Madi's Mexicali Stop - Grass Valley

This place has been open for approximately six months. It is off of Main Street and Hughes in Grass Valley. It's in the same shopping complex as the thrift store and what used to be Sierra Cinemas (cinema is closed down).I got 2 street tacos for 3 bucks each. Small but good..nothing special about it. I didn't try any other items but their menu is somewhat wallet friendly. They also have a children's menu.I like that they have a salsa bar...not big but had the salsas I like (habanero!). They also had warm chips.They have indoor and outdoor seating . Dog friendly outside. They offer dine in or take out. It is pretty small inside but many people get the food "to go".Their new hours are posted on the door..open at 11am ( see my photo) 7 days a week.I would probably go back and get the street tacos again and try more salsas.I didn't see beer or wine on the menu.It is clean inside and very casual!

Oh wow talk about fresh, hot, spicy, full bodied flavor. Just tried the Pizole and while I would say it's more saucy than soup, I'm not complaining. I wish I could take this saucy dish home and put it on everything. I also wish I had more appetite because the serving is generous and so delicious. You also get fresh fried crisp, crunchy (and not oily) corn chips. Highly recommend you give this spot a try!

One star over all, plus one extra star bc the service was genuine and sweet when we were there.Madi's is a travesty, a tragedy of a Mexican spot that has taken over the delicious US style taco shop Lefty's Taco House. Lefty's proved that it didn't need to be authentic to be good tacos. Madi's, on the other hand, is Mexican food by ppl who don't care about creating authentic nor homage to Mexican recipes...nor quality or flavor. If Guy Fieri came here, he would permaban them from setting foot in Flavortown, bc this place has eliminated flavor from the menu.In a county where the majority of the Mexican food offerings are dire, this is the absolute worst. I made the massive error in judgment by ordering Carnitas, which arrived, topping my salad so fatty, wet, and grotesque a lump, I couldn't force myself to finish my meal. I don't do carbs, so I had my salad with meat, cheese, lettuce, and some Pico only. It was bland, tasted of cheap fatty meat and cooking oil, but little else. There were no crispy ends, no crackling bits as the best carnitas provides. The slop I was served has no right to call itself carnitas. My wife's taco salad, on the other hand, was 99% refried beans. She found it way off, loaded up with rice and refried beans, which, it's a salad...does anyone want that in their salad? The taco salad here is basically a burrito without a wrapper.My son's burrito was like a heavy sand filled gym sock. It may have been big, which could help justify the price, but it's all filler: rice, beans, barely any meat. But the meats used here are low quality, greasy, fatty, and as I already mentioned, a wet mass, so maybe it's no great loss to have them skimp.In the event they read this, carnitas can not just be thrown in a slow cooker and left there. Once you've braised the meat slow and low for hours until you shred it, you remove, drain, and then pan fry in hot oil in an iron skillet, or even a griddle would work. Skipping the final step is inexcusable unless your goal is to serve a lump of wet meat.It's been sad to see nothing able to last in this location, and I welcome a local crew. This place is expensive and the food is awful. There's no reason it should last, sadly.

The camarones plate is the best mexican food I have ever had, including in Mexico. My friend & I came here intending to try their home-made molé sauce but got distracted by the camarones plate. The pintos enteros are heavenly - perfectly cooked whole beans in a thick savory broth. The rice has a delicate elusive flavor that comes from a touch of sauce made from fresh tomatoes & cumin. The salad has the standard ingredients - lettuce, guacamolé, sour cream and pico de gallo, but it is twice as much as expected and sparklingly fresh with what looks like an entire half of an avocado worth of guacamole. And then there is a huge serving of the main dish: perfectly cooked shrimp with strips of red & green peppers (pasillas?) in a magnificent sauce. I couldn't wait to bring my husband here - he couldn't quell his amazement and agrees that it is definitely the very best.The restaurant is small and unpretentious but festive with brightly colored walls and the staff make you feel like family.

I specifically asked for a side of whole pinto beans and got refried beans. The guacamole was brown and pico de gallo was old. I paid $8 and ate one bite and walked out. It was 2pm and no one in the place, with food this bad no surprise.

HUGE fajita burrito that was delicious. Such a good restaurant! We can't wait to come back.. (the quesadillas were massive too)

The services was great! That being said the food was bland and poor quality. The salsa bar needed to be filled up and some items tasted like old salsas, hot sauces. I have never tasted such bland Mexican food and I've been to Mexico enough times knowing how they flavor/season foods. The chips were freshly made and were very good and they didn't charge extra like one place that I love their tacos in the Fowler center.I hope this place gets their act together!

Surprised by the quality and flavors! Took the family here, it is wheelchair friendly! And the food was delish, collectively we had mahi-mahi fish tacos(fresh!) quesabirria tacos (tender and flavorful) And green chicken enchilada(insanely flavorful and fresh)Don't fill up on chips and salsa even though the salsas are yummy and chips seem freshly made! Will be coming back

I'm sorry I really didn't care for this place. I found the beans and rice to be very bland, and I barely got a tablespoon of sour cream and guacamole to go with my food.And my big pet peeve, paying the same price as a full service restaurant where you can relax versus order at the counter, get your own drink, get your own salsa and bus your own table.For the same money and way better food and great service I [refer El Milagro.

After seeing all the stellar reviews around the web, I was excited to try this place. Unfortunately, Madi's did not live up to the hype. The ambiance is mediocre, the service is mediocre, but the food is not, it's just bad and what brought it down to one star for me. Everything was so bland. I ordered the enchilada suiza, it comes without meat by default and the option of adding meat for $6 extra bringing it from a $10 dish to a $16 dish. A fair price and consistent with other restaurants in the area. But for some reason having the meat separated out of the cost made it feel like I was being nickel and dimed like flying with Spirit airlines. When I got my food I saw the chicken was on top, I wasn't expecting it and it was fine that way, but it felt like they couldn't be bothered or they forgot and just threw it on top. Now for the flavor, this is where it becomes a 1 star for me. It was nearly flavorless except for the flavor of salt. I know everyone has their own preferences when it comes to saltiness, but know I'm a person who will sneak a pinch of salt here and there and this dish was too much for me. The rice looked pretty but tasted like water and the beans tasted like nothing but salt. The enchiladas were not baked, more like someone had dipped a tortilla in sauce wrapped it around cheese and microwaved it. The sauce which is usually the shining star of a good suiza was with so bland or so little that I wasn't able to taste it. The chips were just boring.Usually I'd try it again to see if it was a one off bad experience, but it seemed more like a bad recipe than bad execution. Having so many other Mexican options in this town I see no reason to go back. If you usually find Mexican food to be a little too exciting for you this might be the place for you, but beware if you're on Coumadin.