Carlos Montez Mexican Restaurant and Cantina

The service was fine . Margaritas were spot on but slow on delivery. Salsa was heavy on tomato sauce and low on spices and flavor. Queso was pretty good with green chilis. Not too spicy. We like pico in ours. The chips!!!! Perfectly warm and thin!!! Tacos literally had no ground beef in them. Enchiladas were average. Cheeseburger / fries were also fine but Luke warm when it came out. Overall we scored 2.5 out of 5, b/c with a little feedback this place could be great.

Terrible, TERRIBLE excuse for "Mexican" food. It's about as authentic as a stroll down the canned Hispanic goods aisle at your local grocery store, and I'm pretty sure that's probably where it comes from, yet they charge you just as much if not more than any authentic restaurant would. I suppose we should've known what we were in for by the fake brick-look paneling on the wall. Phony atmosphere, phony flavors. The only redeeming quality was our server, who was very sweet. I'm actually a tad embarrassed for her having to serve that awful stuff. As for the rest of the staff, who rudely and loudly had a profanity laced conversation in front of the few remaining guests, I can say very little. We enjoy visiting Langley, but we'll never return to this place.

This little Mexican restaurant was pretty good. We had a fantastic waiter who guessed my name and the dish my friend was going to get on the first try! She was so fun! It's connected to a bar so make sure you go in the right door...we did not.

Please for your own health and well-being, think twice about coming here. In from out of town and didn't even eat my food. - Took 15 minutes to get some waters- Queso was COLD (had to ask for them to put it in the microwave) Another 20 minutes to get a refill of chips. (Even after getting up and asking)Got my partners order wrong twice. My dish had smelly and CLOTTED sour cream on top, first time I've ever spit food out my entire life. Lost my appetite after that and left without eating my dish. Absolutely do not recommend.Bathrooms were disgusting, DIRT in the corners.

Carlos Montez has a festive ambience that is like a little village. We started with chips, salsa & queso dip:) followed by the steak, chicken & shrimp fajitas that are delicious!! Our waitress was lovely so attentive. Great location too with plenty of parking.

Great service, Jeffrey was extremely friendly and informative! It just happened to be Taco Tuesday, $1, great deal, awesome Chicken Tacos! I've been there every visit, but always complain about the "Blah" salsa! It's like eating tomato sauce, absolutely dreadful! This time I ordered the Guacamole and it was fantastic! The restaurant is large & Spacious! I recommend this place for Large Parties, to small, for date night in a Romantic Booth. They also offer a full Bar with $3.00 margaritas on Thursday! We were there with temperatures reaching 107 degrees, their air conditioning was comfortable and the ambiance was pleasant. Great place to eat, bring your own Salsa!

First Red flag: Waited for 40 mins after placing takeout order and went to store 25 mins after the order.Second red flag: waitress only said they are working in your order. Never gave us an estimateThird red flag: Everything has a extra price, use credit card and pay 4% service fee. Take a mint and pay 10 cents.The chicken with queso which costs 13$ is under cooked and flavorless. Rest of the food was sub par as well.All paper cutting boasting about the place with legacy and all is a BS if you can't cook chicken

Please read all the 1* reviews. I ditto. Anna D. gave 3*. On a review like that I'd give it 1* -- weak/surgery margaritas, old, greasy, "ewww worn carpet". I'd go with a 0* if possible. We had lake business and found ourselves starving when meeting was over. TaDa! A Mexican restaurant w/ a jam-packed parking lot. Oh boy! come to find out, it's Taco Tuesday, that's why. I guess Langley folks love their $1 tacos. The whole place is like a bar--so dark! @ 1:30. After the line wait we were seated at a large round table by the lady who had been acting hostess, and been yelling across the room at people, "You here for tacos or you a menu?" The menu is one of those 4 sided, you name it, we got it menus. The hostess was now our waitress. (Found out later, not to ruin the review, she's also married, for now, to the owner. You'd think she has a stake in this, right? But no.)She returned for our order rather promptly. I was befuddled over such a large menu so I asked her about the tacos. You know, like, do they have cheese, lettuce, etc. She said, "They're very good tacos." Soft or hard. I would rather have ordered off the menu but couldn't imagine the kitchen being interrupted from slinging tacos. Better safe than sorry. Hubby agreed so I ordered 2 soft, 2 hard and he ordered similarly. It had been a good meeting and I wanted a beer. Ordered a bottle. Got chips and salsa, if you want to call that flavorless red, ketchupy stuff salsa. Yuck! Beer arrived with a sliver of lime rind stuck in the top. Seriously, not a drop of juice. I asked for a glass please. Now imagine the music from Jeopardy over and over and over. And over and over. Hubby even tried to get me a glass but was told they were "on it". By 2:00 the place was fairly well cleared out. Here are my actual notes from that day: "I seemed to be the only patron who couldn't get a beer. Then. . . I got no glass. Another wait. . . .And wait. . . for cold tacos. Barely any cheese and you have to ASK for onions! Absolutely no flavor in anything. Bare hamburger meat, flavorless salsa."About the onions. The reason we know this is because she screwed up her orders/ delivery. Locals at a table nearby, who knew, had ordered onions. We apparently got part or all of their order. I should have taken a picture, I know. The platter was a thrown on mess with 6 - 8 tacos. I ate one ice cold soft, couple bites of a hard. But you can imagine by now we would've eaten mud.

One star for being open on Sunday night, one star for the good food, one star for reasonable priceI live at the lake and I love to support the local businesses and very seldom write a poor reviewThis place has NO kitchen ventilation and you WILL smell like you've been cooking in a Mexican kitchen when you leave ! When we walked in I said to the hostess " why is it so smoky in here"... her response and I'm not kidding..." we do a lot of cooking"I should've left then but I needed my Mexican food fix! Until the owner/Manager messages me that they have the ventilation fixed, I'm not going back

We used to love coming here. Today was terrible. Our food was cold and it was so noisey you couldn't even talk to each other. My tamale was wrapped in the corn husk with cheese and chili on top of the husk! Service was slow and it took forever just to get our drinks after we were seated. Absolutely awful. Poor waitress couldn't catch a break.