Stopped for dinner with my son, we both loved our food - I had shrimp fajitas and we shared chips,…read moresalsa and queso. Great service, fair prices, large parking area, generous portions, love the dim lit dining area and decor. Seems like a cool place to watch games, very chill relaxed atmosphere and super close to me. No negatives that I found, except my weak stomach aches from dairy the next day haha.

Pretty decent happy hour, just ok food. Our server was very friendly, unfortunately, our service…read morewas very slow. We had three tacos, and the special shrimp enchilada. My enchilada had little to no flavor, mostly sauce. If our dip trio and drinks weren't so good, I'd be inclined to give 2 stars. This isn't somewhere I'd seek out to return to.

The food is always great, service is fast and accurate. Affordable prices, large menu. Excellent…read moredecorating. Welcome experience.

A Pittsburgh staple that is still hitting hard! Checked out some new and some old favorites from…read morethe menu. The service was great and the atmosphere took you out of gibsonia and into Mexico. I love that the owner comes up with all of the creations they serve herself! Will be back again and again!

Great little taco place located in McCandless. Tons of specialty tacos and meal deals. Able to be…read moreseated right away and food came out quickly. Lucy fire is by far the best taco they have.

As others have commented, vastly understaffed and apathetic team running this location…read more Our poor waitress, Eve, deserves a tremendous praise because she also had to fill in for the missing host/hostess (we stood at the entrance for five minutes without any acknowledgement until Eve took pity on us and found us a table). She also bussed dirty tables and swept the floor, and offered excellent service to us. She was literally covered in sweat from running all over. The tacos were decent and the street corn app was good. We enjoyed our margarita flights and the different fruit flavors. I think whomever is doing hiring is not selecting people that actually want to serve people. We know it's hard to find employees these days and hope the team can turn this around. In the meantime, seriously, give Eve a huge bonus. She's earned it.

Had dinner here tonight. Food was very good but what prompted this review was the service we…read morereceived from Ashley. She couldn't have been nicer or more attentive and will be the reason we return.

We had an excellent experience and meal here. It had a wonderful atmosphere, perfect service (shout…read moreout to Ashley), and the food was authentically delicious!! 10/10 total experience. We cannot wait to go again!

Food is very good, service is very good, location is decent for where I am in Mars. Lots of outdoor…read moreseating. A little pricey! I wish they had salsa / chips to serve but they do not. Overall a very sensible environment for dining!

I feel like this is a true 3.5 star restaurant. We had a great time with friends at a booth in the…read morebar area and the food was good too...but the menu was a little confusing and a tad pricey. The atmosphere was so much fun and there were some great happy hour specials but we were not able to use those. We would love to go back and try it again at the right time on the right day

The effervescent Mia served us, she is the most delightful server I have had in a long time! The…read morefood was 10x better because she gave us quality service. Everything tastes better when the atmosphere is fresh. Her recommendation was spot on, I wanted food with spice and that's what I go. The menu has improved over my visit years ago. I am glad for that upgrade. Being from California is very difficult to find enough flavor. I will be back and even bring along some amigos!

Celebrated my wife's birthday along with our daughters tonight at Mad Mex. Not a great experience…read more Our server (I'll call her "Regina" because she reminded me of Regina George from Mean Girls) set the tone as we took our seats, hurriedly asking us what we wanted to drink. I was still settling into my chair, but I said "Oh - OK, let me see," and flipped through the menu while the kids gave their drink orders. I realized after a few seconds that the drinks must be listed elsewhere, but I didn't want to drag things out so I just said, "I'll take a margarita." Regina gave me a pitying half-smile and said with withering condescension, "Uh, that's the drink menu over there," gesturing toward it (while she didn't actually add "loser," it seemed implied somehow). I wanted to say, "I'm very sorry, but you see I just sat down 3 seconds ago and hadn't even had time to look around the table to spot the drink menu. Could you maybe slow it down a little?" But I didn't think to say that until after she had speed-walked away. After about a minute had passed, she returned with the kids' drinks and asked us if we were ready to order. Our youngest got a little flustered and started to order but clearly hadn't made up her mind yet, so Regina took the hint and offered to come back. When she returned with my wife's and my drinks a few minutes later, she then asked us what we were having in a way that made it clear she would be taking our order now, right now. I wasn't ready but the others were, so I let them order while I quickly scanned the menu. We ordered chips and salsa as an appetizer, specifically the "Pickadippa" with queso blanco, guac and salsa. I was hungry and was looking forward to that as a starter. The appetizer was a no-show but the rest of our food showed up with impressive speed - everything we'd ordered was on our table within, I'd say, under 10 minutes. I'd barely touched my drink so far but that was OK, I was hungry, as mentioned previously. I tucked into my dinner, but my wife had the presence of mind to catch our retreating server and ask about the appetizer. Regina said she would check on it. Shortly afterward a manager came out and explained that our appetizer had been given to another table in error, who had claimed it as their own. So she kindly comped it and promised we'd have it soon, and we did. We were now halfway through our meals and had lost a lot of our interest in chips and salsa, but we gamely ate it along with our entrees. (I recount the appetizer incident not because it was a big deal - it wasn't, these things happen - but because Regina didn't take any ownership of it and left it for her manager to take care of. Our actual server never said a word about it.) When it came time to pay the check, along with my card I included the printout of the birthday discount my wife had brought with her (a nice loyalty perk that Big Burrito offers). Regina swung by, grabbed the check tray and started to hurry away, but before she had vanished I turned to her and mentioned, just to make sure she was aware of it, "We have a birthday coupon there for one of our entrees," to which Regina sort of grimaced and said, "Uh...OK?" as though it was completely unnecessary for me to say that, which maybe it was. But again, the frosty mean-girl disdain. In truth, she had treated my whole family like we smelled bad from the moment we sat down. Literally as though there was something repulsive about us and she could barely bring herself to speak to us. I can attest that we all shower daily and that my wife and daughters are not remotely repulsive. Me, I dunno. So, thanks to speed queen Regina, our entire birthday dinner lasted about 45 minutes, tops, from walking in to walking out. And that would be great if we'd been, I don't know, late for the opera and really needed a speedy meal. But personally, on the rare occasions when we go out to eat at a halfway civilized restaurant, I like to sit and enjoy my food. You know, chew it. I don't need hours and hours, but maybe a little longer than 45 minutes including drinks, appetizer, entree and (the kids') dessert. The food was fine, reliably tasty Mad Mex food. No problems there. And the kids had fun and didn't notice anything amiss, thankfully. But for me and my wife, our server's demeanor just made the whole experience kind of unpleasant. Maybe Regina was just having a bad day and I should cut her some slack. But I mean...it's hard not to take it personally when your server is not only rushing the meal to an almost comical degree, but also seems to have an attitude toward you from start to finish when you did nothing to upset them other than being seated in their section. Maybe it's not her fault at all - maybe Big Burrito is training their servers to turn around tables as fast as humanly possible now. They didn't used to. Whatever the problem, it will probably be a good long while before we go back.

I'm not sure I've ever given a one star review before, but it feels necessary…read more We have talked about going to Emiliano's many times in the last 6 years since moving to Pittsburgh but never prioritized it. We aren't huge "chain" goers. My husband had just returned home from a two week work trip to Asia and we as craving Mexican food. We decided to finally give Emiliano's a try. The restaurant was far bigger than I realized and it was busy on a Friday night. It was clean, though I do feel like the tiled table may never be fully clean with the grout lines looking a little gross. We got our chips and salsa and ordered an additional queso. My husband got the fajitas, I got a burrito, and our 5 & 3 year old weren't feeling adventurous and chose the chicken fingers and fries. The fajitas weren't bad, but a very small portion for the cost. The burrito was interesting to me because the veggies inside were hardly cooked. I feel like mostly raw veggies aren't usually in a burrito and because of that I didn't enjoy it much. Not to mention the chicken was overcooked and "woody." Our kids ate their chicken fine and the fries were actually very good. The service was fine but pretty slow to refill drinks. That night after returning home my husband and I had a bout of diarrhea and our 3 year old was up all night throwing up and had diarrhea the whole next day. Somehow our five year old came out unscathed. We can only assume we got food poisoning and we will not be back. The food wasnt great before but really not good following our evening of sickness. Beware!

We had not ate at Emiliano's for about a year. I had a hankering for tacos, so we dropped by for…read moredinner. The chips and salsa were good. My wife's black bean soup was okay. I ordered 3 tacos with 2 sides. The refried beans and rice were good. Two of the tacos had ground beef and one had chicken. All were bland with no spice or flavor at all. And the beef in the tacos didn't resemble beef. It was more like a beef mash (or mush). At first I thought they accidentally gave me bean tacos, but a closer look confirmed they were beef. Unfortunately, we won't likely go back.

One of our favorite Mexican food places to go in Pittsburgh. They are always playing reggaeton and…read morethe drinks are always great. I got the mezcalita which has aperol. Wasn't sure how they would taste together but definitely exceeded my expectations. Very good and strong. The Fajitas were a lot of food. At this point, I was drunk so I finished it all but this could easily feed two people if you eat all of the bell pepper and sides (rice, beans, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream)

Still generally good. The salsa verde was still a disappointment, but the salsa roja was good. I…read morestopped by with a friend and we each ordered one of their bowls. The food was good but not exceptional. The chips were nice, and might have even been made in house. The bowls were a nice way to get a combination of flavors without ordering something overly heavy. Nice combinations of flavors, though the plantains seems like outliers in the fajita bowl. The service was good. Attentive, but not hovering. Showed up when appropriate. That aspect was a very good experience. The space is very nicely updated and comfortable, with a reasonable amount of space between tables. It worked well and felt generally comfortable.