Julio G’s Tatum

Yummy Mexican food! I’ve been going here for years and I love almost everything on the menu. Bill and Casey are great to have when dinning in, they always know what to recommend! Great service.

Phenomenal customer service by Connor. We went in there tonight to grab a bite about 5 minutes to close, and Connor was very polite, helpful, and friendly. He didn’t seem bothered we were there so late, as many places typically do near close, and made sure we would be comfortable. He was extraordinary! Best service ever received from a type of restaurant such as this.
He even came out to the patio and took our dirty plates to the trash for us when we were finished. He asked if we needed drinks or salsa before he closed them down. Superior service! He’s going to go places in life.

Greasy, tasteless food. Too expensive for the quality. Portions are too big for one person even if the food were decent (which it’s not).

Lunch specials are very affordable and the chicken burro always knocks it out of the park with huge chunks of white meat chicken and enchilada sauce slathered on top. I get double rice instead of beans and the total for this giant meal is about 8 bucks. They give you free chips and your choice of hot or mild salsa. I always get this to go and it’s nearly impossible not to eat it all due to quality. Dieters beware.

Disappointing salsa, my server was terrible and obviously in a crappy mood, it took forever for my food to come and I had to leave before I was done eating because there was no ac in the restaurant and I felt like I was going to pass out. I won’t be coming back.

Right in the neighborhood, but I keep forgetting about it.
Good ‘classic’ Mexican food (the kind you grew up with in the 70s/​80s).
Eat the chips and salsa (try the hot salsa)
Order the Chile Relleno with rice and beans.
Eat.
Be happy.

Love the chips and salsa but I think they need a little more variety. However, they make up for it with some other great options for lunch. The #9 is my go to though.

The best Mexican food option in the immediate Paradise Valley Mall area, but only because there really aren’t any others. Carolina’s, a great casual choice, is a couple miles west on Cactus. Closer by? Well, Taco Bell at Tatum & Shea? Okay. Chipotle and Qdoba, but they don’t really count as Mexican restaurants in my book. Maybe the mall food court?
I do like Julio G’s lunch menu. Lots of choices. Generously portioned. Reasonably priced. It also doubles as the senior menu any time of day (photo posted).
I also like the kids menu. Drink included. Numerous choices all $ 5 or less (photo posted).
Service is, for the most part, friendly and attentive.
The quality and presentation of the food is fine. I’m just not a fan of the restaurant’s use of seasonings, or lack thereof, starting with the chips and salsa. A mild salsa and a hot sauce are presented with chips immediately after being seated, but neither salsa is particularly flavorful. The enchilada sauce? It’s kid friendly (not a compliment). I find myself blending the salsas and adding them to whatever I’ve ordered to try to compensate for a general lack of zest. For those not wanting much heat in their Mexican food, Julio G’s is a decent choice.
Julio’s Too, next door, is a nice convenience. The menu and prices are pretty much the same as the main restaurant, but it’s a taco shop style space designed for easy carry out or for having a quick bite.

Service was prompt and the chicken Diablo salad I got was pretty tasty. However, something about the texture of the chicken was off putting and slightly rubbery. It didn’t taste bad, it just was a texture I’m not a big fan of…
Hubby got the fajitas which wasn’t sizzling when it came out which is a bummer because who doesn’t love the sound of that sizzling piping hot skillet with yumminess? The fajitas tasted good, evidenced by his clean plate :)
Otherwise, great service, overall good food and good happy hour prices. Solid place of come for Mexican but don’t expect the salsa to be spicy :(

It would rate 5 stars except for the damn lighting. Please change pink neon out. We love it but can not dine there as the lighting is ghastly. We hit it every couple years instead of a couple of times a month. Went back and the lighting is still painful. Beyond painful.
On this last visit my wife had the veggie fajitas and the had the bad lighting enchiladas. Food was very tasty. Service great.

Great personal service! Melissa, Will & Chris always give great service! We have been eating here for about 5 years, and the food is always good.
Great green chili chicken enchiladas & beef tacos! Great take out too!

This place is a shell of it’s former self… Poor food, and even worse management. Overhead the manager drop the F bomb a few times! Pretty classy in front of customer. The food has no flavor, place is exceptionally loud and rundown. Don’t ever order the beef fajitas here! What a joke! No flavor and no one uses cheap flavorless round steak for fajitas. Takes lessons from Fajitas out on I-​17, and try again. I won’t be back!

The worst Mexican ever felt the quality was better at Taco Bell. This is not Mexican. My food was cold and bad tasting.

They have great prices on margarita pitchers and such yummy food. Quick service too! Try their mini Chili’s and the pollo magnifeco!

Honestly… Food was not great. I had better at Taco Bell. Chips were pretty good… Salsa horrible. Customer service was descent although our waiter got mine and my friend’s orders wrong.

So sad, I remember eating at this place when they had a location near ASU and had fond memories of it– perhaps it’s just the expertise of that location or the lack of maturity in my taste buds. This place is not good and a disappointment with the memories I had of it and how easy it is to get to from my new home.
The chips and salsa was the first sign that this isn’t what I remember. They give you two salsas in which both had not a lot of flavor and I ended up mixing them. The mix helped but overall if the chips and salsa at a Mexican restaurant are bland it means the rest of the meal will be. And I was right.
I ordered a red chile burrito and upon cutting it up the phrase «canned meat smell» went through my mind. The sauce lacked that smokey heat you expect in a red chili sauce, it had little to no flavor and had an overcooked texture to it. I kept eating because I was hungry, but then my BF said it looked like dog food and I had to stop eating. It did remind me of dog food because his not polite table etiquette connected with my first initial thought about the meal– canned smell.
My BF ordered a mix of al carte tacos and he had the same unimpressed feeling, and stopped eating halfway through his meal.
The two stars was for the service, our waitress was awesome and let us know that ordering a pitcher of margaritas would save us a few bucks. The Margarita, which I would consider the ‘House Margarita’ quench my craving for a margarita. It said it was award winning, which I don’t think it was anything amazing, but it did it’s job.
Overall, I won’t go back as the food was overall not good and there are too many other great Mexican places to go to.

Service was great tonight. First time eating in the bar area — as the main dinning room was full of young families. It had been some time since my past visits which I usually got tacos or enchiladas. The time between my visits was simply because for me the food was too bland. I wanted to give it a try again with a recommendation from the server. I got the green chili tamale… unfortunately very bland as well. Not sure how it’s possible to remove flavor from a tamale but they do it somehow. I like the place ok, just not my type of mexican.

Been here a few times, chips and salsa are free, plentiful and pretty good, they serve both a hot and mild salsa. I’ve had several items on the menu and all are tasty for your standard Mexican American fare. Great margs too! Service is usually very good, rarely have to wait for a table.

My boyfriend and I are regulars here and by regulars I mean we come usually twice a week. The service is always amazing (we love Bill and his super sweet wife who bartends.)
We like to sit in the bar so we can see games on the tvs and we have never had to wait.
The food is amazing. Best chips and salsa and guacamole. I always get the shrimp tacos (something about the sauce they give you for the tacos is like crack — so good) and my boyfriend usually gets something different each time and has never been disappointed.
Their margaritas are great (get a pitcher to share) and prices are awesome as well.
We love Julio G’s and will keep coming… All the time lol. Definitely recommend!

Great Salsa!
While driving down Cactus we had a sudden craving for Mexican food and stopped at the first place we found.
We were seated immediately and had wonderful service, I saved the receipt so I could remember to put her name in my review but I can’t find it. Once I do… I’ll let ya know!
We had a slew of folks that helped bring drinks, chips, salsa and everything else that we needed. I was pretty impressed with the level of service we received.
The ONLY downfall is not having an Italian dressing that’s not creamy. No one likes creamy dressing. Please get a true vinaigrette on your menu. I loved your taco salad but didn’t have a good dressing to put on it. I promise to add this to my roatation if you do.