Tequila’s Mexican Restaurant

It’s delicious Mexican food. Need I say more? The chips and salsa is always the best start. Of course next a frozen margarita. Oh and then a super burrito. Yum!

Easy to find location on Main Street in downtown Durango, this restaurant has good Mexican food. I had the BURRITO VERDE and my sister had the CARNITAS DE PUERCO. They were delicious. There were many margarita selections but we settled on the house original. Would go back again.

Walked in for a margarita and chips around lunch time. Clearly they didn’t want us there coz the hostess walked us out to the furthest table and threw the recipe down. After 15 minutes of sitting and no one coming to us, we left!!! Service sucked!

Visiting Durango from San Diego, my wife and I didn’t have high expectations for the local Mexican cuisine. To say we were pleasantly surprised is an understatement. The portions were quite large, and the carne asada fajitas I had were seasoned very well. Customer service was impressive as well.

Wish we lived here, because I’d be coming here at least once a week! The best carnitas I’ve ever had! Friendly service staff and great food! What else could anyone want?

GREAT Food, fast service and very attentive wait staff. The quality of food is superior.

Hector is the best, always friendly and crazy fast. The margaritas are the best in town!

I really loved this place when I lived in Durango. I am from SoCal and am super spoiled with Mexican food but this place has delicious carne asada and shrimp. Their Guacamole is good too and not too bad on the Micheladas. Whenever I came here I would always share this giant plate for two that came with tortillas, beans rice, shrimp, carne asada, and mushrooms. Omg the seasoning was so on point. MMMMMMM

Very delicious Mexican food. Probably the best in Durango. Their salsa, and cabbage with chips are great. Definitely great service, and yummy food. If you’re in the mood for Mexican food this is the place to go.

It amazes me sometimes how different locations within a chain can be so different from one another. Case in point, this Tequila’s location. I have been going to the location in Trinidad, CO, on a fairly regular basis for over 3 years now, and I am a huge fan.
When I came to this location, everything was just a little off. The queso was runny. The tortilla chips were oily. My quesadilla was overcooked and over-​garnished. And the food just sat in my stomach making me feel just a little queasy.
It wasn’t quite bad, but it wasn’t quite right either.
Also, prices were higher than the Tequila’s in Trinidad. Very odd for a chain to have different prices as different locations.
Eat at your own risk.

Tequila’s Mexican Restaurant serves up some very tasty Mexican food at this Durango location. We were promptly seated and given some great chips and tasty homemade salsa.
For dinner I ordered the pork enchiladas and they were excellent. Good flavor and some good spice to boot. They had a green enchilada sauce and I mixed in some of their salsa for some added kick. The rice and refried beans were also good. My wife enjoyed the bean and cheese enchiladas. To wash everything done we had strawberry and raspberry margaritas, which were also tasty. Mine was leaded up didn’t seem to have much punch to it.
Although the restaurant was pretty noisy, the service was good, and the food was great. I would highly recommend Tequila’s Mexican Restaurant.

This is a must. When in Durango dine at Tequila’s — they have a happy hour including appetizers, and my favorite was the Carne Asada
Many times at a Mexican restaurant the beef if dry and tough as if they used chuck steak, this is not the case at Tequila’s it’s like the used a Filet Migon for the quesadilla. I want to try all their cuisine.

Best margarita in town. Great, fast service. Food is good and a great lunch spot if your in a hurry. Open late also which is nice.

Patricio was our bartender and was very fast and friendly.
We were here at 3:30pm on a Thursday. We had some drinks and a spinach quesadilla at the bar.
Quesadilla was huge! delicious too. It came with a side of guacamole and sour cream yum. They have a pretty big menu. Overall a cozy and festive place for lunch or dinner.

Great service, amazing drinks, appetizers and molcajete to die for. Make sure to being plenty of change for roadside parking, Durango charges everywhere.

We love this place. We are from Texas and we can’t get Mexican food this good there. We ate here on Wednesday November 27^th and the staff was so nice and helpful and fun. We sat in one of the booths that was backed up to the Kitchen area and we could hear the cooks and waiters singing and tapping on pots and pans to keep the beat. My husband I kept laughing because with each spanish song we would hear them sing it would remind us of my husband’s father who passed away a few years back.
We ordered the ultimate nachos and added cut up carne asada to it and it reminded us of when we lived in San Diego California. Then my husband ordered the enchilada plate and they were out of this world. The enchiladas were not soggy or drowned in sauce (we hate them soggy and swimming in sauce). I ordered the flauta plate and they were amazing as well. The chicken was so flavorful and moist that I didn’t want to leave any behind. Our sons had grilled cheese and chicken nuggets. I really appreciated the fact that they had more than Mexican food choices for children. My boys are really picky which can make it hard. I am glad we don’t live here because I would gain about 100 lbs just from eating here every week! We will be back and recommend this restaurant to all our friends and doctors who visit Durango throughout the year.
Thank you for not just giving us great food but also giving us an experience and a walk down memory lane!

Three of us ate here. Two of us rated the food as average, the third thought it was terrible but he’s always cranky. The weird cabbage salsa was just that, weird and hard to deal with. It played no part in my rating. The regular salsa was average, nothing special. They did not have any true hot sauce, which the cranky guy wanted. My standard meal is a green burro. I thought it was fine, nothing special in terms of seasonings, the meat in it was tender, portion size good, could have used at least twice as much green chile in it. Service was fine. I think the typical diner will be fine with this restaurant. Prices were reasonable.

this place was quite empty for a friday evening but maybe it was late in the evening. Service was prompt and food arrived hot. I had a margarita with a kick which might be cause for me not being able to remember the food quality. I’m pretty sure the seafood enchilada wasn’t terrible. I would go back and sample more entrees if i have a designated driver. The interior décor is very touristy. I’d still prefer Francisco’s however.

Très bon restaurant mexicain! Avec de vrais serveurs mexicains et de bons plats authentiques. It was very good. Will come back

Not recommended. Tourist trap food. My impression is they cheap-​out with apparently low quality ingredients in their food — beans, rice, mole, enchiladas, beef, tequila, all tasted and looked very much like a heated up frozen Old El Paso Mexican TV dinner. To go to the next level, the owner should invest in better quality food and service instead of just making a quick buck. Beef enchiladas really strange tasting. Mole very runny nowhere near authentic. Servers disinterested seems wanted to shuffle customers through. To say something positive, I did enjoy the salsa and chips.
I started out by trying hard to get us a good meal based on Unilocal and really disappointed here and felt like crawling under a rock as my wife was giving me that look like, why did you waste our evening and money on this place. She did not finish her beef enchiladas.

This would probably be a mere three stars except for the views (of both the hot springs beside the river and the surrounding mountains) and for the service.
We’re traveling with dogs, in serious heat, and it is making meals kind of a hassel. We don’t want fast food all the time, but we can’t leave the dogs in the car while we sit. Finding venues that will let us sit on the patio with the dogs have been rare. Big «thank you» to the staff here for giving us a great table in the shade and putting up with my ill behaved dogs.
They also had to deal with the round robin of allergies and exclusions that our small party of three brought to the table, and they managed to feed us all full in spite of it all.
I ordered the seafood tacos, shrimp and (real) crab, and they were pretty good. I’d have preferred flour tortillas with these. Soft corn gets soggy so fast and falls apart. But the slaw and the pico were the right counterpart to the seafood and every flavor stood out. These weren’t fantabulous, but they were certainly tasty.
My only serious complaint is that the rice was dry. My dining companions’ dishes looked and smelled good, but I did not taste them.
Yes, the place is a bit pricy and touristy, but… you’re in Durango. That’s kind of the whole town. No way around that, I’m afraid. PS: rural gentrification is terrifying!
Just a side rant: No offense meant, but So Cal needs to get over itself and realize that in 2011, people from South and Central America are immigrating all over the continental US, not just to your town. After all, So Cal gave us Taco Hell, right? So let’s get some perspective.