Tamales Doña Tere

Love the breakfast tacos. Had the egg with potato and beans on flour tortillas. My husband loves their pancakes. The rice wasn’t my favorite.

Food has no flavor, I asked for two different type of tamales and both were flavorless and very expensive

This place is a awesome tamale stop.As i went in the place is welcoming and a small personal diner for family and friends. The service was great. Though i speak little spanish the servering lady still manage to help assist me to the tamale of my choice. The tamales are priced at about 4 to 5 dollars a piece. They are pretty nice sizes. I purchase the chicken tamales with green sauce and the taste and flavor was awsome. I also tried the cheese tamale not a big fan but Chicken beats them all. Then i tried a Torta this was also great the bread slightly toastd but good time These hommade tamales are by far some of the most full filling i would recommend try.

The service wasn't too bad; a bit slow, but there are only 2-3 people working in the whole place. I've only had the tamales, and have tried most of them. They were, disappointingly underwhelming; not much filling, not much flavor.

Bought 1 dz tamales to go. Found what looked like a long hair wrapped in one of the tamales. Returned what was left of the dz,never heard an apology All the manager kept repeating was they don't make the tamales.

I like to visit certain places a few times before reviewing them to make sure service and food is consistent. I also pre-judge the food by how busy a restaurant is. As the name indicates, the best menu item is the tamales. The selection and sizing is great. The only downside is the damn near $3 tamales are mostly cornbread w/very little filling. Ive tasted the chicken, mole, and beef. The flavor and seasoning hasn't been consistent throughout my 3 visits. Now they have an updated menu but it seems the food got more bland with each visit. In summary: 1. This place is always empty. You never have to worry about a line here. I frequent the UPS next door which always has a line, lol. But, at Tamales you may see one or two filled tables at most. 2. As stated in another review, the food is definitely overpriced for the taste and quality. Great Mexican food isn't hard to find in Texas...you just won't find it at this Tamales. 3. Bland. Bland. Bland. I think this place has a no-sodium policy because the only thing that has any flavor is the rice.

The tamales are horrible. I ordered half a dozen and was surprised when my total came to nearly $30. They are pretty big but it’s mostly masa and hardly any meat and to top it off, they are super bland. I ordered chicken with green sauce, tried one and gave one to my kids to try. The remainder are going in the trash. I wish I could take them back and get my money back. It’s a shame that this place prides themselves on their tamales and they can’t get them right.

The tamales are terrible and very over priced! I originally went in to get 1.5 dozen until they told me it would be $90. Cashier showed me how big they are and that they’re 4.25 a piece. I decided to get 8 and I’m floored at how bad they are, it’s 95% masa with a sprinkle of meat. Look at the photo! I gave them away to a homeless person because I didn’t want to bring them home.

I love this place. Everything I've tried has been amazing. Service was good. The place is usually pretty empty when we come but they have lots of take out orders. Drinks are good. This is one of those little hole in the wall places you don't want to pass up. Prices are affordable.

This place made me really pay attention to the details because they need to justify their prices. Each tamal is $3.75 (x12= $45!!) very expensive to what a tamal in Mexico cost and how much you can find a dozen in Houston. However, their product is very authentic which is something hard to come by here in Houston. The tamal was tasty, not worth almost $4 for no salsa, sour cream, rice or beans! I think this place is in the wrong neighborhood. If they want to charge expensive prices they should be targeting a different demographic that is not on highway 6.

I wish their sauce measuring was on point when making chilaquiles... today I was served Chips instead of the authentic Mexican chilaquiles. This is our 3rd time trying this place and today they failed us. They did offer to make up for it but that requires us to drive back and forth from the location, so if you order to-go check your food and make sure it's not just thrown in there.

Tamales legit. Price little high but thick quality.. there was one real big flat tamales forgot the name but must try

The food is pricey and not tasty at all! First off the location is next to a nail salon and the place smells of those chemicals. It's also a bit rundown. I ordered the chicken tamale and it was mainly masa and not much chicken. There was no flavor! I ordered one sope which was like 6.95 for one and the meat was not fresh! My husband ordered the tacos and again the meat was not fresh and there was so little meat! I would not recommend this place!

I was getting a new phone at T-mobile next door and we ended up staying there for quite some time. I started getting HANGRY! I had to go next door since everyone who worked at T-mobile said good things. I have never tried a Chilequile. I decided to go for the plunge and try one. IT WAS SO GOOD! I don't understand why there is such a low rating for this place! I enjoyed every moment and it's HUGE for a low price. Flavor was unbelievable and is my new place to go for pick up if I'm craving a chilequile or tamale.

Food is just not good anymore. It saddens me to leave a bad review as someone who has eaten here for years. The tamales are dry and don't have much flavor. The service is slow and don't listen to you. I asked for green tamales I get red ones. Aka not what I asked for. The waitresses are nice but nice doesn't make the food better.

Call the health department! Nobody is clean, service sucks and disgusting. Seriously eating here - you can get a severe food poisoning that can lead to serious illness so stay away. ¡Llame al departamento de salud! Nadie está limpio, el servicio apesta y asqueroso. Comer en serio aquí: puede sufrir una intoxicación alimentaria grave que puede provocar una enfermedad grave, así que manténgase alejado.

Good Tamales. Very large in size. The jalapeño and cheese is my favorite. A little pricey, but good authentic tamales.

The place was clean and the staff friendly and efficient but the Tamales were a little pricey and they were wrapped in multiple corn husk to make them look much larger then they are. The biggest problem was that the masa to meat(pork) ratio was way off with very little meat and they were bland. Just not a good value.

Ignore most of the comments. I decided to ignore the 2 ratings that the place had and I'm glad I did. Tamales are big!!! People complaining about lack of meat should order tacos instead of giving this place a low rating because they didn't get enough protein in their tamal. The coffee has cinnamon and that's gives it an authentic touch. Food tastes as it if was straight from the motherland. And it is cheap! See the my attached images. That's Combo #3 Tamal+Enchilada+rice+beans which is about $8. (Adding fork for scale). We also got chips. They were no good, but at least we got some. My wife said the salsas were good enough. I don't eat chile. Now, if you make a balance between food, portion, price and service, I think it is good enough for 5 stars. It was not perfect (I never got the water I ordered, chips were not good), but I did get good food for a reasonable price.

The homemade tortillas are to thick and large for the amount of meat they serve in them. I asked for more meat and offered to pay. The second taco homemade tortilla was thinner and smaller but had same amount of meat. Very disappointed.

Fraud. Someone got a hold of my credit card number and used it at this store. I called this store and the manager hung up on me when I asked about the fraud transaction made on 12/08/2021.

I was buying their tamales for years. Then a couple of weeks ago I decided to buy some and they have changed!!! Yes they are bigger but not better. The mass is dry. AND THEY CHARGE $43 for a dozen tamales!!!! THATS INSANE!!! We live in Houston where there are many places that have good tamales. I have not paid no where near that for a dozen tamales. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY. BIGGER DOES NOT MEAN BETTER!!!

NO,NO,NO. Slow service , no flavor I ask for a chilaquiles and they bring enchiladas after 30 minutes waiting I had to eat that ,plus no flavor. They should be shame .

The sopes are very good portion size and sooo delicious!! The gorditas are yummy and we also tried the tamales de azúcar. No complaints here but we got all our food as a pick up order.

Food was good, price was fair. Time to serve a little slow. Tamales I do recommend. Not too packed on the Saturday I went. It was aboit 1030am

We had just gotten some tamales and when we started eating them the dough was not cooked at all. Their excuse was that they had just gotten out the oven, but even then when my mom makes them they never are that doughy it's literally disgusting. Anybody can get sick from it for it not being properly cooked.

This place is always so good! If your looking for great service than this is not the place for you. These ladies work on the food and that is good enough for me. We always go for the chilaquiles! They are so yummy.

Placed an order to go for combo #2 and combo#4 and it was missing rice and beans on one of the combo. The food is not that great and the tamales didn't have much filling. The staff are nice and place is clean, but I'm never coming back.

Worse service waited half an hour just to order . All the tables were dirty and there were only 2 people waitressing. Overpriced definitely not coming back and wouldn't recommend this to even people I dislike .

The WORST place ever...The food has no flavor and over priced. The service is super slow. Don't Eat Here!!!

Let me start with I normally HATE traditional Mexican tamales (because they are so dry) that they sell down here, but my mom was insistent that I try the Tamale Oaxaqueno(sp) and OMG I was so happy I listened it was AMAZING!! It was like the flavor of a Mexican tamal but with the moistness of a Salvadorian tamale... so good!

The tamales are great , there is bad reviews because the kind of tamales are not the tipical tex mex style , that is Mexico City style , to have just 2 is ok (big size). There is so many fillings to choose from i like jalapeño and cheese and green salsa w chicken , i recommend menudo too. The service and prices are ok

Wish I would have read the reviews. Spent $60 on 2 dozen tamales. Their prices are way to high for 2 dozens and there was hardly any meat. They're huge but it's nothing but masa. Definitely will not be buying from here again. The parking lot was empty and couldn't understand way but now I do.

I like the food but the service always is horrible!!!.. I asked for more water and coffee and they never gave me a refill, the order it did not come complete but when I paid they were charging for everything, they never give you a receive of what you consume and it hurts because the tamales are very good but I would not return and I wouldn't recommend hat place

Bad experience. Yesterday in the noon I went to get some tamales and champurrado , and the champurrado need it sugar plus it was already expired I think , the flavor of it wasn't good at all. Check y'all's food and drinks before selling them

Stay far far away from this restaurant. 95% of the tamales are Masa with only a spoon of filling. A waste of money. I wish I would have read the Yelp reviews before I stepped into this restaurant.

Came here looking for a tamal fix, I got two bean and two pork verde ones. The style of their tamales reminds me of the kind they serve in California. Big with lots of masa, not bad just different. The bean ones were bomb, very delicious the pork one was ok. What was not ok was the barbacoa, it was made out of lamb which I saw they had but I thought it was a special request. Anyway I got lamb a half of pound was like 8 dollars, which is pretty pricey. It was so so dry! Nothing like the barbacoa you would normally get out here, I had to slather it with salsa in order for it to be ok. Which speaking of the salsa I had to ask for it, which would have been a huge bummer if I had forgotten to. They should have just had it in the bag already. Anyway will probably be back for the bean tamales but other than that I wasn't to to impressed and they're kinda expensive

This was my first time. I walked in with my twin 4 year olds. We were not greeted. The lady at the register was on her cell phone for about 5 mins when she noticed me and my kids. I picked a booth to sit in. The lady behind the counter finally walked over to give us a paper menu that was poorly laminated. I decided to get a #1 and #4 for me and my twins to share. The #1 had rice/beans and 1 tamale. #4 was a combo with a few items: 1 tamale, 1 street taco, 1 corn tortilla chicken quesadilla their "enchilada" that had Mexican cream and crumbled cheese with onions and a mole sauce on it. This plate came with rice and beans. I enjoyed my horchata today and the rice and beans were decent. The rest of the food wasn't very good. The orange and green salsa were tasty. Their fountain drink machine was completely out of order. I won't be back. There is a really good tamale place in Pasadena I would drive to.

We stop by hoping for a fast meal since we are in a rush and this place is PACKED. I mean, there's no seat left and people waiting. We asked how long would it take to order to go and the waiter said it we are just getting tamales it should be a quick. So tHat's what we did. Order a combo #2. Green sauce, chicken tamale and a pineapple tamale. It was soooo gooooood. Thank goodness I didn't check the yelp reviews before going there on a hunch. I wouldn't give this place a try and would missed out on a good restaurant!

Needs more Mexican music beacause they have dentist office music,20% good service the rest is bad the manager was mad because we complained about their workers

Don't go! Tamales are 90% masa, 10% meat at most. No flavor. No spice. No taste. Yuck!!!HORRIBLE HORRIBLE Customer service. Lady was annoyed that we even came in. They were out of queso, tamales were cold, gave us our food and we ate without them asking for us to pay. After we ate, no one in sight. Went up to counter, waited, same lady came out w/out a single word. Paid our bill. WILL NEVER RETURN!!!

I've eaten here before months ago and a kind woman was working at the time. The tamales were decent, nothing extravagant, but I also had nothing bad to say. This time I went and 2 women were at the counter. Planning to order take out, I approached the register. 1 was preparing food, the other was counting money, and neither said hello or asked for an order. I stood there for an awkward 2 minutes, and all one did was whisper something in Spanish to the other woman while she giggled. Needless to say I left and will never be back, in fact, this made me create a yelp account so I can warn others from going here. Unacceptable service.

Tamales are expensive when all you are paying for is masa. Very little filling. I'm pretty sure that there was no filling in parts of the tamale. Very sad. They were a good size tamale if only it had the stuffing.

I went to this place hoping for a good tamal but I was dissapointed with what I got. The tamales looked huge when I got them. Little did I know that 99 percent of it was just masa. They literally have a tablespoon of filling. Not worth 2.50 for a tamal made of only masa.

my boyfriend and i thought the place was pretty good especially for the price. boyfriend got huevos rancheros with two pancakes. pancakes were BOMB!!!! the best pancakes we ever ate. i got a tamales combo (1 tamales with beans and rice) only like $5 and super filling. tamales were HUGE (lots of masa). thought it was pretty good. salsa and chips were different but still decent. fajita tacos were juicy and not dry. i would come back for sure. not bad price and food isnt bad either.

I was here last night. Waited close to an hour standing in line. They were out of beef AND chicken, so I ordered pork. They know very very little English here. The tamales were fatty and had very very little meat. Mostly fat & way too much masa, and I like masa! I won't go back.

$25 a dozen you would expect more meat... The ingredients were delicious but I agree with another review it is 90% masa and 10% (or less) meat. I wish I could post a picture....

HORRIBLE FOOD! DO NOT COME HERE! the mole doesn't taste like mole. It tastes like watered down mole sauce that lost its taste and the chicken in the enchiladas tasted like freezer burned old chicken! I then decided to order a menudo and give that a try. The soup was good but then when I tried the meat OMG GROSS! It was chewy and not edible. I called the manager and he said he would give me a 50% off but I told him no. I didn't eat so I will pay for coffee and the chicken Tinga taco I did eat. He still said no because he said he tasted the food today and it was good. I told him no way, it's not because I don't like the dishes (which I love and eat all the time at other locations). I told him ok, so Do you want me to go around and ask these people to taste this food and rate it for you? Because I will get up and do it! He took it away and said i didn't have to pay for it. Seriously, stay away. It's horrible.

This is real mexican food flavor very close to my Mexico. Maybe some american food lovers wont like it but if you are Mexican you will love it

Customer service is horrible in here. The man in the counter is very rude and has no people skills. The food is so-so. The owner needs to fire the man at the counter.