Rubio’s

If you are in the mood for delicious shrimp tacos or fish tacos or a big burrito filled with lobster, and you are also standing in the middle of the mall food court, then I have wonderful news for you, because look around you big dongus, you’re standing right by Rubio’s Fresh Mexican Grill and it is THE place to go to get the aforementioned food items.
Don’t get me wrong, you’re still at the mall foodcourt, but this is pretty much the real deal as far as Rubio’s goes, and it’s gonna be delicious. It takes a little longer than Panda Express or the pizza joint but that’s because they’re making the food fresh and not just serving you something that’s been hanging out under heat lights. As soon as you put the food into your mouth hole you are going to taste the difference, and it is delicious.
Best thing about Rubio’s? You can eat it and afterwards you don’t feel like dying. Just don’t order too much, you big hog, and you’ll be energized and ready to go back into the depths of the mall and do more shopping or whatever it was you were up to. That’s because fresh seafood is good for you, and Rubio’s has it, so get to eating already what are you wasting time for?!

Along with Chipotle (which hadn’t yet moved further out to the ring road, but was still located by the movie theaters and Cold Stone), this place was one of the few places I could get a solid meal from while working at the mall. It’s a welcome, indulgently cheesy break from Subway and Paradise Bakery. Yes, there’s often a wait during busy times, but the line is usually nowhere near as bad as what can form at Paradise, Chipotle, or Panda Express.
The enchiladas (which kept disappearing from and reappearing back on the menu) are very good for being fast food, especially when you get a side of chips that you can dip in the leftover red sauce. Their quesadillas are a very generous size and have a nice crisp on them. The shrimp and (limited time) langostino lobster items are very good too. Add your choice of protein (shrimp!) to a quesadilla to bulk it up for another long shift of retail work!

Food is so fresh and delicious. Had a salmon taco, an original fish taco and a steak street taco.

Food was fresh and good. I was very please that the store honored my belated bday meal coupon too. However the food that was on my plate did not look that appetizing when it arrived. The tacos looked nothing like the display picture and the chips were all crushed.
I know that Rubio’s can do better than this.

Very disappointed with the chicken chop salad. 97% lettuce and slaw, 3% chicken cubed into tiny bits.

I was in the mall today running some errands and decided to give Rubio’s a try. It was just okay. I had the grilled chicken soft taco with chipolte cream sauce and avocado and it was pretty good. The flavor of the chicken was just so so but the chipolte cream added to the flavor quite a bit. They do have a salsa bar at this location in the mall but it is not the greatest. The mild is a bit watery and has way to much cilantro and the picante is way to peppery. The only salsa I really enjoyed was the chipolte salsa which really complemented the grilled chicken taco.
I might try Rubio’s again if the mood struck me but it is not somewhere that I would seek out specifically. Not that there are many other great options in the Chandler Mall food court. It’s just okay.

Always a bit pricey for fast food, but always great in taste and quality

I normally sneak a Chipotle burrito into Harkins when planning on watching a so-​so movie several weeks after its release, but I couldn’t find the Chipotle this time around (maybe they moved? maybe they closed?). I had to settle for Rubio’s, and it wasn’t too bad.
I ordered a beer-​battered fish burrito and it came fully loaded with veggies, guacamole, sour cream, the works. I really enjoyed it – guac especially, but the fish became soggy towards the end of the burrito which was a disappointment but possibly an inevitability. If I were to rate the food alone, they’d maybe be a 4 star but it took almost 20 minutes for my food to come out – this is not something I usually expect when patronizing a mall restaurant in the food court, and it was between 6p and 7p on a weekday.
Overall not too bad, but there are many other options literally walking distance away.

Really good fresh Baja style Mexican food that is much better than many restaurants in the valley. One of my newest faves is the blackened tillapia taco. Low in calories and big on taste. Just 1 or 2 will fill you up.

On the urgent pressing of a sister, I grabbed some take out from Rubio’s for a quick delicious bite. While I did get a bite in, my burrito was small enough to finish in two bites. Considering I am more man than just two bites, this place needs to step it up. They do give you chips to enjoy along with your burrito. However, I would rather have had a second burrito without the extra cost. At least with places like Chipotle, I feel as if I am partially full and not just running on empty.
Overall, the burrito was small, the taste was fine. If you want to get a great burrito sometime, head over to one of the many hundreds of other good Mexican restaurants and leave this one to rot away.