Margarita's - Lenexa

We stopped in for lunch today and we really enjoyed the main portion of our meals. The server was friendly and attentive. The noise level was good with a casual atmosphere. The chips were okay and the salsa was pretty good, a tad spicy. My fried beef tacos were excellent! The Spanish rice was a bit greasy and the refried beans over dry. My husband said his enchiladas and fried taco was very good but felt the same about the rice and beans. The main restaurant was clean as well.

We stopped in here on a busy, rainy Saturday night and the staff killed it. They were relatively busy with only 3 servers. It was our waitress first night and she did awesome. The margaritas are awesome. I always get one when I go. The chips and salsa are also great. The chips are big and go great with margarita dip. I almost always get taco here. They're sorta double fried so they have a unique texture. I usually opt for beef, either ground or shredded. One of our dining companions got the chicken fajitas. She wasn't thrilled with the amount of rice and the amount of chicken. But I was happy with my tacos so ‍

Arrived here for a Sunday evening dinner. I did not know there was a location in Lenexa. They do have outdoor seating. Inside the restaurant, it seems outdated. Food and service was okay. Overall, not too impressed and noting fun or exciting about the place.

Bland bland bland. Pretty sure the queso was canned cheese with very little Rotel in it. The chimichanga was soggy and the beef inside had no seasoning. The rice was just bland boring flavorless rice. Got a Gold Cuervo Rita and it was terrible and not drinkable. Lots of tequila, which is usually good, but the sour mix they use was not right. Will never be back.

Honestly just really bad food... it's not Mexican and doesn't have any seasoning. They don't have any spicy salsa and my 2 tacos a la carte were $15... Go across the street to Fronteras if you want good & real Mexican food!

I have spent 17 years living in Texas and Oklahoma and I've had the privilege of eating at some outstanding Mexican restaurants. Well, most of the Mexican restaurants in Oklahoma and Texas are really Tex-Mex (which I prefer over hard-core Mexican food), but I digress. My point is that I absolutely love Mexican food, but my experiences have made me a bit of a Mexican food snob. Because of this, there are very, very few Mexican restaurants in Kansas City that I enjoy visiting. Margarita's is one of these.If you aren't familiar with them, Margarita's has been a local chain since 1985 with a handful of restaurants scattered around the KC area. You can find a couple varieties of their salsa in most local grocery stores.Your meal begins with complimentary chips and salsa. I've generally been very impressed that my chip basket is almost always overflowing with whole chips, not stuffed with broken pieces and a fist full of crumbs lining the bottom. The salsa is tasty and very "tomato-ey", but also very mild. They offer medium and hot versions in the grocery store but I keep forgetting to ask if they serve these in the restaurant too - I'll try to remember on my next visit and update this review.Most of the menu is old-school Mexican, just the way I like it. Tacos and burritos, chile rellenos, enchiladas, and tamales, etc. They don't waste menu space on a bunch of fru-fru new-wave Mexican options that I have no interest in. The crispy taco shells are fresh fried, not pulled from a box, and then stuffed with meat. The enchiladas are served with your choice of fillings with cheese on top, but not too much cheese. (Real Tex-Mex rarely includes cheese - unless you're eating a cheese enchilada, chile relleno, or sometimes when building a fajita.)I enjoyed the chile relleno, it's possibly the best in the area. It's a little unusual - it's available with your choice of meat, but they don't stuff it inside the chile along with the cheese. They lay the relleno, stuffed with cheese and then deep fried, on top of a bed of your choice of meat. It's different from what I'm accustomed to, but it's also very good.The Margarita dip is a favorite. It's a white cheese queso with spinach - a standard with most Kansas City area Mexican restaurants that you won't find in other cities. (They also offer typical yellow cheese queso.) The Margarita dip usually has a touch more spinach in it than what I prefer, but I still enjoy it.The fajitas are a cross between the stir fry style that most local Mexican restaurants serve, and the (in my humble option) far superior and better tasting long strips of meat grilled separately that you'll find in the restaurants a few hundred miles South of us. Margarita's fajita meat is shaped in "squarish chunks" and better than most of the local competition. (Check out Chuy's if you'd like to know what a typical Tex-Mex fajita should look and taste like.)One more thing - if you're an old fart like me, you'll also appreciate the classic rock Muzak that plays in the background. I usually prefer Mexican music or a Mariachi band, etc. in a Mexican restaurant, but in my opinion, you can never go wrong with classic rock.I generally travel to Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico a couple times each year to visit family and to quench my Tex-Mex craving. Between visits, Margarita's suits me just fine.

Tried out Margaritas this past weekend. I ordered the #5 Baja Entree with cheese enchiladas and a Chile Colorado Taco. The beans and rice were very flavorful. The pork taco was delicious; it's not an item I would typically order, but I would definitely order it again. The enchiladas weren't my favorite, the cheese to tortilla ratio was a bit off and the sauce wasn't enough to cut through all the gooey cheese. My husband ordered the Margarita Special and thoroughly enjoyed it. We both thought the queso was one of the better ones we've had. Overall a really good experience.

I'd like to recommend "the Joyce special". it's awesome! we asked for something different off of the menu, but needed to be tasty and a little spicy. Our server Joyce delivered!!! Ask your server! it's awesome.

Sadly this restaurant has gone down hill. We used to find here all the time and loved it! But we came tonight and had a sub par experience. We sat in one of the open seating bar tables but had to eventually get our own menu and waited almost 10 minutes to be greeted. We were the only table in the bar so it wasn't busy. Ordered our food and drinks, and eventually had to get our own silverware when our food was delivered. Some of the staff was just sitting around and chatting at a table in the bar and we were only checked on once the whole time, and walked out honestly not knowing if we'd go back.

My favorite Mexican restaurant in Kansas City great service great price everything always taste good and a great location