We’ve been to Panchos a while ago and enjoyed it. However, last night we were super disappointed and will not be returning. We went pretty early and the restaurant wasn’t crowded. We sat outside and first thing my brother ordered a diet Coke that came from the fountain. It was flat and it tasted terrible like there was Mr Clean in it. The waiter than bought us a can of diet Coke, which, obviously was an improvement. I then ordered a margarita with Patron Silver. It was $17 and it was terrible. Clearly they used some kind of lime substitute, not fresh lime. The drink just had a really off taste and was awful. $17 for fake lime juice come on and when I brought it up to the manager I was told that a regular margarita is different then a skinny margarita which would include real lime juice and agave syrup. Seriously ?!?! I’m from New York City as well as being a professional chef myself, don’t hand me a line about real margaritas in Jersey. We ordered some guacamole for the table and we waited almost an hour to get it. We waited over an hour to get our food and I sent mine back. I ordered a chicken and shrimp fajita and it tasted like somebody dumped a ton of cayenne in the food. It was way too spicy to even eat as well as being terribly over cooked. My brother and his wife both ordered the steak fajitas and both of theirs came on a regular plate not even on a sizzling platter and their food was not hot at all. The steak was tough as shoe leather. It’s not hard to make a decent margarita or even just fresh grilled chicken/shrimp/steak and vegetables to roll up in a tortilla with some beans and rice. I’d rather stay home and make my own margarita and fajita because I am getting so fed up with things being outrageously expensive and not even being edible. The only good thing I have to say about the restaurant is they took the drink and my dish off the bill. But my brother and his wife still paid over $100 for their food. Frankly I don’t care how much I pay when I go out to eat. I understand the price of food and dining out. But when I’m paying $17 for a margarita that taste like somebody made it with Lysol and a generic imitation lime juice and the food isn’t even as decent as Taco Bell, no, we are not going back. I don’t understand how restaurants think that they are going to continue to survive charging these kind of prices for sub par food and service. Sorry Panchos but every single margarita that you serve in that restaurant should have fresh lime juice at $17 a pop I don’t care what kind of margarita it is. Frankly, the fact that you would even serve a margarita like that for $17 tells me all I have to know about your restaurant and the quality of everything there.