On the heels of having the worst fajitas ever the night before at Ruby Tuesday, these may have been among the best I have ever had. The salsa had more cilantro than most, the food was sizzling hot, the shrimp had actually been grilled and had more flavor than others I have had, and the sides were excellent. On top of that, the waitress was fun and super attentive, the chips and salsa kept coming, the beer was cold and the price was very reasonable. Best fajita experience I can remember! read more

I came by on a Friday evening while en route to Fredericksburg, and there were quite a few people - I'd say the restaurant was about 60% full. This was my first time in Lexington, and didn't know what to expect. Coming in, my group of four was seated quickly and the servers were great. We ordered food, which did take quite a while, but not too long. The food wasn't great. Personally, my food was a mixed bag. The tacos had a lot of flavor and were great! However, the rice and refried beans were not great. They tasted like they had been microwaved. My friends also did not have a good experience with their food. The enchilada my friend ordered was not good and they ran out of mushrooms for my vegetarian friend's quesadillas. read more

Muchacho Alegre - Tacos - Mexican Near Me - Lexington, Virginia

I have been coming here since 2017. Food and service always 5 stars. The new online ordering site is a total clusterfuck and you cant order what you want. I would have been ordering 2 times a week. Now I dont. Tried speaking with manager and while in person he is friendly he tells me he can do nothing about online ordering. Perhaps he should contact website and tell them to pull their head from their ass. Just ordered from Jalisco took about 2 minutes and I got exactly what I was looking for. read more

I was taking a day trip to the area and found this place online. When you walk in the place is very colorful and spaced out. Our waiter was awesome and friendly. I had ordered their enchiladas verdes and it was one of the best I've had in a while. The owner or the manager even came over and checked on us to make sure that everything was good. If I get back to the area I will be stopping there again. read more

Muchacho Alegre - Enchilada verde - Mexican Near Me - Lexington, Virginia

Service was NOT good, notified waitress about food that was not brought out to table; attitude was brought back with said food, no refills until someone at our table notified the other waitress as our waitress did not come back to check on us, was there maybe 30-45min without service. At the counter it rang up to be $21.73 our waitress charged my card which tip was left as cash on the table, later I checked my bank app waitress charged my card $30.73. 10/10 would pay with cash or count this as a good deed. read more

Located off I 64, we had dinner and cocktails and everything was hot, good, and lots of food at a reasonable price. The service was good and everyone was friendly. We would definitely go back. read more

Muchacho Alegre - Chimichangas and seafood fajitas. Note one of the cocktails. Yummy. - Mexican Near Me - Lexington, Virginia

Cheap yet large menu. Ordered a steak and chicken fajita salad which topped out at less than $12. Flavors of the salsa and chip are pretty standard nothing to get overly excited about. The service was fast, even though the place was very busy. Super clean and bright joint with ample spacing between the tables. The salad was pretty lackluster but did fill me up. read more

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This is the best Mexican restaurant in Lexington, VA. Staff is super friendly and helpful. Pollo don chepe is my favorite dish there and a top 5 ever. Hosted my college team for dinner multiple times and worked wonderfully with us for price. An absolute gem! read more

Love it. Favorite Mexican food in Virginia. Very nice family run restaurant. Food, service, recognize you. Nothing but positives!!

The food and the service were great. Saturday night had a singing group and a DJ on the patio and that made the ambiance even better. Highly recommend read more

Authentic Mexican food items offered for either dining-in a very quiet, elegantly decorated restaurant or order ahead for take-out. Try my favorite, Alegre Rice with chicken...delicious! Haven't had a negative experience and we frequent Muchacho Alegre often! read more

One of worse mexican restaurants in state of VA. highly recommend to pursue looking at other mexican restaurants. to begin with this, they give you two tortillas for a full $15 fajitas platter. the waitress said thats the restaurant policy which was insulting. they would charge you $2 extra for every two more you need to order. read more

First and foremost, the staff here is very friendly. Our waitress and was sweet as could be. I had the chori-pollo which is one of my go-to items at most Mexican restaurants. This was okay but nothing great. Oddly not much pop or flavor on either the chicken or chorizo. It had quest on-top but only on half of it and very little at that. The building was very warm and we actually started to sweat a little. The staff must have known because we saw a few fanning themselves. Lastly we were offered a $5 off coupon to leave a review on Google. So we did and then were told it expired in two weeks. C'mon buddy. It's not a bad spot but for a quick meal but I think we may let that coupon expire! read more

I came here on 1/13/24 with my mom and son for lunch. It wasn't very busy, I think they just opened. more like a bar/dance hall if you went on a weekend night. The server rushed us to order. There was a long metal shard (about an inch and a half) in my enchiladas supreme (like from a can when you use a can opener). The enchiladas were terrible, the sauce tasted like plain tomato sauce and there was a piece of something hard in the chicken enchilada that I spit out and then saw the metal in the next bite. The guac and cheese dips were pretty good. Everything needed flavor/salt. This is probably the worst Mexican I have ever had. Spend your money somewhere else. read more

Popular Mexican restaurant across from the Quatity Inn and below Days Inn There is a small full bar with good Margaretta's. Very casual and often packed. The service is fast so the wait isn't long Wood tables and chairs and booths They will push tables together for big parties This time I came with a party of ten and this time the service was slow I still gave it four stars because the food is good I had the carnitas and they were lean and good flavor The fajitas are always good with lots of meat and veggies. I do wish they served it with more lime The tacos were good I was told. All the little extras weren't charged. We had more sour cream, salsa,lime, tomatoes and more chips all included Nice staff A regular place for our horse show group We will come again read more

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Amazing food, fast service!! Had the chimichanga, they made them vegetarian for me. The best I have had! The staff was very friendly too!

It's just ok for Mexican food. The food wasn't horrible but it definitely was not great. And we only got two tortillas with our meals which definitely was not enough. The salsa is ok. One good thing we went on a Monday and our kids are free so can't beat that. Probably should just keep driving and find something else to eat. Coming from someone visiting this area. The food did come out fast but there was only one other couple in the restaurant at the time. read more

After a full day drive and staying at a hotel I decided to grab something quick to eat and this was the closest restaurant. It gets ratings that are pretty high and pretty low (so I'm not sure about those) .. but my experience was decent. I had a special burrito and a Negra Modelo beer. People were very friendly and the food was good. They have this cool white salsa that I'm not quite sure what it is but it was interesting... Secret recipe they told me. Kind of creamy kind of mayonnaise-y, kind of sweet too. I have my ideas but... Who knows? Good anyway. read more

Clean facilities, nice customer service rep, an the food is really good. I didn't have any complaints

Avoid this dump at all costs. I did like the tacos for a while (I almost always ordered to go, as there is something unsettlingly uncomfortable about this place), until they made me sick. I have an iron stomach -- but those overly greasy tacos did the trick. We will never return. read more

Understanding that things are different during Covid, I still feel compelled to leave this review. This was the first, and last, time eating here since they moved closer to town. We chose to eat on the spacious patio, being a warm day and wanting to social distance. There were 3 cars in the lot, and one couple also on the patio, maybe one table inside. So, not at all busy. Right off, we waited for several minutes (more than 5?) before someone appeared with chips and salsa, but none of the "infamous" white sauce. Our actual waiter took another 5 minutes at least to come and get our drink order. He was very pleasant, but somewhat inattentive. The draft beer was cold and great, but the iced tea I ordered looked like dirty tap water, so weak, it really just was cold water, with no tea flavor at all. After waiting about 15 more minutes to order, we sat back to wait. The ala Carte taco we ordered to give us a baseline for the food quality came out alone. It was a genourous portion of beef and Mexican cheese, and the most flavorless taco we have ever eaten. Taco Bell tastes more authentic. No salt, no seasoning. And that set the tone for the rest of the meal. We each ordered a burrito, a carne azada and the muchacho alegre. A good sized burrito, poorly assembled so that the very runny refried beans looked out one end, and the flavorless rice the other, leaving the also bland meats in the center. Even the chorizo had no flavor, which surprised us even more. And that a burrito is served with a side of fries also speaks volumes. Of course, there was no salt on them either. The chip basket, which was tasty enough, was small, and we were never asked if we wanted more. No one checked on us for drink refills, and we had to wait far too long for the check. The service was friendly, just quite slow. All in all, it wasn't awful, but it really wasn't good. And with another Mexican restaurant in town that has a salt shaker and access to some cumin and Mexican spices, there's no reason to come back to this place. read more

We stopped by for lunch at just after two. Chips and salsa or served properly, but the obviously unexperienced waitress was at our table before my companion had a chance to review the menu. When she came back 15 or so minutes later, we we were long, long past ready to order. We asked for a new paper napkin and more salsa. Those two requests were finally honored, but only after I flagged the young girl who brought the chips to start off with. We ordered from the lunch menu, good for well beyond our arrival at the restaurant. We were charged for the dinner menu. The waitress told me that there was a difference between beef fajitas and steak fajitas and that was the cause of the up charge. Maybe so, but she couldn't tell us what the difference was. Moreover, when I ordered, I pointed at the lunch menu. If and when we return-- that is a big question mark--we will certainly ask for a different wait person. Little in our experience, however would encourage my return. It is hard to fairly judge the food given the less than pleasant service experience. I suppose I'd give it an "okay" mark for the food, but overall the experience left me wishing I'd gone elsewhere. read more

The food was amazing, the server was the best she had to serve 5 tables at once and she did it with a smile on her face best waiter ever AND we forgot our salsa and she ran outside to bring it to us. The most delicious food very well seasoned. I Do Recommend This Place read more

Tasteless, unseasoned, blah. There was not much that we could find in town because of lack of parking. Sadly, we stopped here.

This place is the real deal! I lived in Mexico while in college and miss real Mexican food. What a great find for me. Plus, the owner and his family were so nice. There is real pride from the owner in his place. It shows in how clean, beautiful, and thoughtful he has been with decor. Recommend if your driving by on 81 and you want a great meal. read more

Muchacho Alegre - Chilli Relleno! Amazing!!! - Mexican Near Me - Lexington, Virginia

If I had a dollar for every time the bf ate here or suggested we eat here.... LOL. I've been here once with a group of 6 and it was a great place to end the night. We came from a full day of wineries so I wasn't in a position to drink anymore but there's always next time! We chowed down on so much salsa and chips, and ordered a variety of entrees- tacos, enchiladas (for me with cheese sauce), quesadillas, and the bf got some carne dish. Tons of food, our tables were full to the brim and you could not put anything else around the platters of food and tortillas and beans and rice. I found the prices to be reasonable and the atmosphere fun to dine in. Please lord led this pandemic end fast so I can get quality margs in Lexington.... read more

This restaurant is terrible. Holy moly. Worst $12 Margarita of East cost. Food kinda reminds me of what my dogs likes. read more

This place needs a lot of work. We were on a long road trip and this was pretty much the only thing we could find. Food wasn't bad but have to admit I was scared to eat it based on the condition of the restaurant! I will say guacamole was very good and burrito was just okay. Price so-so for what we ordered. Would I go back..... Nope read more

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We went to the restaurant yesterday. Worst service ever. It took them more than one hour to prepare 3 dishes (they were cold instead of hot) . They never offered or put napkins on the table, just one round of water and never asked if we needed more. They brought my food and took it back because the server wasn't sure of what I ordered. Once we were ready to pay we told the server to split the account 50/50 and they charged different amounts to both cards; also they REFUSED to take a Bank of America Credit Card from Mastercard. What If I don't have any other card to pay? Why was the service so poor and bad? When I asked the waitress why was it taking so long, she said that "they were busy"; but the restaurant had less than 30 people in like 5 tables, and I told her and she said "yes but the kitchen is busy". Also, we ordered some Quesadillas to go, and they give it to us without any bag or carry on packing. I won't recommend this place. read more

I recently had dinner here and was extremely disappointed. The service was not good, the drinks were weak, and literally every single thing we ordered was bland or tasteless. The manager was really rude when we told him how we felt about the food saying "ive never had a complaint about the food" which i find very hard to believe considering three different people all agreed that our three different meals as well as the queso with chorizo we ordered was beyond bland. We paid for our drinks the queso with chorizo and the plain queso the waitress brought us that was wrong...Then as if the experiance couldnt get any worse one of our dinner guests got sick all night from the food!! We will never be back, will never suggest the place and will thoroughly warn all those we can of the place. read more

The actual meal was delicious! I had the shrimp Ceviche. The complimentary tortillas were average at best. We have stellar tortillas at our local Mexican restaurant in Purcellville (Casa Tequila), so I'm spoiled as far as tortillas go. The actual atmosphere of the restaurant was casual, a bit worn. The service was a bit lackadaisical, but okay. Not as close to the Horse Center as I might have hoped, but because of the quality of the entrees, I'd go back if I had a craving for Mexican food. read more

Quite possibly the worst Mexican food I've ever had in forever. They put chips and tasteless salsa on the table gratis, along with a white sauce that tasted like seasoned mayonnaise. I ordered the carne asada. It was unlike any I'd ever had. Usually, the meat is in strips, and it comes with tortillas. Like a high class fajita. But what they served up here was of a lower class, for sure. It came with full scallions, which gave the whole thing a stringy texture. And what tasted like canned string beans. String beans? There were a few dried out pieces of "steak" that had little flavor. I also had a tamale, which had a weird smokey flavor that was chemically tasting. read more

We've given this place three tries and each time the food has been progressively worse. Tonight was the third and last time we will eat there. I got a chicken burrito and the chicken tasted like it was spoiled. I couldn't even swallow it. The cheese also tasted bad. I was afraid to eat it for fear of getting sick. My husbands food tasted just as bad. The waiter was super nice and very concerned that we weren't eating the food. We didn't ask for another meal, feeling it would most likely be just as bad. The waiter (without us asking) asked the manager for a discount , but the manager refused. That's fine. We will just never go back. read more

the service was so fast! everyone was so nice and checked on us often. will definitely come back!

We stopped here on our way down 81. It isn't far from the highway so we figured we would give it a try. The salsa is good, not that spicy FYI. I had the Texas Fajitas, which were delicious. It was a nice portion with shrimp, chicken and beef on a sizzling plate with onions peppers and tomatoes. The flour tortillas were made fresh. I just wish they gave me a few more than 2. My friend had the California Burrito with beef and white sauce. She wasn't as excited about her dinner as I was mine. The lettuce inside was a bit unexpected. The desserts looked good but we were too full. Ready to hit the road again! read more

Muchacho Alegre - Texas Fajitas and the fixings - Mexican Near Me - Lexington, Virginia

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This is a wonderful restaurant with the most delicious authentic food I've ever experienced. I do wish they would make the corn flour tamales instead of using tortillas. But everything is so delicious and their guacamole is so fresh and delicious. read more

Just finished a super late lunch/early dinner here - my first visit. It was DELICIOUS!! Had a Dos Equis and my boyfriend and I split an order of Chilaquiles! We added two fried eggs and it's probably the best Mexican food I've ever had! Plus we sat at the bar and were able to chat with Marco who was wonderful! HIGHLY recommend this place! read more

Best Mexican food in Lexington! You HAVE to try the spicy habenero salsa..... The food is plated well and tastes authentic. Ordered a side of pico and it was the freshest I have ever eaten. I highly recommend this place. read more

Went for lunch today. Service was a little slow mostly caused by my server having to take a to-go order over the phone. Food was what I expected but the failure was when I went to pay the bill. Apparently the servers are the cashiers, so when I went to pay she handed me a register slip showing my total and the change I was due since I had handed her a $20.00 bill. She excused herself to get change and came back and handed me 4 one dollar bills but not the change I was due. When I called her on it she had to borrow the change from another server. Had I known she was going to try and short change me I would not have left a 20% tip. I won't be back for along time plus there are more authentic Mexican restaurants in Roanoke that I prefer. Beware if you got her and count your change read more

Just ok, chips were cold and salsa was a little watery. Order wasn't exactly as ordered. But the cheese dip was great though!