La Fiesta | Mexican Restaurant — Restaurant in Twin Falls

Maybe it's because I grew up in Southern California, and was around some of the best Mexican food you could get outside of Mexico; this place just totally missed the mark.

My mom and I went in for lunch and the place was very clean and the staff was friendly but the food was just not good at all. This is what I would call a very "white-washed" Mexican food restaurant. The refried beans were very thin which is unusual for refried beans. They should be nice and thick, like wallpaper paste. That's how you know they're good. The chips and salsa, if you want to call it "salsa", was sad. The salsa was extremely watery with zero substance. No chunky tomatoes, nothing. My mom described it as a watered down enchilada sauce. It just wasn't anything like salsa. Barely any effort was put in to making that salsa.

My mom ordered a taco and enchilada combo and I ordered the flautas. Our food came out in about 5 mins after ordering which gives it away that the majority of this stuff is premade, not cooked fresh. My mom's taco had a taco shell that you could easily buy in a grocery store, not the authentic freshly fried corn tortilla that it should've been. It also completely fell apart in 2 secs. Her enchilada was also just a mushy tortilla covered in melted cheese and hidden under thin watery refried beans.

My flautas were just okay, a little burnt, but I've definitely had much better flautas from other places. All in all the food was not very good and not a place I would ever eat at again. Garibaldi's has much more authentic style Mexican food in Twin Falls if that's what you're looking for.

2 stars because the staff...

Can I rate more than five stars?

Staying in Twin Falls for one night on our way home to Seattle. We have stayed here twice before and know to NOT try any Asian here again. Hubby was starving when we arrived and just wanted to fuel! Decided on La Fiesta. Why? It was an easy route from our hotel. Seriously. But wow. Just WOW.

First of all, if you arrive on a Saturday evening DO NOT be in a hurry. This place is a victim of their own popularity. It was packed, so were surprised when we were seated after only a few minutes wait. It did take a while to get drinks and place our order, but hey, if I have an EXCELLENT scratch margarita and chips, I can wait 20-25 minutes for my entree. And so worth the wait!! Hubby enjoyed the deep flavor of his pork carnitas and I swooned over the best borrega served with its own birria sauce. They serve it with a steak knife which is a joke because the meat is so tender it literally falls off the bone and melts in your mouth.

Service was great. Although, yes, it took a while to to receive our food, several individuals stopped by our table to see if we needed anything. The manager checked in on us, too, and even made time for a brief chat.

We will absolutely stop here for a meal the next time we drive thru. And make sure our friends know about this...

Well, where should I start… We arrived about 8:30 pm on a Saturday We were seated right away, and there we sat and sat and sat… finally my husband went to the dirty men’s bathroom. The waiter showed up to get a drink order as husband was returning to table. I went to the dirty ladies room and drinks arrived, still no chips and salsa and waiter asked for our order. I asked about chips, he took order and left. The overworked Caucasian lady saw we had been sitting for awhile and she brought over some chips and incredibly watery salsa and apologized for nobody serving us. That was when we decided to not spend our hard earned money on lousy service and potentially lousy food. I don’t know where the manager or owner was but the only one that I could see working was the lady who brought us chips after she had been bussing a table. We left a $10 on the table for the beer my husband did not drink and we told the waiter to cancel our order, he didn’t seem surprised. No one cared, we were from out of town so we’ll never go back, I would have given no stars if I could have, I don’t know what the food was like but the service we received was terrible. Owner needs to fire everyone but the overworked Caucasian lady and she could get a better job where she would be...