El Potrero Méxican Restaurant — Restaurant in Kearney

This place came as a recommendation from Axe Holes. I ordered the chicken fajita salad, and my daughter had the beef fajita. We also ordered the seafood rolls appetizer. Once seated, the waiter asked about drinks, and another staff member brought a HUGE bowl of chips with two small bowls of salsa. The appetizer was greasy and messy. We were not given small plates for this and dripped on our hands and table. I used my coffee plate as a plate. For comment only and not a negative sentiment: The fajita beef was actual beef and not steak. The tortillas were small and thin. The refried beans were very pale (not pinto) but tasty, according to my daughter. We did have trouble before ordering in finding out if the frijoles were made using pork fat. After three attempts and using Google translate to read it to our waiter, he found out the answer for us. The fajita salad was very flavorful, but the salad was lacking (maybe 1 cup of salad if I am being generous), 1/3 cup peppers/onion, and 3 oz of chicken). The taco shell remained crisp to the end and was well shaped. The dressing was delicious. The waiter was attentive to our drinks, but not the clearing of the table or the needed plates and additional napkins due to said lack of plates. There was a small language barrier, however, he did his best to answer...

Tonight was our 1st time going here and I would have to say it seemed like a lot of ppl like this place because there was a lot of groups compared to just me and my fiance, but we don't care to ever go back our waitrest seemed like she couldn't understand anything we where saying, I had to wait over 15 minutes to get a refill on my drink and my fiance had to get someone's attention to even get it, we both ordered something with shredded chicken in it and where surprised at the taste, maybe it was just us but our meals tasted like shrimp or like it was marinated with shrimp when I told my fiance that it tasted like shrimp he said "I was thinking the same thing" we even tried each others and still tasted shrimp, also he ordered a margarita first of all he asked for one of the new ones on the door advertisement but got a regular one and he said it had a lot of liquor and let's just say he can drink with the best of them so for him to say it was alot means it was strong asf, we where so disgusted by the taste of the food we didn't order shrimp so our chicken shouldn't have tasted like it. My beans and rice where good tbough. My Fiancé said that it wasn't worth the cost. Like I said it may have just been us because, it seemed like others didn't have a problem, but I doubt we will go back after...

I have had some of the best food and service ever here I have ever experienced. But, I have also had some of the worst food a service here that I have ever experienced. The last two times I visited the food was not good at all and the service was even worse. After asking for silverware multiple times and not receiving it well after the food arrived I finally got up and went to get the napkins and silverware for our table myself. The chips were very cold but it took so long to get our food that we ate them anyway. We asked for more chips but they never came, which is surprising given that we asked for them multiple times and it took about an hour for our food to finally come out. It was not a busy time of day and there seemed to be adequate staffing so I am not sure what the problem was. Our waiter was not very awake but even when we asked the person up front for silverware they never brought us any.

I might try going back in a year or two because when the have the right cook working an decent service they are one the best anywhere. But, most of the time they are...