Monte Alban Restaurant

05/04/10

great mole, soups, chips and salsa

by laurie87 at Citysearch

this place makes great red and black mole. the homemade chips and salsa are great. the soups are wonderful also, just wish they delivered

• Pros: inexpensive, clean
• Cons: bad parking, no delivery

07/18/08

Best deal in West LA

by DinerShane27 at Citysearch

There is nothing ordinary about the food at Monte Alban, especially compared to the generic boring over greased Mexican restaurants that Southern California is filled with. All tortillas and other griddled corn cakes like the memellas or clayudas are delicious, fresh and surprisingly light cooked with seemingly less grease and lard than most places. The mole dishes are simple, chicken breast in sauce serviced with rice, but interesting and complex due to the levels of flavors in the incredible sauces. You won't find the common rolled enchiladas filled with jack cheese, or crispy shelled deep fried tacos. Here instead enchiladas are the authentic version of corn tortillas folded into incredible mole sauces with meat and cheese (good fresh delicious queso fresco) strewn accross the top. Tacos resemble more a long skinny open ended burrito with delicious tender meat fillings and flavorful salsas. What's more, you can fill up at this place splitting an appitizer, ordering one entree per person and maybe even having a soft drink for in the neighborhood of $10 a person.

• Pros: Great authentic mexican food, change from most places around, CHEAP!
• Cons: unappealing strip mall setting, but that adds to the character in some ways, at times slow (though other times quite fast) for food to come

03/09/08

Monte Alban

by RobinSolo at Citysearch

Based on previous reviews, I was excited to try this place. Sadly both my dining partner and myself found the food extremely ordinary.

02/11/08

good Mexican food

by buchef at Citysearch

Monte Alban restaurant is verry good, the chicken soup is exellent, molcajete too.

very good Mexican food.

les recomendamos el restaurant Monte Alban tienen muy buena comida

• Pros: good food, good prices
• Cons: service

06/17/07

A place I keep bringing friends to

by h2o86 at Citysearch

I like the mole negra (black mole) with chicken so much I don't really order much else, but everyone I've brought has been very pleased with his or her meal. The spices are just right and the chicken is perfectly cooked and moist. The coffee is just delicious too, brewed with cinnamon. It's inexpensive and I always leave full and contented.