Bernardo’s Burritos — Restaurant in Des Moines

Image the mixture of a classic American building, a small basement location around the corner from Court Avenue, and Mexican food.

Sounds like a winning combination, huh? Not so much.

Rather, Bernardo's Burritos is a mixture of an overpriced menu and underwhelming food, (cold, sans flavor) served on bent, banged-up metal pans by two annoyed, and soon to be gratuity-free women who'd rather be anywhere else than behind the counter performing a reasonable facsimile of customer service.

The century old building deserves high quality establishments, not bad jokes.

Additionally, the bad vibes prevented anyone in my party from ordering a drink from the bar.

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Terrible, don’t waste your time or money here. Their carne asada isn’t seasoned well, tastes bland the quesadilla was weak and soggy with hardly any filling. The chips and queso are the only thing decent.

So for the soggy burrito, floppy quesadilla and chips and queso was over $43 before tip because they charge extra for almost everything and it’s $4 for an extra scoop of meat. You could get better from Pancheros for half the price. Do yourself a favor and go to the east side and find a taco truck.

P.S. Establishment looked clean but I’m 99% sure the little black seed looking things on the counter were mouse turds… So...

Absolutely stupendous. I've spent a lot of time eating burritos, tacos, etc..in the Mission, San Francisco. These burritos are the equal of old school Farolito's be the 24 th Street BART station in the Mission. In the middle of Des Moines. Bravo! What meat? Yeah, yeah, yeah, chicken, blah.... I'm sure it's great, but if carnitas is an option I'm trying the pork. And it was glorious. Above highly recommend. Go to this place. Stop thinking your gonna find...