Fiesta Jalisco

I have no idea how people rate this place with 4 stars. It’s flat out shocking. Anyone who rated this place a 4 needs to quit Unilocal.Your judgement isn’t just unreliable, it’s leading others into the jaws of a terrible dining experience. What was so bad? The salsa to start. I’ve been to a ton of Mexican places and this wins first place for the absolute worst salsa. It actually reminded me of combination V8 and spaghettio sauce. Actually spicy V8 would have been better. I ordered three tacos because you can’t screw it up. Turns out I was wrong. There was zero spice, zero flavor. Do yourself a favor and get a Red Baron Pizza before coming here. On a positive note the staff was very nice and the mints they left on the bill tray were tasty.

I don’t understand how it’s possible for a Mexican restaurant to be so awful. I enjoy the basic/​traditional style of Mexican food IE chips and salsa, chicken soft tacos, and a good margarita. Well this place failed on that and then some.
I walked in with one person and waited a few minutes to be seated. You’ll notice the ambiance is not what you’d expect in any restaurant. The lights are very bright and white, almost like a cafeteria. The tables are SO close together you can pretty much balance a knife between the two… If you are desperate enough to try this place, at least request a booth! Like many other reviewers stated, the salsa is watery. When I read the reviews prior to coming, I figured it was watery but with a thick-​ish consistency or some chunks. But no, it seems like they put tomatoes into a Vitamix with some hot sauce, strained out anything solid and then serves this water as salsa. It’s literally all liquid! Then queso. How do you mess up queso? Ask the chef here. The queso is bland beyond belief. THANK GOD they have Cholula Hot Sauce. That is the one thing they did right. I put that in the queso so it had some flavor. The chicken in my soft taco was tough. It reminded me of the crap chicken you can buy in bulk from Walmart… you know, the kind that is tough and has thick strips of meat when shredded. Botton line, cheap chicken that is difficult to stomach. Also, the plates are these weird little house on the prairie 1950s looking plates. Not sure why they can’t upgrade to something that doesn’t look this awkward. I was here a few weeks ago and don’t specifically remember the margaritas, so they must not have been great or horrible.
All in all, do yourself a favor and don’t roll the dice on this place! From a Mexican food lover who isn’t super picky, do NOT waste your money here.

We dined here on January 1^st with our Friends, who are vegetarians for religious reasons. We were shocked to find pieces of beef in the chimichanga as well as in the fajita. When we let the manager know, they offered to bring us the same dishes, (which obviously our friends did not want any more), but would not refund the money. Extremely disappointing customer service. Will not return.

What a disappointment. The dishes were average, the prices were high and the wait staff seemed less than enthusiastic about serving us. We were given one bowl of chips for 4 of us. We have to say adiós, hasta la vista, and so long to this. Too many good restaurants in Summit county to waste good money on overly priced average food.

I wandered in to this restaurant while on a bit of a road trip. It’s the off season, so it was practically deserted, only two other tables were filled. The emptiness during lunch «rush» didn’t do much to recommend the place, but I decided to stick it out because I was starving!
FOOD
The corn chips were warm and fresh, but the salsa was watery, and seemed to have come from a jar. I ordered a combo with two enchiladas; one chicken and one cheese. They were drowning in flavorless red sauce, and the enchiladas themselves were rubbery. The chicken inside was extremely dry and stringy. The cheese enchilada had plenty of cheese, but was very small. There were sides of refried beans and rice, with a little coleslaw. The coleslaw seemed to be vinegary cabbage and a few other veggies (plus what may have been a canned jalapeño). The entire meal was strangely flavorless, not even a hint of spice or even salt and pepper. The beans and rice were terribly bland, weren’t even salted, much less had really any particular spices added.
I came during lunch, so there were a variety of typical specials on the menu, and the prices are fairly reasonable if you aren’t expecting anything spectacular. All in all nothing to write home about.
AMBIANCE
The restaurant was very clean, although the shopping center is totally lackluster. Typical tacky «Mexican restaurant» décor, with the typical Tejano music playing. The mix-​and-​match cutlery and plates were fine, but seemed a bit down-​market, even for the location.
SERVICE
There were three servers hovering around the counter, but no one ever came to check on me while I was eating, and I needed a refill for quite a while.
In summary, it’s just a two-​to-​three star experience. The food wasn’t worth returning, but also couldn’t be described as «good.»

Save your money. $ 9.89 for a veggie burrito? Go across the street to QBoda… a much better deal (and portion) for the money. I won’t be going back to this place. Food OK… pricing high.

The type of place that serves up all the usual Mexican edibles with enormous portions, an overwhelmingly large menu, free chips and salsa, margarita specials, and overpriced guac. In that sense, they do what they do beautifully and if your looking for reasonably priced Mexican food in Summit County this may be the place.
However, the beef was tough, the chips weren’t anything to write home about, and nothing really blew my hair back in terms of taste or culinary uniqueness.

Nice atmosphere, great enchiladas, and the flan is bombdotcom. We’ve eaten at many Mexican places around the area and this is by far our favorite. We come back here every year. Beware, the portions are pretty gigantic.
The food also comes out faster than speedy Gonzalez.

Service is quick and the environment is authentic and lively. Serving sizes are healthy (or unhealthy depending on what you like), but this food hits the spot after a day on the slopes. They do a particularly good job on the refried beans, enchiladas and Mexican rice.
Chips and salsa, a harbinger of any Mexican dining experience, however, leave something to be desired. Salsa is a bit watery and without kick.
Lastly the flan is worth coming here alone.

Service is quick but everything is extremely overpriced. The salsa is watery, and falls right off the chips that taste like the ones that have been at the bottom of the bag for a while.
The meats are dry, the shrimps keep their tales and everything is like $ 5 – 6 more than it should be! There’s also like 100 things on the menu but no good dedicated fish tacos. Go to Chimayo instead! It’s close by and it’s much faster, tastier and less expensive!

Very authentic atmosphere. The service was nice but almost too much– every plate the waitress brought out, she’d ask the next 4 tables if they were ok. Was not impressed with the food. We got our orders within 5 mins which is worrying– I got the 3 chicken tacos and it was literally assembled: three shells, chicken ON TOP, Lettuce ON TOP, it was just a pile of taco ingredients. By the time I assembled one taco and ate it, the other two shells became so soggy it all just fell apart. Boo. My margarita was also watered down.

Kim Sizemore and I visit here every time we visit the area. They have fast service, excellent carne asada, real salsa and the prices are reasonable. Love it.
After my last meal there, I had a farting fiesta.

Casa Bonita has much better food. We ate at this place 1÷5÷2015, it was horrible. Tasteless is the best thing I can say about it. The salsa tasted like catsup. I have lived in Colorado for all of my 65 years and this is not Mexican food. They couldn’t even get the bill correct.

Been here three or four times, always think the food is great and large portions, would recommend for sure!

If you want authentic Mexican this isn’t your restaurant. However for americanized Mexican food this place has great food. Their salsa is delicious and the portion sizes are huge and a great value. I have come here several times and every time the food is good and lots of leftovers. Also quick seating and service.

Wow this place was amazing! Huge portions and great food. House margaritas are also pretty good. We ordered 4 margaritas and 2 large dinner plates and our price was 50 dollars! Well worth! Just a small warning the food is pretty good but pretty greasy. If you have a sensitive stomach stick with tacos!

First off, I have to say I am a Mexican food snob. I went to college in Las Cruces, NM where I ate amazing Mexican food 2 – 3 times a week and had several choices of great restaurants. That being said, if you have had good Mexican, Fiesta Jalisco is not the place for you, you will just be disappointed.
First off you are given free salsa and hot tortilla chips, the chips are good, the salsa not so much. It’s slightly spicy, but watery and not that flavorful. I’m a big fan on enchiladas, so that is usually what I will get when I go to a Mexican place. You know a place will probably have good enchiladas when it says «your choice of red or green chile», this was not the case at Fiesta Jalisco. Their menu said «our enchilada sauce contains peanut butter. PEANUT BUTTER??? Who puts peanut butter in their enchilada sauce? I was very confused, but decided that I would try it because I couldn’t decide on anything else and I had to know how someone put peanut butter in their sauce. My boyfriend went with the chicken taco salad. The food came out fast, and was hot. My boyfriend seemed to enjoy his taco salad, but that isn’t saying much because he isn’t very picky. My enchiladas were edible. I enjoyed the refried beans and the flavor of the rice, although it was undercooked. The enchilada sauce was weird. Peanut butter should not be put in enchilada sauce EVER. It made it sweet and enchilada sauce should be spicy, not sweet.
Again, like I said, I am a mexican food snob. Perhaps if I had never had any mexican food, I would think it was good, but I wasn’t a fan. The server was nice, and service was fast, I guess they get points for that.

I have to say I liked this place. It was better than I expected for a strip mall chain like Mexican restaurant.
I ordered the Enchiladas de Espinaca and was delighted by what came out of the kitchen. I ordered it without the queso. The veggies were sautéed in a nice amount of butter and salt and then wrapped up in a corn tortilla with some green tomatillo sauce on top. The pinto beans were also good. The free chips and salsa were tasty and the salsa was nice and spicy!
The one strange thing about my enchiladas is that on the menu the tomatillo sauce is in «quotes.» Why?
I would stop in here again if I am ever stuck in Dillion due to a closed mountain pass.

What the hell is wrong with you people? The food here SUCKS. It looks like something that will make me piss out of my ass if I eat it. I only got a beef taco and it wasn’t really that good. My boyfriend, on the other hand, got a dinner entrée, with the rice and beans on the side… the beans looked really gross, like something you’d see out of Hell’s Kitchen. (flashback to that episode where Ramsey goes in a kitchen and finds beans that’s been sitting in a large chemical bucket for days) BARF.
My boyfriend also is fluent in Spanish and he said that the workers there were very rude– cursing in Spanish out loud in front of all the customers.
I definitely will not eat here again, and stayed true to my word when we and our friends somehow ended up a second time there. I only ate the chips (the salsa sucks) and drank margaritas, which actually weren’t bad… they were pretty strong! I think they want people to get drunk so they don’t notice how much the food sucks. I’m onto them, I’m onto them…

Being a mountain town, and being tired, bruised and battered from crashing the motorbike, I had lowered my standards on what good food is, but Fiesta Jalisco really came through. I would like to give them 3.5 stars.
The décor is great, as long as you don’t look through the faux arched interior windows into the annex room which is filled with boxes, old chairs, and general clutter.
My margarita was just OK, a little saltier than I would have liked but sometimes the salt on the glass falls into the drink and that’s what you get… so I will forgive this.
The food and service were really good. They must have stepped up their salsa since Valerie’s visit, because it was pretty good I thought! I had the carne asada which was great, and my boyfriend was very happy with his meal as well.