Ricardo's Mexican Restaurant

Love the Authentic Mexican Food, very relaxing from the welcome to the table to the serving and desert. What I especially liked at Ricardo's was the portion size, just enough to fill you up and not too much to waste. My waiter even took our left overs and without asking, went and made go to boxes. He even added some extra tortillas to our boxes. The service was always with a smile.

Decided to try Ricardos after reading current reviews, and my experience was AWFULL!!! Lousy food, flautas tasted like they were fried in old oil and soggy...couldn't even eat them.... Ordered Don Julio margaritas and received I'm still not quite sure what they served us, tasted like cheap tequila blend.

I have been to ricardos many times, food isnt that great, pretty pricey and the prices keep increasing. The atmosphere is great, margaritas are good, but we really enjoy talking with the manager patti, she is the only reason my husband and i keep going back.

My wife & I go to Vegas several times a year, so we're not much of tourists anymore. We prefer to eat at places that the locals have steered us towards. Such was the case with Ricardo's. The restaurant itself is beautiful & the staff was warm & friendly. If you live in south Texas (like I do) & you hear of the place voted "Best Mexican" food, you'd want to try it! I'm sad to say it, I really am, but this place can't hold a candle to either Tex-Mex style or Interior cooking. The food was bland & lacked any zest or flavor. The portions are by all means substantial but are a bit overpriced. My enchiladas were way too salty & wife's carnitas plate was undercooked. Our appetizer (Chile con Queso) was quite dreadful. I'm not the type to bash a restaurant, but I'd really like to know who voted this place as #1. I'm sure they have great ritas (the bar was very cool), but the food is certainly subpar. I won't return & maybe you should avoid it, too. California Mexican food is a fake & poor substitute for the real thing.

I came in to Ricardos for lunch with a co-worker. We were treated very nice, the restaurant if very nice inside although the outside sort of blends in at that corner and you might miss it. We sat at the bar area where we had our own 10 inch tv. screen cus we got a booth. That was cool. I ordered the passion fruit margarita and that was really good. The bar is really really nice. I like all the detail from the back of the bar area to the ceiling. The only bad thing here was the food. I ordered Ricards Chicken lunch special. I swear my vegetables tasted like if they were cooked in f@rt water. No joke. I swear by this! The chicken had no flavor because the f@rt water they used to cook my vegetables consumed every other flavor on the dish. I was hungry, so I ordered more chips and salsa and I ate that. My friend oredere a Mexican pizza and it looked good and he finished it, I should have ordered the pizza instead. No, I got stuck with the tasteless chicken and the f@rt water veggies.