Rancho Viejo Mexican grill — Restaurant in Alexandria

This was a nice stand alone restaurant near a retail strip. The interior was pretty plush but retro experience with padded vinyl booths in a kinda of cream butterscotch colour.

My waiter was very attentive to all my needs and requirements. Salsa and chips were the usual default quality and flavour profile. Basket 🧺 was a little on the small side as was the tiny dip bowl 🥣.

The sizzling skillet although hot was missing most of the audible sizzling associated with the experience. The side plate with the rice and beans was fine and gaucamole was decent the pico de gallo was close to being non existent. The portions on the skillet were below average when compared to the 600 plus mexican restaurants I have eaten fajitas at especially since they were charging a premium price at over 18 dollars before tax or tip. Not only that the pop / soda at over 4 dollars once you add tax.

The meal was mediocre , the service was excellent but with the food being priced beyond what it was means I won't be returning, unless either the prices reflect what you get or the quantity and quality improve.

The meal at 28 dollars USD or in my case 39 dollars once converted to Canadian. This price includes taxes plus 20 % gratuity.

It means this cost me 2 days out of my food budget. Tomorrow I will be having a noodle bowl 🍜 in the truck to get...

Not sure if we hit a bad day, reading other reviews we did not experience the same service. Got seated quickly but no server fo 15 minutes after we were seated. Then they wanted to know if we were ready to order, no drinks so we asked if we could get drinks first which was a big mistake. Over 5 minutes later we got our beers and were able to order. They had 6 tables with customers.

Our food showed up just over an hour after we ordered, no one checked to see if we needed more drinks or even to say hey we are short today sorry about the wait. No additional customers came in so we have no idea why they are painfully slow. Didn't see a server again so when finished we went to go find a server.

The restaurant is very clean, fresh chips, they have a spicy salsa you can ask for that is good, and the prices are very reasonable. The food was good but not worth the very poor and slow service.

We will have to try again but if the service is the same I doubt we would try again no mater how well...

We are visiting Alexandria from out of town. We chose this restaurant because we wanted to avoid big chains and try something local. The chips and salsa were really good. The wait time to be seated, take our order, and get our food was ok. The food just wasn't what we hoped it would be. It was very salty and just didnt taste good. My daughter found a rubber band in her enchilada and all they said was oops, must have fallen off the bag of chicken. They offered to make something different, but she was grossed out enough not to want a different meal. We were not offered any kind of discount on her meal. We're glad we tried, but we will not return to Rancho Viejo on our future visits...