Best Mexican Food Breakfasts In Fresno

Fresno breakfast places can get pretty damn busy, time to expand the options. So I asked Fresno Twitter to fill in a gap in my knowledge. Hopefully, this helps you too.

Fresnans!! What are some of your favorite breakfasts or brunches from a MEXICAN restaurant or food truck, in Fresno?

— Mike Seay (@thefresnan) January 3, 2020

I trust my Fresno Twitter folks on this. Much more than Yelp and Google anyway.

Let’s begin with the multiple vote winners. Some have a quick item reco from voters, some don’t. This is nothing definitive, just a helpful guide from Fresnans that know the best Mexican food breakfast in Fresno:

Top Four Recommends:

• TOLEDITO’S (1704 Van Ness Ave). The breakfast burritos and Spanish omelet especially.
• ZAMORA (850 N. Fresno St). Homemade tortillas and great chilaquiles.
• CASTILLO’S (3659 E.Ventura). I dunno, everything?
• LAS MANANITAS (1329 S. Hazelwood Blvd). Amazing owners. Good chilaquiles.

I'm gonna sit here and wait for a lot of people to say Castillo's. HOWEVER, I personally like Las Mananitas for breakfast

— J (@infamousgeezy) January 3, 2020

Next Tier Of Recos:

• AL’S CAFE (1823 W. Olive). Bomb Menudo and huevos rancheros.
• COUNTRY FARE CAFE (4662 E. Belmont).
• EL MARIACHI (3046 W. Bullard). Great tortillas and owners.
• TASTE KITCHEN (6105 E. Kings Canyon). Anything.
• CASA DE TAMALES (609 E. Olive). Very good vegan brunch.
• CUCA’S (Chinatown & Tower).

https://twitter.com/iloveamsss/status/1213336311764963329?s=20

Other Fresno spots folks felt needed mentioning. Might be just as good as any of the above spots, just happened to be not mentioned as much:

• DAB TACOS (Food Truck) Asada breakfast burritos!
• LA ELEGANTE (1423 Kern St.)
• SAL’S (7476 n. Fresno St)
• GUADALAJARA’S (3020 N. Weber)
• VALENTIN’S (3761 N. Hughes & Dakota)
• LA HACIENDA (3131 E. McKinley) Good Menudo.
• MARIA’S (5072 N. West) Breakfast burrito.
• LOS PANCHO’S (1000 Fulton St.).
• PICO DE GALLO’S (5789 N. Palm).
• LA ESTRELLA’S (3855 E. Tulare).
• LILY’S (2326 Tulare). Lengua or Chile Verde burrito with hash browns.
• ADRIAN’S (3060 E. Belmont).
• CAFE LEON (4239 N. Blackstone).
• EL BAJIO (3704 W. Shields). Good spicy stuff.
• TACO GRANDE (7347 N. Blackstone).

La Hacienda on McKinley & First, mostly because they laughed at my jokes and recognized one time that my family’s from Guanajuato! But fr, their menudo in the morning makes one’s drunken escapades and loneliness a little more bearable. And everything else there is dope.

— Esteban 🏙️🤑🏞️ (@easolisloya) January 3, 2020

Mi Amigo. That’s a lot of places to check out. Well done, Fresno Twitter.

A dumb guy thought: What is Chilaquiles?

I did not know this. Sorry, I suck. People kept bringing it up and my dumb ass is like “Should I know what the heck this is? I should, right? Do I eat this and not know what it’s even called?”

Chilaquiles is this:

Chilaquiles (pronounced “chee-lah-KEE-lays”) is a traditional dish found throughout Mexico. At its most basic, chilaquiles consists of fried tortilla strips simmered in red or green salsa or mole to soften the strips. This dish is great for using up leftovers because stale (or store-bought) tortillas can be used. It’s often served with a side of refried beans.

TripSavvy.com

Ok cool. Now my dumbass knows. Good for hangovers? I like that.

Yelp Reviews To Be Taken With Many Grains Of Salt

Just something I noticed, I don’t know if this is true, but it seems that if you go by what Yelp says, Castillo’s is the place that people from out-of-town think is the best “locals” Mexican breakfast spot to check out. Not sure if some food show came through town once and told them or if this is actually the case.

Anyway, glad to have this list now that you and I can come back to reference when looking for a good Mexican food breakfast in Fresno.

We have a lot of eating to do. Time to get out there and start trying some dishes of chilaquiles!