The staff is absolutely amazing, the restaurant it's self was awful, we ate there a few times with no issue but the last time we went roaches were crawling on our table, we still payed for the food that was almost done and while waiting for it we counted dozens out on tables, we did toss all the food and will not be back.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 4
Ashton Moor
Was the only one in the restaurant and it took 40+ minutes to even get service. Then when asking for things the waiter was being rude and half the time standing behind the counter on cell
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Skillet Supreme
Caden Rudd
I do not recommend this place at all when I went in I seen multiple bugs crawling the table(roaches) and the whole place stunk of cat urine . Wouldn’t recommend at all I also found a clot of hair in my messican
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Chips Salsa, Fajitas
Richard Dye
Food was delicious, service was good besides my waitress literally interrupting my conversation with my friend every 2 minutes to ask if we were fine. That's a bit much if you ask my opinion. Wish they had a liquor license I love judging margaritas around the state, other than that thank you you for serving
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Chips Salsa, Steak, Fajitas
R J Rickner
IF they are busy , ie. Sunday afternoon they do not have the wait staff to keep up.. Often school kids with no experience and frequent turnover , often after an extended wait the plate would come out luke warm at best.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 2
Cheyenne Queen
The restaurant looked dirty when we walked in, the waitress didn't know anything on the menu, there was hair in the food, and my husband saw roaches crawling up the wall behind the cash register while paying. We will not be back here!
Penny Schaefer
This is one of those hole in the wall places that people travel to for great food and friendly service. You'll see that the locals have no problem overlooking the condition of the building as they keep the crew busy with both eat in and take out meals. The worn out building may have you worried about cleanliness, but if there are any lulls in customers, staff can be found cleaning.The tamale lunch plate was delicious! Though it only has two tamales, with rice and beans, I was definitely satisfied. The size of the meal was ample for the price. They have deserts. I enjoyed the cheesecake. For some great authentic Mexican food, overlook the run down building and fixtures and savor the delicious food!
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Queso Sauce
Rosa
Great food. Great service. Highly recommend. Will be stopping in again.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Spike Speedwell
We drove around town to see the old buildings. Mostly crumbling, vacant structures with faded signs painted on the building’s exterior bricks. The logos once proudly announced the owner’s name and services. Essential then, now ancient. Sad. We imagined what the town was like, when oil was life in Oklahoma. The buildings then housed businesses that employed many, put food on the table and provided opportunities for several generations. Yale, a living ghost town now.The massive building has a Spanish architectural hint and colors that suggests, Mexican food can be found here. It is now Chava’s. It covers almost a city block. This place probably rocked in the old days. The parking lot being full of oilfield worker’s trucks at noon during the week and family cars on the weekend. Now well worn, the neglected exterior matches the town; weeds, the structures only landscaping. Today, the entire declining population of Yale could probably fit in the building. The parking lot was vacant when we arrived.The restaurant survives, thanks to dedicated locals and with the help of hungry sports fans headed to Stillwater for the Saturday game. Currently its ranking as the “Best Mexican Food in Yale” is unchallenged.The food is served on hot plates, properly prepared and good portions. The service is friendly and the restaurant is relatively clean, but noticeably warn. We ordered one of the combination plates, a relleno and a beef enchilada. On their own both were good; but the red sauce on the meal didn’t work. Closer in taste to marinara spaghetti sauce than anything Mexican. The salsa served with the chips was similar in taste. Very mild, oregano flavor prominent. When we ordered, the young man offered three options: white queso, yellow queso or red sauce. We asked about the red sauce. He described it as “like chili. Nope, it is more like spaghetti sauce.The beans and rice were good. Underneath the sauce, was a nice big, fresh poblano, filled with cheese, battered and fried, accompanied with a mildly seasoned, beef filled enchilada.My recommendation, order queso on anything that comes with a sauce. It will be very mild, but better than the spaghetti sauce. If you are a person that finds a Tic Tac to be a little too spicy; you’ll love the mild salsa.For other reviews laced with superfluous, time-wasting inessential information, sarcastic diatribe and subjective opinion, follow Spike S. on Yelp and Spike Speedwell on GoogleIf you are looking for other Mexican restaurants in the area, check out my collection "Jalapeno Highway" on Yelp. I've probably been there.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 4
Spike S.
We drove around town to see the old buildings. Mostly crumbling, vacant structures with faded signs painted on the building's exterior bricks. The logos once proudly announced the owner's name and services. Essential then, now ancient. Sad. We imagined what the town was like, when oil was life in Oklahoma. The buildings then housed businesses that employed many, put food on the table and provided opportunities for several generations. Yale, a living ghost town now. The massive building has a Spanish architectural hint and colors that suggests, Mexican food can be found here. It is now Chava's. It covers almost a city block. This place probably rocked in the old days. The parking lot being full of oilfield worker's trucks at noon during the week and family cars on the weekend. Now well worn, the neglected exterior matches the town; weeds, the structures only landscaping. Today, the entire declining population of Yale could probably fit in the building. The parking lot was vacant when we arrived. The restaurant survives, thanks to dedicated locals and with the help of hungry sports fans headed to Stillwater for the Saturday game. Currently its ranking as the "Best Mexican Food in Yale" is unchallenged. The food is served on hot plates, properly prepared and good portions. The service is friendly and the restaurant is relatively clean, but noticeably warn. We ordered one of the combination plates, a relleno and a beef enchilada. On their own both were good; but the red sauce on the meal didn't work. Closer in taste to marinara spaghetti sauce than anything Mexican. The salsa served with the chips was similar in taste. Very mild, oregano flavor prominent. When we ordered, the young man offered three options: white queso, yellow queso or red sauce. We asked about the red sauce. He described it as "like chili. Nope, it is more like spaghetti sauce. The beans and rice were good. Underneath the sauce, was a nice big, fresh poblano, filled with cheese, battered and fried, accompanied with a mildly seasoned, beef filled enchilada. My recommendation, order queso on anything that comes with a sauce. It will be very mild, but better than the spaghetti sauce. If you are a person that finds a Tic Tac to be a little too spicy; you'll love the mild salsa.
I love this place . The food is always with quality and me and my little team gets the job done . Short staffed but we do a good job . My favorites are the #16 Chavas Special and The #29.I know people that drive 30+ mins here just wanted to say I wish everyone here the best ?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Danny Payne
This restaurant has a bad reputation for serving cold food and horrible customer service. This wasn't always the case, but I digress. I used to order food here weekly, but since covid, customer service has gone out the window. They have made changes to their menu and you can't trust what is listed here on this posting because these individuals don't even care about informing the public about said changes wasting your time. Half the time the food is cold and disgusting(post covid). In short I will no longer be eating here again and I will make it a point to let everyone know of the shifty service and poor food quality from this point forward
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Alvin Taylor
Everything was good, BUT I personally don't like the thick chips and was disappointed that they didn't have my favorite dish (Chile rellano) after I had driven from Stillwater to eat it.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Jessica B.
We've been coming to this restaurant for awhile now. It is by far, my absolute favorite mexican restaurant! We have been known to drive more than 30 minutes to get to eat there! They have THE BEST fajitas you'll find around. Their salsa is delicous! And when they have them, their chili rellenos are the best thing on their menu! Their service has been a little rocky for the past couple years but I try not to hold it against them. Their current staff consists of some young kids but they're polite and they do their best. I just wish they could get some more chili rellenos in!!!
The staff is absolutely amazing, the restaurant it's self was awful, we ate there a few times with no issue but the last time we went roaches were crawling on our table, we still payed for the food that was almost done and while waiting for it we counted dozens out on tables, we did toss all the food and will not be back.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 4
Was the only one in the restaurant and it took 40+ minutes to even get service. Then when asking for things the waiter was being rude and half the time standing behind the counter on cell
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Skillet Supreme
I do not recommend this place at all when I went in I seen multiple bugs crawling the table(roaches) and the whole place stunk of cat urine . Wouldn’t recommend at all I also found a clot of hair in my messican
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Chips Salsa, Fajitas
Food was delicious, service was good besides my waitress literally interrupting my conversation with my friend every 2 minutes to ask if we were fine. That's a bit much if you ask my opinion. Wish they had a liquor license I love judging margaritas around the state, other than that thank you you for serving
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Chips Salsa, Steak, Fajitas
IF they are busy , ie. Sunday afternoon they do not have the wait staff to keep up.. Often school kids with no experience and frequent turnover , often after an extended wait the plate would come out luke warm at best.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 2
The restaurant looked dirty when we walked in, the waitress didn't know anything on the menu, there was hair in the food, and my husband saw roaches crawling up the wall behind the cash register while paying. We will not be back here!
This is one of those hole in the wall places that people travel to for great food and friendly service. You'll see that the locals have no problem overlooking the condition of the building as they keep the crew busy with both eat in and take out meals. The worn out building may have you worried about cleanliness, but if there are any lulls in customers, staff can be found cleaning.The tamale lunch plate was delicious! Though it only has two tamales, with rice and beans, I was definitely satisfied. The size of the meal was ample for the price. They have deserts. I enjoyed the cheesecake. For some great authentic Mexican food, overlook the run down building and fixtures and savor the delicious food!
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Queso Sauce
Great food. Great service. Highly recommend. Will be stopping in again.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We drove around town to see the old buildings. Mostly crumbling, vacant structures with faded signs painted on the building’s exterior bricks. The logos once proudly announced the owner’s name and services. Essential then, now ancient. Sad. We imagined what the town was like, when oil was life in Oklahoma. The buildings then housed businesses that employed many, put food on the table and provided opportunities for several generations. Yale, a living ghost town now.The massive building has a Spanish architectural hint and colors that suggests, Mexican food can be found here. It is now Chava’s. It covers almost a city block. This place probably rocked in the old days. The parking lot being full of oilfield worker’s trucks at noon during the week and family cars on the weekend. Now well worn, the neglected exterior matches the town; weeds, the structures only landscaping. Today, the entire declining population of Yale could probably fit in the building. The parking lot was vacant when we arrived.The restaurant survives, thanks to dedicated locals and with the help of hungry sports fans headed to Stillwater for the Saturday game. Currently its ranking as the “Best Mexican Food in Yale” is unchallenged.The food is served on hot plates, properly prepared and good portions. The service is friendly and the restaurant is relatively clean, but noticeably warn. We ordered one of the combination plates, a relleno and a beef enchilada. On their own both were good; but the red sauce on the meal didn’t work. Closer in taste to marinara spaghetti sauce than anything Mexican. The salsa served with the chips was similar in taste. Very mild, oregano flavor prominent. When we ordered, the young man offered three options: white queso, yellow queso or red sauce. We asked about the red sauce. He described it as “like chili. Nope, it is more like spaghetti sauce.The beans and rice were good. Underneath the sauce, was a nice big, fresh poblano, filled with cheese, battered and fried, accompanied with a mildly seasoned, beef filled enchilada.My recommendation, order queso on anything that comes with a sauce. It will be very mild, but better than the spaghetti sauce. If you are a person that finds a Tic Tac to be a little too spicy; you’ll love the mild salsa.For other reviews laced with superfluous, time-wasting inessential information, sarcastic diatribe and subjective opinion, follow Spike S. on Yelp and Spike Speedwell on GoogleIf you are looking for other Mexican restaurants in the area, check out my collection "Jalapeno Highway" on Yelp. I've probably been there.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 4
We drove around town to see the old buildings. Mostly crumbling, vacant structures with faded signs painted on the building's exterior bricks. The logos once proudly announced the owner's name and services. Essential then, now ancient. Sad. We imagined what the town was like, when oil was life in Oklahoma. The buildings then housed businesses that employed many, put food on the table and provided opportunities for several generations. Yale, a living ghost town now. The massive building has a Spanish architectural hint and colors that suggests, Mexican food can be found here. It is now Chava's. It covers almost a city block. This place probably rocked in the old days. The parking lot being full of oilfield worker's trucks at noon during the week and family cars on the weekend. Now well worn, the neglected exterior matches the town; weeds, the structures only landscaping. Today, the entire declining population of Yale could probably fit in the building. The parking lot was vacant when we arrived. The restaurant survives, thanks to dedicated locals and with the help of hungry sports fans headed to Stillwater for the Saturday game. Currently its ranking as the "Best Mexican Food in Yale" is unchallenged. The food is served on hot plates, properly prepared and good portions. The service is friendly and the restaurant is relatively clean, but noticeably warn. We ordered one of the combination plates, a relleno and a beef enchilada. On their own both were good; but the red sauce on the meal didn't work. Closer in taste to marinara spaghetti sauce than anything Mexican. The salsa served with the chips was similar in taste. Very mild, oregano flavor prominent. When we ordered, the young man offered three options: white queso, yellow queso or red sauce. We asked about the red sauce. He described it as "like chili. Nope, it is more like spaghetti sauce. The beans and rice were good. Underneath the sauce, was a nice big, fresh poblano, filled with cheese, battered and fried, accompanied with a mildly seasoned, beef filled enchilada. My recommendation, order queso on anything that comes with a sauce. It will be very mild, but better than the spaghetti sauce. If you are a person that finds a Tic Tac to be a little too spicy; you'll love the mild salsa.
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They were low staffed but the food was
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 3
I love this place . The food is always with quality and me and my little team gets the job done . Short staffed but we do a good job . My favorites are the #16 Chavas Special and The #29.I know people that drive 30+ mins here just wanted to say I wish everyone here the best ?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This restaurant has a bad reputation for serving cold food and horrible customer service. This wasn't always the case, but I digress. I used to order food here weekly, but since covid, customer service has gone out the window. They have made changes to their menu and you can't trust what is listed here on this posting because these individuals don't even care about informing the public about said changes wasting your time. Half the time the food is cold and disgusting(post covid). In short I will no longer be eating here again and I will make it a point to let everyone know of the shifty service and poor food quality from this point forward
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Everything was good, BUT I personally don't like the thick chips and was disappointed that they didn't have my favorite dish (Chile rellano) after I had driven from Stillwater to eat it.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
We've been coming to this restaurant for awhile now. It is by far, my absolute favorite mexican restaurant! We have been known to drive more than 30 minutes to get to eat there! They have THE BEST fajitas you'll find around. Their salsa is delicous! And when they have them, their chili rellenos are the best thing on their menu! Their service has been a little rocky for the past couple years but I try not to hold it against them. Their current staff consists of some young kids but they're polite and they do their best. I just wish they could get some more chili rellenos in!!!