Los Jacales Mexican Restaurant — Restaurant in Laredo

I’ve been a regular here for years. I’ve been eating here since I was 8 years old. I would even say that this has been my favorite place because of the carne ranchera tacos.

Now, I understand the challenges of Covid. I also understand businesses must be careful. And we’ve been very careful since this started. And I was being careful this morning. But what I don’t understand is why I’m being forced to wear a mask while I stand outside a business, while I am standing six feet away from the little pickup window and I am barely uttering four words. Now, I know some would think… better to be careful. And yes, I agree which is why I stood where I stood and hardly spoke. But, when the restaurant has forty to fifty people inside the restaurant having normal conversations, sharing funny stories, saying hello to their friends at other tables in the enclosed dining area unmasked… careful is a bit of a stretch (which is why I don’t go inside). Maybe instead of trying to make me wear a mask while outdoors, they should just place chairs outside their little window so we could be treated normally like those inside.

Since I wouldn’t put on their mask while I was distanced outside, I couldn’t get my order. I just canceled it and left. There are other restaurants I could go to that are not so far away that don’t force mask wearing “outside.”There’s also a bunch of new restaurants I’ve been meaning to try anyway. Thank you for decades...

We came from Austin, to do an errand in Nuevo Laredo. we wanted real mexican food, But we wanted to be out of the busy border so we decided to eat in the USA side, we thought because of the name Los Jacales Mexican Restaurant, this was it but nope it was not.

Food is pricey, everything had no flavor, chips were very greasy, my husband asked for breaded chicken and it was from a bag and when they cooked it it was hard. The only thing we like was the salsa de chile seco rojo.

If you are looking for real mexican food, this is NOT the place!

I gave it 1 star because of the salsa de Chile seco, that was good...

Never been to Jacales but hell no I will not be going back. The soup de res tasted like it was from the can but if u add lime it does a lil better, their signature dish carne ranchera was disgusting the meat was grey, and smoked and it looks like a salsa but it’s gravy with no flavor and thick I wanted throw up, the meat was sus. The beans are just boiled like at home, the rice was plain and no flavor. The hamburger steak was passable that should be their signature dish, boxed potatoes. If you have dietary restrictions or no taste buds, go to jacales. Insult to injury we had to pay...