Alberto's Cantina
435 Main St, Pleasanton
(925) 462-2316
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The food is SO trash. Welcoming and friendly staff and servers. Outstanding experience on the patio or inside of the restaurant. Great bar area as well!! It's a must try.
Edited in August 2025: Still haven’t been back but feel the need to give the business a fair shake. I can’t see an option to delete my previous two-star review so I’m changing this one to five, just so as to not skew the Google rating downward.
Previous 2-star Review: Tostada was yummy but it was mostly nacho dippings (beans, meat, sour cream, and guac) with less than 10 percent of the contents being lettuce. I wanted a tostada as a light, bit more healthy option, but without lettuce I should've just had a burrito.
Rice is not Mexican style. It is Indian style, weird to me since it was a Mexican restaurant.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Drinks were the best part (top shelf margaritas and sangria). It was hard to have a conversation with the people at our table because it was so loud.....but to be fair, we were at a 4-top in the bar area. Food was better than before but not mind blowing. I will go back for the drinks.
The food was phenomenal. The service was excellent. Sara was so sweet and helpful about the new secret menu options. The food came out so fast and the new owners sure know what they're doing. It is literally my favorite Mexican restaurant. I will be here once a week at least
Food was good, drinks were watered down and not even right, when asking server for fresh she said they were right, took drink to bartender ourselves to get fixed and they argued with us, when you drink a specific whiskey you know when they try to use cheap well whiskey and charge you for top self, and that exactly what they did for 3 drinks we ordered...1 of us ask for ice for a water cup had to ask 3 times and it finally came at end of our meal...
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 1
Wow, what happen to this place? I was in Alberto's yesterday and will probably be my last visit. I have been coming here for years, but the service and food quality has gone downhill. You can get better Margarita's at Applebee's. Staff seems a bit disconnected from the customers, and the food is just barely passable.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 1
I used to eat here all the time but the service has become so disappointing ,
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 1
Alberto's has a great location, good ambiance, heavy-but-good food, and just ok service. Hadn't been there in while, but since they are on Opentable now, we gave them another go. Friday night is obviously a busy time, and even busier in the summer. So the fact that they (a) got our order mixed up and brought my wife and daughter fish tacos instead of shrimp tacos, and (b) left us sitting there (after clearing the table) waiting for them to come back for my credit card for like 10mins, might be understandable. Rating would be higher if but for those two things. Still, if you like your mexican food leaning towards Tex-Mex heavy, its a great value/$ where other nearby options are mostly more expensive.
The service can seem a little slow, but everyone works as a team and it is a European model where you seat yourself. The food is solid and fresh and many of the components including the flour tortillas appeared to be made from scratch. The street taco trio was a standout as were the steak fajitas. I truly appreciated how the peppers and onions in the fajitas weren't overcooked.
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Underwhelming flavors and worn out menus.
I have been going to this restaurant since childhood and it has always been excellent. It was my favorite restaurant for years!
Old school Mexican and it's excellent! Good service too.
Roxanne the bartender makes great drinks and is gorgeous too..
Everything we ordered was delicious, with generous portions. The margaritas are strong. 😳 We had an enjoyable evening, and the service was prompt. I forgot to take pictures, we were so hungry. Lol
Please do better, food was bland and the margaritas are all sugar.
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