Come taste a delightful meal at El Trompo. They are open nightly from Tuesday to Saturday and are easily reachable by bicycle and public transit. They are in a colourful area known for its nightlife.
our branch is served with beans, corn tortillas, pico de gallo and mexican style cinnamon-scented coffee los huevos se sirven con frijoles, tortilla de maiz, pico de gallo y café de olla.
huevos a la mexicana
two scambled eggs sauteed roma tomato, garlic, onion and serrano chili
$6.99
huevos con chorizo
two scrambled eggs mixed with home made mexican style sausage
$7.99
huevos estrellados con tocino
two eggs sunny side up with bacon
$5.99
huevos con tortilla
two scrambled eggs with chopped fried corn tortilla
$5.99
chile con huevo
two scramboled eggs smothered on a spicy green tomatillo and serrano chili sauce
$6.99
huevos revueltos
two scrambled eggs
$4.99
el trompo combo
1 mexican spicy bean soup, with bacon, sausage, tomato and onions. 1 order of tacos of your choice home made drink add
$10.50Cheese add
$1.00
Appetizers MENU - El Trompo
guacamole
spicy avocado sip prepared with tomato, chili, onion and coriander, served with corn chips. Delicioso y picosito preparado con jitomate, cebolla y cilantro, servido con totopos de maiz
$6.75
pico de gallo
fresh chopped tomato, coriander, chili, onion and lime juice, served with corn chips. El clasico pico de gallo, jitomate, cilantro, cebolla, chile y limon servido con totopos de maiz
$3.99
chicharon de queso
delicious crispy grilled cheese. This is not a sandwich el unico en toronto delicioso queso crujiente a la plancha.
$3.99
tacos MENU - El Trompo
chorizo
our home made mexican style sausage. Served with coriander, onion and lime chorizo casero hecho en el trompo, servido con cebollas cilantro y limon
$9.75
chuleta
grilled pork chop and onion tacos, served with coriander, onion and lemon chuleta de cerdo a la plancha servido con cilantro, cebolla y limon
$9.75
chuleta con queso
porkl chop with cheese. Four tacos filled with grilled pork chop meat and onion topped with molten cheese tacos de chuleta de cerdo gratinado con queso derretido
$10.50
bistec con queso
beef tacos topped with molted cheese bistec de res a la plancha, cubiertos con queso derretido
$10.50
grilled chicken
four corn tortillas filled with delicious grilled chicken and onions.
$9.75
spicy tinga chicken
four corn tortillas filled with chicken cooken in a tomato/smoked chipotle pepper sauce. Orden de cuatro tacos de pollo cocinado en una salsa de chipotle y tomate
$9.75
hongo
grilled mushroom tacos served with coriander and onion. Deliciosos tacos de hongos frescos a la plancha servidos con cilantro y cebolla
$7.50
quesongo
grilled fresh mushroom with melted cheese served in four corn tortillas cuatro deliciosos tacos de hongos frescos con queso
$8.50
molten cheese MENU - El Trompo
natural
melted cheese served in clay pot with four warm wheat flour tortillas cazuelita de queso fundido acoimpanado de cuatro tortillas de harina de trigo.
$6.50
molten cheese with mushroom
melted cheese served in clay pot with mushrooms served with four wheat tortillas. Queso fundido servido con hongos en cuatro tortillas de harina de trigo
$6.50
molten cheese with chorizo/sausage
melten cheese and mexican style spicy sausage served in a hot clay pot with four wheat flour tortillas de harina de trigo
$7.00
alambres MENU - El Trompo
mexican fajita
another classic of mexico city
$12.99
beef/bistec
beef bistec with grilled pepper, onion and bacon bistec de res a la plancha, con tocino, primiento, cebolla y queso
al pastor
marinated pork with grilled peppers, onion and bacon, topped with cheese, served with six corn tortillas. Carne de cerdo marinada al pastor, con tocino, pimientos, queso y cebolla.
veggie
grilled sweet peppers, mushrooms, onion and pineaspple topped with cheese. Pimiento, champinones, cebolla, queso y pina a la plancha. Yes..you make your own tacos!!!
$7.99
lechera
a flour wheat tortilla with melted cheese, topped with grilled beef, and garnished with coriander and onion hecha con tortilla de harina
$5.99
corn quezadilla
a big hand made corn tortilla filled with cheese and your favourite ingridient una tortilla grande de maiz hecha a mano con queso y relleno del ingrediente de su eleccion como marchanta esquinera
only cheese/queso
$4.50
mushroom/champinones
$5.75
zucchini/flor de calabaza
$5.75
huitlacoche/corn truffle
$5.99
tinga de pollo/spicy chicken
$5.99
sincronizada hawaiiana
two wheat flour tortillas filled with pineapple ham and cheese tropicalisima; en dos tortillas de harina con pina, jamon y queso
$4.99
pollito/chicken
a wheat flower tortilla with cheese and grilled chicken. Queso y pollo asadoen dos tortillad e harina de trigo con jamon y quesito
$4.99
gringa
two wheat flour tortillas with marinated pork and cheese. Dos tortillas de harina de trigo con queso y carne de puerco al pastor con pina cilantro y cebolla
$7.00
side order/orden extra
frijoles refritos/refried beans
$3.25
chorizo mexican style
$18.00
tortillas (4)
$1.00
limes
$1.00
Appetizers MENU - El Trompo
nachos
corn chips covered with melted cheese, refired beans, pico de gallo..super classic! Topos con queso fundido, frijoles refritos y pico de gallo
$3.99
tacos MENU - El Trompo
al pastor
our specialty: mexico city style tacos. Pork meat marinated in the traditional sauce. Served on corn tortillas with pineapple coriander and onion. Squeeze the lime like in mexico city. Nuestra especialidad, carne de cerdo marinada y rostizada, servida en tortilla de maiz con cilantro, cebolla, pina y limon
$9.75
side order/orden extra MENU - El Trompo
corn chips
$1.50
desserts MENU - El Trompo
desserts cake/pastel
please ask for the special of the day
$3.99
chongos zamoranos
mexican dessert made with galled milk, sugar and cinnamon
$3.25
churros
traditional mexican pastry made out of wheat flour, sugar and cinnamon. "only available Saturday and Sunday".
This is the beat Mexican food in Toronto. theres nothing better than sitting on their patio enjoying the amazing fresh tacos and a corona while watching Kensington market.
I've never been to Mexico, so it's difficult for me to say whether or not El Trompo is "authentic". What I can say is that it's definitely different than Taco Bell (blech!)/Chi-Chi's/other poor excuses for Mexican food!
However, I have had so-called more authentic Mexican in places like San Francisco which tastes closer to Trompo than the chains. The taste is more subtle and food is "simpler" in the authentic. It is not dependent on the layers-upon-layers of cheese which is slathered on everything!
The Al Pastor (seasoned pork) taco dish didn't actually have cheese. Instead, all the flavour was in the seasoned meat and pineapple slices! It was quite yummy...not like anything that I've had.
Another difference is that I don't leave El Trompo/other authentic places wanting to barf 'cause I was stuffed. The food sat just right!
my first visit was about a year ago after seeing it on tv, and it was great! the food was delicious and plentiful. I went for my second time just recently, and boy have things changed....The pico di gallo on the nachos wasnt fresh, it was soggy, and had a peculiar taste....the cheese was skimpy on everything especiall the chicken fajitas, which were black and oily, lacking flavor....the tortillas were elastic in texture, not soft as on my initial visit...and the corn quesidilla was ok, but still tasteless and bland. I will not return unless they return b ack to the standards that made them popular....horrible food....
