Cielito Lindo

So if you find yourself in Springfield, MO, with a hankering for some TexMex, what is one to do?  Well, you can try Cielito Lindo. I've been visiting the area for 12+ years and had never tried this joint. And I'm a TexMex junkie being from Texas!

This place is average. Servers are friendly and prices are cheap. Got a pitcher of Dos Equis for $10. Our entrees were around $6-8 each. I tried an enchilada, burrito, and quesadilla.  All were ok, the burrito was my favorite out of the three (combo #25, I think). Also tried the guac. I've had way better and fresher guac. For two of us with beers we ate for $30. Can't complain.  Makes me long for some Pappasito's or Uncle Julio's or Blue Mesa or Mi Cocina.......need I go one.

Chips tasted liked they were cooked in very old oil. Food just average!  Will not return.

This is a find Mexican restaurant. It's a local chain, and they definitely know how to run a American-based Mexican restaurant. They bring out chips and salsa. They give you big drinks because you've consumed a shaker full of salt. They have a huge menu with close to 100 items. The food comes out quickly. The food is hot. The food satisfies the hot, cheesy, meaty, saucy in-a-starchy craving that you sate when you eat at a Mexican restaurant. And the place is nice, too, with that Mexican restaurant decor that you'd expect (though no cliff divers, sadly).

Nothing here was out of the ordinary, good nor bad, and certainly, we'd go back, though we'll probably check out the dozen or so other Mexican restaurants in town first, just to see if one of the other places does have that special item or taste.