Excellent food. Salsa in too small a bowl for the chips. Some of best food I've had in 53 years of trying Mexican food in Dallas. Service excellent. Clean nice interior. Ate 1/2 of my chile relleno there! Too much for me but 2 day's later still outstanding. We will be back soon! read more

Yesterday, my wife and I went to a joint called "Ernesto's Mexican Restaurant. A little hole in the wall in Garland, TX. As soon as we walked in the door we were greeted, seated and brought chips and salsa which I devoured. For starters, we had the guacamole salad and queso. We had to stop eating the queso and guacamole to save room for the main course because it was that good. My wife ordered the ground beef and shredded chicken enchiladas with all the fixings. They were very good with the red sauce and Spanish rice. The beef had a very good seasoning and the chicken had a taste like it had been marinated for a few hours. I had the beef fajitas. The beef was tender, succulent and seasoned well. The only thing that I didn't like was that the fajitas had a sweet taste to it. I believe the sweet taste was from sweet bell peppers or sweet onions, nevertheless, it was too sweet for my taste buds. We enjoyed ourselves, enjoyed the margaritas and the starters, but next time, I'll try some shrimp nachos. I give Ernesto's Mexican Restaurant three out of five drinks. Cheers! read more

Best chicken enchiladas around Chimmy changa is perfection, brisket filled with a flavor to die for.Good Eats, the food it prepared with Love, like it should be. Many times you go and eat enchiladas and the chicken is flavorless, Not Here. Chicken Enchiladas is Very Tasty the chicken itself is seasoned, together with the toppings makes for perfection. The Chimmi filled with Brisket was Excellent. Just the right amount of crispness with a smooth tender center, The sour cream and cheese topping was Delicious, The cheese topping is very good. Everything was served piping hot, Im thinking everything is made from a Family recipe like I say.. made with not only skilled hand but with pride, not many places serve food made with pride. They are Happy to serve you. Very friendly place. The waiting staff is fast to Take your order with smiles and are actually Very happy to give fast friendly service. The Dinning area is spacious with a decorative decor, Solid real tables, not those fake cheaply made tables like Panchos...Really tables for Real comfort, I don't know about yall but to me that means alot, no wobbly water glass spilling tables. Built for a Real Family. It kinda give you a Home Feeling. Most places have plastic fake plants... Well Here they are real. Snake plants, ivy plants and you can tell they are very well cared for. I've eaten in a lot of places that have decor with dust gathering on them, I can mention a few places where the dust hides from lack of real cleaning. Well, be sure this is not one of those places, you will enjoy clean fresh atmosphere here, its relaxing. Ernesto has come a long way for a family restaurant. No commercial hands here, all home made, not stuff out of a can. Theres plenty of seating, so if your tired of the same Ole chain restaurant bla bla. This is the place to go for lunch, dinner or happy hour for a nice meal. They do have a bar , what Mexican Restaurant doesn't...wait take that back...any Real Mexican Restaurant does. Well the menu has great choices, Try them out, Im sure you guys will enjoy the Atmosphere and the cuisine are Great. Oh..don't be surprised if you get addicted to Real Mexican Cuisine. read more

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Wonderful staff, attentive, friendly so helpful! Fun atmosphere and great Texmex! Relaxing neighborhood vibe

Perfect location in Garland next to the Texas DPS Driver License Center. Terrific Tex- Mex restaurant. Menu has traditional choices including enchiladas, fajitas, and tacos. The soft cheese tacos with queso and rice and beans combination was delicious. The soft tortillas corn and flour were steaming hot . The chips and salsa were a perfect starter. The atmosphere is open and the service was top notch.Ask for Rudy as your server extraordinaire. A great neighborhood restaurant. The bar was well stocked too. Add this to your favorites list . read more

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We ordered take out so I can speak to food quality. My husband ordered the tacos and I had chicken enchiladas. Still hot when we opened it and it was delicious. Rice and beans good too. read more

Their service is good, the beef enchiladas I had were really good but the frozen margarita is worth the trip! read more

Ernesto's Mexican Restaurant - Menus - Mexican Near Me - Garland, Texas

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I have been seeing the reviews of this place and doubting but it's a gem! I had the Mexican Flag Enchiladas and the green sauce has to be the best I have ever had. This place is like when your Mexican buddy invited you to dinner and you had the best Mexican ever (no offense). Great value, Great service, amazing food! I'm still stuffed! See you soon! read more

Ernesto's is an excellent place to eat. I've been going there for several years now so that says something by itself. The food is very good and I can always tell when I go to a restaurant that if the chips and salsa are good then the food will be good also. The staff there are mostly a family business and they are very friendly and attentive. Some of the best service and friendly people I've encountered. The atmosphere is very relaxing and clean. I try to make it in at least once a week but lately I've been on a diet trying to lose a few pounds. I think it's time for me and my girlfriend to make a trip there this week. I highly recommend you give it a try ! Get the chicken sour cream enchiladas or the Carne Asada. They are my favorites. read more

It was very clean, spacious. Wait staff was very friendly and attentive. Food was outstanding, there were three of us, and we ordered three different meals, and we all liked them !! And we are going back . read more

I have been going to Ernesto's for years and have always enjoyed the experience. This family owned restaurant is definitely worth the trip.

You can't go wrong at this place, awesome food and service !!! Great Menudo,and great tradditional mex. plates. read more

Ernesto's Mexican Restaurant - Mexican Near Me - Garland, Texas

Amazing Tex Mex family owned and operated. Chicken enchiladas and guacamole outstanding. They also feature Mexican beef soup that is very good. read more

We have been going to Ernesto's for over 30 yrs and love everything about this restaurant. The food is delicious. The chips and hot sauce are always fresh. Service is excellent and everyone that works there is always attentive and very welcoming! read more

We ate with larger group in a meeting. Their hot sauce was satisfactory but we've had better chips. The chicken dish was not great quality. My enchiladas were just satisfactory. This would not be my first choice. read more

We have visited several times and never left a review. This place has truly great authentic Mexican enchiladas, and the flautas are also really good. The food is consistently excellent. read more

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Wheelchair accessable but could use more extra space parking. Great service timings, personnel and food.

Love eating here! I recently discovered this place and my goodness it was tasty. The staff were very kind and the food was delicious. I look forward to bringing my friends here. read more

Jennifer was an absolute pleasure to be served by, a true beauty inside and out. Staff here is exceptional, vibe here is great, very clean, nice restrooms with changing table, and overall great food and happy hour!! Will be coming back! Most of all I came with my bestie and we had a grand time fr read more

Ernesto's Mexican Restaurant - Margggs - Mexican Near Me - Garland, Texas

Food taste so delicious!! Owners are nice and friendly, they take time to come to the table and say hi personally to see if everything is ok. Their staff are pleasant too. They have been around more than 20 yrs , good people good food!! read more

Food and service was awesome!! I don't usually go to Mexican restaurants but this one was legit!

This visit was my first. The customer service was good. My party and I went around lunch. It was not too busy. The menus are printed under a glass on the table (see pic). My party did not rave about their dishes. I had a problem with mine. I had the chimichanga. This dish is usually my go to dish at any new Mexican restaurant I go to, because it's the one dish I felt could not be messed up. There is a first time for everything. The outside was over fried and the inside was partly cooked. My waitress made it right by removing the charge from my ticket. I did not ask her too, but she noticed I hardly touched my dish. She asked if I wanted something else and I responded, "No. Thank you." As a result of her kindness, I will give them another try, but this first experience was not great. Ambience: 3 of 5 Service: 5 of 5 Food quality: 2 of 5 Price per person: 5 of 5 read more

Nothing to really special. Too expensive for the low quality of food that we ate. Service was really great and the people were nice but at the end of the day the food that we had was subpar for a tex mex restaurant that was supposed to be authentic. The ambiance of the place was good though very authentic of mexican culture and cuisine. read more

The personnel are very friendly and helpful. The food is always great! It's fresh and served hot, not just lukewarm like so many restaurants these days. We always enjoy it. read more

Ernesto is my favorite go to place and Garland. When you enter, you get to choose where you want to sit. They also have a banquet room if you have a large party I'm sure that can be reserved. They have a full bar and I always order a margarita. I'm a vegetarian so my favorite thing on the menu is las enchiladas Mexicanas. I always ask for a little bit extra sauce on the side and limes. Every time I go there always super accommodating of my child who will eat the enchilada salad and rice with only ground meat. I have brought several friends and family members here and everyone seems to love it. read more

Had a great supper here. Our waiter was a young man and he did a great job. Food was great and restaurant was clean.

Service was Great! Food.....I do not understand all of the good reviews. I've had better Mexican food in Colorado and that's not saying much. Queso was watery and tasted like it came from a can. Fajitas were bland and made to look like a large service. Most of it was peppers with very little meat. Bleh!! read more

First time coming here!! Took my Mom here for her 70-Something birthday tonight. Thank you Ernesto's for an amazing dinner and service. Everything was terrific. The shredded chicken on the enchiladas was to die for. My Mom also really appreciated the birthday sopapillas. It made her day very special. We will be back. read more

Ernesto's Mexican Restaurant - Amazing Chicken enchiladas!! - 1 with sour cream and 1 with green sauce. Rice and charra beans. - Mexican Near Me - Garland, Texas

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I saw this place quite by accident and checked out reviews which are very positive and decided to give it try. So, we went for dinner on a Friday night and it quite busy with families. It's a casual place that is not pretentious in any way. Chips and salsa were very good--chips were not greasy and the salsa had a bite but was not overly hot. Very flavorful. I liked it a lot. We started with bean and cheese nachos which the wife was not impressed with but I thought they were good for what they are, bean and cheese. If we ordered the deluxe it would have more flavor, but I wanted something simple. We ended up there during happy hour so my house frozen was only $4. The wife's house rocks was $6, not a happy hour price but regular price, still a good deal. They were flavorful and not medicinal, plus had a kick. I had the chicken fajita and it was among the best I ever had. Chicken was tender, flavorful and tasty. Really, really, good and at $12.95 it was a deal. The wife had the enchiladas Plobanas (yes, that is how you spell it) which were chicken enchiladas with mole sauce. She was not impressed with the mole but I thought it was not bad at all. Some other review mentioned poor quality rice and beans but I thought they were just fine. Nothing wrong with rice and beans at all IMO. Our server would disappear for periods of time but overall service was polite and friendly. I would return for sure, I liked this place a lot, more than the wife which means I am coming back here for lunches by myself. read more

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Good solid menu. Super staff. Have been going there for years! Hubby goes between El Cercado. Mexican flag. Carne asada. Shrimp & Spinach enchiladas are a family favorites & mine is beef fajitas. Margaritas are some of the best. They took the pandemic seriously with all the proper protocols. We are so glad to have them in our rotation read more

great value in their lunch menu. I got the lunch fajitas, they didn't come out on a sizzling skillet but they were absolutely delicious, and at 10.95 I got nothing to complain about. read more

Five stars for service. The staff is extremely nice. The restaurant is very clean. It's an older restaurant that has a "family owned" experience. It's no frills, but good food. The guacamole was very well seasoned. read more

First time there it was alright nothing to brag about but it passed the salsa needed work !

when you ask their st00pid hostile hostess to sit on the patio, the employees @ ernesto's should do everything to kindly make that happen. when something as simple as outdoor seating is ignored, we can simply go somewhere else to spend our dinero. read more

Damn good mexican place. I'd go back. My enchilada's were hot and tasty. They were working well with Covid and the Salsa was super tasty. Great place. read more

Ernesto's Mexican Restaurant - Damn good salsa - Mexican Near Me - Garland, Texas

Wonderful family run Mexican restaurant!Great service, friendly owners and servers. Great prices and menu selections. Alcohol is served. Food is Tex-Mex and enchiladas are delicious. So are the Chimichangas and Tacos. Chips and salsa are great. So is fiesta salad and guacamole. Clean and plenty big dining area for a party. Next to Jimmy's Burgers on northeast side of Saturn and Northwest Hwy. Tons better than On the Border. Daily specials menu 11-3). Senior menu and great Happy Hour Margaritas, $6 until 7pm. Open 7 days a week, 11-9. (Sundays, 11-3). Give 'em a go. You will return! read more

Ernesto's Mexican Restaurant - the dining area - Mexican Near Me - Garland, Texas

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This restaurant was recommended to me by Yelp, and I am very happy it was! In the case of this restaurant, I have to start with the staff. The ladies that work here are absolutely fantastic! I mean, you truly cannot find a better staff than the one at Ernesto's Mexican Restaurant. They all worked together, and they did it seamlessly and to perfection. To be honest, I am not even sure who my actual waitress was...and I mean that in the good sense. They were all so helpful that I really don't know who my waitress was. That is VERY RARE in the restaurant business these days. I don't know how many times I have gone to a restaurant and asked a staff member that was walking by if I could have a napkin, only to get the response, "yeah, let me go see who your server is". And I'm always like "Really, you can't just go get me a napkin real quick? I mean if you just tell me where they are I will go get it myself!". But this place was NOTHING like that. This place was ran perfect. This restaurant was one of the best ran restaurants I have ever eaten at. Thank you Ernesto's Staff for a great experience!!! Now let's talk about the food. Ummmm........all I have to say is brisket chimichonga! This was the best chimichonga that I have ever eaten. The rice and beans were amazing too. Even though I was full from my plate, I tried my wife's enchilada plate and it was excellent as well! And let me tell you, the salsa that you get with the chips is perfect! It's spicy and chunky and tasty! Overall, I absolutely loved this restaurant! I highly recommend this restaurant!! read more

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We are not from the area but stopped for lunch at Ernestos. The food was awesome and service was excellent. We will be back.

I love that it's authentic Mexican food in my neighborhood. I've never had a bad experience. I love the food and the people who work there. Very nice, polite and inviting. Me encanta que sea auténtica comida mexicana en mi vecindario. Nunca he tenido una mala experiencia. Me encanta la comida ey la gente que trabaja allí. Muy agradable, educado y acogedor read more

Food is awesome. Service is good. Waitresses and owner continue to come by and check to see how your food was and if you need anything. It's a great comfortable neighborhood restaurant read more