Cielito Mexican Kitchen — Restaurant in Providence

Solid Mexican food (beautifully styled) in a nice space with solid service. Recommend you stick with the taco menu for better value.

Maybe missing home (AZ) after a week in Providence, went to find some Mexican food. While different than our normal Sonoran fair in AZ, we thought this place looked awfully good.

We started with guac and tostadas. Loces the crispy, fresh tostadas, and the guac was obviously fresh. It was a slightly under-seasoned.

I had the Arrachera Campesino (essentially Carne Asada with the usual trimmings). My wife had the chuleta de puerco, and my daughter ordered off the much lower priced taco menu - birria and carnitas.

Every plate noticeably well plated, neat, colorful, and artistic.

My carne asada was a solid effort. It was mildly under-seasoned, and the tortillas, while pleasantly fresh, also lacked any seasoning and were under for my preference.

My wife’s pork chop was nicely cooked, seasoned aggressively, and heavily smoked. The result was a nice tasting and tender pork chop, but flavor was very reminiscent of eating sausage (smoke + salt). Good, but again, left a little to be desired for the price.

My daughter turned out to be wisest one. Her birria tacos were probably the best thing on the table. The carnitas were also done extremely well.

Service was pleasant and competent throughout.

Overall, it was solid, but the entrees didn’t quite blow us away, at a pretty high price point. Would definitely repeat, but would stick with the simpler (and more reasonably...

We were SO EXCITED to make our first of many visits to Cielito after being obsessed with Tuxpan Taqueria since they opened. The restaurant is perfectly located downtown with a beautiful view of a courtyard across the street, the interior is gorgeous! Deep rich teal with beautiful paintings across the wall when you walk in to the bar. The service was warm, friendly, and never felt rushed, despite them being absolutely packed the entire time we were there. And the food? I thought you’d never ask! We got the esquites, mole rojo, the acarrracharro (I am certain I am misspelling that) and the elote tres leches. It was every bit as delicious as I’ve come to expect anything from their family’s kitchen to be. Their sauces were standouts as always - I would have happily gone home with a gallon of both the mole and the ajitomate. The chicken was so incredibly perfect - juicy and tender - you can taste what good quality chicken they use. The tres leches was phenomenal; different from a classic tres leches of course but my very picky partner even declared he wanted an entire sheet of it for his birthday next year. We can’t wait to return...

So I want to start off by saying that the food and service at this restaurant is excellent. As someone who just traveled back from the Yucatan a few days prior to having a meal at cielito I was very impressed with its authentic flavor. Are server with excellent about communicating dietary restrictions that I had to the staff.. However I will say that the cost of the meal was extravagant. For only two cocktails, one appetizer, and two entrees our meal came out too $160 prior to tip.. our server who was so sweet and so kind throughout our whole meal had offered to bring us salsa which we assumed was just something that they offered for us because we didn't ask for it and wound up being charged for it. Again it is absolutely delicious food, a beautiful location that is staffed with educated servers.. But it is not simple Taco prices be prepared to spend more than you are expecting. Make sure you are double-checking the market price for some of the items that you...