Taqueria Jalapenos

Wow! Simply great Mexican food. After reading the reviews on Yelp, I had to eat at Jalepenos. Upon arrival, it "looked" right! By that, it had the colors, the appearance, and the smell that I need when I crave Mexican.

You enter at the ordering counter and are greeted by a very nice, hard working gentlemen who knows his stuff. My party of three grabbed a paper menu and sat for 5 minutes going over it in detail to grab a bit of everything. We ordered chips and salsa, large guacamole, wet burrito (spicy) dinner, Chile rellano dinner, carnita gorditas dinner, two chicken fajita tacos, enchiladas and taquitos dinner and a couple of beers.

The chips and salsa were amazing; fresh, homemade, hot chips, fresh chunky salsa (not liquified). The guacamole was very good; chunky but smooth. In fact, I ordered more chips and salsa because they were so good! I always judge a Mexican restaurant by the initial quality of their chips and salsa, so I had very high expectations for the food.

Our dinners did not disappoint!  Fresh, hot, and packed with flavors!  I started on the spicy burritos with shredded beef. Simply great! Smothered with cheese, ot was what a burritos should be. The rice was great and the beans had a unique flavor that was deliciously different.

Then the food swapping started! The carnita gordita's were amazing! Probably one of the best foods I ever ate. Everything was flavorful, plentiful, and lived up to my expectations! I will be back, at least once a week....!

After a round of golf in Naples we cruised all the way up 41 to this awesome taqueria.  They we're out of the fish tacos - which my wife was looking forward to.  She settled on the shrimp and they we're excellent.  I had 2 carnitas tacos and one carne asada.  The carne asada was good - I've had better.  But the pork carnitas tacos were some of the best I've ever had.  The chips and pico we're fresh and delicious.  The service was excellent - a very friendly staff.  I'll definitely be back here again.  Now back to the lame mexican food in Seattle!

We stopped by here for a late lunch because of the Yelp ratings.  Ordered the Chili con Queso, chips were great but the cheese dip was out of a can so that was a little disappointing but they had jalapenos available so it was okay.  We ordered the taquitos, chicken and beef and we would highly recommend them, they were great!  My husband also ordered a shredded beef burrito, smothered and it was okay, more beans & rice than beef and "smothered" wasn't.  Keep in mind we are from New Mexico so our expectations are pretty high.

The guacamole looked fantastic, we saw some other diners had ordered and we had a small amount on our taquitos.  Salsas were very tasty.

We would go back and try some other things on the menu.  Our bill for 2 was $28 which I thought was a little high but we did order a soda & beer with our meals.