Fiesta Grill is always busy- always. The reason is that the food is delicious- always. The owners are almost always there and taking care of customers along with their long-time staff. Very friendly and accommodating. There is always an active buzz in the restaurant but not to the point of being difficult to have a conversation. The ambience is very casual and family friendly. We have been going there or getting takeout for almost 20'years and they never disappoint. read more

Tasty! Good variety of items. Could be a bit more spicy but excellent flavors. Will be back.

Finally had a day off to stop by for lunch. Sadly the food was only mid, I asked for extra spicy but received a very plain entree, the choriqueso was ok, but the chips are hard as rocks. The small portion of hot salsa didn't help much. The staff was very nice and considerate. I'd try it again if I was ever nearby but it's a hike into the wilderness for us. read more

November 22, 2025 By far the most authentic Mexican food I've had in years. Small capacity 10 or so tables, casual atmosphere, excellent service. The chicken mole, which is impossible to find- authentic, is amazing...moist white meat baked in mole sauce for several hours. Steak tacos and beef chimichanga were delicious with generous portions, unlimited ice tea at very affordable prices. read more

Excellent food. Great owners. Always welcoming and warm. Prices are great and selection is large.

The food was delicious and fresh and the service is very friendly and attentive. I went alone for a late lunch and really enjoyed myself.

Great, friendly service and delicious food! Highly recommend the burrito de pollo. You can be full and still bring 1/2 home. Not the fanciest place for certain but the food and friendliness make up for it! read more

Delicious food. Great service. Great prices. Cool people. Been missing SoCal style combo plates. If they were closer to me I would eat there 3 times a week. read more

I'd only been here once, many years ago when a friend suggested it. I live way over in Durham so don't get over this way much. I was on my way to Burlington for a covid vax last week and decided to stop here for lunch first. Unfortunately the dine in was still closed so I just ordered and ate in my car. The staff is super friendly and taking great care to make sure all the safety protocols are in place. I know they'd love to reopen for inside diners, but I appreciate their caution. On that first visit way back when I had one of their massive burritos that was incredible. This time I decided to try the chicken mole enchiladas. OMG, it was absolutely incredible from the very first taste. The portion is enormous and it comes with beans and rice. So much that I barely made a dent in it, but that's ok, I had leftovers! Their salsa is very good, but I wasn't crazy about the chips. Thicker and smaller than I'm used to at other places and not warm at all. But the mole is absolutely to die for!! When I go for my second shot in a few weeks I'm coming back for some more of their heavenly mole! Ole! read more

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Ok. Gonna make this real easy. The best Mexican food around here for the last 20 some years. Hidden local gem. Everything they offer is outstanding. Believe the hype. Get some before they decide to retire one day and you end up missing out on some seriously good food. Awesome staff and food. Get some. read more

Food is great, portions are large and the price is good! I had the chicken burrito and it was overstuffed with chicken.

This is my area favorite for Mexican. I have had various enchiladas and look forward to the fajitas.

I had a great steak burrito there recently that was well worth the purchase price. I ordered the food to go and then went out and sat in the car for 15min. In not time it was ready and I was on my merry way. read more

I had been away from North Carolina for 8 years and Fiesta Grill was the first place I returned to and it did not let me down. Hands down the best Mexican food I ever ate, possibly my favourite restaurant anywhere. From the outside, you might almost be scared to stop there but it is well worth it. Everything starts with the incredibly nice and friendly staff. Then there is free chips and salsa, I believe both are homemade and both are great. I had the Fajitas, and they are hands down the best I've had anywhere. My wife and son loved their shrimp enchiladas. The only problem is last time I lived in North Carolina, I put on 70 pounds and still blame Fiesta Grill for it. read more

Great service, Food is excellent and the big burrito is enough for 3 or 4 people. Great place read more

Don't take the three stars harshly but I do serially judge every place I eat in order to hopefully have someone read it and want to look at what might need to be improved. The food is delicious I've been coming here for years and 7/10 times (that's pretty damn good) is how good a time I have here, that being said it is a small business and parking is not much and dinning in is tricky because it gets filled up fast. The food quality is good the chips are normally always good and the pricing compared to other Mexican restaurants is amazing. The waiters are amazing and the owners are as well. It would be great if they could expand just a little so they could have more tables and also better parking but nothing to big that it looses its touch, one thing I disliked is that a lot of people order food to go and sit at tables drinking a beer waiting for their food and then stay there longer while some dine in customers could be getting seated and eating instead they leave. read more

Best Mexican food you can get in the area! They have very authentic dishes if that's what you're looking for and also the "normal" Mexican dishes most people look for. Very fresh ingredients and an EXCELLENT staff. read more

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I was on my way to Chapel Hill to baby sit for my sister who lives right down the road from this restaurant, so she treated me to dinner and suggested this spot . She called in a take out order for me and I picked it up on my way to her house. I had never been there before, so I had no idea what to expect. This is a no frills type of place, very casual. The man behind the counter was SO friendly! I didn't take any pictures because it was take out and I honestly didn't think it would rock my world like it did! Holy cow! It's the next day and I'm STILL thinking about how incredible the food was. I am normally an al pastor type of gal, but my sister ordered me a simple beef taco, chicken enchilada, rice, and beans. The chips and salsa- WOW!! Everything was amazing. I'm seriously wanting to drive back out there right now and get it again. So. Good! read more

Authentic Mexican Food! Very delicious! Great Services! And the price is reasonable! Recommend it! read more

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Food was excellent. Homemade Mexican food with taste, quality and good price. Although not a large restaurant, this is our go to place for Mexican. Order anything on the menu and go frequently read more

A group of friends and I happened upon Fiesta Grill on the back roads from Chapel Hill to Mebane. We were immediately greeted by friendly faces who helped expand a table for our party of 6. They started us off with some chips and salsa, both which were delicious. We added an order of guacamole, which came with more chips and some sour cream. The chips were excellent - they were thick and substantial, which I like as opposed to the thin store-bought chips. The menu is extensive and covers a lot of ground. I went with my go-to, a burrito - and decided on the Burrito de Chile Colorado, which had beef and refried beans, and was covered in red sauce. The menu was accurate in its description, so it was my fault that I failed to realize there wouldn't be any lettuce, tomatoes, etc, in the burrito. However, there isn't - so be warned. It had good flavor, but the meat-and-beans-only inside the burrito was heavier than I was expecting. It's also a HUGE burrito - honestly probably enough for two people. I ended up eating most of it, but I was particularly hungry for that meal. The service was friendly, and our food came out a little slower than I would have hoped, but it wasn't painstakingly slow. The pricing is reasonable for the amount of food you get. Also, they had a 100 sanitation score, which is pretty impressive. read more

Mediocre from beginning to end. So ordinary with so-so service. I don't understand why this place is popular.

A sweet little spot on Highway 54 west of Carrboro. Flavorful and delicious food! Friendly service.

I've eaten here twice and did not enjoy the food either time unfortunately. It's simple and if you want straight up stick to your ribs that's pretty much three ingredients put together in different ways and your favorite flavor is salt then you'll love it but it made it inedible for me. It's better than armadillo grill at least. read more

Best authentic Mexican food in the triangle, I mean it! California based and finding good Mexican food has been such a challenge, but not anymore! Delicious! read more

Super busy place with great food and super nice people. Service is a little spotty although they try rly hard. I have used them for catering as well as just family dining. They are just so busy. They need more staff. read more

My husband and and I always make a point to stop here for lunch if we're in the area. I'm from SoCal and he's from El Paso, so we take our Mexican food very seriously. This place is fresh and tasty, and the staff are always very friendly. Nothing bad to say, except I wish they were closer! read more

Some of the best Mexican food around - be sure and try the mole yea Chapel Hill Classic read more

Food is authentic and high quality products used. The service is right on they are there to please you. It's clean and appointed like most restaurants of this type hats and plenty of articles about the restaurant! read more

The availability of very good to excellent Mexican food has increased enormously in almost all parts of North Carolina since Fiesta Grill first opened its doors almost 15 years ago, yet this restaurant continues to serve up some of the very best traditional and Tex-Mex dishes in the state, for our tastes at least - sans frills, fads, and assorted trendy BS! And despite its location, diminutive size, and minimal ambiance, it has provided a consistently outstanding dining experience when that fresh tasting, perfectly seasoned food is coupled with fast, very friendly service, and has done so for all of those 15 years. The menu here is broad, and there literally is something for everyone, and almost everything is made fresh, in house, and that is at the center of why their food stands out in a rising tide of competition. We came early this Sunday because I'd been craving Huevos Rancheros for quite a bit, and few do it any better than here. We'd spent a good part of the drive from Greensboro discussing what else we'd order, no easy task since we have so many, many favorites on this menu. The Carnitas, Enchiladas Suiza, Chile Relleno, hard shell Taco (sorry, but from time to time I like one), Tacos Mexicano (soft street style tacos), Crab Enchiladas (real crab meat & plenty of it), Chile Verde, Steak al Carbon, Pork Adobo, Nando's Burrito, and Bravo's Burrito are all dishes we've enjoyed a number of times. On the weekends, they add Menudo (the only version of this soup I've really liked) and Tostadas de Ceviche (excellent fish here). So, most of the drive time was indeed needed to whittle it down, a real part of the fun on these "foodie" road trips. We ordered the Huevos Rancheros, a Chile Relleno, a Chicken Enchilada with Verde Sauce, and 2 Tacos Mexicanos (1 Carnitas, 1 Carna Asada), and started with their Cheese Dip to begin the meal, along with the excellent house Salsa. The Cheese Dip is very good, and the salsa here is among our very favorites - quite chunky (nice size pieces of tomato and onion), loaded with fresh cilantro, and brings the heat - the kind that builds and stays for awhile, pleasantly so. The chips are made in house, and are thicker than most, and are toasted - an excellent start to the meal. The Huevos Rancheors ($8.95) begin with very crisp tortillas (much like the chips mentioned above), which are then spread with refried beans, smothered with ranchero sauce & cheese, and topped with 2 fried eggs, and to round out the plate, there is even more refried beans and their outstandingly seasoned rice. This entire combination was huge, and as always, simply excellent. The Chile Relleno (here you can choose mild or hot, so hot it was) was outstanding - the heat was present as requested, the pepper quite crunchy & very tasty, the seasoned beef plentiful, then the whole thing smothered in cheese - those who want a truly "authentic" Mexican dish need look no further, though sadly, most will not recognize it as such! The Tacos Mexicanos are huge, and while the price of $3.65 may be daunting to the fiscally conservative, and will absolutely scare the crap out of the simply cheap, what you receive will make 4 of the typical $1.50, skinny, "Taco Tuesday", type street tacos. These were superb, and the tenderness and flavor of the Carnitas were as good as it gets, imho. The Chicken Enchilada was no less outstanding, for our tastes at least - as Alice said, it is exactly like the ones we fix at home. The chicken is tender, obviously slow cooked, exploding with flavor on its own, but when smothered in a Verde Sauce that causes you to understand the importance of the tomatillo to this sauce, it moves to a whole different level. I can not think of a better way to spend a hot, lazy Sunday morning than this - driving down the memory lane that is NC Highway 54 from Burlington to Chapel Hill, enjoying an incredible meal that was exactly what you wanted and needed in every way, and then the return ride, totally satiated in body, mind, and spirit - Come on Monday, bring it!. read more

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Consistently delicious food and amazing service. Their margaritas are absolutely delicious and I've never tried a dish there. That wasn't amazing. read more

Great home made taste Mexican cuisine. The steak dishes are great and the burritos are so filling you gotta take the rest home.

We have eaten inside and take out. Food is consistently good and enough for a lunch when ordering fajitas. I like to order a fajita Oder with meat. Then order a vegetable fajita. We share everything and usually we have enough left overs for us both to have a lunch the next day. read more

Phenomenal food and great people and a friendly environment. If you've never tried it, do yourself a favor and stop by !

I had such high expectation for this place after reading the reviews--and while it was good, it was not as amazing as I'd hoped. Ambiance - unbecoming hole in the wall restaurant off the highway. Friendly service. Menu- extensive. Almost too many options. Per prior recommendations we go the mole chicken. The chicken was very soft and well cooked. If you're a fan of mole sauce I'm sure it was a good one-- but i personally would not recommend it. Also got the carnitas which were soft and with good flavor. I'd recommend them but not a must have. Overall good value with above average Mexican food. Definitely not my favorite in the area but Id give it another try! read more

Fiesta Grill - Chicken mole. Chicken was very moist and well made. Mole sauce was not my favorite but it turns out I'm not a fan of molé! - Mexican Near Me - Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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Chile Colorado is amazing. Chile Verde is top notch. Everything on the menu is great, I haven't had a bad meal yet.

This is some of the most authentic Mexican food I've had in ages. And it comes from a place that looks like it might be part of a gas station? Yep. If you're only going to try one thing, make it the chicken mole. If you're going to try two things...try the guac (it's amazing). They cater, which is great if you're throwing a fiesta of sorts, and the owner is incredibly nice--he'll likely help you load the food in the car! read more

All about the food! So good, fresh and a cute hole in the wall. Go at off times, lines are generally long. Very friendly service!!

Good food. Great service. Chuey always has a smile and takes good care of us. Low price for the amount of food you get. One burrito is 3 meals! read more

I'm a California native living in NC. This is the first Mexican restaurant that has been anything like what I've been craving. Is it better than your favorite place back in Huntington Beach, Ventura, or Fresno? No. But they use cilantro and lime, there's no funky sweetness in their salsa, and their mole doesn't just taste like brown salt paste. It would be like 3.5-4 stars in San Diego. But it's 5 stars here. PS The carnitas taco is probably the best pork I've had since moving here. Definitely top three. read more