El Mariachi Mexican Restaurant

I have eaten here weekly since they opened. The food is still good with large portions. Under the current management the atmosphere has changed drastically.Nobody smiles, the staff seems miserable. When you pay you no longer hear a "thank you ". They just hand you your change and walk away.

Server wasn't very friendly. It took awhile after we were seated for her to take our drink order. When she brought stuff to table she would set on end of table and told us to pass ot down, we had a party of 11.

What happened?? This place used to be excellent food and service. We used to absolutely love this place. They must have changed ownership or cooks, or both. Wait staff is rude and they didn't even greet us. The waitress seemed angry and just plopped our menus on the table (1 menu short too) and walked away without even saying anything to us. Then we waited about 10 minutes before someone else finally returned to get our drink order. And the food...oh the food!!! YUCK!!! Now the food is what I imagine what prison food would taste like. The chips were damp, and the salsa was bland. They cover everything with this disgusting light yellow / gray "cheese" sauce and they load your plate up with random ground beef that tastes like it was cooked 3 days ago and reheated in a microwave. I ordered a tamale and the masa was hard, so hard that I couldn't even cut through it with my fork. We ordered a kid's pizza for my daughter. They messed up and brought us a mexican pizza, which was nothing more than the 3 day old-reheated ground beef between two soggy corn tortillas covered with that light yellow/gray "cheese" sauce. Blecchhh. We asked that they correct her order, and when she got it...it was like one of those gas station pizzas that was just nuked in a microwave...all soft and soggy and hard on the edges all at the same time...and hot as heck. What a disappointment! We ate here often last year, and we always enjoyed the food and experience. Something very very terrible happened to this once amazing place.

I thought I had found a great Mexican restaurant, but, boy, was I wrong!! El Mariachi beats them all!! The food is reasonably priced for huge portions. They will add or leave off any ingredient that you may like. I often have shrimp added to any of the dishes that I may choose, as I am a shrimp super fan. The food arrives very hot, and well seasoned, but not overly so. The chips and salsa arrive immediately after sitting down, and your great food soon follows, and is prepared as you order it, not precooked. I certainly hope you will try it, and I am certain you will be amazed at the food, price, and portion. The steak is great too! Yeah, a great steak at a Mexican restaurant!!! Oh, my!! I just made myself hungry!!!!!

What a shame, this used to be a great restaurant. Hadn’t been in a while as I had moved. I ordered my usual, beef chimichanga. It arrived a quarter of the size as usual from any Mexican restaurant. The now tiny portion of beans were thin and tasteless, and the small amount of rice provided tasted like plastic. Someone obviously put a lot of time in to totally ruin what used to be a good spot with good food.