Las Trancas

I have been here three times. Food was pretty standard Americanized Mexican. The «cheese» sauce was more creamy looking water than cheese. The «red» sauce tasted like watered down sugary ketchup. My husband had the Vallarta twice and another person with us had it the third time. It looked like a different dish each time.
Service was excellent our first trip, and ok our second trip. Our server last night seemed like he didn’t want to be there and couldn’t wait for us to leave.
My husband decided to try their strawberry margarita. He felt they must have used an eye dropper when adding the alcohol, IF they even bothered to add alcohol. I think it is time to try a different Mexican restaurant.

We have visited this location twice. I was not impressed with the service, or the way the food tasted. I probably will not go back there again. The food was very bland and although they are very busy the atmosphere was just loud and not comfortable. We have gone to other locations where things are a little different. It just seems to me that they have become just an Americanized Mexican restaurant. The prices are little steep as well even for lunch. I would suggest that you go El Rey or El Rincon which are both close by.

We found a roach in our chips! I put them on the floor, the server comes over, I said there’s a bug in our chips! His reply, was it a roach!!! I can’t make this up! That should tell you something!

Very clean and the food was great. What more can you ask for. You can tell a lot about a place with unsweetened tea. The taste reflects the cleanliness of the kitchen. I would say this is the cleanest restaurant around. Service was good so that covers it this is a 5 star restaurant for 1 star prices.

Good experience, service was good with quick refill on drinks. Food was good portions and tasty.

Fast friendly service, great tasting food. Best guacamole I’ve had in a long time. I’m pretty sure I’ve waited longer for my food in a fast food restaurant than I did here.

I always order the same thing at an Mexican restaurant AzzoConPollo & it never fails with leaving me satisfied. Waiters are so nice & great with getting you refills or anything you need.

4 of us went, all of us hated the food. Came back awhile later food was good now. Went back again food was terrible again. Won’t be back.

Service was very attentive to the table. Restaurant is clean with a nice atmosphere. Margarita was good, free chips with salsa. Would come back.

The food is okay, but the service is terrible. I’ve been here twice, and I would choose the other mexican restaurant simply for the better service.

Great food when you dine in and our server was great but I don’t recommend take out. No utensils and my food was ruined by the way it was placed in containers.

Typical Mexican food. Good salsa

Las Trancas is decent Mexican. They have a lunch special taco salad that costs 5 or so bucks. This is a pretty good deal. It was definitely not the best taco salad I’ve ever had but I suppose you get what you pay for. It was worth the price.

Las Trancas is one of the highest reviews in Clarksburg, so this seemed to be a good sign for good food. Unfortunately, quality always overrule quantity. We were seated immediately and got our chips and salsa just as quickly. The menu is overwhelming and seems to serve your basic foods that you would see anywhere else. I ordered a ground beef enchilada which comes with rice and beans. The rice and beans were very bland. It needed more of an oomph to it. The enchiladas were the same as well. There wasn’t a wow factor, and I’m sure my Banquet frozen meals taste better. To added more flavor in my meal, I used the salsa to spread it around which made it bearable to eat.
There was nothing special about Las Trancas. It’s a basic restaurant with your basic food. I was a fan of their chips and salsa which makes it sad.

We stopped in to Las Trancas for dinner last weekend while driving through west Virginia based on all of the positive Unilocal reviews, and this is one of the few times that Unilocal has let me down. We arrived Friday night around 6:30 and it was quite busy. Since we didn’t want to wait for a table we opted to sit at the bar. The bar was covered with dirty dishes, so we started moving them out of our way and bussing the area ourselves. There was a dish cloth sitting on the bar so we used that to wipe the are down. One of the employees walked past us several times while we were doing that and made no effort to help or indicate that he would have someone do it for us. Then the bartender proceeded to walk past us several times and completely ignore us. No I’ll be right with you, no acknowledgement that we were there at all.
He finally came over and was friendly and took our drink orders. The default size for drinks appears to be GIANT. I ordered a top shelf margarita and my DH order a draught beer and both were enormous. On the plus side, the margarita was pretty tasty and was not weak, it had a good kick. The chips were not very good, but the salsa was nice and spicy and tasty.
For food, I had the burrito combo that came with a carnitas burrito and a carne asada burrito. My DH got one of their combo plates with a chili rellano, and enchilada and a taco. My burritos had an ok flavor, but I had a huge hunk of fat in the carnitas. Yuck. DH’s chili rellano was almost all breading and his other items were so-​so.
The entire time we were eating there were little bugs flying around us and landing on our napkins and around us. I was surprised since i had remembered at least one of the reviews talking about it being clean. The worst part though was when I woke up in the middle of the night dripping in sweat and sick to my stomach. i have no doubt it was from my dinner at Las Trancas. The next time we are in the area we will go to our Old Standby — Panera!

I had Chori Pollo (rice topped with grilled chicken breast, Mexican sausage and covers with cheese with guacamole and sour cream), Kelly had Chimichanga with chicken, rice, sour cream, guacamole and chess, and Matt had the Huevos Rancheros. Great prompt service. Fabulous food.

Finally a true four star
Service price and TASTE
You have got to try the pollo yucatan
A delightful mixture of flavors
The rice could be better but the rest is yummy

Finding decent ethnic food in West Virginia is a bit of a challenge. I love the hell out of Mexican food, but not the typical Americanized Mexican fare. I’m talking carne asada tacos. Tamales. Molcajetes. That kind of stuff.
Las Trancas was by no means perfect but it did suffice for good Mexican fare in my one-​month stopover in Clarksburg. The food was decent food. They had pretty tasty carne asada tacos and even had my all time favorite, tamales. The tamales were a bit on the small side and I didn’t really care for the flavorless red sauce but the tamales themselves were good.
As far as the atmosphere, while the wait staff speaks Spanish and feels authentic, there is a lot of kitsch. The service was good and the food decent — I’d go back if I needed to sate my Mexican fix.

Went back a few days ago. When I ordered a salad with my seafood fajita, the waiter suggested that I didn’t need it. He was right, and he was attentive throughout.
Best seafood fajita that I’ve ever had. Good michelada. Great service. This place gets another star. 5 wouldn’t make sense for a place that does no more than do a very good job of the usual. That said, I’ll be back.

It’s official! This is the best Mexican Restaurant in the North Central WV area.
Clean, Comfortable, and Great Food!