{"id":410685,"date":"2026-08-19T09:13:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410685\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T09:13:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:13:04","slug":"why-fort-worths-la-tortilandia-still-stands-out-reason-no-1-the-chilaquiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410685\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Fort Worth\u2019s La Tortilandia still stands out. Reason No. 1: the chilaquiles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly 35 years after it opened, when most of south Fort Worth knew little about tortas or sopes, La Tortilandia<\/a> remains one of the purest Mexican restaurants in a city now filled with them.<\/p>\n

It’s still a well-kept secret outside the Ryan Place and TCU neighborhoods near 1112 W. Berry St.<\/p>\n

But even with hundreds of new taquerias all across town, La Tortilandia still surprises with menu items<\/a> rarely found at most restaurants.<\/p>\n

Ever had “orejas de elefante”? Or “chilaquiles en salsa morita”?<\/p>\n

They’re on the La Tortilandia menu along with huaraches, molletes and plenty of enchiladas, tacos, fajitas, oysters, fish and shrimp.<\/p>\n

\""Orejas<\/p>\n

\u201cOrejas de elefante\u201d \u2013 \u201celephant ears\u201d \u2013 double milanesa and chilaquiles with hot-hot chipotle morita salsa at La Tortilandia, seen Aug. 15, 2026.<\/p>\n

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.)<\/p>\n

Salsa morita is a hotter version of chipotle sauce made with morita chili peppers, a distinctive small jalape\u00f1o. It has all the roasted flavor of chipotles and more fire, turning an egg platter or chilaquiles rojos into a fireball breakfast.<\/p>\n

Salsa arbol is also available, and El Yucateco habanero sauces are on the table.<\/p>\n

A chilaquiles platter is about $10, so La Tortilandia is the place to go if you’re tired of expensive brunches.<\/p>\n

“Orejas de elefante” is a nickname for a large, double-stacked breaded steak Milanesa, figuratively the shape of an “elephant’s ear.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The menu at this restaurant \u2014 originally named “La Tortilandia Oyster Bar” \u2014 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.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A combo platter with ceviche, shrimp, stuffed jalape\u00f1os, fish tacos, guacamole and sour cream at La Tortilandia.<\/p>\n

The regular lunch platters of enchiladas or tacos cost less than $10. So do weeknight dinner specials.<\/p>\n

The special one recent day was chicken in mole sauce for about $11, another good deal.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A burrito at La Tortilandia.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

It’s open from breakfast through dinner daily; 817-922-0205, latortilandia.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 35 years after it opened, when most of south Fort Worth knew little about tortas or sopes,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10762,116,118,117,143429,74378,3276,3570],"class_list":["post-410685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-chilaquiles","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-la-tortilandia","tag-mexican-restaurants","tag-ryan-place","tag-tacos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}