Vallarta's Mexican Restaurant

Reviews about Vallarta's Mexican Restaurant

• 1 / 5

  By Ryan Schweitzer
  This was an extremely disappointing meal. Yelp is full of good reviews and pictures of how good and filling the meals are. Well, that doesn't apply to the nachos. My wife and daughter both ordered pupusas - $3.50 for each pupusa. I decided to go for the nachos, since the picture looked good [though, no pictures on Yelp].
  
  The waitress seemed surprised that I was only ordering nachos, which should have been a sign, but at $15 for a plate of nachos, I was sure that would be enough. I couldn't have been more wrong. This was the most pathetic order of nachos that I've had in my life. The plate was small, especially for a plate of nachos, with about one and a half layers of chips. There were a bit of refried and cheese on top. And a dish of pico de gallo. I was severely disappointed.
  
  When the two plates of two pupusas each came out, my disappointment grew. Two pupusas [$7] was larger than my plate of nachos. I looked at another table and saw a gigantic burrito. Depending on what was inside the burrito, it was either $13.50, or $14.50. Either way, it was cheaper and way bigger than my nachos. I'm sure that the nachos were way easier to make than either the pupusas or the burrito. And, nacho ingredients are not expensive, especially when I didn't get the meat add on.
  
  How could that pathetic plate of nachos be more expensive than all this other food? The only thing I could think of was that the owner went to some restaurants in Vancouver, saw the price of nachos, but never ordered any.
  
  We asked if these were really the same nachos from the menu. The waitress went to the back to talk to the owner/cook. Eventually she came back and said they were the same nachos. We asked it we could cancel the order and order something else, like the pupusas. She went back to the kitchen. Eventually, she came back and rather than come to our table with an answer, she went to clear off a table [it wasn't busy]. Once she finally turned around, my wife asked her what happened. She just shook her head and said the cook didn't want to do that.
  
  I pointed out how small they were, how expensive they were in comparison to the pupusas and the burrito, and the difference between the picture on the menu and what I got - the picture on the menu shows a mound of chips [not a huge amount, but way more than I got], a bunch of topies, AND quacamole and sour cream! Not at all what I got.
  
  My wife went to talk to the chef, and, apparently, her daughter got the menu done, and there's various problems with the new menu, but she can't get the phone number of the person who did it because her daughter went to Toronto. Taking a look at the Yelp pics, there are pictures of this exact same menu from almost 2 years ago! If there was a desire to get the menu fixed, it would have been done long before.
  
  Definitely won't be back!
  June 12, 2017
• 2 / 5

  By Michael Todorovic
  The food was pretty good i must say. The service was non existent as the waitress was doing double duty and cooking too. And then they deliberately over charged us for our meals. When we asked to be charged as per the menu they put up a fight insisting that their new made up prices were justified. Our answer was that they should update the menu or at least advise us of the change in price at the time of order. "Well if you need the money that bad then have it," is what we got told after about five minutes of arguing.
  June 01, 2017
• 3 / 5

  By Minal C.
  Very quiet during lunch hours. Wasn't bad but wasn't the best either - small portion.
  February 07, 2017
• 1 / 5

  By Arsh Dhadwal
  Waited nearly 45 minutes for food. Was informed that they were out of nachos after the aforementioned wait. Service was very slow. Menu is extremely limited. Basically no vegetarian options unless you want nachos or a cheese-only quesadilla. Only half our order came out. Server was very apologetic at the end but we will not return.
  October 10, 2016
• 5 / 5

  By Sebastiaan Schoonebeek
  Really good Mexican food! The place doesn't look like a nice restaurant but wait until you taste the food! We will definitely come back for some more tacos and burritos!
  September 13, 2016