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After ready many reviews about this place I want to set the record straight. The food tasted good but over priced for Mexican food. I am always behind owners of resturaunts as it is always courageous to go out on your own.
The portion sizes were small and I liked this owners concept. To spend 30 dollars or more per person for food that is not much better in flavour or quanitity than alot of mom and pops resturaunts is not prudent. This is not the value that we find at let's say Baby Kays cajun. If I want gourmet food I want gourmet food. There seems to be some type of gourmet snobbery which tends to over exaggerate based on concept. I want tortillas and salt and not bruscheda and a small piece of bread and two small pieces of zuchinni as sides.
02/29/2016
The Barrio Café is the real deal for truly authentic Mexican food. This is not tex-mex. Excellent entrees prepared in true Mexican style. Restaurant is small and crowded. Lively atmosphere and excellent tequilas and margaritas.
10/31/2011
I order the lobster cassidia and chicken torta. The $16 lobster appetizer was four little round 3 inch hard flour disks with a small piece of rubber lobster under a sprinkling of mystery cheese. Zero taste. The $13 chicken torta was equally unsavory. One thick slab of over cooked chicken on some type of stale roll. A miniscule dab of guacamole was accompanied by some limp lettuce. After finishing lunch and waiting for 20 minutes for the check I finally got up and asked the cashier to please bring me the bill. I won't be back.
07/14/2008
My experience at the Barrio Cafe was very very dissapointing. I brought my
family to the restaurant knowing that it was suppose to be gourmet Mexican
style food. The atmosphere was WAY too loud to even hold a conversation
without practically screaming. My boys wanted to make some minor changes
to their entree and the waiter (kyle) was ridiculously smug about not being able
to make any changes! He made comments that "we don't have rice or beans
anywhere in the restaurant" implying that we didn't know anything about the
restaurant. I guess I didn't know he was a partner in the business. I had pollo
poblando. The minature chicken breasts were tough and didn't have hardly
any poblano taste at all. The tequila shrimp tacos were good... On the whole
there are many other "fancy" Mexican restaurants in Phoenix that cater to the
patron and have full bodied flavorful food.
12/13/2007
If you are in Phoenix. Check out the Barrio Cafe that has excellent mexican food and also shows and sells the work of local and regional artists.
Details
Phone: (602) 636-0240
Address: 2814 N 16th St, Phoenix, AZ 85006
Website: http://www.barriocafe.com
More Info
- General Info
- Established in 2002 by Wendy Gruber and Silvana Salcido Esparza, Barrio Caf is an eating establishment that specializes in Mexico cuisine. The caf s menu includes quesadillas, garlic shrimp, roasted sweets, undercooked meat and chicken breasts. It also serves garlic and tequila lobster, saut ed spinach and duck breasts. The caf offers Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, root beer and Sprite. Its beverage menu also includes lemonade, iced tea and juices. It serves various wines, including cabernet sauvignon, syrah, zinfandel and chardonnay. Through Barrio Cater, the caf provides catering services for gala celebrations, cooking demonstrations and casual events. Barrio Caf is located in Phoenix.
- Extra Phones
Fax: (602) 636-0385
- Payment method
- master card, visa
- Price Range
- $$$
- Neighborhoods
- Encanto, Hinton Place
- AKA
Barrio Cafe Inc
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- Other Information
Cuisines: American, Cafeterias
Price Range : Above Average
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