Cafe Rio Fresh Modern Mexican — Restaurant in Bakersfield

Edit: 5 stars is now going down to 2. The last two experiences we had here were pretty awful, and I feel like this place may be going down hill which is a real bummer. Last time we went, the guy got my burrito correct but then completely messed up my boyfriends. Gave us the wrong meat and hotsauce but since it was already made I just switch burritos with my boyfriend. We got charged for steak even though we really got chicken. Alright no big deal, things happen. Tonight we went again and did a to go order. If I was rating it off one experience today would be a one star review. We ordered our normal two burritos and got the side of queso. His burrito got the normal enchilada style ($1) but mine they put green sauce on it (bf thinks the ran out of red sauce and decided to just change it). I'm not a fan of green sauce but I don't hate it. The green sauce they smothered my burrito in was AWFUL. My bf who eats everything even said it was disgusting. Literally gave that to the dogs (just the inside). So I thought I'd just eat chips and queso then. The queso tasted like old rubber/plastic. We were so disappointed because we had it before and it was amazing. There were literally old chunks of dried up cheese in it that looked like the scrapped the very bottom. So we wasted $16 on food we wouldn't eat, and my bf ate his burrito while I snacked on food from home. Our total was about $31 and it was our date night. I really don't think I will be going back for a long time, and if there's another bad experience then never again.

Original: Prices are high (for two we usually spend $25) but it's worth it, especially because their signs indicate they treat and pay their employees well. I'm always willing to pay more knowing an establishment treats their workers...

Came here for taco Tuesday with a $5 off coupon they sent in the mail. Came around 6pm and it was packed, line almost out the door. Took about 15 minutes to get up to finally start ordering. Place is very clean inside and the employees all seemed energetic. The food options seem a bit limited and the prices are fairly high for what you get as what others have said.

The food itself is pretty good at least the steak and pork tacos were. And the rice and beans.

Got 4 tacos altogether, 1 vegetarian, 1 fire grilled chicken, 1 fire grilled steak, and 1 sweet pork. The pork was the best in my opinion and my girlfriend said the vegetarian one and chicken were both very good, the chicken has a Smokey flavor as well. Also get the lettuce on the side, they put way too much in the tacos for how big they are haha.

Virtually everything costs extra , sour cream is $.59, avocado is 2$, rice and beans are 2$ if your entre doesn't come with them.

All in all if we had to pay full price for what we got I wouldn't be that happy.

They do give you a lot of chips and dip. The dip is mostly tomatoes with some spicy stuff in it.

The drink bar is pretty awesome and gives you tons of choices and options with some in house flavors :D

Overall plan to spend a little more than you prolly want too but it will be pretty good.

I took pictures of everything so...

My review is not about there for my review is about the job interviews. My daughter was scheduled for a job interview at 9:20 AM on a Tuesday today she went in at one of the ladies were kind of rude told her it’s taco Tuesday for preparing for the tacos and was bluntly rude when she told her she had an interview at 9:20 for the job she has her we don’t do interviews 2to4 I wanna do interviews and she was verified confirmed of her job interview at 9:20 this morning. The staff is rude when doing an interview I didn’t even give her one and they hurt her feelings and I shouldn’t schedule interviews if they’re not gonna give the interview at your scheduled time for your schedule day, and when I called and talk to the manager, the manager was wildly rude to me. I think they just charged my daughter on her looks But she wore black shoes, black pants, and a white shirt for the job interview. She had no color in her hair nothing I think they just looked at her and pushed her away. They are not very polite. People and my daughter will never reply with this...