Garcia’s

Very good food and service. I will definitely return. Mexican food usually is pretty standard to me. Not this time well packed with beef and very tasty. Strongly recommend The atmosphere and appointments were also above average

If you like Mexican food and great service, this is the place. I have been here several times and the food and service have always been great. Our waitress was very friendly, we received our drinks right away and dinner was exactly what I ordered without looking at the menu. It was an enjoyable evening with family.

I love this place. Customer service is very important to me and every time I go everyone is so warm and friendly. The hubby is an over tipper which I am very picky as to where we eat. But back to how great this place is because they are family friendly. Besides if my son eats all of his food and mine I know the food is good and he feels comfortable because he cries every time we leave. After having a horrible birthday service elsewhere I thought I’d mention this place because I always comparing other restaurants to this one. Did I also mention that the food is one of thee best Mexican food I’ve had in Arizona?

I love this restaurant. The bean dip is the best. I really appreciate that they always bring chips, salsa and bean dip every time. My favorite is the Olivias Sampler. It is a great mix of all the things I love.

Foods not great, but not bad either. My biggest gripe was asking for sour cream and when I got my check I was charged for it, .99 to b exact. No, ., 99 is not a big deal, just principle, but to be on the fair side, a business has to make money.
For the positive, their margaritas are delicious!

My parents have been coming here for years and Gary is their favorite server. He is a good man and has been through a lot. His customer service is outstanding!
The food is good and I like to mix the tomatillo green salsa with their mild red. I always overeat the beans and chips and salsa so I usually order an app and I am full.
My favorite apps are the cheese crisp, the pico chimichangas with the delicious jalepeno sour cream, and the black bean soup. For entrees the green corn tamale, pollo fundito and any of the combos are great. The olivia platter is easily sharable between two people.
I never leave room for dessert but am tempted by the sopapillas and fried ice cream.
My only complaint is the mints they have near the door. I don’t like the key lime flavor.

My parents and I always come here since it is down the street from their house. The salsa and bean dip are complementary and awesome to snack on. I normally order the beef street tacos. For lunch today, it was way too much food (or I smacked on too much salsa… Hehe) so I had leftovers! I love leftovers. Lol. Anyway, the tacos come with cilantro and red onion as a topping. My mom and I order the green salsa since we like it better on our tacos. You have to ask or they will only bring out the red salsa. I have had the enchiladas here too which are also delicious and I always have leftovers. Lastly, I had a beer today but I normally order margaritas. They’re always delicious and you have a variety of flavors to choose from.
Overall, I will always have a soft spot for this place. The décor is super cheesy Mexican inspired (of course LOL) but the service has always been great and the food is always what we expect.

Food was okay but won’t return. Wasn’t busy but felt like they were very understaffed. Had to ask for utensils several times after the food arrived. Never offered drink refills. Outdoor lights, only 1 of 1 of 24 worked, yes I counted them. It was a weird terrible experience.

I’ve been to a Garcias at another location and I thought the foos and service was just ok. I didn’t really have any interest in coming back.
I decided trying them out again after this location was at Liv Avenida apartments for «Restaurant Review» night a month ago. At this event residents sample some of their dishes. They had brought the Pollo Fundido which was really good and I’ve craved it ever since.
I went to Garcias for lunch with a friend and got the Fundido. It was as delicious as I remembered it. Service was good and atmosphere is fun and colorful.

First time here, in the neighborhood, hungry, and have time to kill.
Sat at the bar, which had Happy Hour daily from 3 – 7.
I ordered 2 glasses of wine, I know. .yes at a Mexican restaurant, and a chicken cheese crisp and my bill was $ 9.99. I scored, that’s a great happy hour.

NEVER GOING BACK!
We went in later in the evening so I can kind of understand why our bean dip had a skin over it and the rice was old and crunchy! BUT if you can’t keep your food fresh until close then close earlier. The person that brought our chips and salsa/​dip was really rude (she?) was not helpful and clearly does not need to work in the service industry. Our waitress kept calling me sweetie and hun I hate that! Taco meat was dripping with grease yuck! My whole family got really sick after we ate there too. :(Good Mexican is getting hard to find!

This place is one of my favorite mexican food restaurants. I love the Chimichanga from here. Super tasty

Love this place! Good food, great service! Love the green salsa and the jalapeño cream cheese. The servers are very attentive and it’s always clean! Really good margaritas.

Great food. Good place for happy hour with specials 7days a week. I definitely recommend this place

Gabby is our server tonight, and she’s beyond amazing, very attentive, knows her info about the food and she’s really kind! Make sure to ask to have her as your server!

Food not so good — waitress was nice and made it at least worth our time. We were there for a group bday party and they didn’t even have it together in the back, a bday cake was brought in and they couldn’t find it, their power went out on their credit machine so we had to wait even longer to leave to the next place we had to go. You would think they would have things in place for situations like this! The manager was even there but didn’t seem to know how to do things. , just overall disappointed.

OH BOY… where to start with this place. I wouldn’t reccommend this place/​location to my worst enemy, it was that bad of an experience. Came here last Sunday with my mom for lunch… we were some of the first people to arrive at 11am when they opened. There was one table of about 5 people sitting behind us, they ahd already ordered their food, but were complaining about not getting re-​fills in a timely manner (again it was not busy at all). We sat down and ordered diet coke and water… server tells me you wont want the diet its not tasting good today fromt eh machine. I said okay and took a water also. 15 minutes later brings us over our drinks (i get no water, i got the diet coke she just told me was not good), keep in mind the table behind us hasnt even received their re-​fills yet that they ordered 10 minutes before us. Finally get to the food order… i knew it wasnt going to be good when the server didnt write down our order, just tried to memorize it. Server asks me how i want my skirt steak cooked… i said extra-well…she thens says okay it will take about an extra 20 minutes or so to cook your steak… i said no problem as we were not in any hurry. Literally 10 minutes later out food comes… my moms is great, mine ohhhhh boy… my steak was ALIVE, i cut into it and it started bleeding and juicing all over my other food. I also got refried beans but asked for black beans. The whole thing was a mess and i knew when i saw our food come out that fast she didnt put the order in correct. Didnt even bother to offer to make another one, just took it from the table. I didnt eat any of my meal at all. Luckily, when i got the bill, all i had to pay for was my mom’s meal, but still what a horrible, nasty, unprofessional and gross experience! DO NOT GO HERE… YUCK!

Great food. Kitchen is not managed well. So much lack of attention to detail. Seats and floors were dirty. Watched the busser miss the silverware on the floor. A little grossed out.

This two star review is ONLY FOR THEIR SERVICE. I give their food 4 stars, however I cannot go any higher in my opinion because of their service. When I was a kid, I grew up on Garcias. It was on Alma School just north of Warner. It is a childhood favorite. When they closed, we didn’t go to any other one for quite some time. About a year ago, we found out there is one by us here in south Chandler and were very excited!
Each and every time we come here, the service is just terrible. I don’t understand. From today, we have been a total of 4 times in the past year. Every time, horrible service. The hostesses are not friendly. They are so bland and so unexcited about their job. You don’t feel welcome. They always feel bored.
Every server we have had doesn’t listen to us, unfriendly, feel likes we are bugging them when we are just simply providing our drink order. Food has been wrong because they didn’t listen. Slow. Cannot handle more than one table at a time and just really take away from the experience. It is really sad. No one is happy there and it is a poorly run restaurant.
I do have to compliment their food. AMAZING food. BEST shrimp tacos. My Mom has been eating them for years. Generous chips and salsa, great on the refills and just overall good food. Their environment is very comfortable and very open. It is a fun place to be. Just a drab with their people.
Most people would never come back. However, it is a place we enjoy so I am sure we will eat in again, however I think we will mostly just call in our order and do take out to avoid the bad service. I truly hope they see what is wrong and ramp up this place. It could be a lot better in this awesome part of town!

I think this is the worst service I have ever had at a restaurant. We were with a group of about 30 on the patio and the server never came back to take orders, I ended up going to the bar. Dirty dishes and glasses piled up so bad there was no room on any of the tables. Requested to have stuff cleaned up a couple of times, nothing happened. I will never come back.