The Tamale Guy

Visited and picked up a 12 pack with half vegetarian and half meat tamales. Brought the 12 pack of tamales to work and it was a hit! My team loved the spiciness of the red bean and jalapeno, the savory goodness of the soy chorizo, and the meat tamales were amazing! Will be back to get more and also to try out the champurrado

Delicious tamales! I've tried every flavor and they are all amazing. They even have vegetarian and soy options. The watermelon agua fresca was fantastic. I took a dozen tamales home to heat up later. Love this place.

These are the absolute worst tamales I have ever eaten. They are dry with NO sauce. They charge you for sauce! They are tasteless and there is barely any meat inside. It’s like you are eating a quarter pound of dry masa! Do yourself a favor and go elsewhere! DOUBLE YUCK!!! There is no inside dining - take out only.

Ordered a lot of tamales for our New Years get-together, and they were delicious! They even had vegan tamales for our plant-based eaters. Their red and green salsa goes well with the tamales (as advised) as well as their homemade guacamole. This is the place to order tamales for your parties!

So sad to see the state of this restaurant. Before the pandemic, my family would frequent The Tamale Guy and it was so pleasant. Now it’s just depressing. They never have anything in stock and there’s nowhere to sit, only one small table for two people. Where they used to have tables and a tv that played music, they have freezers. With all those freezers out in what used to be the seating area you would think they would have enough ingredients but they’re always running out of something. Today they didn’t have beans so we got two scopes of rice, if you dine in your meal doesn’t come on a plate anymore it comes in a to-go container. We noticed they changed the rice, they used to use jasmine rice which was very flavorful but now they have bland white rice. Really my money probably would have been better spent somewhere else, like Patty’s. The tamale I had was good but my husband’s was burnt. Seen complaints about this happening several times before. Not the most comfortable place to be in but if you’re ordering to go and only tamales should be fine unless they run out of those too.

Great Prices, Tasty Tamales, and World Class Service!!! Ask for Samantha she was very friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful! They have a variety of Tamales(chicken, pork, beef, potato, pineapple & Raisin, etc.) including 4 or 5 vegan options. Go check them out!!!

The Tamales are awesomely moist, tasty, are the Vegan-has potatoes &other vegetables; which are my favorite and the Pupusas too. However, I get frustrated that no one answers the phone, especially in the afternoon. I recommend: If you do get through, order a day ahead. Sometimes they are out of a specific Preferred Tamale of your choosing. Or you get a frozen one which is offered occasionally. * Also their mild green sauce for the vegan Tamales create that special flavor you have to have! Gives it that final touch😋 (this past two weeks, I haven’t been able to get threw on the phone. Verizon says can’t get threw try again. I have several times in separate days. Not even on the internet. I hope they are in business.

I stopped by this place on my way home from work. It is located on Foothill Blvd on the border of Claremont and Pomona. I picked up an assorted (meat, vegie, and dessert) dozen of tamales. I enjoyed the chorizo, beef and chicken. My wife liked the Chile and cheese and my daughter liked the potato and cheese. I gave 4 stars as we prefer Masa that has a bit of flavor and color. While the ratio of filling to Masa was good, tamales that have flavor in the Masa taste better. Nonetheless I will be back as tamale making is an a labor intensive project and should be supported.

Huge tamale the meats were very flavorful line went quick worth the trip salsas were good all plates come with beans and rice

First time trying the tamales here at the night fest. Absolutely loved them. The gal was friendly and informative. We tried the chicken, the beef and the corn. All delicious. The corn was surprisingly sweet. Haven't tried it before, didn't know what to expect. I'll be ordering the corn tamale too next time!

The tamales are just ok! Problem is they are either never open even though the sign says they should be ! The other thing is they never have hardly any tamales ! Wednesday is half price day but you're lucky if they are open! Been there at least 10 times and have only been inside twice. Once I actually got tamales the other time they were open but didn't have any and the other 8 times they were closed! Don't waste your time

I am obsessed with the tamales from The Tamale Guy. I have only bought them from the Riverside farmers market, but they are always fresh and always delicious with lots of flavor in the masa. My favorites are the beef but their pork seems really popular as well. They have a great deal if you buy half a dozen, which I recommend you do. There's no way you can only just one.

Have they gone out of business ? They haven't been showing up to the farmers markets in Temecula.

Last 2 times the tamales were not fully cooked that's all I have to say . People are very friendly and looks like they have priorities over large orders from restaurants and not impressed with the quality.

Don't waste your time here. I had ordered 3 dozen tamales and even paid ahead of time. I told them I would pick it up at 12 but they didn't even have them ready until 1:40. the 12 pork and 12 chicken ones werent cooked they just tasted like dough. What was the point of the extra 1:40 min if they still weren't done.

Omg!!! I had my first tamale here today and ate it in my car. I got the shredded beef and the pork. I devoured both. My favorite was the shredded beef, the masa was so light and moist. It wasn't spicy like normal tamales but the simple flavor was so delicious. I felt bad and went back inside to grab some for my husband because I felt guilty enjoying this by myself. Lol I tried a cheese and chili and it was also delicious. Stop in and try this spot if your a tamale aficionado. Delicious!!!

I like buying tamales at a farmers market. It is much easier than running down a street chasing after the tamale vendor cart. I bought a dozen assorted tamales from The Tamale Guy at the High Desert Farmers Market this morning. I wanted a variety to try so I will know which ones to get the next time. So far, I have tried the chicken tamale and it was exceptionally good. The chicken is very flavorful, seasoned perfectly. But the sweet tamales here are the stars of the show. These are the best tasting sweet tamales anywhere! The pineapple and raisin one had plenty of raisins and a touch of cinnamon. Sometimes there is only one or two raisins in the tamales from other vendors but not The Tamale Guy. The sweet corn tamale is absolutely delightful. I don't think I have ever had a corn tamale this good before! It was buttery tasting and sweet with a dense cake-like texture. I would definitely order more of these sweet corn tamales the next time.

I get the vibe this is more for like large events or catering because they didn't have anything ready when they were open at 11am - they were out of almost everything or it wasn't ready we came back an hour later and ordered. the chille and cheese tamale was really REALLY good! My friend had the vegan cactus and I can't remember the other one and she said they were good. Reasonably priced establishment but it's a pick up and leave kinda place because there is no bathroom or place to sit.

Too much masa very little chicken and it was very dry The service was good and the choices of tamales is awesome but quality is not good as I taste all masa and nothing of what I ordered Sorry I'm not impressed by the tamales I may be picky but I've had better

I just got their Wednesday special for a dozen tamales. I got beef chicken and pork. The best flavored tamale to me is the chicken. The best tamale that had the most amount of meat was the beef. I ate my tamales Hot out of there warmer so the masa had a good texture to it. Tamales were decent sized. I do appreciate the fact that they didn't make them big full of Mossa and not enough meat though so there was a good portion of each. I called ahead of time after work to pick them up and they were ready to go right when I got there which was convenient. They take Apple Pay so that was perfect as well.

My daughter has been craving tamales. I'm vegan so.. here we are. We got there an hour before closing so they didn't have a lot left over and they had to check before they completed the order (appreciated). They had one vegan Empanada left but it has been sitting for a couple of hours so I decided against it. We ordered the two vegan tamale options, one being potatoes and veggie and the other being soy chorizo . Very delicious! We should've gotten the platter because four tamales and an order of fries came out to $14.. a platter is 13.99. I appreciated the cashier letting me know that the fries were fried in the same oil as animal product and was cautious and knowledgeable about my food allergy. If I were to return I would get the tamale platter because they were delicious!

This business is at the local farmer's market and always has a line. I like tamales and talked the wife into getting a dozen to take home. We picked out a variety to try, and although the man working the booth told us what they were as he bagged them up we were left on our own to decipher them once home. It would have helped if the wrappers were marked in some way. Oh well, that's on us I suppose. Some of the tamales were very tasty and loaded with the good stuff. Others were more masa and very little of the good stuff, causing there to be minimal to no flavor. We were very disappointed in those ones we received. I have had better tamales, overall, for sure. Yes, I may buy from the Tamale Guy again if I have a hankering at the moment; and eat it there at the farmer's market, but not to take home for a planned meal. Overall I'd say the tamales were OK (3 stars), although they could've been better (2 stars).

At least update your site to say that you're closed. Thank you for completely wasting my time.

I wish this was in an easier location . I love the queso and chilli chilling!! Still after going to the local farmers market or the store front. This place just rocks. If it was by my house I would be broke breakfast, lunch. And dinner as well as snacks.. just saying a good place to eat!! Great people.

If your looking for some vegan tamales! This is your spot! They offer a few verities!

Tamales are busssss. Dont let the exterior of the place fool you‼ the young man helping us at the counter was also very nice. Will definitely come back to get more for my family

I tried beef and pork tamales. Both had very little meat or sauce. Waste of money. Won't be returning.

Saw potential when I first saw the tamales but upon taking the first bite. 80% masa and hardly any meat or salsa. Cheese ones weren't cheesy and had no spice. Not sure if I had a left over batch but they were also dry. I do believe this place has potential if they were more generous with their condiments inside. I have faith!

Best tamales , good flavorful masa my Favorite is the beef. Prices are better then anywhere else I've seen considering The quality is great.

Jalapeño & Cheese Tamale was delicious, the place was busy but I was in and out with in 10 min. Cashier was very nice and answered all my questions. You can not eat here so if your looking for a sit down spot this is not the place.

This restaurant had a representative at a farmers market in Murrieta earlier today. While I was at the market today, the man running their booth, was being creepy and inappropriate with a young worker at another booth who was obviously uncomfortable and disgusted with his actions. He made obscene motions towards her while talking to other booth workers and clearly was making sexual remarks about the young woman who's young enough looking to possibly be a minor. The man was on the shorter side with a mustache and possibly missing a tooth. Keep your kids away from him please

AMAZING Tamales. like the best I've ever had. But wowzers unreliable customer service. They mess orders up, lose the orders, refuse to answer the phone, don't honor stated hours open. If you're lucky enough to get the correct tamale you'll love it but good luck getting an employee to follow through. I hope the Tamale Guy becomes aware at how his wonderful tamales are being misrepresented by his workers.

The vegan tamales are great, but the service is unreliable. I came after work around 5:10 PM. In the past, the availability for vegan tamales options is consistently low around this time, but this time was worse than usual. I asked for 6 red bean tamales and 6 cactus tamales as vegan options, since they were out of soyrizo. Also asked for 6 chicken tamales for a family member. The guy who took my order is writing it down right in front of me as I say this. Waited 30 minutes. Yes, 30 minutes, before someone comes out. They then come out with the order, which has the 6 red bean and 6 cactus tamales. except instead of the chicken tamales, he's packed 6 veggie tamales, which i didn't want. The guy looks confused even though he wrote the order down in front of me. He goes back inside to get the chicken tamales. Comes out a few minutes later saying the chicken tamales are all out. Then another employee comes out and corrects him that there are chicken tamales available. Im very confused through all this. The other employee charges me for the 18 tamales I ordered while the guy goes back in to correct the order. Except they find out they don't have 6 red bean tamales, only 4, but I paid for 18 tamales already. So they offer 2 veggie tamales, which I begrudgingly accept. The cherry on top? One of the "red bean" tamales they packed for us has pork in it. Lol.

Staff was very friendly and helpful about the products having the beef and sweet corn tamales with rice and beans. Rice is good the beans are OK tamales are very good and I highly recommend

Walked in for the first time I asked for red chili, pork, tamale, green chili cheese tamale...The guy tells me he doesn't have either one of them. He only has beef and they weren't ready yet. how did he call himself the tamale guy if he has no tamales...placed wasn't very inviting either.

This place offers vegan options which are delicious! I purchased the two tamales combo! One soy chorizo and the other was potato and veggie tamales! The beans and rice were good! Nothing to spicy just right! The customer service was wonderful and I placed the order over the phone! It's a take out place no eat in! I will be back!

**GREAT FOR THE HOLIDAYS** (Pupusas are pretty nice) They are super stingy with the meat in the tamales but they are tasty. I have no idea how to make them or anyone who can so I am stuck buying them here for the holidays... and I am okay with that. All I know is, put your order in early and reheat them in a pot, not a microwave... unless it's just a couple at a time. They are always nice. Customer service has always been good... and even though it seems a bit pricey for what you get, I still come every single holiday season. See you soon!

I had their chicken, pork, beef, and cheese with jalapeño. The ratio of protein to masa on their tamales is fair and the proteins are all tasty. I prefer their red salsa over their green salsa but both salsas are also tasty. My favorite tamales are the beef and cheese with jalapeño. Great service and nice family owned establishment. I called ahead and my order was ready as promised.

Tried the corn tamale, delicious! Moist, flavorful, can't wait to try the pork and chicken tamales that I purchased.

I am so disappointed. I think this great little Tamale place may have gone out of business. I came by around 1 pm and the place was closed. I called and there was no answer. No one in sight but the hours say they are open until 8 pm. I was so bummed when the Montclair site closed. Really hoping it's not the case here.

Do not come here they workers are very unreliable. They forgot to turn the oven on. Would not recommend.

Came upon TG at Claremont's Farmers Market and got fresh steamed tamales. Customer service was great and the tamales were very good. I read the reviews and it appears mixed reviews so good luck. Today was a good day.

I experience the Tamale Guy in the Palm Springs Street fair March 14, 2019. There was a line, and only one lonely guy cooking , serving and cashier. He ran out at some point and had to cook more. So, I put an early order to pick up for later. I just waited 20 mins. Around and browsing other booths. Once they were done , I had the beef and carnitas. My favorite was the beef! Tender morsels of shredded beef and the masa was so soft and moist. Some of the best tamales I've ever eaten! The green salsa verde salsa was perfectly spiced jalapeño cilantro salsa! Delish! Too bad the restaurant is in clairemont...81 miles away. I suggest he opens a pop up small restaurant or food truck. $5.00 for 2. I'm a fan!

The tamales were all masa, they were moist but our two tamales had little to NO BEEF!! So we just had to take photos seeing is believing! Very disappointing. Made Very cheaply, no flavor, no sauce and very little to no meat halfway of the tamales

If I could give a lower score I would. Ordered tamales, during the busiest season for tamales, from a place that specializes in tamales...and of course, not only do they take my money, and let a whole week go by, and then when it comes to picking up the order, they don't have it, and they continually make excuses for why they don't have the order ready? Hint: get out of the restaurant business if you don't know how to supply your own store...and schedule the workers needed to complete what are probably hundreds of orders...the place looks like its on the way out...and the way they run their business? Looks like they deserve it...feel sorry for the counter folks who have to deal with this, but who takes all these orders (and money) during the Christmas season, and don't even bother to call me so I can make other arrangements? A waste of time, don't give this place your business

Please save your money! I've had better tamales from Dell taco. There was barely any filling and they were hard and crusty on the outside and they don't give you any salsa so you have to pay for it. I'm so disappointed that I went to a place where their specialty is Tamales and they tasted like this. I paid $5.86 for two tamales and $1.32 for two salsas!

Very very disappointed with this place. I use to go to the one on central that opened at 10am but the workers were always late. I went to this one in Claremont that clearly says they open at 10am I get there and rude lady in BMW yells at me and says we don't open till 11. I said it says 10 on yelp she said well sorry we open at 11. Last time I ever go there.

I really wanted to like this place... I'm sad to say that I'm okay with it. The good - the pupusa was surprisingly good. The tamale fillings are tasteful... for the most part The bad- the masa had this aftertaste that stuck to my tongue. The tamale texture was off. My guess is that they use one masa recipe for vegan and meat tamales. unfortunately for me, I like lard in my masa. The ugly - the presentation of the food could be better. The curtido for the pupusa tasted old. Reading some of the other reviews, it seems new owners took over and were given the recipes... they seem to be assembling the food versus loving to make the food.

We ordered 5 dozen tamales from this place and spent over $150 and scheduled a pick up for the day before Christmas Eve. When I arrived on time for scheduled pickup young lady I dealt with was very nice and it was clear that they were overwhelmed, she said that my order wasn't ready and so she would have it delivered to my home, and I agreed, which she did once they had closed for the day. Christmas Eve comes and we only had a little more than 3 dozen tamales in the bag. The tamales we ordered were not all the ones that we received. Those tamales we did receive really were not very good at all. A neighbor had made some and had extra and gave us a few and those were soooo much better. When you name is The Tamale Guy I would expect that the tamales be great or at least decent. I really feel like I got ripped. Bad tamales and didn't get what I ordered st all.

I got some vegetables tamales from this place. I was told that they had vegetables. Well, when I go home I, eat one, to my surprise the tamal e did not have any vegetables. I was NOT HAPPY at all for the tamale tasted like warm MASA with nothing in it. The tamales are not good. They taste like they were frozen/ NOT FRESH. I will not go back there, and I don't recommend this place. WASTE of MONEY. The not real tamales.

I've driven past this place so many times and finally decided to go in one day when I saw their sign saying they had vegan and vegetarian tamale options. And lucky me I happened to pop in on a Wednesday which is tamale Wednesday at this place! There's a daily special every day (taco Tuesday, tamale Wednesday, etc) with marked down prices for that day's special. Since it was tamale Wednesday I decided to get a variety of different tamales to try since they were only $1.50 each. I'm not very experienced in the tamale world but I really enjoyed these tamales! I think I got all the vegetarian tamales and my favorite was the cheese and chile one, but all of them were great. The tamales were selling out fast too that day! Someone came in right after me and tried to get the cheese and chile one and he was told that they were out. I'll have to come back on more Wednesdays to try out the rest of the tamale selection and take advantage of the sweet offer :)

Vegan Tamales are so good. Cactus and Red pepper are my fave. Chicken and Pork are yummy too. Thank you for the awesome customer service and fast with my order.. I will be back..

terrible!! received the wrong order. pork tamales are terrible! the do not have any green or red sauce just plain meat. sweet pineapple tamales are gross. if you are looking for good traditional tamales this is NOT the place. I will now continue to drive to LOS ANGELES for the real tamales and know what I getting

You just can't beat their prices. I ordered for delivery (during quarantine) for lunch at work, and I had to order so much food just to hit their $10.00. All the tamales were only two dollars, and I wanted to try a lot of their menu so I ended up getting a tamale, a taco, a pupusa, and a drink (which is a LOT of food for me) just to hit that $10.00 minimum. Everything was delicious, but let me just say the pupusa was AMAZING. I want to order over and over and over and over again just to eat the pupusas over and over and over.

I was so excited to see tamales being sold at the farmer's market so I bought a dozen for my husband and I to enjoy. I was told they were cooked and how to beat reheat them. That was not the case. The tamales were not cooked at all and when I did cook them, they were okay. My husband said that they were too expansive to not be cooked. I'd have to agree. Bummed as our family loves tamales.

DON'T ORDER THE PUPUSA. the food isn't good here, don't waste your money!! I ordered a bean and cheese pupusa and I don't know what they gave me. The food tastes like it's been in the freezer for months!

I drove by this place often and I was Like man lemme get some Tamales. I wanted to get the green chili and asada it wasn't available. So I checked the menu and saw the have Papusas as well, I came for the Tamales. So the nice lady suggested the ground beef tamale so I got two, scarfed the first one and saved the second. I gave it to my food buddy Anthony, and he's was surprised that it was ground beef. The tamale was a bit wet for my liking on the masa. The insides are perfect a good balance of meat and spices no veggies just meat. I'd go back to try more.