Papacito’s

This restaurant has the best Mexican food in Oroville. Super fast service and great prices. Now they are lucky to have the best server in Oroville. Ryan was the reason we would go to Gold Country steak house. He made the experience perfect! Now he is at Papacitos, they are lucky to have him.

The tortilla soup is very tasty. Most entrees I had were bland but they do have tender chicken enchiladas. The service is always friendly. Don’t get the veggie enchilada though, it tasted aweful and looked like frozen mixed veggies.

Excellent food and the service was the best our server Ryan was excellent. I would definitely come back!!!

Hands Down my favorite Mexican food in town. I like their chips and salsa – but what I always get is a bowl of their tortilla soup! I just wish it was a larger portion as that is all I get! I have tried their bacon wrapped shrimp and it was good too. There is plenty of seating and have NEVER had to wait for a table at lunch rush.
The bar area is fun and writing on the walls makes it a spot for locals and visitors. Friend;y service and the orders are always right!

This place needs a change, margaritas taste like sweet and sour no tequila, the kitchen needs a chef that knows what Mexican food tastes like, this is not it. If you have no taste buds left then this is the place for you. Everything tastes like it’s right out of a can with no flavor, that’s not what you want when you go to a restaraunt.

Terrible service today. I think there was only one young man working the whole restaurant, but it wasn’t terribly busy. We were abruptly seated in the cantina, where the majority of customers were (probably 4 other tables). It took about 10 minutes for our server to get our drink order. We watched him walk past us about 6 times before my company had to stop him to ask a question about the menu.
He allowed another guest to try to perform a handstand on a barstool.
After another 15 minutes of being ignored completely, we left.
I know others who have complained about poor service and bad food, but I haven’t had service this bad before.

We don’t go out to eat much but, when we did this was one of our favorite places forever. Starting with great Margaritas, tortilla soup to all items on the menu. Fresh and awesome. We now make many orders to go from small dinner parties to large gatherings and NO ONE has ever been disappointed in the quality or quantity.

Horrible service. My 10 yr old and I visited around 2 on Sunday afternoon. Server didn’t say hello or anything at all to us when we were seated, she just put the menus on the table and took off. We waited for at least 20 minutes before they tried to take our order. Someone did bring soggy chips that had stuff spilled on them. There were a couple large tables but they were not busy. The food is ok but not worth the hassle of dealing with such terrible service. Tortilla soup is the only highlight. This time we walked out before putting in an order. Won’t be going back.

Met some family here to have lunch and talk over some business. We were seated immediately in the cantina room. It’s really cute. The place is nice and clean. Service was friendly and quick.
We ordered the sour cream chicken nacho appetizer. It was really good. I like the white cheese & sour cream with the green chili peppers, great flavor combo.
I had the carnitas. They were good… flavor was ok… not very spicy.
Their chips and salsa are good. I like the consistency of the salsa… blended, but not too much, however I could have done with more of a kick. It was extremely mild.
Their tortilla soup is good… broth is very flavorful, but again very mild.
The staff was generous enough to allow us to take up their table for over 3 hours while we discussed our family business! They finally told us they needed the table. I don’t know if they really did or not, but I can’t blame them for kicking us out at that point.

Wasn’t going to try based on other reviews… Glad we took a chance! Service was 5 stars! Food was delicious and reasonably priced. Had the fajitas and a two item combo chicken taco and enchilada. Salsa was delicious and tortilla soup came with meal, have never had that at any other restaurant.

I have been eating at Papacitos for several years and they always have good food — I especially like «the carlotta.» The Tortilla soup is also really tasty! The service is usually good, and the people are friendly.

Tortilla soup is good and that’s about it.
Ordered a chimichanga, chile rellenos, and fajitas. Everything tasted and looked microwaved! The sauce on the chile rellenos and chimichangas were dried up on the sides which made everything seriously look microwaved! So grossss! Everything lacked flavor!
The menus and tables were also dirty and sticky. I most likely will never be returning to this place.

Never had a problem. Wouldn’t say it is authentic, however it is good and they are always consistent. Prices are average. They have mastered tortilla soup and the rice and beans mixed make bomb dip ;)

Great service! Awesome menu

I’ve eaten a lot of Mexican food in my day and I know what the cooks are using a microwave to reheat my food. The tacos are gross. The enchiladas very gross. At least the can’t mess up a beer. The best part was when I went back to my room and sh$t all night.

For lunch it’s perfect. Great pricing and great food! I always get chilli verde. My women gets their enchaladas with their sour crème sauce — which is BOMB. Rice and beans are ok — nothing special. However, their chips and salsa are! We always seem to get two orders of chips — FATTIES :) Breakfast is pretty fail imho. But who goes to a mexican joint for breakfast? Dinner is also good, but the value isn’t as good as lunch — more money. Anyway, decent prices, good eats, good peeps. Nice environment — worth a go!

On travel and what a nice surprise. According to my friend, this restaurant originated in Texas. The service was great, the variety of Mexican beers were ample, and the fajitas were fresh and super tasty. Try this homey place. Can’t go wrong with any of the menu choices. They are also very accommodating with food requests. Yummy!!!

Are you guys joking? Or are you ALL unfamiliar with REAL AUTHENTIC DELICIOUS MEXICAN FOOD!!! Really… First, the 1 starts is simply because my waitress was kind and timely. Where to start? DON’T GO!
1^st: Walking into the place seems decent, out dated but looks clean. Then I was asked «Would you like to sit in the cantina?» The cantina was a joke! Writing all over the blinds, dirty floors and tables dark and kind of gives you the feeling your in a creepy pee-​wee herman movie off of interstate 5 searching for his prize winning bike.
2^nd: We ordered the «Double portion combo fajitas, childrens plate cheese enchilladas with rice and beans, side order of avocado and hot salsa»
Fajitas we’re decent not good, the rice and beans that came with it well lets say my husband who doesn’t cook could make better. The rice was plain and dry with coloring. The beans were cold and mushy (they also we’re whole beans so they shouldn’t be MUSSY)!!! Our son’s cheese enchillada was a MICROWAVED tortilla with nasty plain sauce.
***3^rd: SOMEONE really needs to hire a new chief or help. Assist these people darn it! The location is on a busy street but after reading these MISS GUIDED, WRONG REVIEWS it was a TOTAL WASTE OF OUR MONEY to have gone here! IT SUCKED and is NO WHERE close to REAL AUTHENTIC MEXICAN NADA and trust that I know this as a FACT because I am a REAL AUTHENTIC HALF LATINA woman. ***
DON’T go, save your money and go to TACO BELL, real talk!

We were looking for Mexican food and boy did we find it! Very nice, friendly staff. Efficient service. Wonderful, warm crispy chips. Salsa is in between chunky and not, with a slight spicy kick. Our group of 7 was all pleased with their dishes varying from Nachos Locos, Taco Salad, chicken tacos and tamales, all portions are VERY generous.
I’d say when in the area and craving Mexican food Papacito’s should be your choice!

In the little town of Oroville for work and I am craving some Mexican food, and I come across this little place. Unassuming exterior in a little strip mall, definitely not a chain place.
The interior is split in two sections, the main area and their «cantina» on the right as you walk in. Three TVs in there let you catch whatever game is on. The walls are covered in grafitti, interesting look.
They have a full bar so that’s a plus, since a Mexican place without margaritas is simply a lunch place for me. Nothing fancy to the ones here except they’re served in a mason jar (small version) with a Mexican flag stuck in the lime floatie. Festive… Not a bad pour either.
I decided on the Papacitos Chile Rellenos, which included the option of including ground beef inside so I said «sure why not?». Came with rice and beans, authentic prep style to it. Rice and beans were standard quality to be expected and the chile Relleno was good stuff. There wasn’t as much beef as I’d hoped for but it was a good touch and it all tasted good.
Right after ordering I received a small cup of tortilla soup, not bad, a food appetizer to go with the chips and salsa. Chips were ok, the salsa was not the chunky style but more sauce like without being too watery.
The restaurant is not too far off the 70 I’d you happen to travel through this way so it’s not a bad place to stop off if you’re in the area.
Waitress was very attentive and checked on me multiple times always a plus.
Good amount of food, not bad prices, ($ 5.50 for a margarita pretty decent) and a friendly wait staff made this experience a good one.