Abelardo's Mexican Fresh — Restaurant in Ellisville

We’re here for lunch and a Saturday afternoon. We dined inside. First thing to know, the dining area is very small with six tables, 24 people can sit inside. This is an old Jack-in-the-Box converted to a new western style Mexican restaurant. Parking lot is a little bit crammed again a small space. There are two ordering kiosks touchscreens or you can order at a register. The menu is large with plenty of options.

We ordered a combination plate, a cheese, quesadilla, and a breakfast burrito with chorizo, an egg, and a side of queso. Prices were on car where they sit down Mexican restaurant, but this is fast casual Mexican food.

Food took about 10 minutes to get to our table. While we waited, they have self-serve chips and a salsa bar. My recommendation is to label all of the salsas because we had no idea which was spicy and which was not. The red salsa and green salsa was very good, the self serve chips come in a boat container with 4 to 5 chips, so we had to keep going back for more.

The food arrived fresh and hot. Our order was kind of correct, but instead of a cheese quesadilla, we got an upgraded steak quesadilla. The breakfast burrito had plenty of filling, and the chorizo inside had decent flavor. The steak quesadilla was just fine, a big portion. The combination plate with the tacos was also incorrect with the wrong meat, but we didn’t say anything because they are still working at the kinks as a new restaurant.. we paid three dollars for a small cup of queso, don’t really think it was worth that.

This place is fine. It’s a fast casual Mexican place, with a pretty overwhelming menu. I think will wait to go back because there’s nothing really that struck us as we have to go back. The price were also very high we thought…and on par with a more formal sit-down Mexican restaurant. I would rather go somewhere else...

I dined in. They have recently opened and have various problems not addressed yet. The ordering system, which is a touch screen where you order yourself, is very good. However, it didn't print me a receipt, as they let it run out of paper. The staff absolutely cannot speak a word of English so when I asked for the receipt, they had no clue what I was asking for and kept motioning for me to order using the touch screen. When they called my order number, I didn't know what it was, but fortunately, my family were the only people dining in the restaurant. I asked for some sauces, and they motioned for me to use the self-service sauce bar, but that also was completely out of sauces. They did notice that and provided me with sauce and began restocking the sauce bar. Same thing when I asked for straws and drink cups, they motioned for me to get them myself and I had to physically point out they were out of stock. The straws they gave us were three times too long for the cups and the cup lids were too small to fit on the cups. The food was very good. The portion of fries given was enough to feed 5 people. WE WILL...

About as plain as I've ever had .. and way over priced for the , non - special food ... when you're in between several Mexican restaurants, mi lupita, taco pits grill , el maguey... You better be special.. This was the most bland, unseasoned, boring Mexican food I have ever ate... Literally, I think they buy their ingredients from Schnucks or something...

Not to mention the fact, they got probably three things wrong on my order.. Come on, it can't be that hard.... So not only to waste money there the stuff that we did get was absolutely zero special... I mean, I can make Mexican food at home than this place.... And the chips were absolutely about as boring as you can get too .... For all of the hype, waiting for this place to open up and thinking it's gonna be good. It was a huge letdown.

Obviously people are posting that the food was good. I think people had such an anticipation of it being good. They're probably blinded by the fact that it Actually, kind of sucked... I hope they get it together .. that...