I've been here several times for the lunch special, which comes to the table fast, but you get what you pay for. Cheap food at a cheap price. I decided to give a full service a try and three of us went to dinner there last night. While we did not get sick, I can say - with sincere honesty - I took my food home so I could pick through it and figure out what was wrong with my Chicken Mole Enchiladas. I won't share, but I will tell you that was NOT mole sauce and there was ingredient that should not have been there. The chicken was terribly dry, likely because there was no sauce over the top or anywhere on the plate; beans were hard, rice was brittle dry. The chips and salsa were delicious. One of the three meals was delicious. The one and only drink ordered at our table was not the right drink at all. We had to call back the server, who picked the drink up and immediately brought it to the table next to us without any shame or even asking if we had tried the drink...it was off-color so my friend had not tried the drink, but seriously, the server could have asked before spreading the saliva love...our water glasses ran dry twice during the long wait...stick with the cheap lunch and watch out for that "if it's not right, just give it to another table" model of service. read more

Dine In was great, the Carne Asada and garlic shrimp was fantastic. The Murrietas margarita was strong, and the service was great. 92° outside and it was pleasant inside.... read more

Excellent, and consitent quality food. And the best value for lunch in all of Reno. Cant go wrong here.

I went here with some co-workers the other day for lunch and I have to say I was pretty impressed. We were seated and served very quickly. I ordered the chiptole hot wings and the staff notified me it might take a little longer for that item, even then the food was brought out very quickly. The food itself was very delicious and I have to say I wished I had ordered more once I had finished. I'll definitely be coming back again sometime and recommend it! read more

Disgusting. Our pico de gallo was served with a big black hair. I pointed this to the server and asked to see a manager. Entrees served and a chimmy has a hair sticking out of the cheese. Asked again for a manager because now we've eaten part of this "food." Manager says the "salsa is complementary" takes the one meal off our tab buts charges for the rest though uneaten. Once, I get because stuff happens; twice in the same meal means there is a problem. Management did't think so with the "salsa is complementary" comment. No way I'm ever going back. read more

Excellent service as we were passing by. Felt bad we were late in the day but got amazing service and food regardless. Would totally make it back here next time around read more

Food was the only decent thing....service was pathetic. Took 20 min to even have someone take our drink order. well over an hour to get our food after we ordered it. Murietta's should have kept open the small taco bar at the corner of Longley and McCarran. but instead they push this place even more. There is too much mexican food available in Reno to even think about going back to this place. read more

Chips and salas great. Margarita was good. Steak fajita great. Cucumbers were spicy but good. Service. Slow. read more

Murrieta's - On the rocks - Mexican Near Me - Reno, Nevada

We love this place for authentic Mexican food. AND, they do not use a mix on their margaritas!!! Everything we have tried is very good. Love their shrimp ceviche!!! Go eat here !! read more

good all around - food, service, environment, price. I recommend it for either lunch or dinner.

Walked in on Friday night at 9:45pm because In N Out Burger was soooo busy! Sat at the bar and after a couple of mins asked Michelle who was more concerned with counting her bank what was good here. She said" everything is F...... good". I was shocked and almost walked out. She shouldn't be in customer service - she doesn't appreciate the customer and has a poor attitude to say the least. Actually the food was pretty good, even after I asked Michelle what was good she couldn't recommend anything so I picked the chicken enchiladas. To be honest Michelle's attitude kind of spoiled the taste so won't come back. read more

So we have been on a search here for Mexican food ever since moving to Reno. Maybe our expectations are too high or maybe we have been spoiled by Mexican places in Vegas because we have struck out at every place we have been. Last night we tried Murrieta's Restaurant. The place is nice looking and all the wait staff were very friendly. Our waiter was nice but a little absent minded. We ordered a Strawberry Margarita for My Wife and a Murrieta Margarita for me. Both were good. Nice flavors and mine wasn't too strong. For appetizers we ordered Bean Dip, Shredded Beef Taquitos, and a Anaheim Chile Popper. Bean Dip was good but definitely needed salt, I enjoyed the Taquitos and My Wife really liked the Popper. My only problem was the popper needed to be cut up which seemed kind of weird to me but nothing too bad. For dinner My Wife ordered Steak Fajitas, My Daughter ordered the California Burrito with Steak and I ordered the Seafood Enchiladas. Gummybear enjoyed her Burrito but I didn't try it because honestly it didn't look interesting to me. My Wife'sSteak Fajitas were good but definitely needed some type of seasoning. My Seafood Enchiladas were listed on the menu as having Shrimp, Crab and Lobster. Unfortunately that wasn't the case. The majority of the filling was Krab. I have no problem with Krab in Sushi but when you cook Krab it has a weird taste to me. Also I feel like listing an item as one thing on a menu and then you find out it's another is annoying. There was some chopped up shrimp but not that much honestly. It was kind of disappointing and I feel like I should have went with the Shrimp Chile Rellano that was recommended to me by Friend. I'm a fan of Spanish Rice and was again disappointed. It was very over cooked and very dry. It wasn't a horrible meal or even a bad meal, it was decent. I think the next time we go back we will definitely try other items. We will still search for a Mexican Restaurant here in town. read more

Dear Manager, Please check on your Sunday evening staff! My last visit will sadly be my last. I have been coming here for years and have noticed a decline in service and food quality. Sundays are the absolute worst. 15 minutes after we sat down we ordered. I got the Pozole and my boyfriend the Menudo, and we both ordered margaritas. About 45 minutes later we finally got our drinks. I never complain about "too much alcohol" they were so strong we couldn't even drink them. My Pozole had no meat, just bones. Asked for water and chips twice, they never made it to the table. No one came back to check in with us either. No one ever asked if we wanted anything else, just set the bill on the table and disappeared. To top it off, they pushed a couple tables together for a large party and and there were piles of moldy food under the chairs. 15 minutes later someone came to clean it up it just sat there with everyone staring at it, while a horrible rotten stench wafted around. The bad food and service seems to be worst on Sundays. What gives? The food game around town is booming. Step your game up! read more

The food was excellent. The service was great. The Chile rellenos was the best I've had.

Great happy hour!! The 99 cent tacos are amazing as are the BOGO drinks. Our waitress was so nice and attentive. They even let us use our $15 birthday certificate during happy hour which most places won't do. I love this place and will keep going back! read more

We are locals and have tried most of the mexican in the area....this place is one of the best. The closer to authentic the more we like it....this place is getting close. All dishes I have had are very good, chips and salsas are good, staff is great and fast, service for children (i.e. cups w lids, etc) is great, margaritas are not out of this world, but good. Been going here for years and have not had bad service yet although I do have a friend who won't go back due to having bad service once (the only time they have been). Mishaps will happen, but while a sample of one time is enough to turn a person off, it doesn't make a restaurant bad. Try this place, it's awesome! Don't expect a 4 or 5-star restaurant as it is near-authentic mexican. ***Side note (after reading a review below): we use a coupon nearly every time we eat here since they send them out in the mail- never once had any sort of issue whatsoever.*** read more

We were visiting family in Reno and came here. The staff is amazingly friendly, fast, and attentive. My younger sister has an extreme peanut allergy and the waitress made sure to go back and check if anything was made or cooked with peanut oil. The food was good. I had a bowl of chicken tortilla soup and it was good. noting amazing, but good. My husband enjoyed his goat dish and other friends enjoyed theirs as well so all around the food was good. the chips and salsa were delicious too :). It was ok. Service was great, the food didn't wow me, but I probably would go back to try something else. read more

Every time We go in they are extremely nice and quick. The food is always fresh and hot. I love the fresh chips and salsa they have for you right when you are seated. Even when it is very busy they don't have you waiting very long. Last week I had the pork tacos from the lunch special and it was delicous!! We have only been in during lunch hours. read more

Murrieta's - Mexican Near Me - Reno, Nevada

Very good service with real drinks and great food. Top shelf margaritas the best. The staff was absolutely on point and it made it that much better. read more

Murrieta's - Mexican Near Me - Reno, Nevada

Very disappointed. Came for lunch with my husband... found the bathroom to be very dirty, toilet wasn't mounted correctly and went from side to side while sitting, bathroom door missing the lock, food and trash on the floor around our table, my order was wrong, flies all throughout the restaurant and kept landing on our food. At the end I got the bill and prices were higher than on the menu. When I questioned it I was told there was a sign when you walk in saying prices had increased. Overall the food was decent but we won't be returning. read more

Very good food with quick service! Only critique would be that our margaritas were slightly warm when first served till it cooled down with the ice. We will definitely be back :) read more

Amazing service, and delicious food. New to town and looking for a good local Mexican restaurant. This is it. Great atmosphere. Kids ate free, and Brenda was a wonderful server. We will definitely be back! read more

Always great, authentic food. Salsa top notch, food even better, but the service is the best part about it. We seem to always get the same server, who we love. If the others are anything like him, they have a good thing going. We've been going there for years and have never been disappointed. read more

Excellent food and atmosphere. Best salsas I 've had in years. Service was a little slow as they were understaffed. The quality made up for it. read more

It's okay...my frozen Margarita was terrible but my wife's Margarita on the rocks was kinda good. The food was pretty good but the service was slow. read more

Good food. Extremely slow service for an early Saturday dinner. Watched several other patrons obviously frustrated in the delay between getting the check and finally being able to leave. read more

For lunch on a Thursday, we greeted right away and because we had a disabled senior citizen with us we were seated right away in a nearby booth. The waitress was very friendly but mixed up our drink order and sent us 2 margaritas and my iced tea instead of 2 Dos Equis but she quickly changed the order. My dining partners (my parents) had fish tacos and a Mexican pizza. The Mexican pizza could have fed all of us at the table and he had to take half of it home for a dinner that they were looking forward to. I had a bite of it and it was excellent. (If I weren't full, I'd have had a slice!) I had 2 cheese enchiladas (I know, how boring) but they were delicious. I didn't care much for their rice but the refried beans were good. There was a sort of coleslaw salad on the plate under a fried "wagon wheel chip" that tasted kind of strange for a salad, but I couldn't put my finger on what it was that made it taste so strange. The restaurant is clean except for needing a little dusting of the decor. The wait help was very attentive. We throughly enjoyed my parents anniversary! read more

Murrieta's - Chowing down on 2 Cheese Enchiladas #3 on the lunch menu. You have the choice of fillings. - Mexican Near Me - Reno, Nevada

"No Mexican Food For You!" This is actually a review of all three Murrieta's Restaurants in the Reno/Sparks area - sorry it is somewhat lengthy, but I have some tales to tell. I have been fed up with this place several times, but never enough to write detailed reviews. After the experience last weekend, I've decided it's time to call out this classless Mexican restaurant with rude staff members. There is one thing all three Murrieta's locations have in common: horrible customer service. Here's a brief description of the incidents at each location. At the Longley & McCarran restaurant (where I occasionally call in orders & pick them up for my office staff) I was harassed for ordering a children's menu item. They argued about giving me our entire order because one of the items was from the Children's menu, but I didn't have the child with me when I picked up the order. Wow. During a different visit to the same location, I ordered 4 of the Tilapia Ceviche. Next came the challenge; paying the bill. I told them at the time I placed the order that I would be paying with two separate credit cards, and asked them to ring up separate orders. You'd think I was asking for an act of God. The manager came over and said that such a thing is impossible. After 10 minutes of arguing, he FINALLY agreed to ring up two separate orders, then said "you do not pay with two cards next time. One card and that's it, owner does not let us do this". (Seriously? The owner doesn't want a paying customer? I highly doubt it.) I routinely use two or even three separate cards to pay for food orders at restaurants all over town, because I'm usually picking up food for several different people. It has never been a problem anywhere, except of course, at Murrieta's. I told the manager there wouldn't be a next time, because I was tired of the lousy & rude service. And there hasn't been, at least for this location. When I got back to the office, I went to their website and sent an email regarding the horrendous service. The owner graciously apologized and sent me a $25 gift card for their location on Vista Blvd, in Sparks. A few weeks later, my boyfriend and I went to the Vista Blvd location. I ordered their spectacular seafood enchiladas: plentiful amounts of seafood, wrapped in flour tortillas, and bathed in a rich, creamy sauce. Also, the fresh Salsa was superb - very crisp, clean taste. My boyfriend and his friend both ordered drinks and the .99 cent tacos (one of their specials during football games), which were surprisingly well portioned and tasty, for such an inexpensive item. When the $30 bill came, we used the gift card and $10 cash to cover the remainder, plus tip. After a very long time, the server came back and said the gift card wasn't working, we would have to pay a different way. I explained the situation to him, and even looked up the email from the owner on my phone so he could see who sent me the gift card - so it should work just fine! After nearly half an hour and several calls to their Reno location, he figured out how to scan the gift card. He seemed very upset, gave us the receipt, and stormed off. Now, for last week's incident. My boyfriend won a Super Bowl party at Murieta's from Fox. The prize was 10 free meals and a group seating area for our guests. Some people who had planned to go cancelled because they were sick, which left us with 8 guests. When my boyfriend asked if we could just get the other two meals to go, the server said "no, if you do not have the guests here, you do not get the meals". Uh, ok. So even though the prize was for 10 free meals, we could only cash in on 8. Nice. Figuring since we couldn't get the food to go, my boyfriend told the couple seated at a table next to us that they could be our additional two guests, so they could get their meals free. When he announced this to the waiter, he said "no, they did not come in with you. They get nothing free!" My boyfriend said "I won this as a prize, which was to include TEN meals. Now you're telling me I can't use them as I wish?" The manager said there was nothing he could do about it, because the owner wouldn't let him. When we asked to speak with the owner, we were told he was not there. Nice try, Mr. Manager - pinning your lousy customer service on the owner yet again. Judging by the apologetic email I'd received from the owner previously, I don't think he's the problem at all. We were not so much disappointed that we got ripped off for two free meals, but more so by the attitude of the manager. He was very anti-customer service. In hindsight, we should have directly tipped the chef(s) instead of the server/manager, because the food itself was wonderful. What all three Murrieta's have in common is their lack of service with a smile. I wanted to tell the manager, "Sir, you work in a restaurant with the public. It would behoove your pocketbook and establishments to act a little bit less like a crazed dictator!" read more

Had a salad with slimy lettuce and tough chicken. Would have been OK if the manager had at least accepted that the quality was poor. Nope. They ignored our table for the rest of the meal. Paid the tip and had to go to the front desk to pay the bill. read more

The food here is always so consistent. It's fresh, perfect cooked and prepared. They have a great attention to detail with special requests too. The margaritas are also not too sweet and hit the spot. Such friendly service on top of it all. read more

Went on Monday for lunch. Ordered a chimicunga and a Margarita waitress brought the full dinner chimicunga with beans and rice. I didn't say anything it was a small hiccup. Since I wasn't that hungry for so much food I waited for the waitress to see if everything was good as most restaurants do so I could get a Togo box. Had to get up and ask for one. Also she didn't want to bring my check. I again had to ask for it. I never recieved a refill on my completly gone water and ice tea they were drank before my lunch arrived. Meanwhile the table across from us had amazing service from the same waitress seated after us, served before us and never had to ask for the check.. when I got home later that night I went to eat the rest of my chimicunga and guess what. A 22" hair in it. The absolute worst service I have had in over a decade. Gonna tell everyone. read more

Nothing special sums it up. We went in on a Thursday night and were pleasantly surprised to see a busy restaurant. The service was 5 star but the food rated about 2 stars. Chips tasted kind of tired and the main dishes [carnitas, shrimp] were skimpy in portion and flavor. Ordered a margarita; drowning it in well tequila doesn' t make things better. Did see a delicious platter of carne asada being served at the next table. I'll be back to Posada Real for my next Mexican food fix. read more

Had chips and salsa which were complimentary. The salsa was good and the chips were as well. Got margaritas which were standard margaritas. I don't think it was anything special. Had the taco combos. I had carne asade, chicharoni, and adobe (sure I destroyed the spelling) taco. They were great. Especially the crispy chicharoni. It was the bomb. The rice and beans were also good. Will make sure to try the ceviche when I return. Would recommend for others and will be back myself. read more

The chips and salsa were the only item I had that was halfway decent. The taco salad was soggy and loaded with meat grease. I will not be returning. They give you little frozen sopapilla bites and try to pass them off as freshly made ones. Miguel's is much better than this crap hole. Don't waste your money read more

Favorite Mexican restaurant in Reno! I've been going here since I was a kid so maybe I'm a wee bit biased. I LOVE their shrimp enchiladas and their pico de gallo! The mariachi is super friendly. I didn't give it a full 5 stars because I've had some great servers and some not so great servers. But if you are looking for some delicious Mexican food this is a place to go. Also the only place I know of that serves goat. read more

The food was like a one or two the service was terrible there's some drunks in there and I kept feeding the booze and the The rice that little lump center the chips were out of the bag and so on I won't recommend it will knock go back read more

We ate here about a year ago and the food was bad. We noticed several people seated near us complaining about the food and they left. Recently we were told by friends that the quality had come up and that we should try again. The chips were stale and the salsa tasted like metal. My wife had an enchilada, she said the tortilla was hard and thick as if the enchilada had been sitting in a warmer for some time. My chile verde was a thin watery soup and the chunks of pork were hard not tender like they should have been. We noticed that the booth we sat in was filthy, food was between the cushions and had been there for some time. As we were leaving we noticed a great deal of food on the floor under our table. The prices are high, the food terrible and you are risking your health by eating there. Never again. read more

Best Mexican food I've tried beside my moms! The atmosphere, vibe and of course food made me feel at home! Chips and salsa are fresh and served once you're seated! Definitely recommend for someone who is looking for a great Mexican restaurant! read more

I received a half off 2nd entre coupon in the mail for Murrieta's Mexican Restaurant. I haven't been to a restaurant for 5 months, since the start of the covid virus. So, I called up a buddy and asked him if he wanted to go to dinner. Our experience: We got seated, and where given chips and salsa. When we went to eat them, we realized that we did not get napkins. After waiting, and no waiter to be found, we got up, and got our own napkins. When the waiter showed up, we ordered our dinners, and gave the waiter the 1/2 off coupon. Our food arrived, and we realized we did not have any silverware. Again, after waiting for a waiter, we ended up getting up, and getting our own silverware. After one bite, my friend saw a long human hair in his food. GROSS. We called over the bus person and showed her the plate. She picked it up, and said she would replace it. There was no apology, just I will get you a new one. Being polite, I waited to eat my food until the replacement entre came. The entre came, again with no silverware, so we had to get up and get our own. We were finally ready to eat, except by now, my food had gotten cold. I ate it anyway. Since this all took so long, we ordered another beer and margarita. The margarita was ordered again with no salt. Of course, it came with salt. The waiter said he would take it back. It's been my experience that when a salted drink is returned to the bar, the bar tender just pours the drink, salt and all, into another glass. I can't have much salt, so this does not work for me. So, I told the waiter to leave the salted drink, and replace it with no salt. He rudely said that I was not to drink any of the salted drink. We finally got through our meal, and I asked for the check. When it came, of course, there was no half off of the 2nd entre. I told the waiter that I wanted to speak to the manager. A young woman, who said her name was Christina, came to the table, and she had an attitude. She asked me what I wanted, and I relayed our dining experience. She said she listen to me, but said that I went on and on. She said if I hadn't she would have adjusted the check, but now she's not going to. I never asked her to. This was the worst dining experience that I think I have had. I know mistakes are made, and I am tolerant of them. However, when mistake after mistake is made, WITH NO APOLOGY, I draw the line. I will never go back there, and if you go there, I wish you luck. read more

My favorite Mexican restaurant in Reno! The food is delicious and service is always great. The chile relleno with the shrimp inside is my favorite. read more