As a Mexican food enthusiast, I'm thrilled to sing the praises of this well run, cozy and delicious restaurant experience. We started with the Chaparro margaritas (not too sweet or overly boozy) and the George Poppers (must try! - savory, affordable and perfectly spicy app) Combo of house salsas with chips offer a range of fresh to savory flavors and the house made hot hot sauce added the heat we love in our Mexican experience. House special entree "tex" was only above average, but the street corn (they call corn on the cob) was perfectly (temperature) hot with crema, cheese, lime and salt served on the side for you to dress the corn as desired. use it all...Best we've ever had! Service was also notable. The darling boy seemed to anticipate what and when without being asked without "bothering us". Like a five star steakhouse. We are not locals, but will gladly make the half hour drive to eat here again! read more

Still a hometown restaurant where you see everybody you know on any given day! Great service and good prices! read more

Margaritas were good. Service was eh. The food was ok, portions were large but the food lacked any seasoning. It was extremely plain. I would go back for cheese dip, the guacamole dip and the 2 salsa. I really like both salsa a lot. Bar was huge! Place was busy so it must be popular. I wish it had less American and more Mexican flavors! read more

While I enjoyed the service and the take out queso I purchased to take back to the office for a party, my meal was a total disappointment. I was pleased with the chips and salsa... there was a spicier, slightly chunkier one that was very good. My meal was not good at all. It does take some skill to do poblano peppers correctly and it wasn't there. The peppers were very much over cooked and tasted old, the upgrade to grilled chicken was a costly mistake, and the beans and rice were ho hum. I think there are a couple of other Mexican restaurants to try nearby- I will move on. read more

El Chaparro - Chips and salsa... the darker of the two was great! - Mexican Near Me - Covington, Georgia

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Absolutely the best Tex mex in Covington! The food has flavor. Standard Mexican style restaurant and the service is always great!

Food was not good at all, very bland & margaritas were not good at all!!! Will not be back!!!

Good atmosphere but Tex Mex food was lacking in flavor and quality. Drinks tasted like a commercial Mix with sub par tequila. I ordered the "top shelf" house Marg. Disappointed. read more

Great Mex. There are several locations. Tasty salsa and chips. Can be bust weekends.... Worth the wait

Very solid food! This place stacked up to some of my favorite restaurants in Texas. Service was quick & courteous, margs were delicious, chicken was seasoned. No complaints from me! read more

The tamales and chili rellenos that I had were fabulous. The food was hot and fresh. The frozen margarita was delicious. And of course my server, Victor, was awesome as usual! This is the best Mexican restaurant ever! I just went yesterday and already thinking of when I can go back. read more

I have ate here many times The food is always great and so is the Service Their rate is always an A or 100% Reasonable priced as well Always cleaned The Best Mexican restaurant in Covington!!! I'd give this Restaurant a 10 plus on rating on a 1-9 rating read more

We had a party of 30 today. Alonso was our waiter and let me tell you, he was amazing!! This young man deserves to be recognized for his work ethic. The food was great as always. Thanks Alonso and El Chaparro for a great experience. read more

Steak Taco Mf Pastor Taco Mf Shrimp Taco Mf Waiters and cashiers are nice, your food is gonna take forever but it's good. read more

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The first time we tried this restaurant. Noisy and the ambiance is ok-typical strip mall restaurant. The service was excellent. The food was great EXCEPT the one chile relleno I had. It tasted very bad, I brought this to the attention of the server and the manager and they both basically shrugged their shoulders. Apparently this is not normal. If I make rellenos at home I make sure the chilis are not damaged or rotten. This one chili must have had a moldy soft spot but was overcooked and used anyway! There were two on the plate and the other one was ok. If you have a restaurant you have to use ingredients that are exceptional quality. I'm not sure if we will return because of this situation and last night, after about 7 hours and all of today I have been ill with diarrhea! Seriously, be scrupulous in your preparation and with the cleanliness of the kitchen!!!!' Since this was our first time here this has left us with no desire to return. I know things happen but be very careful with your preparation and ingredients. read more

Bland food. Service was ok. The burrito was flavorless and this was some of the worst Mexican food I've had.

I was there at 5:30 and the place was packed. Service was good, and the food was pretty quick considering how busy they were. Was a great meal, I would go back. read more

I regularly come to this restaurant with colleagues and I always enjoy the meal. During the week there are usually a lot of customers, and on Fridays you may have to wait a little while to be served, but in general it's always fast and the staff is very friendly. This is my favorite Mexican restaurant in Covington! For a beer and a dish you pay about 20$, which is reasonable. You have a large parking lot next to the restaurant so it's easy to park. You can also enjoy watching sports on TV, there are many screens available. You can also choose to sit at the bar or at a table in the dining room. I recommend this restaurant, if you want to eat a good meal, served quickly, and not expensive. read more

El Chaparro - Fajita quedadillas chicken - Mexican Near Me - Covington, Georgia

Blake is serving em up right!! Happy CincoThey got drinks pouring and chips slinging all day. Come get some!! read more

El Chaparro - Blake is serving em up right today. Happy Cinco!! They got drinks pouring and chips slinging all day....come get some! - Mexican Near Me - Covington, Georgia

Food is great, very affordable (large portions too), and plenty of seating. The margaritas are refreshing and delicious. We had the nicest server, I can't remember his name but he recently moved from Venezuela and he had the kindest soul and was so attentive. Would absolutely recommend! read more

El Chaparro - the front of a restaurant - Mexican Near Me - Covington, Georgia

My dinner was absolutely delicious! This was my first time here and I'll be back, my server was so fun and attentive. She kept the chips and salsa coming all night, the brown salsa was a hit! Also, they have recently expanded their restaurant so it's really spacious. read more

El Chaparro - Piña loca and mango salsa - Mexican Near Me - Covington, Georgia

We are from Texas where we have a lot of good Tex Mex spots. This place was awesome! Even during the week on a Thursday night they had the parking lot full. It seems you can call ahead and do a reservation or you can just walk in. Either way there was not a long wait. The dips were great! They had a wide variety of food to choose from, some that we don't even have in Texas. It all was very yummy. The service was great. The inside was nice and kept up. Their cheese and beef is made with ground beef instead of brisket like in Texas and with white cheese. Would go back again!! read more

El Chaparro - Mexican Near Me - Covington, Georgia

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What a Great Atmosphere for Great TexMex Food. We have been there five times this year and the service and food are Always GREAT!!!!!!!!

Yesssss!!!! Great Mexican food!!! Good customer service, ample parking and plenty of seating!! The roasted tomato salsa provided with chips while you wait for your food is 5 STAR! Service is quick and the portions are plentiful. The pineapple with chicken & chorizo was AMAZING!!! read more

El Chaparro - Pineapple with chorizo and chicken inside mango salsa on the side. - Mexican Near Me - Covington, Georgia

We stopped in passing through for cinco de mayo for lunch. It did not disappoint. The food was great. My husband ordered tacos and I had the chicken salad. They were attentive and we were checked on by several people and our server. Beer was cold. Tequila was delicious. Restaurant was clean. read more

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First of all, this is the first night after the winter storm that hit Atlanta and surrounding areas. Seemed like most of Covington came out to eat. Arrived at 6pm. There were quite a few people waiting to be seated. Fortunately we were seated in about 10 mins in the smaller dining area as you enter. The place was packed and the staff were hustling serving customers. Our waitress was very polite and helpful in making our dinner and drink selections. Within 10 minutes or so we had our meals. Unfortunately we were well into our dinners before our drinks came. Food was plentiful and good. Here's where things go downhill. Being seated in the smaller dining area in front of the door, every time people would come and go, we got blasted by cold air since the outside temperature was 34 degrees. When there were big parties arriving or departing, the door would remain open for long periods of time, i.e. 30 seconds. Several times we had to pull our coats up to stay warm. We must have waited for 30 minutes to get our check. The waitress leaned over the back of the booth where my gf was sitting to hand us the bill instead of walking 2 steps to properly hand it to me. My recommendation if you go here, is to request the MAIN dining area which is away from the front door. The restaurant needs to install a partition that would separate the dining area from the front door. read more

4 stars for a solid Mexican restaurant. My wife and I were checking out historic downtown Covington recently and were looking to grab some food. Unfortunately, places like Mystic Grill had multi-hour waits, so we decided to think outside the box. I then remembered a fun little Mexican restaurant I had tried back in law school called El Chaparro. Located in a generic shopping plaza on US 278 near the I-20 highway ramps, El Chaparro provides pretty much everyone one would want in a standard Georgia Mexican restaurant experience. We arrived and were able to grab a booth right away. The restaurant has that traditional yellow interior with some cool paintings in a set back style that gives the place a slightly unique flair. Our server came over to take our order soon after we sat down. She wasn't terribly charismatic and we only saw her a handful of times, but that actually works pretty well for me compared to some of the other negative service experiences I've had at other restaurants over the prior year. The work crew did bring out some fresh chips and 2 containers of salsa pretty fast that held us over as we waited for... our large pitcher of skinny margaritas! We planned to play a round of golf after lunch and thought this would be a good way to start. The alcohol content of the pitcher was a little weak, but it was a good size and getting the large (#thankyoupastexperience) provided us with a good margarita experience. We then moved on to ordering. We got George Poppers as an appetizer and I got the pollo relleno as my dish. The food came out in pretty short order. The George Poppers were a little spicy for me (my wife LOVED them), but my pollo relleno was excellent. It was really salty (a plus for me, maybe not for others) and came with some great mango salsa on top as well as plantains and solid french fries on the side. Plus, our entire bill was about $50, which is pretty awesome considering everything we received. Overall, El Chaparro provided us the good and tasty Mexican experience we wanted. While nobody will confuse this spot with somewhere like Superica, it definitely can hit the spot for you when you are in the area and craving some well-priced Mexican food. read more

El Chaparro - Pollo relleno...solid - Mexican Near Me - Covington, Georgia

Don't go to this filthy place, esp in the rain! You WILL skate on slippery grease from the front door, all the way past the bar and into the restrooms and ruin your shoes/ boots! If they're too lazy to degrease the public walkways, just imagine the kitchen! Beware! read more

Great Mexican restaurant located in Covington Georgia. The food is good. The service is great and the price is reasonable. They also do have great cocktails, especially margaritas. can have quite a wait, especially at dinner time on the weekends. read more

Good food with quick service. Things are a bit slower since they enlarged the restaurant size. We miss seeing Francisco in the restaurant. Papi is the best. read more

My sister and I had a nice sit down lunch here while in GA. I had a delicious steak burrito. It came with marinated steak, rice, onions, and peppers, pico de gallo, sour cream, and I had beans on the side. I also had a delicious red sangria. For dessert. Me and my sister split the churro. They were warm soft sweet and had chocolate drizzled on the inside. Delish! read more

DON'T ORDER THE SPECIAL NACHOS!! This is historically my wife and I's favorite Mexican restaurant in Covington. The service is usually quick and every entree we've ordered has always been great. I guess that's what made this visit so shocking. The restaurant was less busy than almost every other time we've been and it took over 30 mins for our food to come out. That's not really a super long time to wait but it took another 10 mins for my wife's "nachos" to come out which is pretty confusing when you look at the food we received. I guess it takes extra time to make 8 individual nacho chips vs the El Pasiano Special (cheese enchiladas topped with carnitas, grilled vegetables, queso, etc). It took that long because it had to have been 15-20 mins since the server had last been to our table last so she had no idea my food had been brought to our table and hers had not. So who knows how long it had been sitting there waiting for her to bring it. I think it took 45 mins before I even got the first refill on the Diet Coke I ordered. We ordered the "Special Nachos" and were pretty surprised that they weren't traditional nachos. We assumed that the "Special Nachos" was a special because they had sliced jalapeños and you could choose a protein such as steak or chicken instead of ground beef. I feel like if you are going to have a "special" that deviates that much from the norm, the server should inform the patron to mitigate the potential of disappointment. So either the server was just ignorant of the menu or doesn't care about the patron's experience. I'm assuming it was the latter because when she came back to the table (which was a good 5 to 10 minutes later), she could tell that we were confused by what we received so she asked if everything looked good. We asked if this is how the nachos were typically served and my wife said "she didn't realize that it came with melted cheese instead of queso" because the menu just said cheese for each nachos menu item. The waitress pretty much just told us that what we should have ordered was the "Nachos Mexicanos" instead of the "Special Nachos" which would have been great to know while we were actually ordering but seeing as we've never had nachos like this at any restaurant we've ever been to (except maybe Chilis) we didn't know to even ask that... My wife ate maybe half of the "nachos" because she didn't really like it and it wasn't really what she expected or wanted. So when the waitress came back she saw her plate, asked if she was done, and then stacked everything on top of the plate to take it away. My wife and I aren't the type of people to complain and request a refund because we don't really like to make a big spectacle while we are trying to enjoy a dinner out. We just asked for the check and it took the server over 5 mins to bring the check knowing that we were disappointed with the dining experience. It was very obvious that the waitress felt awkward but made no attempts to remedy the situation or anything. The worst part was this special nachos plate was $15-16 for 8 chips. The picture is after my wife ate one because I was so flabbergasted by this entree we ordered that I had to take a picture. It makes me not want to come back because of this experience and my wife and I come here at least once every week or two. The server was not very attentive to us, the service was slow despite it not being super busy (for them), and bad customer service. We weren't even specifically looking for them to not charge us for the entree but she wasn't empathetic about our confusion and disappointment by the "nachos" we received. When my wife was confused about there not being queso on these nachos, she could have offered to bring a small amount of cheese dip out or something. She just dismissively told us what we should have ordered instead which isn't good service. read more

El Chaparro - Special Nachos - Mexican Near Me - Covington, Georgia

If you want great service, great food at a fair price, this is the place for you. Always kind and friendly, the wait staff is top notch. My favorite place to eat in Covington. read more

We eat there often. Good food, good service. Nothing over spiced. Lots of choices. Even light dishes. They will make it like you want it.

Some of the best Mexican food I've had in a long time! It was hot, fresh and totally hit the spot!

Wonderful Mexican food. El Charro was a favorite restaurant of my families since the 80's. I got the Texas Fajitas which was a combination of beef, chicken, and shrimp. However, I was able to get just beef and chicken. It comes with grilled peppers and onions. This was enough for at least 2 people. You also get refried beans, guacamole, and lettuce. As an appetizer we got queso as well as the chunky guacamole. Both were delicious, as were their chips. Others at my table order the grilled veggies and one of the combination dinners. We all left very full and happy. read more

El Chaparro - Outside of El Charro after eating some delicious Mexican food. - Mexican Near Me - Covington, Georgia

Had a great time here for my first trip. The food was good and our server was very attentive. Prices seemed good compared to other Mexican restaurants in the area. The bar area looked really nice as well. I'll definitely return. read more

I have been coming here since I was a kid and I love it so much! So many birthday parties and lunch dates. And the food is so delicious ALWAYS! Never had a bad meal I highly recommend, and the service is so amazing as well! read more

We love going here. The place on Friday is like going to a big, festive party. The service is good. We always enjoy most of their food. I like the favor of their steak but is sometimes tough. I stick to the chicken and shrimp. Great place to meet friends and family. read more

Tried this spot out about 3 years ago and I really enjoyed the food. I had the carnitas plate. This evening I wanted a burrito so I was in the area and decided to stop by. I ordered a carne asada burrito to go and I was told they didn't have carne asada, that should have been my first clue that something was amiss. I asked if they had carnitas and she replied "yes" so I ordered a carnitas burrito. When I got home what I had was carnitas wrapped in a flour tortilla..that's it! That is not a burrito! I wasted my money and I am still hungry . I won't be returning. Bella Vista you never disappoint, I won't cheat on you again. read more

El Chaparro - This is their poor example of a burrito. Never again. - Mexican Near Me - Covington, Georgia

They have updated and expanded the dining area. Busy on taco Tuesday. Everyone seems to like the pineapple special and they have buy one meal. Get one meal free on certain nights. Good tasting food. read more