Order Tamales
Pick up a dozen on your way home, or order through DoorDash. Pork, chicken, bean, and green chile — ready Mon through Fri.
See the Menu & PricesVoted Best Mexican Restaurant in Lubbock — 2026
Lubbock's Best Tamales — Made by Family, Meant to Share
Tony dreamed it. Alma built it. Victor's running it.
Family-made tamales and Mexican plates — voted Lubbock's best. Same hands, same masa, same little kitchen the Leals have run since 1957.
Or call us: (806) 780-LEAL
What brings you in?
Wholesale for Restaurants
We supply tamales to restaurants across West Texas. Authorized through Sysco and Ben E. Keith. Call to start your account.
Wholesale InquiryCome Eat With Us
6205 19th Street. Full menu — enchiladas, fajitas, grilled catfish, tamales. Dine in or pick up, Monday through Friday.
Hours & DirectionsThe Family Behind the Factory
Three Generations of Hands on the Same Masa
Tony Jaramillo dreamed of running a small kitchen with Alma, a place where they'd sell tamales by the dozen and feed neighbors by the plate. He never got to see all of it. Alma did. After Tony passed, she kept the masa moving, kept the recipe steady, and kept the doors open through every kind of week Lubbock has seen. Now Victor (Tony and Alma's son) runs the factory she built. The roots go deeper than this kitchen alone: in 1957, Irma and Jesse Leal opened Leal's Tortilla Factory and started a family habit. Three generations later, we're still in it.
We don't have a 200-store distribution chain or a fancy showroom. What we have is a little hole in the wall on 19th Street where the masa hits the steamer at sunup and the regulars start showing up before noon. Other tamale companies hide their prices and ship from a warehouse two cities over. We post our prices, fold each one by hand, and ask you to come on by.
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Made Fresh, Every Day
Our Tamales
Four varieties, made fresh every weekday. $2.49 each or $14.50 by the dozen — pick up or DoorDash.
Pork
Shredded pork in red chile sauce. The one that started everything.
$2.49 each | $14.50/dozen
Chicken
White chicken in green salsa. Lighter, but just as satisfying.
$2.49 each | $14.50/dozen
Bean
Lard-free refried beans. Our simplest and most honest tamale.
$2.49 each | $14.50/dozen
Green Chile & Cheese
Roasted green chile strips and melted cheese. The one people fight over.
$2.49 each | $14.50/dozen
Mon–Fri, 11 AM to 9 PM
On Any Weekday at 6205 19th
The masa hits the steamer before the doors open. Pork in red chile starts cooking at sunup, the chicken simmers in green salsa, and the green chile gets roasted off in batches that fill the kitchen with a smell every regular knows. By 11:30, the lunch crowd starts coming in — the dental office across the way, the construction crew working on a job nearby, the family who's been ordering a half-dozen for thirty years.
We're open Monday through Friday, 11 AM to 9 PM. Walk in any time the doors are open, call (806) 780-LEAL to phone-in your pickup, or order through DoorDash if you're across town. Closed Saturdays and Sundays — that's when the kitchen rests and the family is home.
