The Mexican Kitchen

Great authentic Mexican food! Has been one of our favorites for many years. A lot of businesses in Columbus don't incorporate a military discount. However, when CAFB is suggested to be on a closing list the town is shaken because of the revenue it brings to its tax base. It's an individual decision on locally owned restaurants but in a town with an active duty military base, discounts are always a given with proper ID.....except in Columbus. Support of the military is important and would bring an element of unity if the locally owned restaurants would honor.

Always delicious! Best sauce ever! Definitely worth the drive from Carroll County to Columbus (where my hubby grew up).

To me this place is strange and dark. Food is unique, chips are broken taco shells. It wasn't my favorite place but it has been a staple family owned restaurant in Columbus for decades. Many of our parents who are now grandparents and great grandparents went to this restaurant on dates. It has unique Mexican food, the food was good just unlike any other place I have been, it is worth going once if you have never been.

The food is ok at best. The service is horrifically bad. I mean don't bother with any kind of expectations whatsoever. We might have had a terrible waitress, and it was a one off, but I would not recommend this place for any reason. The location is in a rougher part of Columbus, and the inside is nothing to write home about. The ambiance is similar to a Cracker Barrel type place; loud, random noises everywhere with people begging to be heard while they talk to one another. If you want a very limited menu with decent food, and don't mind waiting an hour or more for it, this is for you.

Awesome food and service. Been going here for years. The hot sauce is tremendous. Hot sauce and a cold one, life is good

Dark and old and dingy. Smelled like old Barrel full of chewed tobacco. Too dark inside. Feels like entering the realm of death.

This is the best Mexican restaurant in Columbus!!I've been coming here for as long as I can remember also I have good friends who have been coming here for years.. They must be doing something right I know for a fact that they have been serving Columbus for over 47 years what other Mexican restaurant or any other restaurant can say that.I so love the red sauce I can make a meal with just the red sauce and chips.I would highly recommend this restaurant

Great authentic, very flavorful, food. Not your typical "Mexican" place. A tad more expensive compared to typical Mexican joints but worth the extra for the different food!

I used to go here as a kid all the time and it was great. Flash forward 30 years and idk what happened but the food is horrific. It seems microwaved at best? Limited menu. They don't even have chips? They brought out a basket of taco shells with room temperature "salsa" in ketchup bottles. I faked a work emergency and we took our food to go and threw it away on the way out. With all the other Mexican restaurants in town I'm not sure how anyone still says this is "authentic Mexican" food. It's too bad la fiesta brava closed just down the road. they were 100x better. :(

One of the best & mist honest places for real authentic Mexican food. The atmosphere is cozy & the people are super friendly.