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delicious! Mixed Grill has the best flavor...the shrimp are excellent & the veggies yummy. the charro beans are really great with tons of flavor.
Lanna C
Emerging Expert • 7 contributions
Loved
• 4/12/26
• DoorDash order
Very huge portions: what you would love an expect from a good Mexican restaurant. The Mercado Plate was absolutely a very fun and tasty spred of classic texmex fare, and if you're looking for some good ol fashion texmex variety that is the way to go. The unexpected standout to me though was the Quesadillas :they were Massive! They arrived incredibly soggy, likely due to the water run off from all the crema? and the steam of the packaging. but if you have a little patience, a few minutes of heating in an air fryer or pan frying on the stove perks them right up. for the price we got a MASSIVE stack (basically two seperately made Quesadillas piled all ontop of each other). i would absolutely order here just for those alone again and again.
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Page J
3 contributions
Didn't like
• 3/4/25
• DoorDash order
I used to love El Mercado but the quality has decreased dramatically as the prices increase. The soup is so small and isnt as good as when you order in store. Do NOT get the nachos extremely soggy with very little toppings.
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Sandra M
7 contributions
Didn't like
• 8/23/26
• DoorDash order
My favorite TexMex restaurant has let me down. Everything was very, very hot! My favorite Charro Beans are now painful to eat and the verde sauce on my el Plato Bandera was inedible. I like some heat but this was horrible.
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Corinne H
18 contributions
Didn't like
• 6/5/26
• DoorDash order
No sauce came with the order. Tacos not so good, black beans salty and rice bland. Much like fast food
