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Garcia's Mexican Restaurant

3.9 (124 reviews)
ModerateMexican, Seafood
Closed • 11:00 am - 9:00 pm

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Moderate noise
Outdoor seating
Dogs allowed

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Nachos
Bethany C.

Best Mexican restaurant in Frankfort. We eat here regularly for dinner, or girl's night. Great beer and margarita selection, as well as menu variety. My husband's favorite is the barbacoa tacos. I often order chicken soft tacos, nachos, chimichanga, quesadilla, taco salad... you can't really go wrong. Nice bar area, but we usually sit in a booth which provides a bit of privacy. Service is excellent. Only one stall in the women's restroom, but always clean.

Las Mulitas
Jason A.

Food was good. Scenery was good. Service was poor. Need to work on the service. Sat with empty drinks and empty chips for a long time. Even after our waitress left to go get us more. Finally had to get another waitress to get our waitress.

a plate of mexican food
Jennifer P.

We stumbled upon this place while visiting other shopping establishments. The amazing smells coming from within lured us in. It was a Friday night around 7:00ish. We were immediately greeted and sat. The salsa is brought out to you already poured in a bowl. I'm not fond of this, but I've noticed many restaurants are now doing it this way. The salsa was sooo good! Could tell is made fresh with fresh ingredients, even my 11 year old commented how fresh it tastes. Chunks of onion and tomato- not runny or bland- perfect spices. Our food came out at a descent speed and was hot. So yummy and nice portion size ( see pics). Prices are average. Service was nice. Would absolutely come back and plan too!

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Susie L.

We were invited to meet some friends at Garcia's for dinner. Of course you can't go wrong with good company for dinner. When we arrived we entered the restaurant knowing that some of our party were already there as my husband recognized the vehicle we parked next to. We were greeted at the entrance by two male employees and told them we were there to meet some friends. The dynamic duo tried to set up a location for us to eat. They didn't comprehend that we knew some of our party were already inside. Fortunately in their search for a table they came across a female employee that knew exactly where our party was seated. Whew! After being seated the server took our drink orders. Nothing too difficult, an unsweetened ice tea and a water. After the final two members of our party arrived and were served their drinks the server returned to take our food order. My husband ordered the Chile relleno dinner and I ordered the Taco salad with ground beef. Other members of our party had been to Garcia's before and Fish tacos seemed to be the dinner of choice. When served all the hot dinners came out first and I was told my salad was being made. No problem. Unfortunately I was less than impressed with my salad. There was NO meat of any kind. The lettuce chunks were way too big to stuff in my mouth. There were a number of strips of carrots that were three or four inches long and too chunky to cut in half. There was one small scoop of sour cream and guacamole on the top but otherwise the salad was quite dry and flavorless. I poured some left over salsa from the chips on too to make it edible. I think I ordered the wrong thing. The other dinners looked like they were all enjoyed but I did notice the gentleman across from me putting fork full scoops of salsa on his fish tacos. The waitress towards the end grumbled about her long working hours for the day so she wanted payments to be as easy as possible. Since I was seated at that end of the table I'm not sure if I was the only one that heard her grumbles. We were an easy group of diners that had not made many demands on her time. The best part of dinner, good company. Second best, good fresh salsa. After that I'm being generous with my rating based on others enjoying their dinners.

Lunch chorizo & chicken
Ashley E.

Typical Mexican menu with lots of choices. The chips and salsa was delicious. Salsa had a great flavor, pretty mild but yummy. Had a late lunch and the service was quick and great. Waters were always being refilled, food came out quick! I got the chorizo & chicken lunch special and my friend got the shrimp tacos. Both were served with rice and beans, the rice has corn mixed in. Chorizo, chicken and cheese was yummy! Can't go wrong with that combo!

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Brandy T.

The people who waited on me were very nice. However, a few employees were loudly arguing in the background one woman in particular was yelling so loudly it was very awkward. It sounded like an argument over margaritas. Finally my food came everything was ok until I saw something weird on my plate. Upon further inspection I discovered it was a metal shaving. Yum.

Molcajete and tropical margarita
Jeremy M.

Garcia's is a nice change of pace from the same old Mexican restaurant you can find in any city in the area. The food seems extremely fresh and made from scratch. The molcajete was delicious and the daily special tropical margarita was good and strong. Everyone agreed that Gracias was a great choice for dinner.

Steak Fajitas

I left Kentucky almost ten years ago. Today I was in town and could not pass up the chance to stop into Garcia's for lunch. They still have the best steak fajitas I have ever had.

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Great food. Great service. We eat here all the time. Everything we've tried is terrific. It's our go-to restaurant in Frankfort.

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The food was decent. Customer service was as expected. The food was delivered quickly and their salsa was great.

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The food is good. The servers are fantastic. We've gone here a couple times for lunch, and have not been disappointed.

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Dropped in because our first choice was closed. This is our new first choice. Great food with a wide variety and fast, friendly service.

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