Alamo Mexican Restaurant

Pros:
1. Alamo Mexican Restaurant server was excellent during the lunch (there where only around 6 people in the restaurant plus our table of 7).
2. The food for me was average and the menu seemed to me to be limited (around ~15 items).
3. Parking was not a problem.
4. Service time was around 30 minutes for our group.
Cons:
1. 2 people were served 5(?) minutes before the rest of us and decided to start eating because the food was getting cold, so it might have been more the 5 minutes.
2, There was a smell of dampness or mold in the air that the 4 woman in the group picked up as soon as we entered. Two people in the group said it smelled like this the last time they went so this is not a onetime thing. The woman said they would never come back because of the smell. Personally it smelled like mold so if air is problem I would not go there.
3. One person tried their cell phone and did not have reception so something was blocking the signal.

Absolutely the WORST Mexican food I’ve ever had. The chips salsa and Cadillac Margarita were the highlight of the evening. I think I’m going to be sick later. Highly disappointed. By the way, I ordered the burrito del Mar.

This place is no good. Mexican isn’t even that hard to make delicious and this place totally misses the mark. I didn’t even finish my margarita. It tasted weird and had cheap table salt on the rim. I had chicken fajitas and they were pretty bland. My husband got a platter which was better but probably only bc it was covered in melted cheese. I won’t go back.
Service was friendly.

Really like this place a lot. Some of the best salsa around and the pupusas can’t be beat.

Well… first, I used to go to this place when I was a kid. Yes, been around that long. My father grew up in SW Texas, in the days when you could go back and forth across the border for REAL Mexican food, and he always liked it, and he knows Mexican cuisine. The hotter, the better, but of course, he wore dentures, which, in retrospect insulated everything, which would explain his ability to chow down on nuclear waste. But I digress.
Staff is friendly, and the food is not bad. Although… went there yesterday for dinner after my eye exam. Chips were stale, I mean S-​T-​A-​L-​E. And they are usually spot on. Enchilada platter? Normally good, but came out fast, and cold in the middle.
But…the intro was the best, and a first for me. The waitress served water… in a glass… that had… READY? A perfectly, and I mean perfectly formed lipstick mark.
Need I say more? Used to go there often. Never busy, not sure how they stay in business, food was decent, however, after the water glass tried to kiss me…
Sorry. After all of these years, crossing this off the list.
After the lipstick mark, I think I am being generous

It was a decent restaurant. We went around 6pm on a Monday and it was completely empty and quiet. The food was good but my only complaint was the rice and beans combo. The rice was very crunchy and the beans didn’t have any taste. Everything else was delicious.
When it was time to leave… that’s when the headache started. We had split the check and it took about 30 minutes for them to figure it all out.

I really had a taste for Mexican food and was in the area so I hopped onto Unilocal and found this little gem! The dining room pretty empty for the lunch hour but you could tell they had lots of carry out orders. The servers were very polite and kind of stood off to the side in a way to make themselves available without standing over you, which is awesome when you’re their for a quick lunch break. Now to my steak fajitas and rice and beans. It was so yummy! Best I’ve had in a while. I would love to revisit during dinner or happy hour because you kind of just get the feel that it’s a fun place to be!

Came for a summer cookout the drinks were awesome! I loved the guacamole and the atmosphere

Some of the worst service I’ve had ever I’m a really easy going guy but all of the staff was rude except one guy but he couldn’t speak any English. The food didn’t have much flavor, the meats were dry on my tacos the tortillas were old and stale, my wife’s papusa was a cheap cheddar with almost no pork.
Overall one of the worst places I have been in a long time.

I’d give this place 5 stars for the food and 3 stars for the service. Play some music in there as well! Overall very good.

Now, fancyness and awesomeness don’t always go together. I like my Mexican food to be authentic, not touristy tex-​mex, fusion, or deconstructionist molecular gastronomy. I like to know that someone «put their foot in it.» I like my Mexican food to be a little more, shall we say, «probiotic.»
My aunt waitressed there in the 70’s. The décor was getting old then, and hasn’t been changed yet. Except for the addition of one or two paintings of bullfighters on velvet back in maybe ’82. But it’s sort of clean, and it’s dark enough that you won’t be able to tell anyway. I wouldn’t swing a black light around or anything, but I think the tables are wiped down enough that I won’t get any skin lesions.
Wait. Did that guy say Margaritas? Aren’t those a chick drink? That depends on who’s pouring. At Chevy’s or Don Pablo’s, yes. At the Alamo, when you order the top shelf, watch out. You get a big glass that is easily 75% Hornitos and Grand Marnier, 24.5% sour mash, and .5% fruit fly larvae. Five or six of those will knock you on your tail.
Then comes the dance lessons: the reason so few women enter the bar alone. I’ll let that part of the night be a surprise.
But I hasten to add that everyone who frequents that spot is friendly. I have even acquired a nickname there. I can’t post it here, though…
I would be remiss not to mention the food. Incredible. Really. My favorite tacos anywhere on earth. Period. Great salsa. All true-​to-​form traditional Mexican cuisine.
I give Alamo 5 stars for its bizarre appeal. It’s just plain fun.

I am out of town and went here based on the Unilocal reviews. Needless to say it didnt live up tp expectations. The food came out quicklybut was very basic and bland tasting. The wait staff of 3 people were sitting at a table chatting and texting on their phones and the ringers constantly going off. I was the only one there so it was quite noticeable. The music from the bar area was bleeding into the restaurant area and you are hearing two different songs blairing. The pricing was pretty good as a plus.

Greeted amd seated right away. Salsa and chips were a perfect appetizer. I ordered shrimp fajitas. They were great. Good size shrimp. Great flavor. Sizzling when they came out. Warm tortillas accompanied. Server was attentive. Lunch hour had more people than I thought would come in on a Saturday. Lots of families. Décor is old and raggedy but they are obviously more focused on food and service. Worth a visit.
3 stars for the condition of the restaurant but I’d still visit again for the food.

If you’re looking for a great inexpensive authentic Mexican dish, this is the place to come. They have a full bar and restaurant. I sat at the bar, I ordered the (lunch special) chicken tacos which came with two tacos, rice and refried beans; it also came with chips and salsa which was also pretty tasty… Entrée $ 8, Margarita $ 6… Can’t ask for more!

The Alamo was a favorite of mine years ago while in college at the University of Maryland.
It used to be a fun Friday night place for gringos to enjoy the 3-​man mariachi band during dinner and unwind with margaritas.
On a recent Friday night the service was unacceptable, and we noticed that the menu items and drinks have gotten skimpy.
There were NO AVOCADOS in the entire restaurant! Imagine that, a Mexican restaurant, on a busy Friday night… with no avocados! In Riverdale! Where Hispanic grocery stores abound.
The evening was off to a bad start when our waitress informed us we that could not get the guacamole rustico due to the aforementioned lack of avocados. Then, I should have known there would be a problem when she did not write down our order. Shrimp fajitas Mexicana and Beef fajitas Mexicana. We also ordered a pitcher of margaritas. Chips and salsa had still not been delivered to our table. We were stuck way back near the bathroom, where apparently the wait staff babysit the children they bring to work with them and sit during their breaks.
Beer on carts was being trucked from one side of the restaurant to the other… during dinner service! Stocking up the bar/​dancehall should have been done earlier in the day, during pre opening prep.
The «pitcher» of margaritas arrived. It was more like a big glass than the pitchers that have usually been used there. It was a mini-​pitcher. For $ 24, that is a rip-​off.
The chip bowl was also a mini personal size bowl, as opposed to a size for table sharing. Skimpy. Then the waitress brought two orders of shrimp fajitas to the table. I did not order shrimp, and cannot eat shellfish. She wanted to leave it and have me eat it anyway. I said, «no, I ordered the beef and cannot eat shrimp». She left my husband’s order, and took the other order back to the kitchen. We were then left to sit there for ten more minutes, with one of us having food and the other without. That is unacceptable in a dining experience. I then had to request that his plate be removed and taken back to the kitchen, so that we could eat together. All entrée’s should arrive at a table together. If there is a problem or error, the first entrée should not merely be kept warm under a heat lamp for 15 – 20 minutes while waiting on the other entrée. An entirely new order should be prepared. My other concern was the manner in which the fajitas were presented. When did they cease to come on a sizzling plate, and merely crammed onto a smaller dinner plate?
Everything seems to be an experiment in downsizing, which is not good business, and certainly not the experience we have come to expect.

A completely forgettable platter of chicken in tortillas, rice and beans. The lesson here is that if you cover something with enough cheese, you can pretty much serve up lunch.
I can’t say I would return. There is better nearby.

I stayed an extra 15 minutes rambling on in conversation with my friend in an effort to soak up as many «positives» as I could, but it didn’t work. The décor was wood paneling with old sombreros hanging on the wall. While the service was nice, accommodating, and helpful, the menus needed a 3-​minute wipe down to remove the food stuck on the plastic pages.
Despite the yucky food plastered on the menu, I soldiered on and ordered the chicken taco combo and got rice and beans. There was so much cheese on the beans I begin to feel I was eating cheese with a side of beans. Needless to say the tacos were so authentic I recalled eating tacos stuffed with meat and cilantro only in one other place in the world: Tijuana, Mexico in 1997.
Don’t order any frozen margaritas unless you enjoy drinking frozen beverages minus the alcohol. I love my Mexican/​Tex Mex spots, sadly this one was not loving me back.

I don’t know how this place got 4 stars?
I live in southern California with tons of great Mexican food and have had tex mex in San Antonio the home of tex mex and the Alamo. The only thing this has place has in common with those is the item names on the menu.
The restaurant has a funky smell when you walk in that’s definitely not associated with good food.
Their queso dip tasted like velveta with a tiny bit of chillies. (Not much flavor at all)
I ordered the carne asada enchiladas with pinto beans. The order came out wrong with refried beans. It was basically a greasy mess with no flavor at all.
One bad sign is if you ask for Mexican hot sauce and they hand you tobasco.
To add insult to injury their prices are on the higher end of the hole in the wall prices.

I can say without a doubt that I will NOT return to this restaurant. The server was beyond horrible and our food was watered down and nasty.
From the beginning it was BAD. The waitress quickly gave our drinks and took our order for a party of 4 at 7:36PM. We received our food at 8:45PM. And no, the place was not packed. In between this time, I had ordered the queso dip that was clearly cooked in a burned pan and they served it anyway. Then when I tried to get the lady to taste it, she looked at me like I had cursed her out.
I will say the enchilandas that my friend ordered were really good but cold –_​_​_​–

I have been going to the Alamo literally since before I could walk. I always always want to go back!
It’s sort of typical Americanized Mexican fare, but it’s TASTY. I love their chili relleno. I believe it’s only listed under a la carte items, but it’s HUGE and perfect. They now have some tacos with handmade corn tortillas and they are also really incredible. The fish taco is perfect and the handmade tortillas are worth every penny. The shrimp soup is really tasty as well. I don’t know if you can sub them for tortillas in other dishes, but if you can, I highly recommend that. I know my family loves their meat dishes, like the carne asada and the steak enchiladas.
They have a large cocktail menu with staples like sangria and margaritas (both tasty and both available in pitchers!) but also have some more complicated items as well.
The staff is very helpful and friendly. They will also easily sub things out on the menu if you have dietary restrictions or preferences.
The only downside is the parking lot. It’s been repaved in recent years and it’s really oddly organized. So be careful when parking!
If you’re interested in delicious, kind of greasy Mexican food, you won’t be sorry you went here!