Garlic & Onions Mexican Grill

"We tried to dine at Garlic & Onions on a Friday night and couldn't find parking. We tried again on a Wednesday night and had a wonderful experience. We noticed a smokey, almost burnt taste, and realized it was the roasted chilies which was different from any other Mexican restaurant in town. Our waitress was friendly and helpful."

"Garlic and Onions was recommended to us by someone that was doing some work for us. We just moved here and thought we would try it for date night. We drove over (about 20 minutes from our home) and the parking lot was packed. I thought, oh good, it’s popular, it must be good! I drove around the block waiting for a spot to open up, and it did. We went inside around 7:40pm. There was no hostess, but one appeared within a few minutes. Said it was a 10 minute wait. No problem, we sat and waited. It was very loud in the dinning rooms. Not sure if it was the crowd last night, or if it’s more to do with the way sound carries in this building. We were sat fairly quickly, but then had no service. A waitress that appeared to not be ours stopped by the table and asked if we had been helped yet and we replied no. She said she would check on things for us. She then came back a couple minutes later and said she was going to take care of us and apologized. She seemed nice, but service was still fairly slow. We got our drinks and ordered our meals (beef enchiladas and chicken and steak fajitas). We received chips and salsa (I believe as an apology because I think you have to order/pay for it here). The chips and salsa were good. Salsa was spicy and had great flavor. My food came, but my wife’s fajitas didn’t come out for about 5 minutes still. I felt like I should wait for my wife’s food to begin eating. Her fajitas came out sizzling hot, but the steak and chicken were over cooked, dry, and didn’t have much flavor. My beef enchiladas were also bland, although the hot green chili was good. The rice and beans were also good. We anticipated having fried ice cream for dessert, but because we waited so long for everything, it was closing time by the time we finished our meals. The worst part of our experience came on our drive home. We both got sick with stomach cramps and diarrhea and couldn’t get off the toilet. I suspect it was the salsa or the rice because those are the items we had in common, other than our Coke beverages. I wanted to email the restaurant to let them know, as I suspect others probably got sick too and they might contact the restaurant. I’ll report this to the health department as well. I hope whatever made us sick will be thrown out and not used. Needless to say, we likely won’t ever go back."

"Wow. Service was great, but the tacos were terrible. The beef looked and tasted boiled and bland."

"We went through the drive through and the worker was very rude. I mean to the point of sighing and rolling her eyes. To make matters worse I found plastic in my breakfast burrito. I will not be purchasing from them again."

"Very nice server, good food but HUGE portions! We went for happy hour and got 2 for 1 drinks. My house margarita was decent but I would've liked more salt on the rim. I got the veracrusanas which are 4 enchiladas in diablo sauce. Very spicy and I LOVED it. I just couldn't finish it because of how huge it was! My friends also liked their food but couldn't even finish half. The hot salsa with the chips was very good. Ambience was spacious, clean and very inviting. Highly recommend!"