Barrio tacos are always good, and being able to fully customize them is very nice. Chips and salsa are a must at Mexican restaurants and I appreciate them being included for free here. They also offer good guacamole and queso.
Ray Weaver
Amazing food! ? Some of the best tacos I've had in the northeast. Servers were great. Service was a bit slow, but we were there as part of the eclipse crowd April 2024, so that's understandable. Our friend said they're normally really quick tho.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Make Your Own Tacos
Eric P.
waited 35+ minutes for my food. It was two tacos for pickup.... Turns out they forgot about my order and then finally got to it well after i arrived.
Ben Grauer
When somebody tells you they have a food allergy to cheese and specifically asks for no cheese on their food, they should be responsible to make sure that doesn’t happen. It was added anyways, and the bartender LIED to me after looking at it by saying “it’s sauerkraut”, when it was in fact shredded cheese! (“Sauerkraut” wasn’t even an ingredient on the March special taco I ordered…) I had to spit it out, immediately ask for the check and left having receiving no apology or assemblance of remorse.This would have been a COMPLETELY different scenario had it been ingested, and unfortunately I learned this business is dishonest and can’t trust anybody there to do the right thing! Also, the service there was slow and seemingly neglectful, especially when it took over 6 minutes to get my server over to verify the order.Anyone else with a food allergy - this is NOT a good sign!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 1
Desare Robitson
Parking: You park behind the building!Kid-friendliness: They definitely have a kid's menu
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Build Your Own Tacos, Taco of the Month, Flavors
Bobbi Kloss
First time here and never return service was great and drink great but guacamole no flavor and el pastor bowl cold over sauced just a hot
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 5
Teko Charles
Went with coworkers after work. Very cozy place and excellent vegetarian food especially that Friday night. Love it!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Vegan
Jasmine Williams
Good Food , Great Service I went there for my Birthday today good drinks and great prices. COOL atmosphere
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Build Your Own Tacos
Thomas H.
$28 for a double of Knob Creek. That's 3oz if they actually use that as their default double. An entire bottle is $38. Most places in Cleveland Heights don't charge that much for Bookers or other high-end bourbon. Talk about gouging. I can confidently state that I'll never go to a Barrios in any location around this city again. Greedy, gouging, over-priced.
Alper G
Nothing special about here. Food is very below the average. Don’t make the name fool you the ambiance the food and the music all American.
I will start by admitting that I'm probably not their target demographic. First, I'm over 40. And second, I know what tacos taste like.We got tacos the way they are served in Mexico: in soft corn tortillas. In Mexico, these tortillas are usually made right in front of you and served straight off a comal (a griddle for cooking tortillas), and they are ALWAYS hot. In Barrio, they come out of a package (predictable), and are COLD and HARD, i.e. ancient (less predictable and pretty disappointing). My companion (a real, live Mexican!) said the meat on his taco was meh, and I can report from personal vegetarian experience that the sauces were close to flavorless, the "spicy" salsa (three stars on their menu, it goes up to four) didn't even register, and the beans were blah. The mushrooms were OK.If we ever have another post-10:00 pm food emergency and find ourselves in the vicinity of Barrio, we'll probably go home and cook something. But if we give in to laziness, we might try the trio of appetizers. Tacos = never again. Never. Again. Never.Gave this place two stars for food only because we didn't get sick after eating there. And I guess the prices aren't outrageous.Vegetarian options: Several vegetarian options, possible that none of them are good.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 3
Mark W.
My daughter left her visalign retainers at the Barrio restaurant in Cleveland Heights on Wednesday, December 27th. We returned an hour after eating and met with the manager, Mark, to see what could be done...frankly holding low expectations that we would recover her retainers. Mark was awesome. He took us up to his office and looked at the video from our table and saw that the retainers had been thrown in the trash...what happened next...you guessed it...Mark identified the bag the retainer was in, hopped into the dumpster, found the bag, dug through it and returned 10 minutes later with the retainer. What a great relief. You don't find people like Mark around these days...he went beyond the call of duty and made our issue, his issue. We are grateful to Mark. We love Barrio and are there frequently...and I can assure you we will remember this experience every time we walk in. Thanks, Mark!
Patricia Hojnacki
Very interesting experience with a build your own Taco menu. The decor has a Spanish flavor to it with lots of cool things to admire. Vegan friendly also!Vegetarian options: Vegan options also!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Build Your Own Tacos, Special Taco, Traditional Guac, Vegan, Make Your Own Tacos
Skye M.
First time ever eating here not just the location but place as well get home put a movie on and start eating with my 4 year old just to find a staple in my food.. I'm not the type to complain or write a review but what if my baby ate that??? Smh I'm so mad. If I could give 0 stars I would.
Rogene Evans
I got my food to go and ordered inside.Hosts were great!Cooks gave me the wrong order. Making a very simple shrimp taco isn’t rocket science. And I can’t send it back cause of course I saw it when I got back to my office to eat.
Barrio tacos are always good, and being able to fully customize them is very nice. Chips and salsa are a must at Mexican restaurants and I appreciate them being included for free here. They also offer good guacamole and queso.
Amazing food! ? Some of the best tacos I've had in the northeast. Servers were great. Service was a bit slow, but we were there as part of the eclipse crowd April 2024, so that's understandable. Our friend said they're normally really quick tho.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Make Your Own Tacos
waited 35+ minutes for my food. It was two tacos for pickup.... Turns out they forgot about my order and then finally got to it well after i arrived.
When somebody tells you they have a food allergy to cheese and specifically asks for no cheese on their food, they should be responsible to make sure that doesn’t happen. It was added anyways, and the bartender LIED to me after looking at it by saying “it’s sauerkraut”, when it was in fact shredded cheese! (“Sauerkraut” wasn’t even an ingredient on the March special taco I ordered…) I had to spit it out, immediately ask for the check and left having receiving no apology or assemblance of remorse.This would have been a COMPLETELY different scenario had it been ingested, and unfortunately I learned this business is dishonest and can’t trust anybody there to do the right thing! Also, the service there was slow and seemingly neglectful, especially when it took over 6 minutes to get my server over to verify the order.Anyone else with a food allergy - this is NOT a good sign!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 1
Parking: You park behind the building!Kid-friendliness: They definitely have a kid's menu
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Build Your Own Tacos, Taco of the Month, Flavors
First time here and never return service was great and drink great but guacamole no flavor and el pastor bowl cold over sauced just a hot
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 5
Went with coworkers after work. Very cozy place and excellent vegetarian food especially that Friday night. Love it!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Vegan
Good Food , Great Service I went there for my Birthday today good drinks and great prices. COOL atmosphere
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Build Your Own Tacos
$28 for a double of Knob Creek. That's 3oz if they actually use that as their default double. An entire bottle is $38. Most places in Cleveland Heights don't charge that much for Bookers or other high-end bourbon. Talk about gouging. I can confidently state that I'll never go to a Barrios in any location around this city again. Greedy, gouging, over-priced.
Nothing special about here. Food is very below the average. Don’t make the name fool you the ambiance the food and the music all American.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 3
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I will start by admitting that I'm probably not their target demographic. First, I'm over 40. And second, I know what tacos taste like.We got tacos the way they are served in Mexico: in soft corn tortillas. In Mexico, these tortillas are usually made right in front of you and served straight off a comal (a griddle for cooking tortillas), and they are ALWAYS hot. In Barrio, they come out of a package (predictable), and are COLD and HARD, i.e. ancient (less predictable and pretty disappointing). My companion (a real, live Mexican!) said the meat on his taco was meh, and I can report from personal vegetarian experience that the sauces were close to flavorless, the "spicy" salsa (three stars on their menu, it goes up to four) didn't even register, and the beans were blah. The mushrooms were OK.If we ever have another post-10:00 pm food emergency and find ourselves in the vicinity of Barrio, we'll probably go home and cook something. But if we give in to laziness, we might try the trio of appetizers. Tacos = never again. Never. Again. Never.Gave this place two stars for food only because we didn't get sick after eating there. And I guess the prices aren't outrageous.Vegetarian options: Several vegetarian options, possible that none of them are good.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 3
My daughter left her visalign retainers at the Barrio restaurant in Cleveland Heights on Wednesday, December 27th. We returned an hour after eating and met with the manager, Mark, to see what could be done...frankly holding low expectations that we would recover her retainers. Mark was awesome. He took us up to his office and looked at the video from our table and saw that the retainers had been thrown in the trash...what happened next...you guessed it...Mark identified the bag the retainer was in, hopped into the dumpster, found the bag, dug through it and returned 10 minutes later with the retainer. What a great relief. You don't find people like Mark around these days...he went beyond the call of duty and made our issue, his issue. We are grateful to Mark. We love Barrio and are there frequently...and I can assure you we will remember this experience every time we walk in. Thanks, Mark!
Very interesting experience with a build your own Taco menu. The decor has a Spanish flavor to it with lots of cool things to admire. Vegan friendly also!Vegetarian options: Vegan options also!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Build Your Own Tacos, Special Taco, Traditional Guac, Vegan, Make Your Own Tacos
First time ever eating here not just the location but place as well get home put a movie on and start eating with my 4 year old just to find a staple in my food.. I'm not the type to complain or write a review but what if my baby ate that??? Smh I'm so mad. If I could give 0 stars I would.
I got my food to go and ordered inside.Hosts were great!Cooks gave me the wrong order. Making a very simple shrimp taco isn’t rocket science. And I can’t send it back cause of course I saw it when I got back to my office to eat.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 2