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3.4 (659 reviews)
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Terri L.

My friends decided to meet at Modern Margarita yesterday! We typically don't choose this restaurant because Hulas is next-door and it's usually far better with the food selection and service is usually better! That said... I wanted to change it up because why not, when I arrived to the bar before my friends arrived. I sat there for a good 5 or 7 minutes before anyone even acknowledged I was there. That's always frustrating for me when the bar is pretty slow which it was at the time... No worries I ordered my vodka. It was good and the cheery bartender was very personable when she finally arrived. My friends showed up we continued to visit and they ordered some more drinks... bartender was great! We decided that we wanted to move to a table so we can all talk because our last friend showed up and we were excited to catch up. We haven't seen each other for a while, so we asked the bartender and proceeded to move to a table. This is where our experience at this restaurant completely turned around! Our waitress finally arrived to our table, believe it was almost 10 minutes later, and mind you they were not busy at all! The servers name was Dani, and she, ironically was training a new employee! I found that to be very cute. The young kid was very eager and very helpful. It's a shame that he was paired up with Dani and it was a shame that she is a trainer because the example that she said was absolutely horrible and I hope the kid is a better server than his trainer! From the moment she arrived to the table, she was very put out! We are all very low maintenance people, even if we weren't we didn't need to be treated like we were a complete inconvenience and annoying! A friend of mine had questions because she has food allergies so she had several questions more than an average person. They were all met with an annoyance and a face that wasn't very nice! I felt so bad for my friend! Just sitting there witnessing it and feeling it was not a good experience! In fact, when my friend ordered a drink, the drink was wrong and she had mentioned it to the server and this server pretty much said the drink was made right and you're wrong in her own words! And the kicker to that is, she charged my friend for that drink that she didn't even drink that was made wrong! I had anxiety when she would come to the table because she was clearly so bothered and annoyed being our server! I am sorry that we were there to catch up with our friends and have a good evening, we did order drinks and myself, and my friend ordered food that we ate and somewhat enjoyed... Modern Margarita, please train your staff to give a welcoming experience and maybe if the server would've been interactive and try to talk to us about t bye menu or something maybe we would've gotten some more food or dessert or something. It's not cool to be served by a jaded, tired board, overworked waiter! I honestly didn't want to give a tip, I did tip a custom tip... And I did put a thumbs down for service, which I don't think she was very happy about because she made a snide comments about it... I didn't appreciate that and again, I hope that young kid she was training gets paired up with somebody else so he has a chance at being a good server! Next time I meet my friends again we probably won't be choosing this restaurant, we will be choosing the Humble Bistro across the street or Hula's or any place else, but Modern!

Skinny marg no salt
Olivia R.

I came for dinner with my husband, friends and our two boys during their all day happy hour on Sunday. We started with their chips and queso, my favorite. Their queso is good! My boys got the $7 happy hour cheese quesadilla. Their quesadillas are pretty large so my boys were able to split 1 meal. If you order a cheese quesadilla from the kids menu, the quesadilla is smaller but you get a side of fries with it. My husband, our friends and I split their carne asada quesadilla, carnitas quesadilla and the chicken tinga quesadilla. They all were large and nicely stuffed with cheese and meats. I loved the flavor of the chicken tinga quesadilla. For drinks, we all ordered a margarita. I always prefer a skinny margarita, no salt. I appreciate them having a skinny margarita on their happy hour menu, not a lot of restaurants do that. Usually, restaurants offer only their original margarita on happy hour. Since we live close by and it's a good place to bring the kids, we have been here many times. We will be back soon!

New item
Brad W.

They have a new breakfast weekend menu. The $10 breakfast burrito was big and excellent. It was a bit spicy with the Chipotle aioli, but nothing crazy. It contains has Browns, eggs and cheese. Not too crowded on sunday at noon, but nice bartenders.

Prettiest margarita flight I've ever seen
Jenna M.

This is the place to go for some awesome margaritas and food. I got the margarita flight and the watermelon was my favorite- also got coconut and prickly pear flavors. Very cute display for the flight too. Service was good especially with our big group. Food was bomb - I had shrimp tacos and a mahi taco and yummm, I could eat 10 of them. They were on top of chip and salsa refill, and food came out relatively quick and hot. Very busy restaurant. They also had a taco flight the table next to us got. It's like 20 tacos and looked super good to munch down and split with a few friends. Located in an upcoming- development area in Phoenix.

Grilled Shrimp taco
Greeshma R.

It was a team party at the Modern Margarita. Since it was a big group, we all decided to sit outside. The service was quick and very friendly. We ordered a lot of things from the menu. For the drink we ordered the margarita flight, hot mango and the Cadillac. We loved all the drinks, it was delicious, strong and really good! For the food I loved the shrimp lettuce wraps, I am a fan. We also enjoyed the fried shrimp taco, lettuce chicken bowl, chicken nachos, wings. The salsa with the nachos was spot on. The disappointment was the cheese quesadilla, zucchini fries. I would skip them the next time around. Overall, had a great time and would definitely be back for the yummy margaritas.

Cold nachos!! Gross

Ordered nachos and they came out cold!! Sent them back and they came back still cold. So disappointing!!

Happy hour salsa duo and frozen margaritas
Katie A.

My coworkers and I really enjoyed the happy hour at Modern Margarita! The prices were really fair - $7 margarita, $7 chips and salsa duo, and $7 two tacos - they were all really tasty! I had the chicken and veggie tacos and I loved the veggie taco! It was so flavorful and had mushrooms in it! Our waitress was attentive, however she seemed quick to try and turn our table really quickly. We loved the restaurant though - great bar and spacious booths! I'll be back!

Queso dip
Brock C.

Service was great! Very personable and knowledgeable with menu and drinks. The weekly specials were very reasonable and affordable.

Two Tacos: Korean Beef (Top), Nashville Hot Chicken (Bottom) with beans & rice
Alexis W.

Modern Margarita definitely has a good spin on Mexican food! Was craving tacos for lunch & wanted to try something new, our server Aaron seemed very familiar with the menu & gave amazing suggestions! We had the Elote Dip to start which was light & delicious then the tacos in order from favorite to least favorite would be Miso Carne, Nashville Hot Chicken, & the Korean Beef (but all were super good & just the right amount of flavor).. even the most simple things like the side of rice was tasty! We sat outside because it was a nice day out, but there's also plenty of TVs if you're trying to catch a game & grab some good food! Definitely plan on coming back soon..

Ray O.

Modern Margaritas was suggested by a friend so I thought I would check it out. Went on a Friday night, it was busy but not excessively crowded. I was able to get a seat at the bar. The bartenders were hustling and very attentive. They brought a menu and they had several interesting items. Unfortunately all I had tome for was chips and salsa. They brought out a basket of chips and two salsa, one mild and the other hot. I do like hot salsa and this had a good kick but I mixed it with the mild to bring it down just a bit. The chips were a little gritty and half the basket were was broken into small pieces. I tried a couple margaritas, the hot mango and spicy prickly pear. Both pretty good but a little sweet but in fairness, they were two of the sweetest according to the bartenders. The service was very good and the ambiance and vibe was good. I would like to go back and try something on the menu and look forward to it.

Nashville hot chicken sandwich

First time eating at Modern Margarita and the service was great. Sunday has happy hour all day which is nice. $7 nachos and $7 frozen margaritas. The nachos had a little kick to them but were good. I got the lettuce bowl with shrimp and my husband got the Nashville hot chicken sandwich. We will definitely come back. Inside was cute too.

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