Nearly 35 years after it opened, when most of south Fort Worth knew little about tortas or sopes, La Tortilandia remains one of the purest Mexican restaurants in a city now filled with them.
It’s still a well-kept secret outside the Ryan Place and TCU neighborhoods near 1112 W. Berry St.
But even with hundreds of new taquerias all across town, La Tortilandia still surprises with menu items rarely found at most restaurants.
Ever had “orejas de elefante”? Or “chilaquiles en salsa morita”?
They’re on the La Tortilandia menu along with huaraches, molletes and plenty of enchiladas, tacos, fajitas, oysters, fish and shrimp.
“Orejas de elefante” – “elephant ears” – double milanesa and chilaquiles with hot-hot chipotle morita salsa at La Tortilandia, seen Aug. 15, 2026.
The chilaquiles are eye-opening. Particularly if you’re so drowsy on a Saturday morning that you trip over the high front doorstep. (Advice: Take the ramp.)
Salsa morita is a hotter version of chipotle sauce made with morita chili peppers, a distinctive small jalapeño. It has all the roasted flavor of chipotles and more fire, turning an egg platter or chilaquiles rojos into a fireball breakfast.
Salsa arbol is also available, and El Yucateco habanero sauces are on the table.
A chilaquiles platter is about $10, so La Tortilandia is the place to go if you’re tired of expensive brunches.
“Orejas de elefante” is a nickname for a large, double-stacked breaded steak Milanesa, figuratively the shape of an “elephant’s ear.”
If the only Milanesa you’ve ever tried was tough or hard, this is neither. La Tortilandia’s fried steak is tender, with finer breading than a chicken-fried steak.
The menu at this restaurant — originally named “La Tortilandia Oyster Bar” — includes a wide choice of shrimp or fish diablo or with garlic sauce, fish tacos Veracruz-style or snapper wrapped in parchment and baked with vegetables.
A combo platter with ceviche, shrimp, stuffed jalapeños, fish tacos, guacamole and sour cream at La Tortilandia.
The regular lunch platters of enchiladas or tacos cost less than $10. So do weeknight dinner specials.
The special one recent day was chicken in mole sauce for about $11, another good deal.
The primary dessert is the house-made flan, but if it’s sold out you’ll have to settle for sopaipillas, bakery tres leches cake or La Tortilandia’s pancakes, a neighborhood favorite.
A burrito at La Tortilandia.
This location is the last of what once was a three-restaurant company owned by the Dorado family. The first La Tortilandia was on Hemphill Street across from an old steel foundry, followed by the second on McCart Avenue where a Tacos Ernesto location continues.
The Berry Street location is in a 101-year-old building that opened in 1925 as a neighborhood grocery for the then-new Ryan Place neighborhood. It later was a dry cleaners, a cabinet shop and a drugstore before becoming a series of panaderias and restaurants.
La Tortilandia’s busy season is just beginning, It’s a frequent stop for TCU football fans going to or from games using West Berry Street from Interstate 35W.
It’s open from breakfast through dinner daily; 817-922-0205, latortilandia.com.