Old mexico

1848 Portola Ave, Livermore
(925) 456-7100

Recent Reviews

Cody Cramer

I love this place! Service and food is amazing. Drinks never went dry, fast friendly service.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Wet Burrito, Combination Plate, Nachos, Fried Zucchini Sticks, Chile Rellenos, Beef Tacos

Dr R

We had a group of 45 of us converge in them at the last minute. They were so accommodating. The service was excellent, and the food tasted amazing. It was way less crowded than I would expect for the quality of food and service, which worked out great for us. It was so good that several of us went back the next day before leaving town.The refried beans could be a little thicker, but they taste amazing.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

d g

Real good eats, great service!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Josh M.

This place is absolutely garbage . Beans have no flavor rice no flavor the damn Verde sauce barely any flavor. The enchiladas bad pork had no flavor now i doubt it was even pork. This place is worse than taco bell. The margaritas are completely trash they don't use real lime juice. They didn't even shake the margarita. It tasted worse than the margaritas in a can. A place like this should not be open. Prison food is on par possibly better than this. Do not come here under any circumstance.

Ben T.

Nice cozy place with nice food and nice live music , we enjoyed our time there for the first time being in this place . Definitely now one of our family favorites

Dave Toledo

Very good!

kwishnu

Really good food and service in a building we've seen restaurants come and go in... hopefully Old Mexico will stick around! Lots of TV's around — so fairly informal atmosphere — but otherwise similar to Casa Orozco and the like.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

L H.

Definitely NOT the service we're used to. New to us waitress was nice enough but seemed like she couldn't be bothered. We weren't asked for drink order, I had to call our across the restaurant to get water refill after server was right by us several times and the server never asked us how our food was or if we needed anything.Food (2 shredded chicken tacos that we wanted a la carte but received combo, and shrimp fajitas) was delicious. Fajitas only came with 3 small flour tortillas but enough food for at least 2 more. Restaurant was almost empty on Monday night football night and usually packed bar had 3 people.

Paul N.

This restaurant has an amazing relaxing vibe. Very good chips and salsa and good customer service. Would've been 5 stars if the salad that came plated was more appeasing and if the churros that came with the ice cream for desert was served warm.

tomrusso1988

If you’re at the bar just watching sports it’s fine, but the food was terrible. The chicken burrito was literally cold and rotisserie chicken meat from a place like Costco. Beans had no flavor.

Sarah Moore

I highly recommend Old Mexico for the food and customer service.I only have great things to say about Old Mexico. Love the shredded beef flautas & my partner loves the chimi.It's so good that we just had some last week & I convinced my partner that we needed to eat it again this week. (Used the "birthday month" excuse but I think I could've convinced him without it.)We order to-go so we can eat in the comfort of our home, which is always risky when it comes to getting the correct order.Last night I was given chicken instead of shredded beef. I gave them a call & they were so apologetic. They offered to remake it and even deliver it!I let them know I could come get it since they're close by. On my way there, they called me & again offered to deliver it. I've never had this level of customer service from a restaurant. When I arrived, they brought my food to me and also gave me two slices of cake.I mean- I was just impressed with them taking responsibility and remaking the food. The offer to deliver and the added cake was the cherry on top. I know we'll be back.Thank you!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chimichanga

Cindy G.

Nice looking restaurant with decent food and service. Had crunchy beef tacos and they were great! Very nice full bar with decent beer on tap. We opted for the Cadillac margarita as it was still happy hour. Very tasty! Good salsa accompanied the chips. Rice yummy, but the only thing we didn't like were the beans! Yuck, I think they use navy or something because they are white beans, and they smelled and looked unappetizing. We will come back again for the tacos and support this local family business.

Mike Bachman

Salsa is good. Skimpy on the chips. Carnitas were dry. Not worth $19.

Ruth Santee

Bland food. Over priced. $45. for lunch no drinks, just basic combo plates for 2. The atmosphere is nice, but no AC on hot day. Not returning.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 3

Brian R.

So we came here based upon the reviews, thought we were going to get some good Mexican food. It's not good, don't do it. I feel bad writing this, but like it really was THAT bad. Like if you want good food. Go somewhere else. It low key smelled like curry. But we stayed, why? You tell me. Cause we really don't know. The food has so little flavor you'd think a white person brought it to a cookout. The salsa was insult to Mexican restaurants everywhere and the refried beans were whiter than I am, color wise and taste wise. I could go on, but I think y'all get the gist of it.

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