Tampico Grill — Restaurant in Laurel

My husband and I love to go here for lunch. We live nearby and rarely go out for lunch because the demands of our work are such that we usually just eat at our desks. So when we do eat out, and we choose this place instead of many other good lunch options also nearby, you can be sure it is because we really like the food.

I am not a gourmet, so this is a "regular person" review. The food here is really good. In particular, I like the cheese enchiladas. The restaurant uses quality, unprocessed cheese in them, and plenty of it. I don't think I've ever finished my entire plate of enchiladas, rice and beans, because the portion sizes are a bit too much for me. For comparison, I'm a middle-aged woman. However, my husband sometimes takes home leftovers too, and he's a guy who goes to the gym more days than not.

Since I love the cheese enchiladas so much I never stray, I don't know about other entrees firsthand, but my husband has ordered a wide variety of dishes and liked all of them. Beef fajitas were available particular favorite, but on the whole, the kitchen did a good job with everything.

I do not care for food being at all spicy. The kitchen had a lot of sauce options. I always get the most mild option, and I think even little kids afraid of spiciness would be fine with it, but I think there are something like five "hotter" options. Our daughter loves very, very spicy food, and she loves this restaurant also.

We've also brought several people from church and work here. It is not a fancy place that will impress people with how much you paid, by the way, but it is close to the big main Laurel post office. If you have postal errands to run - in our case, dropping off a big mailing of heartfelt, if modest, gifts to people who generously had donated to charity - you may find, as we did, that colleagues who want lunch are happy to join you here afterward. Every colleague or friend we've brought here seems to have liked it a lot.

The place has a full bar. We haven't had extensive experience with it, since we usually are there for lunch, but we have tried their margarita, and...

Don't let the good ratings deceive you like they did me. This was my first and last time at Tampico Grill. The service was subpar even lower than that. Firstly, neither of the employees could tell me what was inside their burritos (Vague description on the menu)...red flag #1 However, I gave them the benefit of the doubt. I waited about 40min to an hour for 1 burrito. A normal person probably would've left, but I had already made the trip there, and I was hungry. To my disappointment & after the long wait, when I got home I realized they did not fill my order correctly. I don't know what they gave me, but it was some watered-down, messy arrangement of food. On top of that, it had black beans. The waiter had asked me if I wanted fried pinto beans or black beans, and I told him pinto beans. I'm not sure if they just filled the order incorrectly or if they mixed my order with someone else's, but they handed this order to me where I was sitting. How do you mess up an order for a single burrito? Btw this was not even a burrito bowl because when I called and brought it to their attention, the women asked if it had avocado, lettuce, cilantro, onions, & pico de gallo. It had none of those things so this was a completely different order. I was told I would get a call back, well no one has called me back. I gave them the chance to fix it and they chose to ignore me. Please take caution before patronizing this business. You may end up wasting your time and money or even getting sick. Not to mention the lack of proper food handling and hygiene. The cashier who had been handling money was also serving lettuce and sides out of an open container. Also, neither her nor the cook who I could see through the kitchen window had proper hair covering, so it's a wonder people found hair in their food...disturbing, to...

I took my 9 month old son here for some good authentic Mexican. We arrived and was greeted and sat at a table. It seemed to be one guy doing all the order taking for both dining in and take out orders. Needless to say he was busy. I had an eager to eat child. We love guacamole 🥑 and so I ordered some and I made sure to ask if it had any spicy peppers because it said on the menu it had Serrano mixed in. I just said put any spicy peppers on the side. The waiter said there weren’t any spicy peppers and even asked me to show him on the menu. Well my son began screaming once he ate it. We eat Mexican/ guacamole all the time. I found the waiter and asked him to bring some water quickly. And he said that’ll be one moment and I said there’s no way I can wait one moment. I NEED it now. My son is screaming bloody murder because it’s spicy. I also received a very tiny cup of guacamole for $10. I was rather disappointed.

The poor waiter was inundated, and I felt bad that he seemed to be the only one working to take orders and deliver orders, etc. However, I then asked for some beans thinking that would help my son and some sour cream. However, once I gave him the beans, they were also very peppery. Well my little boy was 100% over at that point and I chose to get the check and leave. All the waiter did was apologize. I still was charged the guacamole and I paid the $10 and walked out. my fiancé and I have eaten Mexican all across the United States. This is probably one of the worst experiences I have ever had. Personally, I love spicy, but my nine month old isn’t quite there yet.

I will say the salsa is good but no need to put the raw tomatoes in there as an...