El Gallo Giro

Mexican · Provo · 346 N University Ave

El Gallo Giro is the Mexican kitchen this site's budget and family coverage reaches for by name, on the grounds that it feeds several people for less than two entrees cost at a nicer restaurant.

Where it is

At 346 North University Avenue, on the main north-south spine through Provo. There is a second location in Orem.

Provo addresses are grid references rather than house numbers in the usual sense: they count outward from the origin at Center Street and University Avenue, one hundred to a block. Our guide to how Utah addresses actually work explains why the same number means a different place in the next city over.

What we know about it

The praise across our guides is consistent and specific: big burritos, properly seasoned meats, fresh salsas, grilled nopales, and prices that do not make you flinch. Our student-discount page lists it under meals for under eight dollars, in the same group as Street Tacos Don Joaquin and Guru's Cafe -- not a promotion, just what the food costs.

Our valley-wide Mexican guide places it among the family-run kitchens it treats as the real thing, alongside Los 2 Potrillos in Spanish Fork and Joe Vera's here in Provo. The hidden-gem writing makes a slightly different case: that locals lean on it as a default, which is a harder reputation to earn than a single good review and a more useful one to know about.

Everything we have written about it

This is every page on Provo.com that names El Gallo Giro, most substantial first. The directory exists to route you into the writing rather than to replace it.

The durable facts, and the ones we refuse to carry

Name: El Gallo Giro
Address: 346 N University Ave, Provo, Utah
Cuisine: Mexican
Where we read the address: our own page, not a third-party listing
How we know the city: this site prints the city immediately after the address

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