Empellón Taqueria is located in Waterline Square at West 59th Street and Freedom Place South.
The menu focuses on tacos, guacamole, queso fundido, and seasonal vegetable dishes, all served in a comfy neighborhood setting. Local delivery of our full dinner menu is also available.
Empellón Taqueria’s drink menu features margaritas and cocktails crafted from artisanal Mexican spirits, along with a selection of beer and wine.
Contemporary Mexican hot spot turning out innovative tacos & creative cocktails. Based on 72 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.1 stars. Price
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Takeout ✔️ Delivery
Address:
645 W 59th St, New York, NY 10069
Phone: (212) 380-1232
Hours
| Wednesday | 5–10 PM |
| Thursday | 5–10 PM |
| Friday | 5–10 PM |
| Saturday | 11:30 AM–10 PM |
| Sunday | 11:30 AM–9 PM |
| Monday | 5–10 PM |
| Tuesday | 5–10 PM |
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Reviews
Marques Burgess
I got a ticket to Empellon at Waterline Square’s 4th taco tasting event
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Ryan Cronan
I absolutely love the fish tacos here, and they make a mean margarita. We live in the neighborhood and eat-in or takeaway every other week or so. I was excited to try the brunch but left rather disappointed. The chorizo sandwich was mostly hash brown, which itself was cold and undercooked. Also, the churro French toast was too sweet for our taste. The Chilaquiles was the best of if the dishes we tried. Strongly recommend their tacos, but I don’t think we’ll be back for brunch
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Jennifer LaFreniere
I’ve visited a few times for drinks and small plates. Staff has consistently been friendly and very efficient.
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The Original G
Listen I have been here more than once enjoy the food like the proximity close to home think the atmosphere is pleasing and the service is always attentive. Yes here is the “but”. In a city who has its share of Taco / Mexican restaurant the prices for the food delivered does not equate. Up your portions in the Fish tacos(2 per serving@$18.00) and then we can adjust the overall rating. In fairness on a hot summer night the “Spicy Cucumber Margarita” worth every dollar!
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Jack Neal
I stopped in on a random Sunday late in the afternoon, and the place was very quiet. We were the only ones in the restaurant, but it was very lovely.
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Todd Schick
A great place for a quick bite if you’re in the area! Highly recommend the shishito pepper cheese, and tacos. Stay away from the chicken quesadilla – it’s a tortilla with cheese and unseasoned chicken. No garnishing. Thank god, the tacos more than made up for this! And the cucumber margarita was worth upgrading to the pitcher if you’re 3+ people.
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Richard S
Not much is good here to eat, maybe the fish and skirt steak tacos are the best but the rest is pretty rough going. Great deals at happy hour though and service is very nice. Sometimes it has a strange vibe, sometimes it feels very local. Try to sit outside or watch the fountains. Great bar!
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G. R.
Nice vibe, has potential to be great, food took forever (about 1h for our 3 tacos to arrive), taste was okay (arrived cold). Tacos are $8-12 each and drinks $15-25.. guacamole seemed good, we had the seven salsas and it was a cool experience mixing them. Overall I’d recommend if you are looking for something low key… good option around the area since there are not many restaurants around…
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Tomasz Bartkowiak
Taco very good besides of chicken one which tasted little out of date. Very good salsas. Staff was polite and reactive. Overall experience was positive. We wanted to take some small taco for our colleagues who stayed in home, and as we were on happy hours we expected only small package. We got full dinner menu tacos despite of single tacos with much higher price. Ok we had much more delicious tacos but we should be warned about this in my opinion.
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Saachi
The food was pretty bland. We got the gauc (very bland and super small portion), the popcorn chicken was not flavorful and chicken and fish tacos which were average too. There are better Mexican restaurants in nyc.
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