Love this place! Great food, great prices. Some days you may have to wait a bit; but it's worth it…read more The owner is a nice guy as well. Be careful when you ask for spicy! Advice for anyone who gets overcharged anywhere - I usually ask someone at the restaurant to change what they are charging if it's more (or less, cause I like to support a good business) than I should be paying. I would even go back and ask them to pay me the difference if I realized it when I got back home! But certainly, not really a reason to give a one star review.

This place is a hidden gem. I was drawn here by the beautiful hand painted mural on the side of the…read morebuilding. To my delight there are more on the inside. The interior is very clean and there is a retail store attached. The food is amazing and authentic. Today I got a chicken torta and two pork tacos. The torta was gigantic with peppers and avocados, way more than I can eat in a sitting. The tacos, as usual, were the best part of the meal. This restaurant has about 8 different varieties, and I'm pretty sure I have now tried them all. I highly recommend the carnitas, chicken, chicharron, and the pork. They also have Lengua and Tripa tacos for the adventurous. The meat is wrapped with two soft corn tortillas, sprinkled with onions and cilantro, and served with a slice of lime on the side. They are good sized and a steal at $1.50 each. This is probably one of the best Mexican restaurants I have ever been to.

This neighborhood market, grocery store, resto and family owners have been around Defiance for a…read morelong time. My first encounter with this local gem was over twenty years ago on my first visit to this Ohio town, and it's still around with improvements, enhancements and is still great overall! A terrific family run business. From its jam-packed with a wide array of dry and can goods on grocery shelves, great meats, extensive local baked goods, and a much renovated and expanded restaurant and really nice Mexican-style bar! If you're in town and are in the mood for an ice-cold Dox Equis and/or Jalisco style Mexican cuisine, this the place for you! Their goodies run the gamut from an incredible Pozole to Grilled Chicken delights, to delectable Burritos to mouthwatering tacos, some terrific, refried beans and incredible chips and salsa! I think they are one of the top five Mexican food joints in the Defiance area. Oh, and do your groceries while you're at it. Buen provecho ya'll.

Stopped in recently and honestly it was just okay. The food was pretty mediocre and the service was…read morereally slow, even though the place wasn't that busy. What really bothered me was the surprise 3.5% surcharge they add if you pay with a card. That includes debit cards too. I didn't see any signs about it and wasn't told until the check came. At that point, I didn't have cash, so I had no choice. For anyone wondering, surcharges on debit cards aren't allowed under Visa and Mastercard rules. I get that places are trying to cover costs, but it should be clear up front and within the rules. I wouldn't have stayed if I knew about the extra fee--or I would've stopped at my bank across the street to grab some cash. Just a heads-up for anyone thinking of stopping by: bring cash.

Customer service is amazing and the food might be even better! The salsa is just the right amount…read moreof spice and is the perfect consistency. The burrito I got was so amazing I could literally cry and it got to my table really fast. The chips are crispy and warm as well! Would come here everyday if I could.

Very clean restaurant and bar, good food, great salsa, very good service. Love the chimichangas.read more

Outstanding restaurant! The employees were great, from the gentleman that seated us to our waiter…read more Cleaned restaurant and quick service even though they were busy with the lunch crowd. Tortilla chips and salsa were on our table almost as soon as we were seated, our drinks were delivered shortly after that. I ordered queso with our order and it was brought out in a couple of minutes, hot and tasty! I ordered the birria taco's and a large Modelo, my wife ordered two steak street taco's. The birria taco's are the best birria that I've had yet! The mix of flavors is so good! Savory, salty, spices, so good! My wife was only able to finish one of her taco's, but she ate the whole side order of Mexican rice, which was large. We will definitely go back. My father told us after we went there it was his favorite Mexican restaurant.

Amazing service by Andrea who greeted us with a huge smile and served us with confidence. Her…read morerecommendation of margarita and the fajita chicken and salad were delicious Both items were enough for another meal. It's a Mexican restaurant and they had a full basket of chips and salsa for our enjoyment. The music was appropriate and the noise of the restaurant was kites with the beautiful backing in the seats! Very fast service and great food!

Location: 3355 Harding Way, Lima Ohio…read more Wrapped up a day trip exploring the Indian Lake area and chose La Charreada for a late lunch based on high Yelp review rating. Yelp did its job, as usual. We were seated immediately and the restaurant has a great vibe - comfortable seating, nice decor, and spotlessly clean. Our waiter was very attentive and gracious. We ordered the fresh guacamole as a starter and enjoyed a burrito platter and an enchilada platter (with rice and beans). Delicious flavor and huge portions The only real surprise was the fried topping on the guacamole. I think they were pork rinds... we tried a few but elected to go old school with tortilla chips. Service was fast. The food was really good. The menu is large - but I found every feature I was considering. This is just a few minutes from I-75 and I would drive by the 10+ options again to dine here.

Fast service akways. Great food always. If your looking for a great Mexican restaurant eat here.read more

Love coming here about once a quarter with my gal pals from college, two of us are from the…read more Columbus area and two from the Toledo area so this is half way. We meet for lunch but my partner and I stopped for dinner tonight , so yummy! We both ordered the shrimp and scallop fajitas and a pitcher of frozen margaritas. Our waiter was polite, efficient and an all around good guy. Food was so good! Neither one of us could finish so we got to go boxes, plus we had both finished our tortillas and ordered more before we decided we were full, those went in our boxes too. We did order queso to go with our complimentary chips and salsa. Of course we finished the queso. I cannot recommend La Fragua enough, whether it's dinner or lunch, it can't be beat. Prices are good too! We will be back!

Food is excellent!! Nachos are horrible, they taste like…read moreBark from a dead tree, worse nacho chips ever !! Stay away from the Nachos and you will be fine !

This once was a go to for margaritas. The food is sub par…read more The waiter actually spoke English fluently but he was rude. My first skinny margarita was delicious. The next one came back sour. I shared half of it with my friend who agreed. We spoke to the waiter and he commented that all margaritas have lime in them. I added a bunch of sugar to the other half and it was ok. The thing is, shouldn't he have offered to replace it? He was arrogant enough to walk away from the table. We will not be returning. There are plenty of good Mexican restaurants where you don't have to wonder if your $13 cocktail is going to be good enough to actually drink. I wonder how many of those waiters and waitresses have green cards....

We went there for a small anniversary gathering a few weeks ago. I ordered the queso bean dip…read moreappetizer. I was very disappointed in this menu item as it was so watered down/thin texture that the dip would not even stay on the chips. That, and the fact that there are no small plates passed out with the appetizer to share, trying to dip a chip and get it to my mouth without all of the dip ending up on the table was not possible. I just think for the price of a can of beans and a container of queso dip there is no need to thin the consistency out to make a bigger profit at the expense of the customer.

To me it's a lot better than their well known competition. It's a nice quick well tasting lunch.read more

Stopped in jalapeños for take home bc hubby was stopping at the Chinese restaurant…read more I didn't pile on the selections it was pretty simple. Meat, salsa, sour cream & cheese. It was terrible. Over $11 for the food (no drink) and I couldn't eat it. I threw an over $11 meal in the trash.