Esme's Mexican restaurant — Restaurant in San Antonio

First time here. Young Hostess confused. I asked her what she would recommend...she had no clue. I had to ask the waiter for his name. Edward. Friendly enough. The previous two restaurants here didn't last. Complimentary chips and salsa. Very good hot chips and salsa. I ordered the Mexican Plate, yes oddly enough. The plate is served with your choice of 2 cheese, chicken or beef enchiladas at no extra charge. It comes with a crispy taco either beef or chicken...refried beans and rice...and lettuce and tomatoe salad next to your crispy taco of choice...And two flour or corn tortillas extra at no charge. My plate...i ordered with 2 cheese enchiladas, crispy beef taco and flour tortillas. Ok listen Northside folks...this place served me a great mexican plate. It was hot. The cheese enchiladas were excellent second to none. Very good cheese and the sauce with very great flavor. The taco shell was crispy and not hard. The taco meat had very good flavor evenly spiced...and served hot. Ok...so then the flour tortillas were excellent. Soft and very good texture and flavor. They didn't getaway hard before i finished my meal. You won't disappointed with the food or the price. I paid 7.50 for the mexican plate that included two tortillas chips and salsa. Northside...don't be sacred. This is a very clean restaurant with great prices...

It's what I love about these neighborhood restaurants. They seem to be genuinely pleased to see your face and are always ready to extoll the virtues of their family business and the food they serve. It's a familiar story that never gets old and the pride shown in the re-telling is infectious.

We dove into the nachos while thumbing through the glossy pages of menu items that took us from a morning eye opener of breakfast tacos and plates to lunch and dinner usuals of enchiladas and puffy tacos to meat filled parilladas and seafood combos of fried shrimp and fish.

I find the encyclopedia style menus (picture and description) like they have here to be such a boon to selection of an entree especially when one may yet have tried it.

The other consideration I typically enjoy at these mostly unadvertised Mexican restaurants that is much more base than the lofty ideals of these family run business. Price. Don't let anyone tell you that there are no bargains to be had for dining when addressing the Tex-mex arm of the body of comestibles. They are there for the taking with only the nominal expenditure of a little adventure and an open mind to foods you thought you liked prepared only one...

Went by drive tru to order some menudo thinking it'll be good but got really disappointed when it had lots of white Grease floating and really salty didn't think nothing about since I was really hungry so I ate some nd after a while couldn't stand how salty its so didn't finish it later on got stomach aches nd diarea ince I felt better I drove went by drive tru nd told the lady there what happened nd she said she could refund me because the container it came in was half way but i told her i trashed i wasn't going to put back in container and I didn't call or went earlier the only thing she could do is give me 1 taco . I didn't accept it of course I wasn't feeling good to eat I've bn going here for yrs nd because of that I'll not return there. I'm really disappointed.. don't go there to eat .. bad food the bad part about it that it's the owner Esme that served it knowing how it looked nd she still served it to me so sad that that restaurant has lost business...