Jalisco Restaurante — Restaurant in Fort Lauderdale

Jalisco Mexican & Spanish Restaurant has been serving Fort Lauderdale for many years. Today was our first ever visit. We have been thinking of going but never made it happen. Possibly because not being sure of the menu.

We went very early in the evening a little before 5 pm. The restaurant and the people were very inviting. There were other tables of people. They offer a lunch special menu that serves until 3:30 pm.

Our server greeted us and was fantastic throughout the dining experience. The menu is full of offerings from traditional Mexican to Spanish dishes and even American standard items. There was an extensive drink menu.

The server brought us a basket of Tortilla chips and 2 salsas - spicier and other sweeter. We both had a cup of the chicken soup with rice. It was packed with shredded chicken and vegetables in a good chicken broth. For entrées I had the chicken Enchilada Suizas and the other entrée was chicken Sizzling Fajitas.

All was very good and comforting. The restaurant and food was very reminiscent of a good hometown Mexican restaurant. Oh, the prices were very reasonable.

If you have not been to Jalisco it is time to definitely give them a try. Looking forward to going back to...

I feel kind of bad writing this review but I feel I must. 5 years ago a friend of mine told me he’d seen a live roach in his booth at this place so I vowed to never eat here and didn’t for 5 years! However, I kept hearing from others that the fajitas were incredible. Thinking the problem was obviously fixed I gave them one more chance. Upon seating down and ordering, I saw a dead roach under the table next to ours. At this point I was alarmed but had already ordered and so far the appetizers he had had been very very good so I chose to believe I was an isolated incident and that the fumigation was obviously working…. Not even 10 minutes went by.. I was finishing my food (which was spectacular) and saw the largest (LIVE) cockroach I’ve seen in years right next to me, crawling by the wall. I freaked out, screamed and ran away. The waitresses were very nice and understanding..(hence the 2 stars) I came home feeling sick.. needless to say I will sadly...

I came here tonight cause when I was looking for restaurants this one looked good, ,even though it was almost a half hour from me, my son brought me as an early Valentine gift since he works during the week, I ordered the bigger chimichanga that cost more than the smaller one and told the waitress Only meat and cheese and she repeated it back to me and asked for queso to dip it, what I got was the big chimichanga loaded with rice, tomato, lettuce and stuff, but I didn’t send it back, I just stuck with it, and pulled the stuff out to just eat the meat and cheese, what really upset me was when I asked for alittle more queso the waitress told me she couldn’t give it to me that I was lucky I got the first one. Really? If I sent my food back they would of been out more money wasting all that food instead of just giving me alittle side of queso. As you see on the receipt it says only meat and cheese. Yet they...