Los Antojitos Restaurant & Bar — Restaurant in North Attleborough

We come to Los Antojitos all the time — Sunday brunch, dinner, evening drinks, Taco Tuesday, Cinco de Mayo. Yes, all the time, like 3-4 times a month. This is a great local option for real Latin food in North Attleboro, and I grew up in Central America and have traveled all over Mexico, Spain, the Caribbean and Central and South America.

The vibe is friendly, food is good (and will be made to order if you ask it for how you like it), the owners are great people, the tequila selection is enormous and outstanding, and the service is almost always solid, and has consistently gotten better. It is a small, family owned neighborhood restaurant — ten seats at the bar, perhaps twenty five to thirty at the tables. If you come at a busy time, it might take a little time for your food to come — have another margarita, Paloma libre or a Don Julio on the rocks. If you go on Cinco de Mayo, well, it’s going to be a little nuts. Again, it is a small, family establishment.

Don’t expect Taco Bell or Rancho Chico — this is real Latin American food (somewhat Mexican, somewhat Central American) and drink made with real ingredients. If you like your tacos or your Bloody Maria spicy, ask for them spicy, “no really spicy.” If you want it more authentic, talk to your server about how you had it that time you were in Mexico City or San Salvador or San Juan. Keep in mind, the cook/bartender doesn’t know how you want it unless you ask, and is otherwise cooking/mixing to the average North Attleboro/American palate and trying to keep it accessible for everyone.

The street tacos are solid (I do wish the chorizo tacos were a little more flavorful — go with the chorizo chunks, not the ground chorizo), the yuca con chicharrón is awesome (the way they do it now — please keep them authentic!), the seafood a la tequila is great, the tortilla chips are fresh and the salsas (pico, red, green, extra spicy — just ask) are excellent (please keep them authentic and consistent as well!), and the weekend brunch options are a welcome change of pace from eggs and bacon (not that I don’t love eggs and bacon). The Paloma libre is my favorite drink, but the wife loves the bloody Maria, the Patronic, etc., and you can’t go wrong with a nice tequila on the rocks.

Love this place, and so glad it is part of our...

What happened to this place? I used to think Los Antojitos in Attleboro was worth stopping into, but the last couple of visits have been nothing short of a slow-motion train wreck. My most recent experience sealed the deal—I won’t be back.

We ordered a carne asada bowl, and what came out looked like it had lost a fight with a blowtorch. The steak was charbroiled well past appetizing, blackened and bitter instead of tender and flavorful. Before that even hit the table, they brought the wrong order entirely—a burrito—and when we politely pointed out the mistake, our server gave us an attitude like we were the problem. No apology, no ownership, just a dismissive vibe that made the whole thing even worse.

This isn’t just a one-off bad night, either. The last visit was just as unimpressive—bland, forgettable food at best—and I left telling myself maybe it was an off day. But two strikes in a row, both with high prices and mediocre execution, is all I need to know this place has gone downhill.

Downtown Attleboro is not exactly crawling with great dining options, so when a spot like this lets standards slip, it’s frustrating. The menu prices are inflated to a level where you’d expect consistent quality, solid service, and food that justifies the bill. Instead, you get a gamble—sometimes edible, sometimes overcooked, sometimes the wrong dish altogether—and lately, you also get a side of attitude.

Restaurants live and die on consistency and hospitality, and right now Los Antojitos has neither. I can forgive a kitchen mistake. I can even forgive an off day. What I can’t forgive is the combination of burned food, wrong orders, unfriendly service, and a check that makes you feel like you just paid top dollar for the privilege of being disappointed. This was once a place I’d recommend. Now it’s a place I’ll warn...

The only reason this restaurant deserves even a single star is because their food was good. Actually, let me rephrase that, their nachos were good (considering I had to leave before we even got to order dinner). We waited 45 minutes to receive our nachos. Never once did the waitress come by to ask to fill our drinks when they were empty even though she passed us several times and looked directly at our table. We get our nachos with no drink refills (someone placed them on our table so fast they didn’t give us a chance to ask for refills!). We ate the whole appetizer with absolutely no napkins and were only given two plates, when there were in fact three people. The menus were never taken off the table, which irked me because they were sticky and dirty. I eventually had to call the manager over to get napkins and drink refills after we FINISHED our nachos (still no waitress). By the time she DID come back over, we asked to order our dinners and just get our dinners to go and get the check. No way was I waiting in that place for another minute. Nor was I interested in being ignored for the duration of our dinner, forced to enjoy it with potentially no drink again. Let me add.... there were two women standing near the kitchen holding pens with aprons on (appearing to be servers) just STANDING THERE doing absolutely nothing but talking. We watched a waitress come out of the kitchen and drop a basket of chips on the floor. The two women with mysterious roles simultaneously looked at the chips fall on the floor and continued to talk as if it dint happen. Which reminds me.... our table was never greeted with chips and salsa like other random tables...