Nachos & Beer — Restaurant in Asheville

We stopped here on our drive home from a hike. It was so cute- an old diner turned into a Mexican restaurant.

First try don’t tell you this but you get your own salsa at the salsa bar. Which brings me to my issue with this place. The food was good. The service was the worst service I have EVER had. My wife and I and our two kids came and were sat. We sat there for a long time while no one came up to our table. They kept looking at us and walking past us. Meanwhile the server assigned to us waited on every table around us. People that came in after us got drinks and orders and no one even acknowledged us. I finally flagged her down and ordered drinks and asked for chips. We sat there for a long time without getting drinks, I had to ask if they had salsa which then they pointed to a salsa bar. And this pretty much is how the entire time went. Our waitress never came to our table. She never brought us stuff. Ask for things when she was at our table she was rude. We watched her and she wa nice and a good server to everyone else. Just not us. I can only assume that this is because we were a same sex family because there is literally NO other reason for her to act like that and not acknowledge us. When we had our food there was a gnat in my rice. I finally got her to come to the table and I showed her and she said that’s not a bug. And so I put it on my napkin and showed her. She snatched the plate from me and walked off. Never said sorry, never offered another plate just walked off. She was the rudest and most unfriendly server I have had when she was actually at our table. It was pretty embarrassing because my kids noticed and pointed it and asked why.

We won’t be back...

EW EW EW. The lack of cleanliness is unacceptable. Got seated next to a big round table FULL of dirty dishes, with 5 flies crawling around the dishes. I tried to give the benefit of the doubt, maybe the table just got up, flies are hard to prevent, etc etc. However I saw a waitress remove dirty dishes from a table next to it, and PUT THOSE DIRTY DISHES WITH THE FLY COVERED PILE OF DIRTY DISHES ON THE ROUND TABLE. Was sitting for 10 minutes, without being seen, 5 different waitresses walked past us and the fly table, didn’t take our drink order OR clear the filthy table! Flies are hard to prevent, but my god if you cleaned the tables you’d have a better shot at keeping the place fly free. Never got drinks, never got chips, when I had two flies crawl on my legs that was it. Got up and left. If I could give zero stars I would. I’m sure the food is delicious based off these reviews but CLEAN YOUR TABLES! They were pretty busy so I’ll give them some benefit of the doubt, but they were no where near “too busy” to clean off a table in the 10-15 minutes I was sat there. Find a different restaurant and...

Every time I come here and it's not packed, I'm grateful but confused. Let's run it down:

FAST service, from cheerful people, with bean dip and chips (much better than the terrible salsa you get most places)

EXCELLENT food, and a lot of it. Every time I come here I bring half of it home, because they load you up.

INEXPENSIVE too. I always order a drink because I feel guilty getting that much food for that low a price.

It's extremely cute inside, with a 50s diner atmosphere. Beautiful covered patio, that is comfortable all summer with heaters in the winter.

The one MINOR note is is does often smell of fabuloso...but what good Mexican restaurant doesn't?

Food, service, atmosphere, portions, salsa bar, incredible prices. What the heck is wrong with you people? This place should be packed all the time. Do you like paying way more for worse food...