Cafe Rio Fresh Modern Mexican — Restaurant in Palmdale

I used to come here regularly. I really love Café Rio food every other café Rio has been very lovely. I came On Sunday 07/13/25, I noticed that the employee has an attitude. And was making little comments, seem to have a lot of issues going on and made it very obvious he was having a upsetty Spaghetti day. Acting like a child, with an attitude. He didn’t even bother, handing me my food across the counter or my receipt. I had to reach over the counter to get my stuff.And I get it I’ve worked a minimum wage job and I know that it can be a pain, but this man needs to get his stuff together. I’m ordering and get my food, I mean, noticing that the guacamole that I am paying an extra two dollars for Is brown. I go home about maybe six hours later, I begin to develop food poisoning symptoms. I am vomiting, and I am having very harsh stomach pain, Nauseous, and I feel very upset with my meal. Honestly, I really don’t feel safe right now because I ate pork from this place. I genuinely do feel uncomfortable and I don’t know if I should go to a hospital. I will be reaching out tomorrow. I would never normally do this, but I will be calling a manager because this is just absolutely ridiculous considering that a meal here...

Cafe Rio is a great place for in the go and for a sit down. They have outdoor seating under an awning. They are located in the same shopping center as Best Buy, Five Guys.

Whenever I come, I always get the salad and split it. It is UH-MAZE-INNNNNG! It's like a Chipotle style line, where they make it in front of you as you choose what you'd like in your salad, tacos, enchiladas, etc. I've only had the salad, which will literally knock your socks off! My salad includes lettuce, tomatoes, grilled chicken, cilantro, black beans, brown rice, feta cheese, pico de gallo, guacamole, (which isn't an additional cost, score!) a quesadilla under the salad and Oh My Lanta does it make it go MmMmMm! And the tastiest dressing you can think of! It has a cilantro, pepper flavor with a kick!

Run to Cafe Rio. They're delicious. Plus, they...

Good food, but slow, disinterested service. The person who put together our food was apparently not trained to run the till. He did not call anyone to run the till until a customer asked after we'd waited for more than two minutes.

I ordered a large mint limeade to drink, but that container was nearly empty, so I could only get 2 inches in my cup. I asked a worker to refill it, she said yes, then none of the 5 workers did anything, even though only one was actively serving customers. After about 5 minutes, I asked again and was told "in 10 minutes". 10 minutes later a worker refilled a different container. Another few minutes later, we had finished our food, so I asked for a refund on the price of my drink, which was given, and we left.

I wouldn't go back, and can't recommed this place with the...