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.

Great food and service! Easily seated our family of six and we all left satisfied. Colorful…read moreatmosphere and easy to find.

The margaritas were delicious and fajitas awesome. Service was great. We were just passing through…read morebut would go again.

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!

I love the food here! The waiters and waitresses are always super sweet and friendly!! The…read morerestaurant is very clean and the booths are comfy aswell!

Amazing food, amazing service and all the waiters and waitresses are so nice and the music is…read moreamazing!

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....

I used to LOVE this place. I heard it had new owners so I was hesitant to go. I tried it again and…read morethe service wasn't great. The girl taking orders was not very friendly, wore gloves, but touched EVERYTHING after she spooned it into the bowl. Looked like the gloves hadn't been changed for a long time. She seemed annoyed that they were busy and had a line of customers. The assembly line was very messy *yes they were busy* but they made no attempt to keep the line clean. The girl at checkout seemed annoyed that she was working and didn't even tell me my total owed, just pointed to the screen. The guacamole was delicious, but my bowl with chicken was beyond salty. I couldn't eat it because it was over the top salty. Things have definitely changed and I was very disappointed with my visit and the food

Quite possibly the rudest most unpleasant experience I've had at this place. The large extra sized…read moregirl that was so inconvienced go find a new place to hide, find a new job not in customer service, the night crew there is awful and should be ashamed of treating anyone like that. Laughing at the way my food was thrown together I even tipped I paid for food I couldn't eat couldn't even feed to the dog. And the taste inedible. The girl didnt use gloves for anything even grabbing chips. Sorry you hate the public so much word of advice dont work around children please this place needs to do better or just shut its doors end the suffering. Awful stay away ​