Cocina Michoacana Oakdale — Restaurant in Oakdale

Disaster: ordered pitcher strawberry margaritas that were bitter and made my girlfriend physically sick three times on way home. Received credit on bill for pitcher! Ordered $38 special bowl for two; meat was tough and dry; waitress asked if we wanted flour or corn tortillas and I replied both since it was a bowl for two! She didn't say extra charge because only two tortillas per bowl for two!!! Ordered chicken fajitas with flour tortilla; chicken very dry; vegetables ok. Beans on small plate; sour cream on small plate; fajitas on metal pan; asked for plate to eat off. Only plate with $38 special bowl for two was plate covered with rice and beans; no serving plates. Special bowl is very soup like and should be served with two bowls, hence food for two!!!! Asked for dinner plates which should have come with $38 bowl for two! Waitress never brought dinner plates and I had to go to counter and request dinner plates! Bill: OUTRAGEOUS CHARGED $2 for two dinner plates each and $1 extra for corn tortillas. $1 for dinner plate for fajitas; $4 for ice tea glass! $38 special bowl for two people comes with only two tortillas and no dinner plates; fajita plate comes with no dinner plate! Since when do restaurants charge $2 for dinner plate? We need to eat off table???? Special bowl for two should have at least four tortillas!! Waitress said look at menu " split plate charge $2". Since when is a two people $38 special bowl considered a one dinner plate meal???? Refused to pay the bill until they removed all those extra charges and asked for manager. NO MANAGER CAME!! A male customer from the bar came to our table and told our waitress he would pay our bill then he turned to us and said she's good friend of mine and I don't want her to be responsible for this bill!! Since when does a manager not respond to customer request for conversation???? The extra charges were not justified; they clearly state "split menu charge". $38 meal for two should provide dishes and tortillas for two!!! I paid for the fajitas and refused to pay $38 special bowl for two unless manager came. No manager!! We always dine at Javi's in Oakdale and Modesto but thought we would try some place new. NEVER AGAIN! If owners want local business they need to be willing to talk to locals. This place is...

Best fajitas I have had in my whole both in terms on quantity and taste! Whatever we get served for fajitas anywhere in Europe cannot be compared to this. They offer lots of options but we went for the chicken fajitas as they also had an special offer on that day. Prices are really good and the location is perfect for those traveling between Yosemite and San Francisco.

Only two slightly negative aspects: the outdoor seating area was nice but right next to the highway, therefore quite noisy and the service was good but maybe since we were outside and the had less staff during a week day we were not attended by the waitress as often as we would have liked.

Make sure you stop there on your way...

We haven't been here in such a long time and I don't know why. We've always had a good experience, and this time wasn't much different. We both got pasole 🤤 and I got a mega margarita (which was probably a bad idea- SO MUCH LIQUID 😅), and an a la cart quesadilla. Everything was really good, the margarita was delicious, my only real complaint is that the quesadilla was $8 and it was one medium sized tortilla (like the big soft taco ones) folded in half and cut into two pieces. Kind of a rip off for $8, in my opinion. Aside from that it was good overall it will definitely be...