Elephant and The Dove

9 E Genesee St, Skaneateles
(315) 685-2123

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Joe Stray

Love the atmosphere, drinks, and cuisine. Good times with great people!!

Zachary Kittle

Had an amazing time. Great food and service, would highly recommend!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Emmy Huffman

Best Mexican Restaurant ever!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Jamar Johnson

Best place to eat isn the best town upstate!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Evie Shaffer

Great food, cocktails, and ambiance but also exceptional service provided by Sara D. and her manager, Mikayla. Sara’s attentiveness, genuine kindness, happy demeanor and thoughtful accommodation of my needs clearly made my evening special. Experiences like this are what set restaurants apart and leave lasting impressions and repeat customers (me)! Definitely a place worth recommending to others!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chips and Salsa, Queso, Bang Bang Shrimp Taco, Chile Relleno, Fish Taco, Guacamole, Loaded Nachos, Salsa

Collin Phillips

Best modern style Mexican food I've found since moving from California! Can't wait to come back for more!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Ana R

Great food, pleasant atmosphere

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Rachel Spengler

Service and staff were very nice, place was clean and visually pleasing but frankly the food was NOT good at all. Very bland and not at all like typical or even traditional Mexican fare. All of our food was luke warm when it finally arrived and tasteless with a mushy texture. Example, One of us ordered chicken fajita tacos, which arrived room temp already filled soft tacos and seemed to be pureed tasteless bland mush with melted mozzarella and mushy onions on top. No salsa, no visible peppers, onions, no grilled blacken or charred chicken and no spice of any kind. Others meals were equally tasteless bland , mushy, luke warm piles of slop. Looks good until you put it in your mouth.
They do not serve any chips and salsa/ dips / oils nor bread for the table while you wait for you meal.

Very disappointing meal for every single person in our party. Sad really… I don’t typically write reviews, but felt like people should know before they come … it’s not Mexican!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 1

Service: 5

Dina S.

Friend and I went for lunch today. Hostess looked absolutely miserable. Tells us 35-40 min wait. We say ok, no problem. Have our name put on waitlist. We were walking around and a little after 30 mins headed back to restaurant because we thought our table would be ready soon. We get there and there is another party of two who has been waiting around the same time. So we’re just standing there waiting. A girl comes in and says she has a party of 8. Hostess says I’ll seat you right away. Makes sense, right? Never seen that before. So once she comes back my friend asks how come the party of 8 that just got there got seated before us and the other party of two when we had both been waiting well over our estimated times at this point. She looks at us, still miserable, and says she will seat us now. She shows us to her table and says “it’s hard to seat you if people keep coming in and out.” And storms off. Okay, not my problem. If you’re having a bad day you don’t take it out on others. On the bright side our waitress was nice and food was good. However after that experience I will not be back. Shame my first time there this happened.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 3

Service: 2

mary coryer

1st time here...no clue why!
Best. Chimichanga. Ever.
Wonderful attentive staff start to finish!
Guacamole was fresh...Poblano pepper was so good!!
Don't hesitate to go...and keep going back

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Queso, Guacamole, Salsa

Correne Tucciarone

The food is great! The cauliflower tacos are the best thing on menu(in my opinion). I was just wondering since the last time I stopped by there, a server told me that there was a new Chef. I haven't been in there for awhile, I was wondering if there is going to be any new items on the menu.

Vegetarian options: Ask the sever or find somewheres else to bother about it. Lol. Just ask!!! Someone will know

Dietary restrictions: Dietary restriction are for the trending people.

Parking: Parking in the back is excepting, unless you bulldoze over others to please the masses.

Kid-friendliness: If your kids behave.

Wheelchair accessibility: Not the second level...never mind, unless you want to be pushed in a tiny elevator and shown around.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Salsa

Jerry Cruz

Excellent food! Tortilla soup and tacos were the bomb!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Rylan Gordon

Good Mexican food in the heart of downtown Skaneateles! On a Friday night, we got a seat as a walk-in party of four. The waiter was slow to get things started but the food came out shortly after we placed our order (5-10 mins). The Triple Dipper was a good starter for the table. The salsa and guac were average but the queso was stellar! The Smokey Beef Quesadilla was the main highlight of the meal. The shredded beef was perfectly tender and full of flavor. Heads up that the quesadilla is mostly filled with meat. For meat lovers, it’s heavenly. It comes with a side of Chipotle crema for dipping which complements the saltiness of the quesadilla. Overall, it’s a relaxing atmosphere with a wide selection of good Mexican food!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Queso

Mike Saltzman (Magitek)

I thought the service and location were great... But the food was a little lackluster. It just, needed seasoning. Like basic seasoning, salt in one case (on the beef in the ground beef tacos... and I almost never ask for more salt, I'm sensitive to it). Some of the food had good flavor, but it was kind of the exception.

It was by no means bad, and the ingredients were fresh, but I'd expect more for $15 per taco trio.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 5

Michele Anthony

Best Mexican restaurant ever! I love the bang bang shrimp tacos. Service is always great. Atmosphere beautiful. I’ve already been here twice this week.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

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