I wanted to like this place and perhaps if I had just wanted a Margarita I would have left happier but the food was a sad experience. I should also add staff was nice. They just didn't make up for a bad product. I had the two taco lunch special and asked for beef. What I got was "ropa vieja" - shredded string beef marinated in tomatoe sauce - in my soft shell. It was covered with mozzarella cheese that looked like it came out of a discount family pack. Ultimately, I made my meal out of the chips served on the table and the side of beans my entree came with. It was disappointing and I won't be repeating the experience. read more

My wife and I order from here regularly and it doesn't disappoint! Very happy to support a family owned small business especially during this difficult time for restaurants. The food is delicious and the staff is always friendly and helpful. Super nachos with chorizo is terrific and the enchilada suiza is always on point. read more

Food was decent but not authentic Mexican. I ordered a torta it was ok. Wished they knew how to make salsa verde, instead they give you green hot sauce packets. read more

We ordered tacos it comes with rice and beans and the rice was dried and I don't recommend coming here at all if you want real tacos I recommend going to other places this was not bad not good but okay. I don't recommend coming here for lunch. read more

Cinco de Mayo is my go to mexican restaurant in Bayside. The food and frozen drinks are always delicious and the staff is so warm and friendly. They make you feel like family. Highly recommend! read more

We've eaten here 4 times and had delivery 3 times, so we know a little bit about this restaurant. Service is warm and commendable 3 times, and sucked the last time. Chicken Empanada: C+ Ground Beef Empanada: C+ Dry as sand, and not flavorful. Seemed like frozen food. Guacamole (and chips): A- / B- If you get this while sitting at the restaurant it's delicious and very fresh. However, if you order the guacamole for delivery, it's pre-made. Brown. Not fresh. Super Nachos (1st order ground beef, 2nd order chorizo): B- I had previously rated these as "A" nachos and LOVED them, but I just had them again after about 8 months, and found I didn't like them: 1. Not enough cheese. 2. The cheese was flavorless. A good cheddar would've been great. 3. A more flavorful sour cream. 4. The chips were meh. They might've been old. 6. The guac should've been more fresh. It was colored puke brown. Quesadilla with Steak: A+ Impressive! Spanish restaurant meat is usually tasty but tough as nails and low-quality cuts. The steak here is VERY soft. Tenderized. Wonderful grilled flavor. One of my favorite quesadillas ever. The quesadilla is of the double-tortilla variety (called "sombrero" in tex-mex parlance). Bottom flour tortilla, steak and cheese, top tortilla, guac and sour cream. The sour cream lacked flavor. The cheese (maybe Jack?) blends harmoniously with the steak. Simply delicious. The guac is slightly lower quality than what you get with the fresh "table guac", but that's to be expected. Pollo En Salada Verde: A- A simple dish, but full of flavor. I think this is as close to "health conscious" as you're going to get at Cinco. Dieters will love it. Chicken breast in verde salsa with an eclectic assortment of veggies. The salsa and chicken breast complement each other beautifully. Arroz Con Pollo: B+ I never order arroz con pollo at restaurants because I'm invariably disappointed, even at world-renown restaurants like the award winning Sevilla in the West Village. I broke my own rule and ordered it here, and to my surprise, it was pretty good. Still, I wouldn't order it again because there are better things on the menu. If I had a real hankering for arroz con pollo, I'd probably beg my wife or my mom to make it instead of ordering it. Burrito: C- Dreadful. Dry. The guacamole was obviously pre-made...it didn't look or taste fresh. It had that sad sickly green color that unfresh guac has. The tortilla wrap was ALL WRONG. They used a thick and chewy quesadilla tortilla, totally unsuited for a burrito. They should warm the rice/beans and steak to help decoagulate the refrigerated ingredients, like the tortilla and sour cream. [Delivery] T-Bone Steak: A- Normally I wouldn't even THINK of getting a T-Bone at a Spanish restaurant... I'd rather get fettuccine Alfredo from Chinese takeout. But given that the steak in the quesadilla was so well cooked, I decided to try the T-Bone, and I'm glad I did! Obviously marinated softness. Cooked expertly. My grandmother would've called it "black and blue": char grilled on the outside, red on the inside. The waiter asked how I wanted the steak to be cooked, I said "medium rare," and that's what he gave me! I've had expensive steakhouses screw that up. Kudos, guys! Mariscada Cancun: A- They give a lot of lobster and very little calamari (which tends to be rubbery and tasteless in mariscada). I would've given this dish an A- because they were generous on the high-ticket items and the dish was delicious, however, the sauce should've been more garlicky / savory, and there wasn't enough of it. Definitely over-priced, despite the copious lobster. Cinco de Mayo, if you read this, please give us more sauce with this dish! Bistec a la Tampiqueña: A- Deliciously grilled skirt steak with a rather delicate cream sauce. The steak was expertly grilled, and has a deep Angus flavor. The cream sauce was too thin and delicate for the aggressively grilled and deep beefy skirt steak flavor. Additionally, I felt the restaurant was stingy with the sauce: I could've used more sauce. Pollo a la Francesca: B My wife liked this better than I did. Chicken cutlet in a cream sauce. I found the cream sauce too delicate and too bland for the chicken cutlet. Some capers or chipotle would've jazzed this lonely dish up (the dish should come with something other than frozen veggies to make it less lonely. Maybe some polenta to make the dish less sad looking?) read more

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I've been to Cinco de Mayo a couple of times now, and so far, the food has been pretty good. I've tried their enchiladas and burritos and both were good. The waiters are nice and friendly, and although the place is a little small, they have a lot of seating. Try their red sangrias! read more

EHH. I went on a Sunday night with my boyfriend and it was crowded. The place is really small and narrow. I liked that we had free nachos which was really good but don't fill up on them! by the time we got our food we were super full because of nachos. We waited for almost an hour for our food....I ordered the tex fajita and he had ordered a burrito. The food was OKAY, nothing special and definitely not worth the money we paid for it. I had a better Mexican experience in a Baja fresh. PS. PARKING SUCKS. read more

Cinco de Mayo - Mexican Near Me - Bayside, New York

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I'm sitting here now and felt compelled to write a review ASAP Oh my goodness! One of the best mexican food restaurants I've ever been to! Lunch special is $6, but you get a LOTTTT! It makes me wish i lived near here to eat more often! I also had a maracuya (passion fruit) frozen margarita it was amazing, plus the server topped me off from what was left in the blender Last but not least, service was amazing! Roberto took care of me and he is great! Please, do yourself a favor and eat here! read more

Cinco de Mayo - chicken quesadilla (half eaten) lunch special! With a passion fruit frozen margarita - Mexican Near Me - Bayside, New York

I like this place. It's not authentic but the food is good. I love Mexican food and prefer more authentic cuisine but I can appreciate all food that is tasty and this place has yummy food. I usually get the Fiesta Enchiladas which has chicken, shredded beef, ground beef and one cheese enchilada and its topped with both red and green sauce. Yum!! They have great lunch specials also. One of my favorite things about this place is the drinks. They offer a few different sizes from regular to ginormous and they have good flavors for margaritas like mango which is my favorite. Most everything I've tried is pretty good except I'm not a fan of their chips and salsa. The chips are over cooked and the salsa isn't a fresh tomato salsa it's a cooked tomato salsa. The service is good, staff is friendly and it's decorated very festively. It does get busy and crowded and when it's busy it's very loud in the back seating area. This is one of my regular spots and I will always be back. read more

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my go-to place for food on bell blvd by far. i've gotten both take out and dine-in and the food quality was perfect both times. i usually get the enchilada lunch special (the lunch special is actually amazing btw) but yesterday i tried out the cinco de mayo combo and i think i found my new go-to. it comes with an enchilada, taco, chimichanga, rice, beans, guacamole and sour cream. the chimichanga took me by surprise. it was so so so good and i'm definitely going to start getting that. i also went with a friend who hates beans but she finished her entire serving of beans because they were so good. good prices and good taste. nice workers as well. read more

Cinco de Mayo - Mexican Near Me - Bayside, New York

MJ's Star : 3 Price : Lunch Special $6.95, Sangria $8 (excludes tip & tax) read more

Cinco de Mayo - Mexican Near Me - Bayside, New York

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I love Mexican food and it's definitely filling and does the trick! My only complaint is that their lunch portions are too small and delivery takes a long time. Otherwise, I love the food!! read more

A very authentic Mexican experience and very good service and food! Feels like you popped into a Mexican mother's kitchen in a small Mexican village. The music adds a great vibe, too! Highly recommend if in Bayside Queens! Anything you order is great, especially the chimichanga or the enchilada.. Their spicy margarita is so worth trying! Great spot!! read more

Came here for dinner this past Monday for a party of 5. We all shared guacamole and I ordered the chicken fajitas. Everything was good. The place looks a bit dirty but food was good. I may come back, we'll see. Guac was $10 and my fajita was $14. read more

Great food, great value, friendly service. My parents and I randomly popped in and were pleasantly surprised. The homemade guacamole was great, as was the made-to-order ultra spicy dish I requested. The starter salad came with almost a half of an avocado on it. This could be my weekly stop in on the walk back from the train! read more

This place recently moved, so make sure you have the right address! This location seems small in the front but that's the part open for lunch- there's more seating they open in the back for dinner. We got the lunch special which had a variety of choices (burritos, tacos, quesadillas, taco salad etc) for $6.95 each! Not a bad deal at all- comes with rice, beans, guac, sour cream, and chips. I got the chicken quesadilla (shredded chicken inside). I've had better quesadillas and it wasn't that filling even with the sides, but for the price you really can't go wrong. I will be back hopefully for happy hour or another lunch special soon. read more

5 de mayo on Bell is 4stars for me. Great spot in Bayside. Guacamole is delicious (recommend spicy). Awesome Jalapeño margarita and margarita with Don Julio. Chicken empanadas are to die for (sorry no pictures...so good we ate before the photo opportunity). Food here is pretty authentic for Queens and service is great. Nice gem on the blvd., go hungry and enjoy! read more

Cinco de Mayo - Guacamole - Mexican Near Me - Bayside, New York

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Food is good. But I can not believe you sent nachos out like this . You guys put 6 tortilla chips in the container and melted cheese a small amount of beans and lettuce. I would have rather you put the "EXTRA" chips you provided in the container. I literally thought it was a joke. read more

Cinco de Mayo - "nachos" - Mexican Near Me - Bayside, New York

My go to lunch spot ! They have great lunch specials and the food is delicious. They also have a lot of strong, tasty drinks to pick from !

Quick and simple.. Food never came. Canceled food Told me they called or will call grub hub for the refund. Never did said "they forgot" I understand 5 min is a very long time. read more

This place is great. You go here for lunch specials and pay about $7.00 for a huge meal. Plus you get free chips and salsa. The margaritas are pretty expensive. If you go here late night it is pretty crowded. The empanadas are not worth their price. The chimichangas are really good. The tacos and burritos are delicious. The guacamole is the best! I love that they make it right in front of you. read more

Cinco de Mayo - Guacamole - Mexican Near Me - Bayside, New York

Sat at the bar. Friendly bartender, good drinks and good guac! Just a little bit weird techno music but whatever. I have eaten there before and they're pretty authentic. Only complaint is very little rice and beans. read more

Cinco de Mayo - Blue Caracao fiesta and the infamous guac - Mexican Near Me - Bayside, New York

Food is bad, not good , not authentic. Only reason for two stars is the nice service. read more

The food here is really terrible. The service is okay. We ordered a steak that was dripping in sauce it seemed like beef stew. For 24$ I expect to get a nice cooked steak. This place is very disappointing- the side of "guacamole" had no avocado! A small piece of smashed green liquid sitting on a bed of lettuce. Very disappointing.. will not be returning here read more

Cinco de Mayo - "The Steak" - Mexican Near Me - Bayside, New York

After dining here for the first time a few weeks ago, I've now become a regular. Their guac is some of the best I've ever had, and their tortillas are delicious and clearly homemade. Their drinks are amazing, especially their margaritas and lemonade if looking for a nob-alcoholic option. Their servers are also extremely kind and diligent. I have no complaints about my experiences here. read more

Bad food, bad service, and just an overall bad experience. I should start off by saying I didn't choose to come here, I came here with a group and didn't even know this place existed even though I've been on Bell like a million times. So we entered the restaurant and was told we had to sit at the bar in order to receive the happy hour specials which looked pretty good $5 margaritas, sangrias and and mojitos EVERYDAY but our lovely bartender and I mean that in the most sarcastic way possible being that he did not greet us nor did he look like he wanted to be bothered; anywho he decided to take off the mojitos from the list so I opted for a mango margarita. Drinks come out and it's frozen, he didn't even ask if I wanted it frozen or on the rocks. The frozen margarita wasn't tasty either, it was really tart. I asked for margarita on the rocks instead and I get some eye rolls and attitude. He did give me the margarita but it was not good at all. The ice was already melting and it tasted like water with just a hint of lime. Yum right? I think not. Now for the food, I believe they give chips and salsa for free, I could be wrong either way they weren't good. Stale chips and flavorless salsa. We also ordered guacamole which tasted watery and no salt or garlic was added at all. For my meal, I ordered the super nachos with chicken to share with my friend and beef empanadas. The nachos were bad. Same stale chips with bland toppings, no good. My friend actually asked to send it back and of course we get attitude again. Whatever dude, it's not our fault the food was bad. But I will say the empanadas was really good, beef was actually seasoned and it came with cheese inside as well. The dipping sauce was also yummy. Long story short, I won't be back ever especially since I didn't want come in the first place. read more

We had the best time! The food was SO good! The drinks were amazing! 5 stars - authentic delicious food read more

Cinco de Mayo - a person eating at a restaurant - Mexican Near Me - Bayside, New York

I came here because my friend wanted to try it. We walked in and were seated right away. The staff were very nice and attentive. However, I was extremely dissatisfied with the food for the price it cost. They charge $19 for a Coronita Margarita drink when in order places they charge the most $15. It was absolutely ridiculous and not worth the money. On top of that, the food was also quite pricey and nothing special. Very mediocre. I was extremely dissatisfied with everything. Will I return? Probably not. Tequila Sunrise further down on Bell is much better! read more

This was the worst Mexican food I have eaten. We ordered fish tacos and it was so smelly. It wasn't the normal fried fish. It was salmon and it smelled bad. The steak taco was bad too didn't taste like steak. Will never order from them again. read more

Called ahead and was told that chips and guac came with the lunch special. Came for lunch and it turned out the woman lied. Food was alright for the price of the lunch special. Our pitcher of sangria was 60% ice, 37% juice, and 3% alcohol. For $32. ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS. Prices for alcohol are not displayed on the menu so beware. Super shady. Ordered flan but had to send it back (I literally NEVER send food back) - it was not fresh, tasted like it was store bought and had been sitting in the fridge for a while. Will never be coming back here. read more

We never got to try the food. I should have known by the handful of people at this place. We went in, sat down and walked out 5 minutes later due to the sour & funky smell in the place. I asked the server what was that funky smell and, of course, he said "what smell?" I was done at that point. I SHOULD HAVE READ THE REVIEWS FIRST. Let this be a lesson to everyone. read more

Many Mexican restaurants (as a matter of fact, All of the Mexican restaurants I've been to) give complimentary chips and salsa when you sit and order a dinner... Here's my story: I went to this place to get a quick bite to eat, and so I sat at the bar and asked if I can order a dinner plate and eat at the bar?.. the bartender says CHURE!, WHATCHU NEED? I ordered a sangria, and a dish about $16.00. My sangria comes quickly and I ask the bartender, can I please have some chips and salsa? his response: My friend, there is an extra charge fo dat. I said WHAT?, Since when?... he says yep, das da rules. I got up, threw $7 bucks on the bar and said "You know what?, Tequila Sunrise which is 2 blocks away don't charge for chips, this is ridiculous." The bartender says, with an attitude, THEN WHY DONCHU JUST GO DARE. I then said, that JUAN, from Tequila Sunrise is a better bartender anyway... and on my way I went to TEQUILA SUNRISE. TEQUILA SUNRISE: Better food, Better Bartender and COMPLIMENTARY CHIPS & SALSA! I'll never step foot in Cinco De Mayo ever again because of their nasty attitude and the way that Mexican immigrant spoke to me. read more

My roommates and I started going to this place when it first opened. We always had the whole place to ourselves and waiters ready to give us whatever we needed if we so much as turned our heads to look for one. Nowadays there are actually customers in there, but the service is still good most of the time (I will get to the glaring exceptions in a sec). Do order the sangria (red or white, both pretty good), don't waste your money on the guac (it's perfectly good, but there's definitely better out there). The only thing any of us ever ordered there (and we ordered almost everything) that wasn't absolutely tasty was the chorizo appetizer thing. Just. Don't. Do. It. So, food's great, takeout is always ready very quickly, bar's good. Just don't go there on Cinco de Mayo. They have no idea how to deal with a packed house and they leave people standing out there for three hours with no idea how long their wait will be, turning over a total of zero tables. Seriously. They have no idea how to push people out of there. And then there was this one time. We ordered our food and they gave us our chips and salsa and our drinks and the waiter walked right out the front (they have an open front) for a cigarette. Or we thought for a cigarette. And he just never came back. Busboys brought us immeasurable amounts of chips and salsa and our waiter never came back inside and, somehow, none of the staff ever brought any of the people in the restaurant their food (and none of us spoke enough Spanish to ask WTF). It was the strangest thing I've ever experienced in my life. We filled up on chips and left the amount of money we figured our drinks amounted to on the table and left. And no one at the place ever spoke about it again. read more

I wanted to like this place but honestly the food is down right bad. I had the paella and I can safely say that I've never disliked paella that much before. Absolutely no flavor, they just cut up pieces of chicken with bone and skin still attached and threw it in unflavored and it just tasted like an old dead bird in tasteless watery rice. We also ordered some chips and salsa b/c they don't give that to you and the tiny amount of salsa they gave with the basket of chips was enough for about 1/4 of the chips. If you want more salsa you have to order another $4 basket. The layout of the restaurant is fine and the location is great so the potential is there but this place needs brand new management and brand new chefs. Service was pretty slow and non-attentive. I want to support businesses but honestly this place isn't even average. It's well below. read more

I remember going to this place for dinner about a year or two ago, but I honestly don't remember my experience here. I just remember that I thought the food was just all right. So, earlier today, while roaming around trying to figure out a place to eat, decided to give this place another ago, since I don't remember this place that well. At first, I was really excited to see that they serve brunch: entree, one alcoholic drink and dessert (brownie & vanilla ice cream) for $10.50. We ordered a margarita on the rocks and a mimosa. The server even asked us three times to be sure what we drinks we wanted. So, we waited. Other people came in after us, gave their orders, and they got their drinks immediately. We waited. No drinks in sight. Our food came out about 20 mins later, without our drinks. We told the person that gave us our food that we still didn't get our drinks yet. He asked us what we ordered, and then, he went over to our server. I saw her frantically looking through her notepad. She came by our table again and said "your margarita on the rocks, right? With salt?" I said "yes." Then she said again, "so salt, yes?" I said "yes please." Then she walks away. She stands there by the bar, nobody at the bar to make our drinks. We were annoyed. After about 10 minutes, she starts making our drinks, and brings them to us. The margarita was decent; nothing spectacular. The mimosa was good. We ordered the huevos rancheros (two fried eggs on top of a fried tortilla, rice and beans) and the pork chops (two friend eggs on top, sweet plantains and black beans). The huevos rancheros was very disappointing; not very flavorful and the fried tortilla just was hard, flavorless and just felt out of place (especially in texture). The pork chop with the egg was pretty good, juicy and good flavor; the beans in the tortilla shell just didn't flow with the food. So, overall, the only thing good was the pork chop. Everything else was just okay. The dessert came, and it was very disappointing. The brownie was a bit hard, tasted a bit stale. The only thing that made it go down was the small scoop of vanilla ice cream. It was very underwhelming. Afterwards, we asked for our check. I see our server talking with two other men, writing and going through her notepad. It took her about 5-8 mins, and she walked over to us. She put her big calculator in front of me, and said. She said "okay, you ordered brunch, so that was $10.50", and then enters the numbers "10.50." And then says, "you had two" and then she adds "10.50." She says, "okay so you see your meal is $21." Then she shows me this receipt that had a lot of crossing out all over the place, and says, "so your tax will be 86 cents. So total $21.86, okay?" I was just so surprised by this, I didn't say anything. And she takes her calculator and walks away. Wow, what was that?! I honestly don't remember there being bad service when I had went here a year or two ago because I always remember bad experiences. The food just average, strange service, and a nice looking restaurant. Now, with this experience engraved in my memory, I will not return. Thank goodness I know better Mexican restaurants. read more

4 entrees 1 appetizer $75.30 (includes tip) nothing glamourous, but still alright. With large/good tasting portions and prices worth neither bragging nor complaining, Cinco de Mayo is a good neighborhood joint. I guess I could go with the BF here, but this restaurant wouldn't ever make it to a first 10 dates league. hmm... i guess this would also be a good place to get semi-sloshed when visiting old-time girlfriends in the 'hood. don't travel too far to get here-- unless this is THE closest Mexican restaurant you can get to. read more

Anyone else notice how many miserable people write reviews on Yelp? Cinco de Mayo is a wonderful Mexican restaurant. It is NOT a Tex-Mex place. Lunch specials are a steal and taste great. Blows the doors off other local Mexican places and is only slightly more expensive than fast food Mexican places. read more

As long as you don't walk into a Mexican restaurant in Bayside expecting too much (I mean seriously people, right?), Cinco de Mayo is fine for what it is. This starts with absolutely wonderful friendly service and treatment, with the owner taking care of you himself if he has the time. The place is a bit more fancy inside than its sign might lead you to believe, but the prices are fair and it all is in a pretty laid back atmosphere despite the white table cloths. I'm not exactly sure how happy hour works, but I think it exists because a friend and I had 3 beers and it costs $10... mine were 2 for 1 I guess? Or was the guy just that friendly? Either way, sitting at the bar to watch the USA lose to Mexico in a World Cup qualifier was a lot easier with the kindness of this place. I'll probably stay in Corona if I am eating Mexican in Queens, but for Bell Boulevard and Bayside, it's a highlight! read more

Went to their grand re opening and the service and food was horrible that I had to make a yelp account and warn you. As soon as my friend and I walk in, we see a waitress (who ended up being our waitress) flipping through the channels. We're literally just standing there waiting for someone to greet us and take us to our table. Some lady comes running towards us and seated us. Gave us ONE menu. Our waitress finally comes after finding her show and takes our order. My friend and I ordered a simple medium-rare steak with rice and beans and I kid you not... as soon as we saw our food, we were just speechless... first of all, our food didn't look presentable. Our rice and beans were on a separate small plate. I don't even know how to describe how little rice and beans they served us. Secondly, my friends steak was really salty and dry. Mine was medium rare but the top was burnt. I thought it was still gonna taste ok, but the burnt taste was strong. I cut half my steak off and ate few bites more, but I couldn't bear the bland taste of my steak. My friend ended up eating mine because he was just too hungry. Just save yourself and your money and go somewhere else. read more