El Olmeca Mexican Restaurant — Restaurant in Huntsville

This is probably a great place to eat 364 days out of the year. However, DON'T go here on Cinco de Mayo. I just returned from lunch with my daughter, up from school for the semester, and wanted a dining experience. A nice, memorable dining experience. What I got was a rushed, undesirable one. Our waiter, whom I had to ask his name, was Antonio, and is probably a great waiter on normal business days. Today, he was anything but. We waited a good bit of time for our food, there was no bean dip served with the salsa and chips like usual, and we weren't given refills of anything or even asked if we needed anything. I realize this is probably their busiest day of the year but regardless, I suggest maybe a staffing increase. Our food was OK, nothing great and was overcharged for adding shrimp to my fajitas without being told of the price increase, I believe to increase the total bill. I tip great regardless but I was left very unimpressed by the entire visit. Nobody smiled, all the staff seemed pressured and no personality whatsoever. I've eaten here before and received good food and service so maybe they were all just overwhelmed with the crowd. A suggestion to the owner would be to go on a wait until the waiters are able to competently wait on their customers. Another bit of advice would be to remind the staff that friendliness and a smile...

I love El Omeca!! It’s my favorite Mexican restaurant in this area! All the food I’ve tried is delicious, margaritas are fabulous, the wait staff and hostess are always polite and efficient. Tonight was my first experience ordering take out. I wanted nachos and I wanted good nachos so I immediately thought of El Omeca. I easily placed my order online and picked it up. Everything went smoothly and I guess my order was right? I have never ordered nachos from here before. I just assumed they would be good and yes they were okay. I was under the impression that nachos automatically came with lettuce, tomato and sour cream at least. But I got beef nachos and they came with beef and cheese on chips. That’s all. I paid close to 12.00 for beef and cheese? I wouldn’t have an issue paying that price and didn’t have an issue paying that price before getting order when I thought lettuce, tomato and sour cream would also be part of it. I don’t mind spending money at el Omeca and have plenty of times and will continue. I just no not to order nachos cause for beef and cheese on chips, I don’t feel as if my 12.00 was well spent here like I always have before. I originally had 3 stars but gave an extra star since every time before I’ve been here-I haven’t ever felt I wasted money and was always satisfied and excited about my...

We stopped here for dinner for our first time. Mexican can really vary, but this is kind of what I consider standard Tex Mex in most states I have had Mexican in. This isn’t a bad thing, but it’s not my favorite type of Mexican, although a lot of people love it. So take this rating with that in mind.

Chips and salsa were good. Salsa was more acidic than I am used to, but that was a good thing. I like varying types of salsa. They came with some beans too and these were probably my favorite part of the meal.

My wife had some nachos and she really liked them. If she did reviews, she probably would have rated the place a 4. She didn’t say anything about it, but the lettuce on her nachos seemed pretty steamed and wilted when she got them. That would have been a big no no for me.

I had the enchiladas suiza. The green sauce was good and the chicken was ok on its own, but close to blandish. Kind of middle of the road enchiladas for me. The beans were good. The rice was a bit mushy and not for me.

The place was decorated well and our server was great however. I mean, give it a shot as my tastes differ and my wife...