Salsas Restaurant — Restaurant in Cathedral City

Salsas Restaurant - Mediocre

After reading all the rave reviews, we thought we’d try out Salsas Restaurant (111 and Date Palm, Cat City). Before we even ordered, we had some serious doubts about this place. We almost left before being seated. If you like ultra bright coffee shop lighting, tables and decor coupled with a noise level so loud we couldn’t hear ourselves think, much less talk to one another, then this just might be your place. The service was friendly but rather slow considering how small the place is. Although Salsas touts their seafood lineup, I wanted to order the same standard dish I’ve eaten at countless Mexican restaurants here in SoCal, just to get a feel for how good their food is. (It’s not the specialties that make a solid restaurant, it’s how well they can do the basics.)

I ordered chicken enchiladas verde with beans and rice and a margarita to drink. Unfortunately, only one style of beans are offered here, the standard greasy refried type. Once the plate arrived, I was certainly surprised. Their version of this dish was placing three finger-diameter enchiladas stuffed with nothing but shredded chicken side by side, sprinkling a bit of Munster cheese over them and then trenching all three with a tasteless green sauce. It didn’t appear they’d even tried to bake the sauce and cheese onto the enchiladas! It was the most boring plate I’d been served in a long time. Ive bought better verde sauce out of a supermarket bottle. (Actually, they should have tried that. They’d have gotten better results.). Even the refried beans were absolutely tasteless! Just sort of pale, flesh-colored paste. The rice was serviceable and the “salad” that was supposed to come with the plate consisted of a tiny bit of shredded lettuce dropped on its corner, half a small tomato and a slice of cucumber. It was more like a plate garnish than a salad. Remember, this is all going on under interrogation strength lights and the din of the room.

Thinking well maybe my plate is a one-off (it can happen), I asked my husband how his food was. The same. Edible but CERTAINLY unremarkable. So we ate our food pretty much in silence (since we couldn’t hear each other anyway), paid the bill and left. I will say as positives, the three generations margarita was quite good and well worth the $9.00. And even with that one drink and two dinners, we still got out of there just under $40.00. So their pricing is not bad. But ya get what ya pay for.

If any of this sounds appealing to you, by all means please go for it. But for us, there’s just too many FAR superior, reasonably priced Mexican restaurants to choose from - even with a mile of this place. So I very seriously doubt we’ll be going back. But we tried it. Ya...

We were in the area and decided to stop here. It's a bit of a small restaurant. You had to walk by the kitchen to go to the restroom, share space with the waiters putting dirty dishes away. it was a little on the loud side. The chips looked homemade a little on the thick side, But good. the the salsa was good but Spicy. would be good if they add a mild salsa as well. The food was pretty good. I ordered Fajitas in new york little different and a sauce but they were good This way. We ordered a bean and cheese burrito with rice and beans for my six-year-old daughter. They charge use thirteen dollars for a burrito and three fifty for rice and additional three fifty for beans. They did not think about the customer on offer of kids mill option. Most other restaurants charged $7 or less for kids. Play overpriced, the menu said $28 for my fajita to charge me 24. We paid $80 for 3 meals and an alcoholic drink. The food was pretty good, but overall overpriced and the waitress took dishes away from us. Before we were done with them, she didn't ask if we were done. She assumed we were done and started taking them. I don't think we would go back here mainly because...

The best Mexican food I've probably had in my life.

I've eaten out a lot of times and my favorite is Mexican food. Of all the places I've eaten at in my life this place is the best. The food is so good that it by itself is the reason for the rating. That said, the prices are very high. The burrito in the picture below was seventeen dollars. For the four of us with margaritas it ended up being one hundred and sixty dollars including tip. Additionally, the service was below average, as the place is pretty busy and there doesn't appear to be enough staff to properly serve the customers. An example of this is that our food was brought to us in sections, meaning that while I had my food and so did my cousin, my brother's wife didn't get her food until around fifteen minutes later.

A third quirk is that if you want a burrito you have to look in the apetizer section. My go to for most mexican restaurants are for their big burrito and at first I thought they didn't serve them.

In spite of that though this place gets five stars for such an impressive...