Taqueria Pelayo Mexican Food — Restaurant in Lava Hot Springs

Interesting method of service, food isn’t bad, no high chairs for little ones:

I am genuinely not a fan of the counter service they have. They had 3 girls working the counter and maybe helping in the back? It wouldn’t have been bad for them to serve the tables given that’s the atmosphere the restaurant presents.

Food was average; not bad but weirdly not the tastiest Mexican food we’ve ever had. The food seemed to lack seasoning… which is a first because most Mexican food we’ve had is well seasoned. We got the Verde Burrito and the Quesabirria… both of which desperately needed more flavor. The dipping sauce/soup the quesabirria came with was watery and simply tasted like a watered-down broth. The green sauce tomatillo sauce saved the dishes and gave them a little more flavor… although I feel like the sauces from the salsa bar could be tastier. They seemed to run flat but spicy (interesting of a sauce to be flat yet spicy). Something was missing… perhaps salt and some other kind of seasoning to enhance the flavor.

They don’t have high chairs for toddlers and kids… which really threw me off. Their excuse was that someone once threw one off the balcony so now they don’t carry them anymore. I don’t understand what ill reasoning this is but if someone threw a chair off will you stop having chairs for the rest of your customers?

Besides all this I did like the restaurant itself, but they could do a little much better...

Been awhile since I was forced to make a Bad review. But here we go, So I am a Bus Driver, brought 25 Track kids to the water slides and decided to find a restaurant to sit and eat. Saw a cute mexican food restaurant and decided to dine their first. Beautiful, Clean, well put together place. Nice salsa bar. Ordered two chicken tacos, and one carne asada taco. The order came out. Never seen chicken that look like mashed potatoes soaked in some red sauce. But I figured, can't go wrong with mexican food. Until I tried it, and it was disgusting. I asked if I can exchange for another asada taco. And I was told. " we can't use that taco, and we will not replace ". where do they do they do that? Bad service Bad food. Will NEVER...

I’m so glad we have a sit down Mexican restaurant now! Full salsa bar with roasted jalapeños and spicy carrots, a nice menu with many offerings. We ordered the Mexican enchilada with red, white, and green sauce. It was large and full of chicken, rice and beans with fresh greens on top. I added cilantro and onions from the salsa bar, too. We also got the Fajita burrito which had nice grilled chicken and veggies. The horchata to drink was the best I’ve had- finally one that isn’t gritty! They call out your number over a speaker that sounds like it’s from the Peanuts (wah-wah-wah-huh?!) so stay close after ordering if you sit outside, food comes out...