El Tequila

Although the outside looks sketchy, with the restaurant practically surrounded by an abandoned motel, this place is AWESOME!!! It is so much fun to watch the servers rushing around — there are no idle feet in this restaurant! Their chips are really delicious with lots of flavor and their salsa is quite good. No issues getting plenty of refills on the chips (or drinks for that matter) despite how busy our waiter was with other tables.
My chile relleno was huge, cheesy, delicious, scrumptious — pick your adjective! I also had a chicken enchilada with crema sauce. An all-​around good meal.
We were with a semi-​large group (9 of us) and we were well taken care of. We had eaten here before, but this is the first review I’ve ever left, and we ate Mexican the day prior and then again 4 or 5 days later, and El Tequila suddenly stands out as that much better in my mind.

When on a Friday night. had a short wait but worth every minute. we had good service and very good food.

The food was amazing as always. El Tequila never fails in the quality or portion size. I had the enchiladas verde, while my husband ate shrimp fajitas till he almost popped.
We also really enjoyed ice cold Dos Equis Amber with our meal.
The menus are filthy. They have gross food crud all over them. I mentioned this the last time we were there, the server said ok and gave me another crud covered menu.:(
Our waiter forgot to bring tortillas for the fajitas, we had to ask another server to send our waiter to our table twice, we waited 20 minutes to get our check, and another to get our card back. Love the food, but…

Decent salsa. Good service. Great shredded beef. Rating would be 5 stars if they put margaritas in the fountain instead of water

This is an impossible combination of good, cheap, and fast.
The servings are so big that my girlfriend and I share a dinner and go home quite full.
The only downside is that it is always noisy.

Fast service from the beginning to end. I loved how they brought out monkey dishes for each person to pour salsa in. The basket of chips never got empty and our drinks were always full! Food was delicious and came out fast. Price was cheap and the restaurant was very clean and had a cool fountain in the center. We will be coming back next year!

Food is what I go by so I had steak al a mexicana, steak was prepared awesome, tender and seasoned really well only gave me 2 tortillas to eat it with though. Service prices everything else was on point

I’ve been here with my family approx. 4 – 5 times now. The food & mixed drinks are great. They have wonderful customer service. The sausage cheese dip super amazing!

Amazing service, & food. Was seated quickly on a Saturday. Our service was outstanding. You won’t regret stopping by. Authentic salsa and great seasoned food.

Great place for Mexican Food. Fountain is smack dab in the middle of the restaurant and gives a great feel.

I got the El Guapo. It was pretty good. Grilled boneless chicken, topped with spinach & queso. Along with rice & refried beans that’s topped with cheese. I like how the chicken was seasoned. The cheese & spinach was really good. All of the components worked well together.
I also had the Margarita Cadillac. It was strong! Tres Generaciones, Grand Marnier, orange liquor, sweet’n sour & lime juice. It had me right where I needed to be.

Simply awesome start to finish Efficient crew. Excellent food.
You can tell a lot about a place just by watching the employees. Do they have conversations among themselves? Do they stand around? Or do they attend to business, even going so far as to pick up debris on the floor as often as necessary, even when in full rush mode?
The staff is well trained here. Absolutely not a complaint, and if you knew me, you would think I was April fooling u. But this is true. I have over 25 years in food service management, and this is without a doubt the most impressed I’ve been since I ran my own place. Just awesome.

I decided to try the food here, and I have to say I was a little surprised. Everyone seems to love it here, and I really don’t understand why.
My waitress was awful, and only came to check on me twice, once to take my order, and once to deliver my food. After that she only brought me my check.
I had the Chimichangas, and they tasted as if the meat inside was microwaved. The beans had a weird aftertaste, like they had been sitting out for a few days, and the rice was dry and a little hard.
All in all, I do not have a lot to say about this place, other than I will avoid it from now on. There are far better places to go in Tulsa, and this place just cannot hold a candle to your other options.

We love this place! the food and service is fantastic! Great Atmosphere for date night or bringing the family!

I love this place!!! Homemade chips, medium spiced salsa in which the cilantro is key! The lunch fajitas are enough to feed an army… true story. Priced fantastically.
And to be completely honest, in the 6 years I have been visiting this restaurant I have only had sub par service once. That is amazing! Definitely a restaurant everyone should make an effort to stop by, it is an experience you will never forget!

I love this place for Mexican food not only is it cheap but it is also good.
I love the tacos and pollo queso dish. I have had the enchiladas as well but the pollo queso is better.
The salsa is good and plentiful there is nothing I have ordered from here that is bad.
Bring your appetite.

El Tequila is the place to go for cheap, decent Mexican food, especially at lunch time. They have a lot of lunch specials and the service is quick and efficient. It’s not the best Mexican I’ve ever had, but it hit the spot!

The food here is really quite good but I know it’s different than some people are expecting. If you are looking for a more tex-​mex taste, Chuy’s or Ted’s Escondito are great.
This place has the best tortillas I’ve ever had. Soft, slightly chewy, and fluffy. The tamales are amazing and have the best sauce in the world. The guacamole has a little too much sour cream for me but it’s pretty good.
The service can be spotty nowadays. I feel like my husbands food is always served 5 min or more before mine. Or I’ll order the wonderful steak fajitas and then have to remind someone to bring out my tortillas.
However, if you want a lot of good food for cheap this is the place. It’s always packed in the evenings and the drinks are strong.

This used to be my home away from home. I adored this place from the first time I went there. I frequented there often when they weren’t busy and I could sit, have a small delicious meal, strong margarita and read my book in peace, as well as bring close friends or family for a great meal.
I went there one evening with my mother, one of many trips over the few years I had lived here. Many of the waiters knew me and I knew them. I had a waiter I hadn’t had before and I had a slight discrepancy with the bill. More importantly I had an issue with the way it was presented to me. The waiter hands us our check and before walking away says quickly «Oh you know that we charge $ 2 extra each to put patron in there.» This was weird and skeptical to me and caught me off guard and I asked since when that had been the policy and he said that it always had been. I kindly asked why I hadn’t been informed that when we ordered and that I had ordered the same exact drinking for almost 2 years and never been charged extra. This became a matter of principal and not money. He then immediately said «well I’ve been working here a year and never seen you.» I was appalled that he would say that. He then informed us he was getting the manager, so the manager came over and explained the bill. I told him literally the same thing I had told the waiter and he ALSO said that he had never seen me before, but also added that he «didn’t believe me.» He then demanded to know the names of the waiters who hadn’t been charging me right, and I just told him ALL of them. It began to get childish and I demanded they charge our cards so we could leave.
I have not been back even one time since then, and what a shame it is to me. I loved that place. I did however go to the South location once and it seemed acceptable.

El Tequila isn’t perhaps the most authentically «Mexican» place in town, but it does the general Tex-​Mex theme pretty well. My wife and I come here regularly enough because we’ve always found the food reliably good, the prices reasonable, and the service friendly and fairly attentive. The parking lot is almost constantly busy (even in the middle of the afternoon), but we’ve never had trouble getting a table nor had to wait long to be served. (Maybe we just beat the crowds every time?)
The tacos (Monterrey and al Carbon) have been standbys for me, but the fajitas have also always been tasty. They do make a mean margarita too, most notably their Top Shelf, which I typically go for. My wife really likes their seafood options; she was particularly pleased with the Tequila Shrimp Ceviche on the most recent visit. I’ve never been especially impressed by their guacamole, however. It’s creamy and decent enough, but honestly my wife makes a much better version from scratch at home (and she’s Japanese!).
All the same, they’re definitely good at what they do, even if what they do won’t necessarily blow anyone away. Nice, dependable and cheap, which is sometimes exactly what you need in a restaurant.