El Ranchito

Food was great! The service was perfect! Everyone was nice and friendly. Didn’t have to wait long at all. I got the Mi Ranchito Platter and it was ENORMOUS! Surprised they weren’t busier! Hidden gem!

New server was atrocious! Large group say next to us, ordered after we did and got their food first. LOUD! ANNOYING! Never going there again!

This place looks like a dump. However their food is excellent. If the restaurant looked nicer, i’d give it 5 stars. I always get their super fajita quesadilla. It’s delicious!

As far as atmosphere goes, you won’t find it here. The décor is very bland and boring, although some feeble attempts were made to make it look «Mexicanish or whatever».
But just go here and try the food. Particularly the Mexican chicken soup. It’s served with a buncha avocado, pico de gallo, shredded cheese, sour cream, lime and cilantro. It is a LAKE of soup. Seriously, it’s huge and pretty pretty cheap too. It has flavor shooting out its eyeballs (which it doesn’t actually have because it’s just soup… gross). I didn’t even order it, but my brother & his girlfriend did because they were in the know on how amazing it is.
I ordered chilaquiles which were also fantastic! Nothing wrong with corn tortilla chips, shredded chicken, spicy red sauce and a ton of melty cheese. Their margaritas are really good, but not the best I’ve had. But definitely worth it to check this place out.

As tourists, my friend and I were referred to this restaurant by the operator of the Hermann Trolley and we were lucky that we were. We could not have enjoyed this restaurant more.
When we entered we were seated immediately by a friendly and attentive young man. He’d brought us chips and salsa and I asked for some extra-​hot salsa, out of habit, before even trying the house salsa. I needn’t have bothered as the house salsa was fantastic. It tasted freshly made and had the perfect amount of spice. It was quite possibly the best salsa that I’ve ever had. But then our server brought us some extra hot salsa verde that was somehow equally as good. I was in salsa heaven.
The menu had a great selection of standard Mexican food items as well as some dishes that I’d never heard of before. I had a vegetarian meal that was filling and delicious. The meal was sizable and it was a little difficult to clean my plate but I couldn’t bear to leave even a single bite behind. Every item tasted fresh and flavorful. Our visit to this restaurant became one of the high points of our trip.
The restaurant itself was very clean and decorated with lively Mexican art. There were a few televisions in the dining area but the sound was turned off so they were not a distraction. When we paid the bill we were thanked warmly and we left very satisfied.
(My friend and I still talk about how good that salsa was).

Go for the cheap fajita lunch special. It’s awesome and you’ll burp it all day.