Rancho Real

Unfortunately, Rancho Real is now out-of-business.  They had higher-end Mexican food, but not enough customers.  Hopefully another restaurant with as good of food as Rancho Real and Julie's will take the space over.

Chips and salsa are great. My wife got the chicken flautas and I got a steak burrito. Both were excellent. The rice and beans sides were OK.  

Service was excellent. Ambiance is OK, it's not fast food, it's a sit down restaurant. Prices are a bit high, but it's worth it in my opinion. Place is usually deserted whenever I've gone, so I wonder if they're  going to be around for much longer. I hope it stays around for a long time. It serves some of the best Mexican food I've had.

Rancho Real is located where Julie's Ranch house was at one point on 350/Veterans Pkwy.  This place has a lot of potential.  I had the stuffed chicken with chorizo and goat cheese--amazing.  Seriously just typing it makes my mouth water.  Very good.  

My husband had a chicken chimichanga which was also very good.  

The place is very clean and the service was good.  It was not very cool in there like most places--it was 90 out and probably 80 in--which is fine by me--but some people are weird and like places cold.

Now onto the not so good:  The rice was below average.  It was that unflavorful mushy type generic 'mexican' rice--blah.  My husbands dish came with a side of cheese.  It would make the most sense for this to be the white queso blanco that you generally get--but no--it was like out of the pump cheddar like at arby's--only worse--I'm pretty sure it  may have been bacon flavored or something.  The salsa was like water and uneventful and the chips were those hard thick ones that are bought ahead --not very good.

Improve the chips, cheese and rice and you get 5 stars!