Birrieria Bugambilias

The food here is great. Everything tastes like it should. The prices are right for Mexican food. The beers are nice and cold. The salsa tastes fresh. The rice and beans are great. Rich and moist never over cooked or slightly burnt tasting.
My family and I go here several times a month. The place is very kid friendly. They have cheap street tacos if your on a budget or steak and fresh fish if you want a plate. If you live in the area and you like «real Mexican» style Mexican food you probably have been here already.

Went to this place for a friend’s birthday. I didn’t eat the food. My friend and I had a vodka cran and a bloody mary. Basically I had an $ 8 cranberry juice and she had an $ 8 spicy v8. $ 8 was the happy hour price. Worst drinks ever!!! This place has Mexican karaōke which seemed to be the draw as the evening crowd filled in. The place was hot and the a/​c seemed to be on it’s last leg. We had to fan ourselves to cool ourselves down. I wouldn’t have minded paying $ 8 for the cocktail had there been enough alcohol to taste & if the a/​c worked. We ended up going to a real bar downtown where we had a beer, cocktail, and shot, all for $ 14. Basically, bartender and his drinks were awful!!! Actually he doesn’t even deserve the title.

I remember when the restaurant first came into existence. Since then I have only gone to eat a handful of times. I have been craving them for a while now remembering that they had authentic regional Michoacan dishes. It had been YEARS since I last went there to the point that I couldn’t remember what was on the menu or how they tasted. I convinced three others to go with me on Friday. «Are you sure they are even open?» said one of my friends since we had tried to eat there for lunch the previous week. They were closed, no answer on the telephone and no hours posted or signs on they window/​door.
We Finally made it and it was «an experience.» 1) The service was horrible. There was one cook, one server and two customers at the bar. Our servers explanations of the dishes were not helpful. Two of my friends ordered burritos, potato tacos which I was craving and had there before. Another person ordered the morsiqueta which had received great reviews from a local food editorial.
Our server was M.I.A. the hole time flirting/​talking/​serving the customers at the bar the whole time. no refills on drinks ever. We had to flag her down several times to beg for drink refills. My friend said the water tasted like pool water. 2) Our server brought the wrong plate to our table, the cook had to flag her down to say no its for the other gentleman.
When we finally got our food we could barely enjoy it because the customers decided to sing karaōke. We were sitting close to the speaker and they cranked the sound VERY loud!!! WTF! we could not hear each other. Our server could not hear us trying to flag her down. 3) When we were clearly done with our food we had to flag her down to get boxes, And still we all had to finally stand and walk slowly to the cash register to give her the hint that we wanted the check. We never got the check… she just took forever to ring us up and then quoted us $ 54.something. We didn’t even know how to divided things up ourselves. We were trying to remember how much our dishes were. We paid and got the hell out.
The food was very mediocre. I could have made better at home I felt. My friends did like the rice. The beans were ok too, but over all the food was not as I had remembered. I wouldn’t call it the best Mexican food in town. I feel deceived by the editorials comments regarding the morisqueta. I can honestly say I would never go back. More due to the lack of customer service and abandonment and the lack of consideration and attentiveness of the karaōke volume.

I’ve been here a couple of times and they have tasty food. Very close to authentic mexican cuisine. Definitely worth giving it a shot. :-)

This is my public service announcement of the day for my fellow Unilocalers. On Friday, a friend and I were jonesing for ceviche and Negra Modelos. Based on the past reviews (no, I didn’t look at the dates and I wish I had), we decided to try out this place.
First, there was no ceviche on the menu, the thing the other reviewers raved about and which brought us here in the first place. However, several fish dishes are featured as house specialties. So, we decided to go with immediate gratification as opposed to driving somewhere else in search of actual ceviche.
The only thing I can think of is that this place had to have changed ownership in the past two years (since later I re-​read the reviews and realized how stinking old they were). Because it, in a word, sucked.
Our appetizer, guacamole, was very fresh but they had no chips to go with it. We requested fresh tortillas instead, and our waiter looked at us like we were in-​sane in the membrane. The fish (tilapia) was cooked to the consistency of rubber. And it, along with the rice and beans (and the guac), had the sodium content of the salt licks you see sitting in the dairy pens north of Stockton. I needed about a gallon of water just to avoid shriveling up like a dehydrated astronaut meal.
If at one point this place had great food – a claim I am feeling fairly skeptical about – it now does not. Don’t be misled by two-​year old reviews and let our suffering be your giant red flag of warning.

Be ware of over charges! And its not the first time they do this.
My friends and I decided on this place for a girls night out. After a having dinner and hanging out for a while the waiter shows up with a $ 200 bill. The money was not an issue, the fact that they charged us for 5 drinks we did not get, was an issue. After talking to the manager they brought the bill down to what we had actually ordered. The service was average, nothing out of the ordinary. The 8oz/​$ 10 margaritas are cheaply made and their selection of tequila is very limited.

The best sit-​down Mexican restaurant in Northern California, except for one place in Ceres that I think burned down. So yeah, by default, this place wins.

My wife and I went to Burrieria Bugambilias for dinner based on a recommendation from our childcare provider. Good recommendation– the drive over in traffic definitely paid off.
The place is in a shopping Plaza at Florin & Franklin and may be hard to notice in the evening unless you knew it was there. It’s big inside with big booths and a small stage in back corner.
The chips were okay and the salsa was good, between mild and spicy (closer to spicy). I ordered a steak burrito (yeah I’m not that original). The burrito was huge and drizzled in a (i think) green tomatillo sauce and a sour cream salsa– very good. My wife ordered chicken enchilada and a chicken quesadilla. She really liked it and I tried some also and thought it was very good.
The people in there are very friendly and there were some obvious regulars that seemed to feel at home. I thought the price was very good.
This place is worth the drive from West Sac. the next time we are in the mood for good Mexican food. I look forward to trying something else.

Probably the best Mexican food in town, if you go by everything — quality, value, prices, freshness, service. They make fantastic homemade corn tortillas constantly, and they’re some of the best I’ve ever had. They are a birreiria, so their specialty is birria, roast goat (available as a stew or just meat).
They also have a whole page of ceviche and other seafood specialties, all of which are super fresh, enormous and very good — especially the shrimp.
I have only had the ceviche, goat and seafood cocktail but everyone I know who has gone there agrees that everything else — incl their excellent breakfasts — is terrific too.
Unlike Las Islitas, which is just OK, this place is worth traveling across town for, for ceviche, birria or anything else!

I went to Birrieria Bugambilias on a Sunday afternoon for some restorative birria and a couple cold Pacificos.
I was a bit surprised how pricey the birria is here. The ‘grande’ is 10.95 and the ‘chica’ only a dollar less. The birria came out with the usual fixin’s – cilantro, diced onions, and lime. I ordered the grande and it wasn’t overly large. The dish had a nice amount of tasty shredded goat meat, but the broth really wasn’t as flavorful or spicy as I’m used to. Birria is supposed to make you sweat, and this stuff just wasn’t doing it.
You can often judge a Mexican restaurant on their chips and salsa. Bugambilias chips were good and warm, but the salsa – like the birria – lacked flavor and was entirely lacking of spice.
I’ll come back to Bugambilias, but it will by no means become a standby. I’m still on the hunt for the perfect birria in Sacramento.
The service was good and the atmosphere dark and cool.