El Botanero Insomnia Mexican Bar And Grill
El Botanero Insomnia Mexican Bar And Grill
Don't ever come here for the food . One of the worst I mean worst places for food.
My fajitas. A lot came in the container, sure but not a speck of seasoning to be found and the steak is dry and chewy. So colorful, so awful
Michelada with shrimp
a plate of food on a table
Quesadillas
The 'salad' that supposedly comes with my fajitas.
tables and chairs
My Asada tacos. Could they spare it????
Entrance
Drink & Thursday taco specials
outside
Cold fries
Enchiladas huastecas
Front. No signage
Getting ready for cinco de mayo !!
Oysters, shrimp, and steak fajitas
Agua de horchata
Micheladas
Micheladas
Panchitos nachos !!
Torta de Carne Azada...they forgot the avocado
Botanero Shrimp
Tacos de chorizo (pork sausage )
Carne azada burrito
DJ J.
Apr 6, 2019
A New Mexican bar and grill with high tops, tables and large booths along the walls with lower lounge tables. The room is large and bright with a small stage at the end of the room. There was music playing in the background.The food is authentic Mexican. My Torta de Carna Azada was was very good on fresh bread. My Torta was suppose to have avocado but it was missing. Probably should tell the person ordering if some of the ingredients are missing before letting the order go into the kitchen. The owner stopped by to chat and is working on having everything made from scratch. He said the bread is from a local bakery but hopes to make his own. Our waitress was nice and very good but had a hard time speaking English though she seemed to understand it. Looking forward to returning when they have live music on weekend nights.
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Jason M.
Feb 23, 2025
Don't ever come here for the food . One of the worst I mean worst places for food.Spanish: nunca en mi puta vida a visto una comida tan mal , y digo visto porq no se pudo comer .I don't kno how these ppl still in business. To top it off yu get police in your face . Like a whole swat team ,super uncomfortable.
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Jordan S.
Dec 26, 2024
Yeah, this place is kind of like walking into a bad Tarantino movie from the '90s , complete with a broken front window, mysterious sewage smells , way overpriced and small portion food , cold refried beans. I felt real Sympathy for the waitress, who spoke no English and probably knew more about the bad stuff going on behind the scenes here then I would ever want to know.
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Samara L V.
Oct 8, 2023
The food looks promising but it tastes like garbage. Absolutely bland. Literally no seasoning
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Sarah S.
Aug 3, 2019
Expensive tap water. $2 a glass. Wrong dish delivered. $3 for shredded cheese, which still didn't help mask the taste of the trash can chorizo. Over 30 mins waiting for food, no other tables here. Drinks came after I was trying to pay. No one checked on us - which is why we ate the shitty food. Will not spend another cent or second of my life in this fly-infested craphole (try shutting the front doors perhaps).Poor saps came in as we were leaving. Ordered a pitcher of water. Good luck with that. (They only ordered water after they had to send their flat sodas back. Bet my next paycheck they still get charged for the pop.)
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Jenee S.
Sep 13, 2020
As an interracial couple, we were met with racism. As soon as we walked in, we were glared at. I was the only Caucasian there. My husband said he had a bad feeling. We were told to sit wherever. Waited 10 minutes and was not given menus. 3 other gentleman walked in right after us, was given menus and drinks right away. I had to take the menus from the bar. It took another 10 minutes to receive a margarita. We placed an order for fries with cheese and meat. The menu was mostly fish and didn't have the normal food selection but decided to try something anyway. The margarita wasn't great and not strong. Another 2 tables got their food before we did. Again, we only ordered fries. My husband said he has experienced this in the past. Certain communities do not approve of marriage to other races and will be treated differently and shunned. Finally after a good 20 minutes our fries arrived. He stated if they come out cold, this would be a perfect example of discrimination. They were ice cold. They had to be just sitting in the back. We immediately asked for the check and left as soon as possible. We were stared at as we left. We ended up at another restaurant as the fries were not edible and we were still hungry. We do not tolerate any type of racism and will never be back.
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Christi F.
Aug 23, 2019
Not good at all. The ambience is incredibly weird in here, for starters. I would have overlooked that if the food wasn't so bad! My Diet Coke and my daughter's Sprite had no carbonation. We mentioned it to the server and she asked if we wanted a Mexican soda instead, so we did. It was bottled, so yeah it was carbonated.The food: most of it was bland and mediocre, at best. I had the beef chimichanga and it had so much queso sauce on it, it had no crispiness left on the outside. Also the ground beef was really fatty & greasy. The shell on the chicken taco salad, however, was really nice. The chicken on it was very spongy though.Overall, we won't be back. Server was nice, space is large, and there are some cool updates inside.
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Stacie L.
May 5, 2023
Went on Cinco de Mayo. Walked in and there was only 1 table seated. Sat at the bar, and was greeted by the bartender. Was given menus, however, they were all written in Spanish. They did not have English menus, so we guessed what we ordered pretty much. The appetizer came out the same time as our entrees. Food was mediocre. The fajitas were not served with sour cream or cheese. Would not recommend highly.
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Castiel N.
Feb 25, 2021
Ordered from this place on DoorDash, and waited two hours to get my food. Kept pushing the time back and back and back and saying 'Restaurant is preparing your food' for 1.5 of those hours. Then, finally got my food and it's some of the worst Mexican I've ever had in my life. Ordered the chicken and the steak fajitas and beef tacos, and there is not a SPECK of seasoning anywhere on it. Absolutely flavorless, and the tortillas they gave us are stale and bread-y and flavorless too. Looks like they finally realized how long my order was taking when the Dasher arrived and literally threw hour old food into containers to fulfill it.Absolutely not worth the money I spent on it, and I'm glad DoorDash at the very least refunded me $10 for my 'trouble'. Will never order from them ever again.
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Patricia P.
Aug 28, 2022
The fact that the music was so loud That I had to raise my voice in order for the waitress to hear my lunch order should've been the first sign for me to just leave. The place is a nightclub but I would've thought they would turn the music down to a more suitable level for lunch. The waitress got my husband's order wrong, probably because she could barely hear me over the loud music. He got the chicken milanesa which is fried breaded chicken. At other restaurants where we ordered this, it's a chicken breast that's been pounded thin but this was beyond thin, it was more like jerky thin. I got the enchiladas Suizas And they did not taste like they were freshly prepared. The refried beans seem like they were a can of pinto beans that were put in a blender, and the rice had a strange smell so I didn't even eat them. I would not recommend this to anyone. If I could give zero stars I would have.
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