I have gone to this restaurant for many years and the service has always been hit-or-miss but lately it has gone downhill significantly. There are increasingly longer waits for service, which would be understandable if it were busy, but I can wait an hour or more for the check on a slow night. The food is always good. They never seem to run the air conditioner.
Edit: 9/07/2025 I have tried going back a few times recently since my last review 4 months ago and things have gotten worse. I went back on 9/5/2025 and had terrible service and it was sweltering inside and only seemed to get worse over time. The food was good but after our initial order nobody checked on us for a long time, again. When my party was ready for the check we waited over 30 minutes to get someone's attention to bring us the bill. After we asked the lady who buses the tables to speak to Maria (since apparently nobody else was going to bother serving us), her son Andrew brought us the checks but did not cash us out. We flagged Maria down and she asked if there was a problem, and I tried to explain to her that the air conditioning was bad and also that it has been an issue for a long time that our servers always disappear from us and she walked off while I was talking to her. It took another 20 or 30 minutes before she bothered cashing us out, while she was cashing other people out while knowing we had been waiting a long time. I will never go back.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 4
Service: 1
Fred Power
Me and my girlfriend ate here, only because it was the closest place to our AirBnb rental. Wasn’t rated as good as other Mexican places nearby but we both absolutely loved it. Authentic food, the salsa was solid and came with free queso with beef dip which almost no other places do! She had the ribeye steak with eggs and vegetables and I had the fajitas with beef, shrimp, and chicken. Came with lots of grilled onions and great variety of other things besides the 3 meats. Going back as soon as we can!
Imho this is the best Mexican restaurant in town (except maybe for that food truck in front of Mavis Tire) There are 2 reasons why Maria's stands out above the rest... 1. When dining in, they offer you chips, salsa, plus their 'Maria dip' which is queso/beef/bean dip. No other restaurant adds that and it's delicious. 2. Last time I checked, they do not pass along the 3% merchant transaction fee when using a card to pay. This is tied with reason #1 for why I have not been back to Mi Rancho in years.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Donald Thrash
Closed before they are supposed to
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Alan Ford
Maria's is my favorite Mexican restaurant in Aiken. Very clean, great food and service. My favorite item on the menu is Gorditas, and you can't find it anywhere else. Try it with carnitas (roast pork). Also, Maria's is family owned.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Juan José
This restaurant has boosted their prices so high you might as well go to Longhorn or another fine dining establishment. The food has no seasoning, the steak is not top quality, and the fajitas is 80% onions and green peppers and 20% meat. Very dissatisfied experience. There are far better Mexican restaurants in town.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Rhett Brown
Great food, service and atmosphere
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Guadalupe Cavallo
The food is Excellent!!! We come here very often with the family. We all love it and it's our special day when we eat at Maria's!!
Recommended dishes: Beans, Cheese Dip, Chips Salsa, Chimichanga, Enchilada, Shrimp Fajitas, Salsa and Cheese and Bean Dip with Chips, Chicken Enchiladas, Fajitas Marias
osamataptap
It was aight. Nothing special. Server was nice.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
amanda robinson
This place has falls off more and more. The servers are not friendly at all and much lunch yesterday was dry no flavor and full of mushrooms which have never been in the fajitas
I have gone to this restaurant for many years and the service has always been hit-or-miss but lately it has gone downhill significantly. There are increasingly longer waits for service, which would be understandable if it were busy, but I can wait an hour or more for the check on a slow night. The food is always good. They never seem to run the air conditioner.
Edit: 9/07/2025
I have tried going back a few times recently since my last review 4 months ago and things have gotten worse. I went back on 9/5/2025 and had terrible service and it was sweltering inside and only seemed to get worse over time. The food was good but after our initial order nobody checked on us for a long time, again. When my party was ready for the check we waited over 30 minutes to get someone's attention to bring us the bill. After we asked the lady who buses the tables to speak to Maria (since apparently nobody else was going to bother serving us), her son Andrew brought us the checks but did not cash us out. We flagged Maria down and she asked if there was a problem, and I tried to explain to her that the air conditioning was bad and also that it has been an issue for a long time that our servers always disappear from us and she walked off while I was talking to her. It took another 20 or 30 minutes before she bothered cashing us out, while she was cashing other people out while knowing we had been waiting a long time. I will never go back.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 4
Service: 1
Me and my girlfriend ate here, only because it was the closest place to our AirBnb rental. Wasn’t rated as good as other Mexican places nearby but we both absolutely loved it. Authentic food, the salsa was solid and came with free queso with beef dip which almost no other places do! She had the ribeye steak with eggs and vegetables and I had the fajitas with beef, shrimp, and chicken. Came with lots of grilled onions and great variety of other things besides the 3 meats. Going back as soon as we can!
Always good when I eat here
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Taco Salad, Beans, Cheese Dip, Chips Salsa, Cheese Steak Burrito, Maria's Dip, Fajitas Marias
The only place I will eat Mexican food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Imho this is the best Mexican restaurant in town (except maybe for that food truck in front of Mavis Tire)
There are 2 reasons why Maria's stands out above the rest...
1. When dining in, they offer you chips, salsa, plus their 'Maria dip' which is queso/beef/bean dip. No other restaurant adds that and it's delicious.
2. Last time I checked, they do not pass along the 3% merchant transaction fee when using a card to pay. This is tied with reason #1 for why I have not been back to Mi Rancho in years.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Closed before they are supposed to
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Maria's is my favorite Mexican restaurant in Aiken. Very clean, great food and service. My favorite item on the menu is Gorditas, and you can't find it anywhere else. Try it with carnitas (roast pork). Also, Maria's is family owned.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This restaurant has boosted their prices so high you might as well go to Longhorn or another fine dining establishment. The food has no seasoning, the steak is not top quality, and the fajitas is 80% onions and green peppers and 20% meat. Very dissatisfied experience. There are far better Mexican restaurants in town.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Great food, service and atmosphere
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
The food is Excellent!!! We come here very often with the family. We all love it and it's our special day when we eat at Maria's!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
Always great food and drinks
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Beans, Cheese Dip, Chips Salsa, Chimichanga, Enchilada, Shrimp Fajitas, Salsa and Cheese and Bean Dip with Chips, Chicken Enchiladas, Fajitas Marias
It was aight. Nothing special. Server was nice.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
This place has falls off more and more. The servers are not friendly at all and much lunch yesterday was dry no flavor and full of mushrooms which have never been in the fajitas
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Good place to eat
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Food was good, but service was actually terrible.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 1
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