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2753 Cherokee St. St. Louis, MO 63118

314-771-8648

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Best Mexican Market
Award Winner 2011

Cuisine(s): Mexican

Hours: 9 a.m.-8 p.m. daily (closed Thu.)
Attire: Casual attire

Features: Takeout, Kid Friendly
Reservations: Accepted

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2011 | Best Mexican Market

According to the post office, the street address for Supermercado El Torito is 2753 Cherokee Street, but the original painted numbers on the transom reflect the truth: 2743-53. Where most Mexican markets would stock a few varieties of dried and canned beans, here they take up entire aisles. There's lime-seasoned Mexican mayonnaise, nopal cactus, dried hibiscus blossoms, fresh beef tongue and great sheets of warm chicharrones (deep-fried pork rinds). And there's an array of kitchen gear, from... More »
2010 | Best Mexican Market

With immigration such a hot topic these days, it might be instructive to remind ourselves how much we benefit from a heterogeneous populace. Take Cherokee Street: It has enjoyed a renaissance as a thriving neighborhood owing in no small part to the Mexican residents who have set up shop there. It wasn't that long ago when something as simple as an authentic taco was hard to find in St. Louis. Not anymore. El Torito has great tacos, but it's also the place to shop if you're looking to make... More »
2009 | Best Mexican Market

When you first set foot in El Torito, you're greeted by a little candlelit shrine to the Virgin Mary. Take a right and you move into a massive, auténtico Mexican supermarket that stocks everything from masa and mole to an impressive selection of candles bearing the likenesses of saints and virgins. In the back there's a meat counter that sells the best longaniza sausage this side of the border. Turn left at the entrance and you enter a taqueria that serves delicious traditional... More »
2007 | Best Torta

The key to the torta -- the classic Mexican sandwich: meat, lettuce, tomato, onion, avocado, cheese and jalapeños -- is the bolillo, a plump roll with a crusty exterior and a soft, white interior. It needs to stand up to the sandwich's ample filling, but it also must have character of its own. Taqueria el Torito, the restaurant inside El Torito market, has very good bolillos, and you can sample them via thirteen different tortas. Best might be the carnitas, with its deeply... More »
2006 | Best Mexican Market

Eighteen thousand five hundred square feet. That's a lot of space to fill. That didn't intimidate Hector Medina when he moved El Torito up the street three years ago. Since then he has managed to fill the space in ways that only a Mexican market owner can. As soon as you walk in, you're assailed by the loud beats of reggaeton or norte�o and the buzz of activity from shoppers and patrons of El Torito's in-house taqueria. You want Mexican groceries Hector's got Mexican groceries. Fresh crema Me... More »

Calle Cherokee

By Ian Froeb | Wed, October 04, 2006

On this sleepy Saturday afternoon, the gray sky spitting drizzle, the Mexican enclave along Cherokee Street a few blocks west of Jefferson Avenue could be any neighborhood in St. Louis. I mean, it's different. There are the taquerias and bodegas, ... More »

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El Torito Supermercado

2753 Cherokee St. St. Louis, MO 63118

314-771-8648

Description

2011 | Best Mexican Market

2010 | Best Mexican Market

2009 | Best Mexican Market

2007 | Best Torta

2006 | Best Mexican Market

Calle Cherokee

By Ian Froeb | Wed, October 04, 2006

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