The Chile Pepper — Restaurant in Yuma

AWFULThere I was . Sitting hungry after a long swim meet. Choosing between Chick-fil-A and Freddy's. And then.... The chili pepper. Arrived. Hoping for some dessert, and saw they had horchata and smoothies, but no ice cream like options. I went for the horchata and a lemon lime smoothie. The horchata was authentic probably but was filled with cinnamon. Like filled with cinnamon. Like a lot of cinnamon. I could feel the particles along my teeth as I swallowed, trying to wipe them off with my fingers. I then tried the lemon lime smoothie. The lid did not work and spilled on me as I tipped it slightly, and it tasted like lemon juice and ice. My $10 were wasted at this place and I wish I went to Freddy's and got some custard instead. Not only that, but a soda I can get at Circle k for 69 cents cost me like $3. Y'all up charge way too much on that soda. Speaking of circle k, the circle k horchata was way better than this place. Also way cheaper. They act like they're a street taco place that gets wonderful grass-fed beef or something, but they just give you a burrito with beans and rice. The two cheapest things on the planet besides child labor in China. The menu tries to be a wonderful, colorful festive beauty, but I just can't read the darn thing. It's so confusing, like those pop-up ads that are all flashy and have the triangle spikes around the edges and the Google drawings cut out of the speech bubble but with the triangles all around it to make it look super cool. Yeah it looks like that. Not only that, but as I decided to find one redeeming quality about this restaurant, I ordered their cheapest burrito which people say was pretty good for being a cheap burrito, and as they made it very quickly, it was pretty nice that they made it so fast, I stood up to go get my order. As I was walking over. He called my number three times and raised his voice and frustration that I was not reaching the counter in an appropriate amount of time. I have to walk across the whole restaurant bro like calm down. You literally could look up and see me walking over there man. Okay, I'm about to eat the burrito right now. Please wait one moment. Oh my gosh she won't stop yelling I'm about to pick up my food geez bro. The first bite of the burrito was just rice, this is a bad start. Third bite, also rice... This ain't Napoleon ice cream dude I want it mixed. No segregation in my burrito. I took a sip of the lemon lime smoothie and laughed at an article the New York times wrote about the meteor the size of 100 capybaras coming towards us, in the pain of the pure lemon juice sliding down my throat and out my nose and gave me flashbacks to the videos of soldiers describing mustard gas. I'm pretty sure I could find a better smoothie just by eating a lemon, at least it wouldn't be 100% liquid. Also the tortilla ripped while I was eating my burrito and landed on my pants. I would not be caught in public looking like a slob, and this place I decided to stop eating the burrito, but I'm going to bring it on the bus with me just in case we break down and once I'm done eating all of my teammates first then I might eat the burrito. Also what is this name, the Chile pepper. Like your not from Chile bro and this ain't no Mexican DND campaign bar

update. Ate the burrito four hours later when I was hungry in the bus and it slapped so 5 stars now - update. There were three good bites...

I have been there just a few times in the 22 yrs I've been living in the Yuma area. I must say, it's a pretty good restaurant that has grown a lot bigger, looking so much better on appearance, their image now has a lot to do with the restaurant's name. The establishment is very big, doesn't feel crowded or uncomfortable, you can eat there in the comfort of the establishment, tables are not to close together, lots of space to move confortable in the restaurant area. Food is a traditional Mexican/ Latino home made meals. The best seller for them are the bean & cheese burritos and roll tacos with their homemade salsa, special recap. They also have an extended menu full of delicious Mexican plates for their customers to taste according to what they're craving that day. They also have a refreshment area with a soda fountain where clients can have all they can drink, no extra cost. A small salad bar with a variety of hot to mild salsas. Not a big variety of deserts that are good, but to small for their price. It's an affordable place, and with very good reputation in town specialty on the collage crowds , younger crowds and kids. Also all the eployees working on the businesses around this restaurant building, are prone to have lunch there for the convenience of their centric location with lots of traffic. It's easy to locate by traveling in a moving vehicle. They only have cooks and cashiers not waitresses or host to take you to a table for someone to take your food order. Customers go in, get in line if any, order, pay the cashier as you order, wait for them to call your name or your order number and you pick up your order form their big counter. If you wanna sit there and eat, let the cashier know as you order if it's for here or to go. You pick up your table sit down and enjoy your meal. If you're there to order food to go, pick up and go. They also have another counter with cashiers, food preps and cooks. Taking to go orders via phone, with different area next to the restaurant with a separate entrance exclusive for pick ups. Located on 24 th street almost across YRMC our only hospital and E.R in Yuma, Somerton, and San Luis,...

I did a controlled study on the Eternal question of which is better: chile Pepper or Mr. G’s. After analyzing reams of data and millions of terabytes of information I have concluded with unquestionable results that chile pepper is statistically significantly better than Mr. G‘s. But it is like the other mysteries of this planet whether Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster on why chile pepper is better than Mr. G’s. The leading suspicion is it’s the salsa. Chile pepper salsa just seems to be a little bit more awesome than Mr. G‘s. Also there is some question on the crispiness of the rolled tacos. Again, it is statistically been shown that the exterior corn tortilla found in the chile pepper royal taco is much more Bueno than Mr. G’s. As an honorary native yuman who received an honorary degree from Yuma high (go criminals) I can tell you that you don’t want to leave Yuma without stopping by here. If you do you might find yourself spending the night in the Yuma jail; it’s that much of a crime.

Cherie loves this place and hits the machaca HARD when she’s in town. Total nut for this place. But it’s closed on Sunday dude so hit Mr Gs. Don’t eat more than 1 bean n cheese burrito,...