslie Trejo, Resendiz’s girl and an worker astatine nan restaurant. “Sometimes we person picadillo. Sometimes we have, for illustration fajitas pinch chickenhearted mole. … It benignant of conscionable depends what my mom wants to make that morning.”

The buffet ever includes delicious broadside dishes specified arsenic rice, full beans, refried beans, sopa de fideo and pork rinds successful greenish salsa aliases reddish salsa.

“Then we ever person 2 soups that alteration each day, truthful we person posole and menudo, aliases sometimes we person birria (beef stew) albondigas (meatball soup) aliases caldo de res (beef soup).”

You tin besides bid La Fonda’s individual entrees.

Resendiz and Trejo prepared 4 authentic dishes for reporters to effort connected East Idaho Eats.

The sope is simply a accepted crockery successful Mexico, consisting of a fried tortilla complete pinch meat, beans, lettuce, sour pick and cheese.

“You get to take your meats, truthful we person for illustration spicy pork, chickenhearted aliases beef,” Trejo said. “That one’s really bully – it’s really popular.”

She said nighttime stands passim Mexico City often waste sopes arsenic a staple successful Mexican cuisine.

Sope astatine La Fonda Mexican Buffet | Jordan Wood, EastIdahoNews.com

Resendiz said her favourite crockery is nan mulita.

“It’s benignant of for illustration a quesadilla … successful a maize tortilla. It besides has bulb and cilantro,” Trejo said.

The fried tortillas adhd to nan mouth-watering crunchy texture.

A mulita astatine La Fonda Mexican Buffet. | Jordan Wood, EastIdahoNews.com

Third, we tried tacos dorados, 1 of nan restaurant’s astir requested meals. The rolled tacos travel 4 to a sheet pinch lettuce, sour pick and cheese.

Tacos dorados astatine La Fonda Mexican Buffet | Jordan Wood, EastIdahoNews.com

Finally, Trejo recommended nan huarache. Huaraches intends “sandals” successful Spanish and it is served connected a ample sandal-shaped portion of fried bread. The huarache is besides accompanied by a prime of meat, food lettuce and sour cream.

Huarache astatine La Fonda Mexican Buffet | Jordan Wood, EastIdahoNews.com

Most of nan dishes travel from Resendiz’s hometown located 3 hours from Mexico City.

“We besides waste nan tortillas by nan dozen,” Trejo said. “It’s $1.90 a dozen, and if you person an arena aliases something, you conscionable springiness america a telephone and we tin make them.”

Stepping into nan restaurant, located astatine 1635 S Woodruff Ave., is for illustration entering a Mexican show — pinch colorful banners hanging from nan tile and elaborate paintings, sombreros, decor and figurines passim nan interior. The sensation of Mexico is complete pinch a touch of Latin euphony successful nan background.

Every clip her mother travels backmost to Mexico, she returns pinch thing caller to decorate nan restaurant, Trejo said.

The edifice is genuinely a family-run business, pinch family members taking orders, moving nan kitchen, checking successful pinch customers and wiping down tables.

Resendiz has much than 20 years of acquisition successful nan industry, and her talent for culinary excellence shines arsenic wide arsenic her smile. Frequent visitors to nan edifice telephone her their “Tia” aliases Aunt Angelica.

La Fonda besides caters to events from Idaho Falls to Jackson, Wyoming. On immoderate weekends, they hole arsenic galore arsenic 500 tortillas for weddings and quincinieras.

“We besides do nan trays, for illustration a afloat cookware for rice, beans aliases immoderate different nutrient that you want america to make,” Trejo said.

La Fonda is nan only authentic Mexican buffet successful Idaho Falls. It is unfastened Monday done Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

La Fonda’s menu. | Jordan Wood, EastIdahoNews.com