I was visiting family and had to go back in time and visit Mexico Steak House. I first walked in here and had lunch back in 1974. I became a regular after that day. The carne asada al carbon was my go to every time. It was the best skirt steak consistently every order. I remember the owners well as they were very personable and inviting. I remember a little girl going back and forth from the kitchen area helping as she was the daughter of this fine couple. Many years go by and I had been living in many places around the globe while playing music.. I came back years later and the little girl was grown up and running the restaurant that her parents had started. I told her how I remembered her and have been a customer for many years. I remember a full order of carne asada plate lunch/dinner with 2 strips of the tasty outer skirt steak was $3.50 back in the 70's. Nice going back to a place from decades ago.. Hope it continues for decades ahead..Enjoy.. read more

This is what a large nacho looks like for $20. a handful of chips with slices of american cheese on it. unacceptable read more

Mexico Steak House - Steakhouses Near Me - Chicago, Illinois

Everyone here is very nice. That being said, this is one of those places that you order from as a last resort. It's good enough. It's more TexMex than authentic Mexican. read more

While the service at the restaurant was exceptional, the disappointment lies in the food quality. Unfortunately, the culinary experience didn't match the level of service provided. I wist I would have seen the reviews before eating at the Mexico Steak House. read more

A great neighborhood, no frills sit-down or takeout joint. Carne asada and house-mde chips always great, other food is good in general, but skip the chewy fried ice cream and dry chocolate cake. Service is friendly and prompt. read more

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Steaks are excellent, Milanesa is a full size order and cooked perfectly. The meats are well seasoned, moist, and tender. Enchiladas de Mole are good, chilaquiles are like how my mom made them "Migas", they just a little overboard on the cheese sometimes. Their Guacamole is excellent, as well as their chips. Their service is excellent. Bathrooms are clean and roomy. read more

I haven't been here since pandemic started ... and I'm glad I stop by so delicious and parking is free on the streets ... steak is super soft read more

Best skirt steak EVER!! the service was outstanding.. super friendly.. would definitely recommend a visit to this classic establishment

A relative recommended this restaurant, and we were glad they did! Great service ordering/picking up food. Considerate portions of skirt steak in all tacos. The salsa was not spicy at all, so if that's your thing, then it won't disappoint. We will return again. read more

Mexico Steak House - 3 Skirt Steak Taco dinner - Steakhouses Near Me - Chicago, Illinois

Excellent steak tacos and the beans & rice Also the soup they give you for appetizer is very good service is awesome all the time and prices are reasonable I highly recommend this restaurant read more

I came here with my boyfriend and my parents on Saturday evening around 6 pm. It was our first time at this neighborhood joint and we were greeted by our friendly server Blanca. This place is a family owned establishment and their pride shines through. There were two other tables when we walked in. The dining area itself is not "fancy" at all, it is comparable to what other BP Mexican joints look like (think Taqueria San Jose, etc). I was surprised at how large this place was, though, on the inside. Plenty of seating. When we sat down, we were immediately brought two baskets of housemade chips for 4 people, on the house, with housemade red salsa and salsa verde. I like the chips, they seem less greasy than other places, and the two salsas are tasty with a small kick - my favorite was the red! We ordered 2 large horchata drinks and they were very tasty. Soup came on the house- a vegetable and noodle soup in small bowls, pretty tasty but I tasted some dishwasher residue in my bowl??? When we ordered, they asked us how we liked our meats to be cooked- I told them medium anticipating many places to overcook the meat, but theirs came out perfectly. Plus, steak is supposed to be eaten charred in Mexico (well done), so I wanted to gauge how they would actually cook it when I told them medium instead. Every plate came with rice, beans, lettuce, tomato, and tortillas. We ordered the: $16.75 carne a la tampequena (skirt steak topped with cheese, avocado on the side This dish was tasty, but the portion of steak was significantly smaller than the carne asada- hence the slight price difference? My bf ate this one and said the carne asada was the best meat he had ever had. $13.75 bistec ranchero (rolled steak in ranchero sauce) My mom had this dish, and it was a MASSIVE piece of pounded steak in a tomato and onion based savory sauce. The cut of beef used is not as tender like the skirt steak, but it was still extremely flavorful and tender due to the pounding. The ranchero sauce was so good- I stole a couple spoonfuls of it alone! $18.75 Carne asada Oh man. GET THIS when you come, and don't look back. Two giant pieces of delicious steak, marinated in the secret combination of citrus juice and spices. The flavor profile on this is delightful. My dad smashed this dish. $16.75 Combo Skirt Steak and Chile Relleno (stuffed bell pepper with cheese) I got this dish, and honestly, it was the most disappointing dish. The skirt steak piece was not very large, but the Chile relleno was massive- probably a more cost effective move on the restaurant's part. The Chile relleno did have a lot of cheese in it, though. The skirt steak was tasty like the other few dishes. For dessert, we split an order of fried ice cream and an order of flan. The flan here has a cheesecake instead of eggy consistency, which I enjoyed-- however, it was definitely not your typical flan. we also got the fried ice cream which came in a beautiful massive plate- it was rolled in corn flakes and adorned with whipped cream and strawberry syrup. Our total came to $100 including tax and tip for 4 entrees, 2 large horchata, and 2 desserts. This restaurant is pricier than many other comparable BP establishments, but you really do pay for the quality of the food. We will be back again for the fried ice cream and CARNE ASADA. read more

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I've been a loyal customer for over 25 years... probably many more than that. As of late, I have been dissatisfied with the food, mostly it's authenticity, and can't believe the skyrocketing prices. A dinner that would have cost me $45.00 a year ago, last week cost me over $80.00. That's ridiculous! Being a member of the community, I wonder if this has anything to do with Tacos Erendira, having closed, which was getting huge money for their great food. I believe Steak House has thus become greedy. MISS YOU STEAK HOUSE... please come back! read more

I don't frequent here often. However, when I do the staff is always amazingly hospitable. I appreciate the warm atmosphere, the attentive service, and the great food. read more

Mexico Steak House - Pozole.. I asked for avocado.. across the way was enchiladas.. - Steakhouses Near Me - Chicago, Illinois

My first time here and was very happy with food. I ordered the Pozole Sopa and it was very good. Plenty of meat and ingredients. I put a little salt in it and it was perfect. I also loved their chips! They were so tasty and crispy. I ordered the guacamole to go with the chips and it was a great combination. Totally recommend this place. read more

On March 4, 2022 I ordered Menudo from Mexico Steak House. Within 24 hours I had running and uncontrollable diarrhea for five days. The first two days I was also throwing up. Today March 10th is the first day that I am back to normal. My recommendation is that the owner monitors the preparation ,refrigeration and food handling. Does the owner have the required City of Chicago certified food service sanitation manager training. The cashier was my waitress and she stated she was the manager. BEWARE! read more

Excellent service and good food! The chicken or steak fajitas are amazing, & the carne asada is the best in the City hands down!

Steak taco dinner is always my favorite choice when coming here. The staff is quick and welcoming. Very clean and great space not to big not to small. Everything is always seasoned perfectly and cooked just right. They have been around along time and I hope they continue. It's one of my favorites. read more

Best Mexican food in Bridgeport. Don't be fooled by imitators. The steak is some of the most tender you'll ever find on a tortilla. I prefer to eat a la carte. Two steak tacos and one pepper steak taco served with chips and soup is all I need. Burritos are big. Staff is very nice. read more

There is no shortage of Mexican restaurants in Bridgeport, but I have to say the Mexico Steakhouse is my favorite. The chips and salsa are great along with the soup, and the steak tacos are my favorite in the area. The restaurant is small and there's only street parking, but it's a great place. Highly recommended! read more

Sorry, but don't think I would return. Service was nice and friendly, but the food wasn't that great. They give you chips and salsa and a little bowl of soup. I had the chicken tostados and thought the chicken was a bit dry and not much flavor. The salsa didn't really add much to help it. They are a smidge more expensive than some places. I don't mind paying if it was good, but it just wasn't. read more

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This place is awesome! A coworker and I came on a recommendation from a colleague, without knowing anything about the place. Man did we hit the jackpot. Every single thing we had was well done - in the homestyle way they would be good if you went to an aunt or grandma's house. Chips and two salsas (and more than plenty of each), fideo soup, carne tampiqueña, an enchilada, rice and beans... Even the tortillas were hot and fresh and awesome. Nothing unusual, but everything perfectly done. Cute place, nice people. We'll be back! read more

Mexico Steak House - Steakhouses Near Me - Chicago, Illinois

I've been eating here for over 10 years. I always get the same couple of things Tampiquena, chilaquiles, carne asada and very often pozole. I see a lot of reviews about dry chicken dishes and bland food. I personally feel they specialize in STEAK(Mexico steak house). Being a foodie like myself I know where to order what? For instance you do not go here and order a torta, burrito or anything like that...IMO and in my experiences. I love their homemade chips and their chilaquiles are very unique and different from other places. Service is always great and in my experiences the food is always great! read more

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My bf has literally been coming here all his life for Mexican food, and he quickly turned me onto this amazing place! The owners know him by name, every time we order take out or come to dine in, we are always greeted with a smile and kind words. When you dine in, you get free soup, salsa, and chips, and the soup is THE BEST SOUP EVER. I'm not even exaggerating. It's like this delicious veggie filled vat of goodness and omg when we order take out we usually need a quart of the soup!!! Their steak is amazing, but I love veggie Mexican dishes, and they make me the best veggie quesadillas I've had. Avacado tacos are also to die for. Hidden gem that makes everything taste even 10x better: the Ranchero sauce. It's a warm, salsa-like sauce that you can dip chips into or spread over your tacos or meal. So flavorful and delicious. This is our favorite Mexican spot in the neighborhood, well worth every penny!!!!! So yummy!!! read more

Mexico Steak House - Avacado tacos :) - Steakhouses Near Me - Chicago, Illinois

For the longest time I had a taste for machacado so I found this place online. The machacado was ok, but It was missing something. My hubby ordered pozole which came plain and then he had to add condiments to fix it up. He also said it was ok. Prices were affordable. Place is smaller but have enough seating. Service was pretty quick. Parking is Street. read more

Great food. Wish they served alcoholic beverages. It would make it an even better dinner spot. The employees are great and super friendly.

Can't believe what has happened to their food here! Ordered a steak taco salad and was served pieces of beef like pot roast that they serve in their caldo de res chopped up (beef shank). Similar to Barbacoa and when I brought it to the serves attention she went back in the kitchen to show me carne molida and the same water logged beef shank cut up on the plate and said this is the only steak we carry. Mind you my husband was eating carne asada. She was polite and I told her I'll just feed my dogs cause complaining for a free meals isn't something I wouldn't do but it's unfortunate now cause I will never return. read more

I dont like giving negative reviews but I feel that you should be warned. I ordered the pork taco salad and was charged for the steak. I asked about it and they did not correct the price. The pork was very tender and juicy by the way. You also get a cup of noodle soup with your order which was great! My co-worker ordered bistec al la mexicana and he got a dish with chunks of beef rather than skirt steak. Typically this dish has jalapeno cooked with it, this did not. I think this dish should be called chunky beef with onion stew because that is what it looked like. I am sorry to say this place will not be my first choice next time I'm in the area. read more

A lady should never age herself, but I have no shame in admitting that I have eaten here for over 30 years. It was my Mexican grandfather's favorite restaurant by his house and we would have Sunday brunch there at least twice a month through out the course of my childhood. I recently returned this past Father's Day, and everything was exactly how I remember. Excellent chips and guacamole. Delicious chorizo and eggs. And, my favorite, super flavorful carne asada. Do not expect anything more than good Mexican food and you will not be disappointed. read more

I stopped in here really quickly today after a really insanely long walk. I was super thirsty and needed an orchata(sp?) to quench that thirst. I also grabbed a steak taco, just to try a menu item. I gotta say, next time I am going to ask the waitress to not throw an extra dash of cinnamon to my orchata (I wish yelp had spell check for more food related words, even the non English ones.) because it was just way too much cinnamon. It was still tasty enough to drink and still refreshing, but it tasted more of cinnamon than anything else. My steak taco that i grabbed to go? Really tasty. Not hard or chewy like some places make them. I would come back seeing as its so close. I just wish that they hadn't put so much cinnamon on my beverage, and the prices weren't so high...It wasn't insane, and probably fair seeing as the steak seemed much higher quality than other places,..just not what one expects to pay for a taco, yanno? read more

Another Mexican place within walking distance of our new apartment - I'm beginning to get concerned that there are no junk Chinese places and yet at least 4 little Mexican joints. I stepped inside and could tell that this is a REAL restaurant and that means it comes with all of the fixin's and service and atmosphere. And the prices that come with it. So you enter and there's a nice setup with rows of tables and flatware and glasses and one of those jukebox things in the back with songs that nobody's going to pay money to hear while they eat their taco platter. I made my way down the rows to the counter where I placed a quick to-go order. I was planning on trying the namesake items from anywhere I visited today, but I wasn't in the mood to pick up an entire Carne Asada strip steak with all the trimmings. So I went for one asada steak taco. Highest price for the day of "one taco, please" out of all of the tacos I'd ordered. The quality though? I can say it was some of the best steakmeat found in the tacos I purchased. But is the higher price really worth it? Perhaps if I'm actually going to sit down and eat and I'll wind up with a real platter with the side items I don't know what to do with (that whole "Fat American Can't Figure Out Foreign Cuisines" nickname is something I've EARNED, people) and I also feel like treating my dinner guests to some jukebox tunes - I'm certainly going to pay the premium price. But if it's "dear god just get me a taco i don't friggin' care how good it is" time, I'll likely go elsewhere. After all, Mexico Steakhouse has a lot of competition in the neighborhood when it comes to Taco Time and I'm out wandering about. Especially once we get settled into our new kitchen and they have to compete with Char O.'s Taco Tuesdays! read more

If I could I would give this place 0 stars. Sadly I wasn't happy with the quality of Mexican food I had at all. My co workers & I were craving tacos for lunch & decided to give this place a try, after all they have great reviews on google & somewhat yelp right? Well I don't know who would actually consider this food authentic & delicious, for us it was the complete opposite. Aside from it being expensive it is not fresh food there serving, the rice & beans were bland & mushy tasted overcooked? The steak tacos were unseasoned & the toppings included lettuce, tomato & cheese. Instead of the traditional onions & cilantro. I really don't know why they wouldn't put effort in at least making the meat taste good since there best known for there steak. The salsas too were so flavorless & mediocre I was really disappointed mainly because we were all so hungry & we couldn't even finish our meals due to poor quality. You can honestly spend less & get better flavor elsewhere around the neighborhood. read more

Stopped in here cuz my girlfriend and I was working out close by. The place is definitely a restaurant. We sat in and got a tray of chips and salsa. One green and one red. Good, but not great. I wished the green sauce was spicier...to me it only had mediocre flavor. I did not care much for the red sauce; tasted as if it came straight out of a bottle rather than being homemade. I ordered the chicken tostadas. There were three heaping tostadas on my plate with some rice and some beans. I was only able to finish 2 of the tostadas. Not much flavor to them so I poured the entire serving dish of the green salsa on them to give it some flavor. Eh, it was still just ok. And it was $8 for my dinner. However, I enjoyed my horchata. They put a pinch of cinnamon on top of the horchata which doesn't mix in that well with the drink. Regardless, after a good workout, it was a perfect thirst quencher at the time. Service was friendly. And there was no one in the restaurant with us on a Sunday evening, 7pm-ish? Interesting. Would I go back to this place again? Considering there are so many mexican joints everywhere... ummm, probably not. read more

Thought is was time for an update since '09. This place is still going strong in my list of places to go on the south side, and it stands up to any north side comparable Mexican restaurant. Keep in mind, this place is about those standbys that you'd expect, tacos, enchiladas, tostados and a really good skirt steak. If you're a foodie looking for pork cheeks or snouts or whatever little delicacy you want, keep driving...yes I'll say it, keep driving north. Had dinner here last night, enjoyed it as we usually do. read more

This place was gross and expensive. My kids had tortas and couldn't even finish half because the meat was too chewy and hard. Also my husband has a taco dinner and had one taco since they had no taste. read more

The chippies they give you are very good. The burrito was A1 since day1. Use the green sauce... but you will pay later.

As close as you'll get to homemade Mexican food at a Chicago restaurant. We had posole, carne asada and puerco en chile rojo. Every bite was delicious. 5 stars for excellent chips and salsa. 5 stars for food. 5 stars for days and incredibly friendly service. 5 stars for the flan we didn't need ;) read more

The Mexico Steakhouse is one of my favorite Mexican restaurants. This restaurant offers a large assortment of basic Mexican food in a utilitarian dining room and is BYO. It is open daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Each lunch and diner is automatically started with a cup of soup and chips and tangy salsa verde and salsa rojo at no charge. I recommend the carne asada, either the dinner (full or half order) or in tacos. The skirt steak is always served in large portions with the meat being very juicy and flavorful. The dinner is accompanied by decent rice and frijoles and either flour or corn tortillas that are always hot and appetizing. Two other dishes that are highly recommended are the pork and beef stews. The meats in both are very tender and tasty and work very well with the other ingredients. The cost is very reasonable and the service is always efficient and friendly. Also, free street parking is always available. read more

Love the food but getting kind of sketchy lately! Usually red & green salsa with the chips but lately just red. Also usually a small cup of soup is given but again sometimes not! What's up with that?? Your customers expect the usual- no surprises! Get up to speed or expect your usuals to go elsewhere. read more

I've been coming here since I was a child. Mexico Steakhouse's menu includes everything from burgers and sandwiches, salads and pasta, steak and chicken...all of your favorites Mexican or American. I recommend anything with the Skirt Steak. Its a great little sit down family run restaurant. read more

This place is a-maz-ing! The food is so flavorful, with subtle Mexican influences in everything from the entrees to the atmosphere. I ordered the seasonal fish, and my boyfriend ordered the braised short ribs. Add the margaritas and chips/guacamole...heaven! Easily one of the best meals we've ever had, and will be on the list next time we visit Chicago! You won't be disappointed, I promise. read more