3 Potrillos

They changed their name to El Trio, but still just as good! All I see on here are negative reviews. Not sure if these people were eating at the McDonalds across the street and thought the were commenting for them? But 3 Portillos was really good and so is El Trio! They seem a little more on price but the food is well worth it! I highly and I mean highly recommend this joint! Ask for the Green Chili! Super amazing!

I went here with a friend yesterday. The service was great! The fresh lime Margarita, served in a martini shaker, was very tasty and had a nice kick to it. The beer was ice cold. The menu was small which was unusual, just 2 pages.

I think this place may be called El Trio now? Regardless of the name– I have eaten here quite a few times and it’s always great food and excellent service. Very fast and very friendly!

I have been lookin for a good or better Mexican restaurant in the Denver area for a long time. I was born and raised here and have not been satisfied with the many I’ve tried. This one was the BEST. Great authentic flavor, large servings, very nice wait staff and price was average with others. I want to go back soon!

I have had a good experience every time I have eaten here. Friendly staff and tasty food.

This restaurant was just OK. The flavors were mild and didn’t wow anyone in our party. There were only a few tables occupied on our visit but the service was also quite slow.

I have eaten here more than once. The last time we went in there was no staff to be found anywhere for a good five minutes. I went with my mom and she got the ceviche and chili relleno and I got a bean burrito and chili relleno. The ceviche was really good as usual, and the bean burrito was just a bean burrito. Here is the issue and why I won’t be back I love chili rellenos and these chili rellenos this trip tasted like a cigarette ash tray. It was horrible I could not eat it at all. Not to mention how over priced everything was!
If you want good Mexican food this is not the place, but check out Las Hadas off of Hamden and Chambers. Never going back here after the horrible rellenos.

Not sure why this got two stars? I was soooooo delicious! It was not that busy when we went on a Friday at 6pm, but oh my goodness all of the food was superb. I had the carne asada, which had a great marinade, and was cooked perfectly. Loved the homemade salsa and chips as well. Great service and nice staff. I will be making the 25minute drive just to eat here again.

After reading the reviews I guess I can see why they don’t expect to have much of a crowd for dinner. But honestly, you would think that on Cinco De Mayo, a Mexican restaurant would staff itself accordingly.
We got there around 5:30 and we’re seated in a dark dinning with boxes on the table. Correction, shown a table as we requested a table for 7 and were shown a table that had 5 chairs. I thought the hostess had left to get us chairs, but I was wrong, so we went and found two more chairs from other tables. The menus we got were filthy and sticky. They had old salsa dripped all over them.
They brought us chips and salsa and the chips tasted like they had been sprinkled with old cooking oil. Three hours later and I can still taste that taste. YUCK!
At least 10 – 15 minutes after we were seated someone finally asked for our drink order. When an additional 10 minutes passed and we could see no one behind the bar making margaritas, we approached one of the servers who told us they were swamped. We watched multiple tables get up and leave without ordering or having anyone wait on them.
Roughly around 6:00 we finally received our drinks. A waitress who was very sweet and busting her butt finally came over and apologized to us for the wait. She took the order for our little guys and said she’d be right back. We finally were able to get our order in around 6:25. Food came out quickly but it was not that terrific. I think my taste buds were still messed up from the nasty oily chips.
We’ve visited this restaurant in the past and I would have given it 3 stars in the past however, after tonight I’m not sure we’ll be returning. The chips have left a nasty taste in my mouth.

Our first and last visit about a month ago. I put off writing a review because I don’t like being rude. but… I feel guilty not spreading the bad news. First there was no lunch menu. No big deal. My wife ordered enchiladas and they were cold in the middle. I guess they make them in advance and freeze them? I’m not sure what my dinner was called but it had strips of chicken that were undercooked. I say undercooked because they were chewey. We were asked a few times if everything was okay and answered yes. Okay I admit I’m paranoid about ever sending my food back to the kitchen. The kicker was I think we were charged more than what the menu stated. By this time I just wanted to see this place in my rear view mirror. How can this place stay open? lastly, I came home and looked this restaurant up here on Unilocal.It was all right here. Memo to self… read Unilocal reviews before you go.

Disappointed.
Should of turned around and left when arrived, snow on front walkway was not cleaned. Coffee was luke warm, food mediocre and service something less than desired. Will not return.

The restaurant was entirely too expensive for what you get. One of our dishes had canned mushrooms. I had a guacamole tostada… It looked like something I would have got from del taco. Perhaps if this place was more reasonably priced my expectations would be more substandard

If you don’t mind a perverted male bus boy coming into the women’s bathroom directly after you enter to «clean» unannounced then this is your kind of place! I waited for him to leave before coming out if the stall and When my husband requested to speak to a manager he was brushed off… oh and the food wasn’t good either– my husband and I felt like we were chewing on leather instead of carne asda…

We should have known by how empty the parking lot was… a little before 8pm on a Friday night… service was great. Restaurant was clean. Food wasn’t good. at all. Everything from the salsa, to the guacamole and entrées were bland. Tamale was horrible. Taco salad had no meat. Only thing that was near decent was the Strawberry Margarita’s (on the rocks). Have to say the best feature out of the whole experience was the ashtrays outside in the shape of cowboy shoes!

This place must be a front for the cartel! How else have they been open for this long???
Please, please, please stay away from this disgusting disaster! They water everything down I guess to make things go further. The Queso was watered down (and burned), the salsa was watered down, the black beans had zero flavor. I ordered a chicken chimichanga and it was flavorless… even the replacement SUCKED! May be it would be a good place if they didn’t take the cheap route with their food but they need Mexican cooking lessons. Where is Chef Ramsey when you need him!!!

This place isn’t terribly fancy, but boy is it tasty! Due to the non-​fancy nature of the place, we walked right in to a table on Mother’s Day. Now I will admit I took my mother out for Mother’s Day without a reservation, so bad on me. But my mother chose this place! Nothing too fancy, and the portions don’t look huge, but they are definitely filling. Wait staff is very attentive, almost too attentive. But I would much prefer over attentive rather than under attentive.
Price was on point for a sit down Mexican joint. Nothing too major to say about it. The only real negative is that the location is kinda hard to find and can’t be seen to well from the road. But hey, it was tasty and enjoyable.

Located near some other very good restaurants, I thought this place would be good, but I was wrong.
We arrived around 4:30, and found the place empty… no customers and no staff. I peaked around the corner and saw a worker sitting in a booth. He looked at me, and didn’t get up. I looked around the bar, and another person was setting up tables, and came over to seat us.
After sitting, we asked for happy hour drinks, and only Margaritas and Well drinks were happy hour, no beer. Seriously… beer was not on happy hour.
I ordered a happy hour margarita, and others ordered beer (not on happy hour) and we had entrées (not on happy hour). The drinks and food were OK, but the service was lacking. Seriously, only 2 tables with people, and service was bad and slow.
When we were done, we presented a coupon that was 50% non happy hour items. We had several, but the waiter told us he can’t take the coupon during happy hour. We said we wanted to use it for the non happy hour items, he said he can’t give that and happy hour on the same ticket. We asked to spilt the ticket, and he said he couldn’t do that.
Needless to say, with OK food, bad service and no beer on happy hour, we won’t be back.
I give it 2 stars because at least the parking lot was nice.

This Mexican restaurant is good. It’s not really good or great, and it’s not bad or terrible either.
I liked the chips and salsa, and my bean burrito was pretty good, except the cheese on top wasn’t great.
The others in my group really liked their food.
The service was also good, no complaints here.
Overall, I’d come back maybe in a couple months. It’s not a place I would visit every week.

We had some extra time and wanted to try this place. It is an old Village Inn, I believe, and I drive by almost daily.
When we pulled up, there were only a couple of cars in the lot (Red Robin a block away had a wait list).
We walked in and there were only 3 tables with people… My first instinct was to turn and leave, but we were only stopping by for a beer. We didn’t have time to actually eat dinner. We were seated at the bar and a very friendly bartender greeted us, made our drinks, and even gave us the remote to the big screen. We then enjoyed some salsa and bean dip with fresh chips. Very good flavor, but…
…something is wrong with the atmosphere. It doesn’t feel right. No people, no giggling, no happy sounds… boring.
Not sure what the real food is like, but I’m not sure when I’ll make it back.
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So my expectations were not high based on previous reviews. They were averaging 2 stars — why go, you say? I’d thought that I would see it for myself. Since it wasn’t as horrible as I thought it might be based on other reviews I’m kicking them up to 3 stars.
There were 10 cars in the parking lot when we arrived and only 3 tables seated in the whole dining room. The thought in my head was turn around and run out the door but I fought off the urge and we asked for a table for two. We were seated immediately.
The décor was clean but something out of 80s Mexican Restaurant. Robert Irvine and Restaurant Impossible would have had a hay-​day with redoing the décor. Although other than the carpet being ugly they might not have needed to replace it. Overall the restaurant was very clean.
Our waitress was very pleasant and quick to take our order. The menu is huge and the prices seemed just a tad high. She did some drive-​by check ins. As she was taking other people’s order or dropping off their food she would quickly walk by our table and ask if everything was okay. I guess when you do that and don’t give the people a chance to actually answer the question there can’t be anything wrong. She was very knowledgeable about the menu and was easy gong on the substitution requests.
My dining companion ordered the Chicken taco salad and it looked okay. I ordered the Trio caballas (the Three Horses) — it had grilled chicken breast, carne asada, and lean bacon wrapped shrimp, it also came with beans and rice but I subbed out the rice for cole slaw. My dinner was okay. The chicken could have used some spices as it as cooked okay but not a lot of flavor. The carne asada and shrimp were okay. The Cole slaw was a Mexican Cole slaw and was nicely done. The beans right in the middle.
So over all I’ve better (Casa Mariachi right down the street) and I’ve had worse.
Will I go back — probably not. As there are many other places that I would prefer to eat.
Would I recommended it to someone else — there are other places that I would send them first.