Saturday night. Place was almost empty and still couldn't get service. Bartender/Waiter/Cashier(all of which was 1 dude) ignored us even though we were sitting at the bar for a good 10min. We grabbed our own menus...another large party wasn't waited on either and we all walked out together. Amazing that a place with no patrons could afford to let potential business walk out the door. Will never go back. Utterly disappointing. Worst (non existent) service. Ever.
Review Source:I don't get all the negative reviews about this restaurant. I like the food, the menu selection is pretty big, and the portions are good. Like another reviewer said, they also keep the chips and salsa coming.
They have a coupon in the Entertainment book for a buy 1 get 1 free meal. Service is attentive and atmosphere is family friendly. I believe I've seen live music and dance night events on weekends. Parking is plentiful with lots of street meters and a lot 2 doors down.
If anyone was wondering if Margaritas is still a sh*t show .. it is.
Some co workers and myself decided to give it another shot and it was just as bad as we remembered. The server dumped the chips straight on the table and didn't replace them. I ordered water, got soda water, and was charged for it. Ordered the tilapia "special" at a dollar discount, got chicken, no "special" Â discount. The server forgot to ring up my soda water ( that I didn't order ) so I had to check out twice and he didn't even give me the right change. Did I mention we were the only table the server had... The whole thing was laughable. It was like Murphy's law put to the test.
Even if we had had good service, the food is still subpar and the restaurant is still super dirty.
Mediocre? Â This place aspires to be mediocre.
Very dimly lit, probably to disguise the dirty tables. Â The first table I saw had dried food on it. Â Dried. Â As in it had to have been there from the day before, since this was lunch time
The chips were greasy to the touch, like they'd been dipped in oil prior to being served. Â The salsa was not fresh, it tasted like it was just poured out of a warm jar, and was about as flavorful as watered-down ketchup.
The menu was greasy! Â Greasy! Â I should have taken all these as signs and left right then, but no, I decided to stick it out. Â Silly me... the rumbling in my gut tells me I will pay for this foolishness sooner rather than later.
I ordered the Asado, described as pork in a spicy red sauce, with tortillas, beans and rice. Â Pork? Â I think so, it was at least tender. Â Beans? Present and lukewarm. Â Rice? Â Since when does rice at a Mexican restaurant have peas, carrots, and corn in it? Â Did they borrow their rice from Shanghai Mama's next door? Â Tortillas? Didn't taste freshly made.
Spicy red sauce? Â It was red with only the faintest hint of chili powder flavor. Â Not even spicy enough to make a newborn wince. Â No joke, I wanted to read the menu again just to make sure there wasn't an asterisk next to Spicy pointing to a disclaimer that said "Not really spicy, this is just here to entice you." Â A generous splashing from the (GREASY!) bottle of Cholula on the table redeemed it somewhat.
Not going back, this was very disappointing, even for a cheap lunch.
Friday night with no plans. A brief walk through the rain and gloom of October downtown. Why not eat some tacos and drink margaritas. I've been to all of the other Mexican restaurants in the area but not Margaritas.
If you come to Margaritas don't expect a social escapade. Just bring a newspaper
There was a group of three and a group of two both seated amongst the dining area. I sat at the bar and ordered a margarita. Sitting in the comforts of my home now, I'm almost sure that my margarita contained no alcohol. When it was initially presented to me, it existed in two layers. The top layer was the margarita mix and the other fluid layer; well call it "Liquid X".
I drank the funky mixture in a state of bewilderment. How can a place called Margaritas produce this concoction and even be open. I ordered the Carne Asada, as I stirred my canned salsa product with a chip.
If you come to Margaritas just order a Negra Modela, lower you expectations and try to not be so pompous.
Carne Asada!! Â A basic dish presented in various ways, but it is basically a steak with various accoutrements. My steak cost $13.00. My steak was burnt. Â My Steak was tough. My steak was at one point or another cooked in a microwave....How about yours?
The guacamole salad presented with this dish was surprisingly hot, which is fine because that how I like it. Unfortunately, the reheated faux authentic rice and refried beans were not worth mentioning.
If you come to Margaritas just order some guacamole salad and chips and don't be such a gringo.
After all, the menu makes several mentions about gringos. For example: the Gringo chicken or the Gringo burger. I feel like a mariposa gringo for having paid $29.00 (with tip).
If you come to Margaritas......O wait ..........Don't.
I came here with friends to eat on a Saturday night at about 8:30, and there wasn't a single other table dining. We'd tried to get into another nearby Mexican restaurant for dinner but had been unable to because there were no tables available, so I was surprised to find that Margaritas was so empty.
I think the reason why it was so empty is because the food is not good. Margaritas serves the typical Americanized Mexican fare--varying combinations of enchiladas, tacos, and burritos--which I'm not a huge fan of to begin with, but mine was even more bland than usual at this type of restaurant. Even my salsa had no kick to it.
With that being said, I have to give them some bonus points on drinks. You can get a pitcher of top-shelf margaritas for around $20, and ours filled cups for four people more than twice. We were also celebrating a couple of birthdays, and they brought us free birthday tequila shots at the end of our meal. The drinks certainly made up for the disappointing food.
I would definitely go back for a pitcher of margaritas, but probably be only after eating dinner elsewhere.
Well.... let's start with the positives.
The location is nice. Parking was not difficult to find.
If I had to choose one word to describe Margaritas it would be....disorganized. I was meeting up with a large group of people (30+) for a friends birthday. When I got there, I sat at the bar. The bartender seemed super busy so I wasn't in any rush. Finally, another employee asked if I needed something. I ordered a margarita. They said they weren't starting tabs (I didn't hear the explanation as to why.) No problem, I had cash. He said it would be $3. Super cheap. I handed him the smallest bill I had, a $10. He said they had no change. I said well...that's okay just keep it. Another man came over- I THINK he was the one in charge. There was a seemingly angry exchange about my $10. I said, again...listen it's really okay, just keep the change.
After speaking with a few others who had been before, they said this was a common occurrence...them having no change. Supposedly they had $1 patron shots, but when my friend ordered two of them, the total was $4. Still, I wont argue about a $2 patron shot that I didn't even pay for. But evidently the $1 patron shots aren't always available. Hilariously, the bartender was using an actual measuring cup to measure out shots.
I hadn't had anything to eat since breakfast, so I asked for a menu. I was handed a menu, but when I ordered, I was told they were on a late night menu and only had quesadillas and wings. No problem, I will have the quesadillas. There's no nice way to put it...they were...well, just awful. I did have a bite of a wing that my friend ordered and they were pretty good.
There was a DJ. He played the kind of music that drunk people like to dance to, so that was good enough for me. I split early because I had a class to teach in the morning. The best part about the experience is that it FELT like a private party because I'm pretty we were the only ones there.
I feel bad writing this review because I really felt like the staff was doing the best they could. It was just sort of all over the place. I think the main appeal of this place is that everything is so inexpensive. This goes back to the old saying: you get what you pay for. That we did.
Hands down this is the worst mexican food I have ever had in my life. I totally regret even coming here. We came on Tuesday night at around 8pm. We were the only people in the place, which should have been a sign. We instantly sat down and got on the phone to check in at YELP. Immediately we saw the low ratings this place got. We discussed going somewhere else but decided to suck it up and give it a whirl. After all, how bad can you mess up Mexican?
We order a fajita burrito with peppers and onions in it with all the works (lettuce, pica, chicken, rice, cheese). After waiting a little too long our server brought us out our dinner. ICE COLD BURRITOS. Please explain to me how you can manage to serve half frozen burritos to your only two customers in the entire restaurant. Not to mention the only thing the burritos had in it was chicken and rice. When I showed the server he told me that they did not have any peppers in the restaurant (which made me wonder how they were planning on serving fajitas in the first place). He went back into the kitchen and managed to find some old slices of orange pepper and cut up a tomato for me.
The whole experience was downright horrible. Even with the additional mix-ins the server brought us from the kitchen we still could not eat our food because it was just that cold. I will never EVER return to this place. I do want to say though that our server was very polite and friendly. It was not his fault we had this horrible experience. I wish we had listen to our fellow Yelpers and walked out immediately.
I have been here several times and the experience doesn't vary much. Food is standard Mexican fare for a reasonable price (especially if you have a <a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Frestaurant.com&s=c5fe485af4df376130bee54f875814d79c4d7913e1258123b1206d2bdbf4873b" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://restaurant.com</a> gift certificate). Â Drinks are good, if on the weak side. Â Service is spotty at best. Â
Why do I return here time after time then.... Well... I'm cheap and I like the low bill after using my gift certificate. Â Also their chips and salsa are good and limitless unlike several other downtown Mexican restaurants. Â Their fajitas are pretty large and as good as any other place. Â
So, if you are looking for a cheaper bill than you would get at Nada and can't have Mexican without the chips, hit this place up when you are downtown.
In contrast to other reviews here, our service at Margaritas was quite good. I must mention however that there were only two other parties in the restaurant. Â We ordered a margarita which lacked tartness. It just wasn't what we believe a margarita to be. Â But it didn't stop us from trying to enjoy it.
My partner had fajitas while I had a burrito. The food was priced as reasonably for dinner, but the portions were larger than I would have expected. We both felt there was nothing particularly special about the Mexican food here. I will say that I thought the tortilla chips (free) were delightful. They were light and crisp.
Perhaps they have a signature dish waiting to be discovered, but I'm not sure I will be going back anytime soon. There are far better choices for Mexican in the downtown area.
I hate to give my first one star rating but this place earned it. Â I went there for a happy hour with a few co-workers and my expectations were not high. Â If I'm in the mood for Mexican, I usually suggest Nada because it just rocks and is freaking awesome but one of my co-workers said let's go to Maragaritas so I obliged. Â Mistake.
I always walk by this place on my way to downtown and it's always empty but now I know why. Â The service was not exactly stellar. Â My menu had some type of red tomato sauce on the front and my silverware was just tossed in my general direction subsequently self-unraveling from the napkin and then making contact with the Tex-Mex motif table that had not been cleaned since it was manufactured in China. Â It took us 10 minutes just to get some drink orders in and another 20 or so to get some dip to go with the chips. Â Oh and yeah, we were the only 4 people in the place so it wasn't like the server was slammed. Â He was just sitting at the bar and watching Sportcenter seemed to be a better use of his time.
So I was in Margaritas so I figured, why not order a margarita off the happy hour specials. Â if they have the courage to name their place Margaritas at least they will have good margaritas. Â Wrong. Â It was some combination of lime, salt, and I think battery acid. Â I was so thirsty I just swallowed it all as fast as possible to make the experience stop. Â Plus, I didn't want to offend my co-worker by asking for a third time "why didn't we go to nada again?" Â
The white cheese dip was OK but nothing to brag about like they do on the menu. Â I never thought I would say this, but I think Taco Bell might have them beat on food and service.
Bottom line: if you are looking for a Mexican type experience in this area just go to nada. Â The drinks are amazing, the food is not your standard Mexican but it will blow you away, and the service is top notch. Â
Margaritas, sorry to give a 1 star, but you earned it.
This isn't my first choice for Mexican food, but it will do for a quick and inexpensive lunch (pick 2 combo with rice and beans for $7) that's close to my office.
The chips are white corn and relatively light and crisp; the salsa seems fresh, but definitely benefits from a bit of hot sauce added--both are free with your meal.
I usually get the chicken enchiladas, which come with a red sauce and rice and beans on the side. The beans are a bit thin, but the rice is pretty flavorful. The chicken is in chunks (vs. pulled/shredded) and mixed with sauteed green peppers and onions inside.
Service is acceptable. The best tip I can give for this place is to go for happy hour instead of a meal and enjoy some Mexican beer with chips & salsa--for that purpose, it works very well.
By Jiminy, Margaritas is some kind of bad. Â
Having turned out 50-some Yelp reviews so far, I haven't yet had the opportunity to issue a one-star condemnation: Â I have diligently refrained from writing reviews about restaurants I haven't been to recently. Â And since before I started Yelping here in Cincinnati, I've scrupulously avoided what I think are one-star restaurants, whether based on soul-corroding personal experience or merely on educated guessing. Â (And, seriously, I try to look for the silver linings in even the most mediocre, misbegotten eateries.) Â
But recently I went back to Margaritas for the first time in months and months. Â The restaurant is around the corner from work, and some co-workers like the "Tuesday Taco" special (chicken and ground-beef tacos for a buck apiece). Â On occasion, I have been brave enough to join them because I like their company.
Margaritas is actually a local chain, but God knows how its operators manage to keep open a single restaurant, let alone four or five. Â Whatever the location--and I have somehow been to three different ones, although this 6th Street one the most--Margaritas dependably offers a double whammy of wretched service and wretched food. Â
The beginning of an experience here might fool you: Â Free chips and salsa are actually semi-okay. Â But it's all downhill from there. Â The food, which is not cheap given the very pro forma and casual Tex-Mex environment, is atrocious. Â One of the last combo lunches I recall consisted of a flavorless, soggy, lukewarm chile relleno, a flavorless, greasy, lukewarm tostada, and runny refried beans. Â Sounds delectable, huh? Â
As for "Taco Tuesday": Â I hate to use Taco Bell as a reference point, because it's actually an occasional guilty pleasure of mine, but Margaritas' tacos are easily worse than TB's: Â The stringy chicken has always had every last tincture of flavor cooked out of it and sits in an unappetizing watery broth that spills out of tortilla when you try to eat the taco. Â If you ever threw or shot spitballs in the sixth grade, its texture might remind you a bit of chewed-up paper. Â The ground beef tacos taste like they're flavored with Sam's Club taco seasoning, if such a thing exists. Â The tortillas themselves often are on the verge of staleness, and fillings of cheapjack grated cheese and iceberg lettuce don't help. Â
The Keystone Cops service at Margaritas has always been comically bad and a frequent post-lunch discussion subject (although this most recent time was somewhat better). Â I have to say I don't think it's the fault of the individual servers, who appear to be undermanned and overworked. Â They are trying, usually, or seem to be. Â But anyway: Â Drinks are rarely, if ever, refilled. Â Servers can leave you sitting for 15 minutes before taking your order, even when the place is three-quarters empty. Â When more than 3 or 4 people are at a table, the servers will almost invariably get one or more orders wrong. Â
My last trip to Margaritas probably qualified as a two-star experience, and it's possible things have improved slightly from the previous visit months ago, but history argues for the one-star rating. Â
Overall, exasperating and depressing.
Margaritas, you have the dishonor of receiving my first one-star prize.
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