Caramba Mexican Food — Restaurant in Phoenix

8 of the most horrible tastes I've ever experienced in my life. I wish google reviews had a way to give a couple of minus stars, so I could give this restaurant at least a -3⭐️'s. 1 star doesn't give my bad experience justice. So, here you go for those of you wanting to try something new like I did, Please do yourself a huge favor and DO NOT GO HERE! We wanted to eat something "good" and decided to try this restaurant (Bell location) by entering noticed a patio from the parking lot, as we got closer the tables were extremely dirty and dusty. Of course no one was sitting in that area. Saw cashier and a printed menu posted in the right side of the restaurant wall, menu screens were also available. The menu looked very extensive and somehow interesting with no pictures but decided to get surprised (I did, but in a horrible way) one of the signs says that everything was fresh and no cans and everything was supposed to be prepared to order. My husband wanted a "CARNE CON CHILE COLORADO BURRITO" (enchilada style) when cashier asked if we wanted chicken or beef, that was our first red flag. I know now I shouldn't keep ordering and just leave. Since the chile Colorado is known to always be beef chunks ONLY. Anyways! I kept ordering and I wanted a "Poblano chile relleno" I couldn't order it my way cause according to cashier and one of their cooks, the chile poblanos were already stuffed with rice, chicken and who knows what else. I didn't want the chicken or rice, first of all, who makes chiles rellenos of that? Secondly, remember the sign that said that "EVERYTHING IS FRESH"? well, that is definitely not true if they already have the chiles stuffed with all of that right? 🤦‍♀️, oh well... I decided to try their Anaheim chile relleno w/cheese, in the menu it says that they have the most delicious "spinach dip ever" (that's exactly how that part of the menu reads), so, I decided to try it too! We also ordered 2 chicken tacos and 1 al pastor taco for the rest of my family members. As for drinks, we got horchata which by the way was not even close to be fresh or homemade at all. We paid $60 for our order. They gave us our drinks and 3 plastic little plastic trays with no paper liners and half way of chips. I proceeded to get salsa from their salsa bar, that looked decent and had a variety of salsa options, the pico de Gallo salsa was horrible, extremely watery and no flavor at all which is very unusual because the ingredients are flavorful and there is no need for a "good recipe or secret ingredient" how can you ruin a pico de Gallo salsa? Wow! We got our order and let me tell you all: **Carne con chile Colorado burrito enchilada style was soooooooooooo bad, my husband trow it away as soon as ge tasted it, he asked me to taste it before just to make sure it was actually that bad and it wasn't only his imagination. So, I did. Guess what? They were not hunks of meat!! It was shredded bees with a horrible weird taste and the "chile colorado sauce" tasted amd looked more like mole than chile. Rice and beans tasteless. So he didn't eat it at all. **Chile relleno was decent flavor, but honestly you can't ruin a chile flavor, it should always be good, some more spicy than others because you can't control that but that's normal right? I had a hard time finding the actual chile since it was buried at the bottom of 3/4 of the plate was full of batter and salsa. **Remeber the spinach dip that supposed to be the best ever? Well, taste was "ok" nothing special but definitely not a dipit looked more like a broccoli soup that a dip.😱 **tacos were big and double tortilla but extremely dry and tasteless. 🤦‍♀️ Overall, I'll say We wasted our time and money going to this place👎👎👎. I will NEVER GO BACK OR RECOMMEND IT TO ANYONE, or maybe i will recommend to people I don't like? 🙃🤣🤣 please don't go to this place, Specially if you're Mexican because you will regret it. Like me... by the way, 95% of the customers that were there at the time i ordered, were not Mexican, then I understand the "good...

Dont blame the cook. Blame the recipies. Because, no matter how you cook any of this. Its going to taste terrible. I tasted four different dishes (chicken taco, caramba burrito, fish burrito, ""ceviche"" and a margarita) the ceviche is tomato sauce shrimp. Terrible.. that's not ceviche. Chicken taco came with beans and the rice was passable. But that taco came on what tasted like plastic topped with lettuce? Cabbage? I honestly couldn't tell you. No flavor at all. I tried putting salsa on it. All the salsas taste like they come from a jar. No flavor except for that slimy taste that they all have in common... other than that. . They taste like nothing. . Just terrible. The limes were all sour as in they were slightly past due ... . They should of been thrown out. But you can't tell unless you taste one out of the batch. Because they look normal. The curamba burrito is huge. But.... what am I eating????????? I wouldn't be able to identify it if my eyes were closed when I took a bite. It doesn't taste like anything.... just mush.. And last but not least but equally terrible. the fish burrito... . It didnt even taste like fish.. It comes with pico that is mostly No tomatoe, no jalapeno, mostly cabbage and well that's it... the mayo wasn't even mayo.. maybe I'm used to best foods mayo.. but when ever I touched the mayo all that I would get is some greasy residue that stayed on my finger no actual mayo.. I had to scoop it if I wanted it to stay on my finger. So, the margarita. Its tequila for sure. Some kind of terrible/cheap tequila it'll get you drunk if that's what your looking for. But as in a drink for dinner. . . .I would like some real tequila or maybe tequila to me is just something not so cheap. The taste was off. The Employees were nice. But, WHO IN THIS CHAIN RESTAURANT IS IN CHARGE OF THESE TERRIBLE RECIPES WITH THESE TERRIBLE INGREDIENTS? ? I wouldn't...

I wanted this place to be 5 stars based on other reviews It a 3.6 from me I rounded up and thats generous.

The inside is big and they have a patio with misters also. It's take out counter style. I ordered a Carne asada burrito. unfortunately the cashier talked so fast I didn't understand her at all even after asking her to repeat herself. I guess I got the default mode on the burrito.

Menu is a lot to look at.

They did give a bowl of chips which I appreciate. It helped me to taste the salsas. Unfortunately the pico de gallo was a little bit fermented. the other salsas lacked heat and spice and didn't do much for me. Just tasted off I can't place it. one tasted like plain tomato soup. why have so many different salsas just have a good green a good red and a pico!!!!

I won't rate 3 stars because it seems well run, clean, ambience good. overall 4 star experience with 3 star burrito. The guac on the burrito was flavorless, probably no salt. I could taste the tortilla more than anything else on the burrito. the meat had a stew meat kind of flavor not really asada.

here I am asking myself why I'm even rating 4 stars when it could clearly be lower.

I appreciate their effort with clear room for improvement. dear restaurant owner: Actually eat your own food with a critical mind and...