Candilejas Restaurant — Restaurant in Midland

Flavors were ok, but I wouldn't call it authentic Mexican. First, the positives. Customer service is fantastic and their tamales are crave-worthy, especially with the queso sauce on top. Kids enjoyed their meals. Now for the not-so-positives. There are no prices on the menu, so you have no idea how much you're going to pay until you're up at the register. I was shocked at the price for 4 people plus a dozen tamales. The enchilada sauce tastes like it's straight from the can. They use ground beef in the tacos and (soggy) chile rellenos (not authentic Mexican - that's Tex-Mex) and it's not very well-seasoned. I'm from AZ, and "authentic Mexican" means something totally different to me. Honestly, I wouldn't even have bothered to leave a review except the price was so shockingly high. I can only think that they charged me menu price (there was none) for the tamales and have higher food prices than expected, but I guess that's my fault for not confirming the prices beforehand. Lesson learned. We...

The chips were light and fresh. The salsa was fresh and delicious. The queso was made fresh and delicious. The beans and rice, delicious. The tamales tasted like they had just been rolled and steamed. The taco is a fresh corn tortilla, filled from the bottom to the top with ground beef that is devine, then fried to perfection. The red enchilada sauce was perfect. The beef Chile rellano was... You guessed it delicious.

The wife's steak tacos were pilled with perfectly seasoned, tender meat and the fresh corn tortillas were unimaginably tender and tasty.

If you don't stop reading this right now and go here to eat you're a fool. If you didn't notice how many times I said fresh and delicious let me sum this place up for in three world. Fresh and delicious.

To top it all off our bill was only 25 bucks for so much food I could barely finish. Why are you still reading, you should be driving to...

Everything was fantastic!

I'm traveling with my mom and grandpa and we stopped in Midland. We looked for Mexican and there are many options that come up. We debated a couple places that came up, but at some point I came across this place and chose it. We were very lucky this place came up.

We all finished everything we ordered and commented on how good it was the whole way through.

My grandpa gets Chile Rellenos from every Mexican restaurant he goes to and he thought this was very likely the best he's had. My mom got Tacos Rancheros and said the steak was great. I got the Big Wet Burrito with shredded beef with queso on top, and I loved it. The salsa was great - good heat. Guacamole was great too.

We got lucky we chose the right place. Hope others...