Unfortunately Amelia's did the no no, by doing a rush job of nothing but crap food. What we usually order from them is usually good and very consistent but this time on a Sunday was extremely bad, the food was so old and stale and hard as a rock (not eatable). I can't believe that they can serve this crap to people that have been regular customers for years. I am so upset as we told them that it was between ordering from them or going to Taco Casa and the said oh, you chose the right place LOL, needless to say, I thru away the Amelia's food and went to Taco Casa and was satisfied. Look, Amelia's has not been all that great for the years we have gone there but somewhat ok and when we order a pickup, they have been fairly consistent and I have been happy with that but now I will not trust them as the left out what all usually comes with your food and it was terrible like it was hurried up and a get rid of the old stuff. I suggest checking your food before you leave or just go to Taco Casa or somewhere you pay less for what you get. I feel that we were totally disrespected with a "I don't care" attitude, I will look for a more caring place to eat. read more

Our favorite go to Mexican restaurant. Great food and appetizers. Oh and of course the drinks! I just wish... (We all have talked about this for 10 years) the chips they bring to you with your salsa was not hard as rocks. Great service too. read more

Great service! Awesome drinks. Beef fajitas are the way to go! Atmosphere is chill. We came in a Friday with live music. read more

Amelia's catered my parents 50th Wedding Anniversary. It was great everyone love the food. We had Guiso de Puerco and Guiso de Pollo. So tasty! They delivered on time and the set up was great and easy. My parents were so happy. Thank you Amelia's! read more

It's our signature Rowlett restaurant for good mexican food and they always have live music on fridays and saturdays!

Drove out here specifically for 2 items listed on the menu...and to not disappoint my grand nephew he wanted ceviche & and i chile rellenos, they were out if both...Ordered Caldo de Mariscos and would not order it again; the soup has no fish stock in it and lacks fish flavor plus they use imitation crab, a lot of it! The sopes were good and so were the cheese enchiladas...they do have the best corn tortillas!! read more

I know things are tough these days with hiring and keeping employees but this place needs help. Waited at the "please wait to be seated" sign for 10 minutes, hostess brought water and chips/salsa, we waited another 10 for a waitress to come by after I had to get her attention. We then waited 17-20 minutes for our food. Never asked what we might want to drink other than water. After we ate, again had to track someone down for a take out box and ticket. Then it took another 8 minutes to run the credit card through so we could leave. We arrived at 12:00 and finally left after 1:30... The place was not that busy, the food was so-so, but the lack of service - WOW. read more

Called in an order for my dad to pick up. He picked it up and when he got home, we opened the boxes to find tinier portions of the food than we'd usually get. The queso tasted horrible. read more

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My wife and I heard of this place snd others ( good, bad) stories. We entered on Friday the 15th of January and there was a bit of a wait. As we sat there with other families waiting for an available table a family just walked in and noticed someone already sitting and instead of waiting like the kind hostess repeatedly asked them they insisted on putting tables together with the people already sitting at a 4 top and it's now an8-10 top. No msnager stoped or addressed the situation as we expressed our disatisfation. We left and the hostess could only hope you have a better night. We will never eat here as you don't get a second chance to make a first impression .. but I guess we were not the overly privlaged family that got to sit themselves where they wanted. read more

Top 5 Mexican restaurants for me! Great food, cold drinks and extremely affordable. We were there on Cinco De Mayo and it was packed! They had karaoke & a mechanical bull in the parking lot. We waited maybe 5-10 minutes for a table, but the food came out surprisingly fast and bubbly hot for how busy they were. Salsa was so fresh, just wish it came in a bigger bowl 'cause I could drink it! Enchiladas: cheese enchiladas are full of melty, bubbly cheese and the chili sauce is rich and meaty. Chicken enchiladas with sour cream sauce: the sour cream has that great sour flavor you want with the tender chicken that just a little kick of spice. Was not expecting the spinach enchiladas to be exciting as they were, wow! Fresh spinach with onions and peppers were sauteed perfectly and had wonderful flavor and HEAT! They nail the rice and bean, but those tortillas...OMG. Is there anything better than homemade tortillas? Nope! Chicken fajita salad was huge! Full of fresh lettuce and grilled chicken. Margaritas are sweet so just add some salt! read more

Amelia's - 2 cheese enchiladas & 1 sour cream enchilada - melty, cheesy, flavorful goodness! - Mexican Near Me - Rowlett, Texas

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Me and the uncle hopping around checking out local spots this place had really legit food and phenomenal atmosphere. Shadie helped us out and was a wonderful addition to the obeisance ! read more

This is based on take and it being our first time. I do intend to try it again; dine-in this time. Phone order was easy, hostess was friendly. Ordered a bowl of chips and queso with pico de Gallo added, Gordita plate, Chile relleno with cheese plate. Plates came with beans and rice. Pulled into the designated parking and the food came out quickly. I'm going to comment on the food from least favorable to most. Chips, two TINY bags that clearly had been made at best, at the start of the day, possibly the day before. Stale. Crisped them up in the air fryer. Rice - to be fair, 99.99% of Spanish rice at restaurants is just bland Queso - meh, but the kicker is they charge $1.50 extra for adding pico and I swear there wasn't more then part of a spoonful sprinkled on top. Gorditas - 2 ground beef, one barbacoa. Ground beef was meh, had hoped it was picadillo but it wasn't. The barbacoa was good! Chile relleno - my wife liked it, not the biggest but she has a high bar for them. Beans - hands down the best tasting part of the meal. Again, I'll try dine-in since take out can challenging. But dine in or takeout, you can have flavor, you can have freshness and this was a little lacking in both. read more

Just stopped by for breakfast, stood in front for a few minutes, no one came to seat us or even talk to us. Don't open your business for breakfast then ignore your customers. Pro tip for free. read more

They have this amazing fajita plate that feeds 3+ people. Amazing steak, chicken, shrimp and sausage combo and super reasonably priced! They only lost a star for the atmosphere. The live singing was too loud and out of tune and the service was a little slow for a Thursday night with a full wait staff and few full tables. read more

Amelia's - Sombrero Ranchero Fajitas... So good! - Mexican Near Me - Rowlett, Texas

My favorite restaurant! I eat here multiple nights a week and love it. The food is delicious and they have great staff. My favorite is the pechuga ranchera because the sauce they put over the chicken is so good! I also love the sombrero ranchero because it is fajitas that comes with multiple meats and the sausage is amazing. Best mexican restaurant in Rowlett. read more

A cute quiet Tex Mex place with awesome drinks and a great menu. The service is always really good and attentive.

Love this place. Amazing place. The atmosphere is ...fun. Friendly. You feel at home and relaxed. The food is hand made I'm told. You can tell. Everything is good. I love the shrimp cocktail. A must if you like shrimp. Queso with pica de Gallo is good too. I normally get the Guiso de Puerco. Sooooooo good. Spicy. The fish tacos are good. The Ceviche is amazing. Everything is good. Great pricing. Great staff. You will love this place. And they have live music on many occasions. Just a wonderful family place. read more

This place has other perks, but one of the biggest perks would be having Jeff as your waiter. If you don't ask for him to be your waiter, you're making a mistake. He made my experience at this place a lot better. P.s -they charge for a side of limes. read more

Best mexican food in Rowlett. El sombrero is the best plate for your money. Cold draft beer and $3 margaritas. read more

We used to order from Amelia's quite often, but the food and service became very inconsistent. We have unfortunately had to have many conversations (arguments) with management about incorrect orders, specifically because they would constantly slip cheese and sour cream into orders with a dairy allergy. In my most recent showdown with management, I had a pretty large pickup order for my family and friends. When I got home, many orders where incorrect or completely missing. I got very frustrated when one of the "managers" told me that they could not do partial refunds. After way too much time spent arguing, I made him transfer me to the real manager. Real manager told me he would process my refund right away and would call me back with a confirmation. Over 4 weeks later, I never got a call back, and I never got a refund. I'm done ordering from Amelia's because of the dishonesty and because the food really isn't good enough to outweigh the bad. If you do decide to go, don't order enchiladas, they're pretty gross. I know what bad reviews can do to small businesses so I do not take it lightly. I just think there are plenty of other great restaurants in Rowlett area that deserve your business more than Amelia's. read more

The few times I've been here the food has been good and there is live music! Sometimes it's hard to hear people that are in your group, but the food makes up for it read more

I've been going to Amelia's for several years now. Not just for the food but also bc the staff is ALWAYS personable and fun! My favorite weekend activity is coming for breakfast (great mimosas) and chatting with Claudia. She is so lovely and always happy to be there! read more

Excellent meal! Loved the margaritas, queso and chicken & brisket quesadillas! Service was spot on. It's now our favorite Mexican food restaurant in Rowlett. read more

Thursday night 5/4 very crowded one table had 25 or more all the attention was given to them exclusively! We waited 50 minutes after ordering. So my wife went and asked our waiter we were wanting to know. He claimed the group was why? Instead getting "hey hold on a minute i'll check on your order" or let me find out we were given the option to leave so we did! BTW: i suggest changing your chips to some less hard!! read more

First meal here that was simply nothing to write home about. We ordered two meals for take out. And my meal came to an abrupt ending when I found a hair in my chicken ... and since I'm bald it couldn't come from me. Oh well, hopefully this was one bad night and not a trend read more

This place is so much fun! The live music tonight was great! Made me want to dance at my table! Margarita was delicious and the atmosphere has a lot of energy! Prices are great!The food is not the best but it is good! Trying something different next time! We will be back for sure! read more

Started with the queso. It's plain. We added taco meat...that's a $2 up charge. Still a little plain, so we asked for pico. That made the queso not just good, but great. Sadly, when we got the bill we found out the pico was $1.50 up charge. So...that's a little high, in my opinion. If you're gonna put out plain queso, then at least don't screw customers when they try to make it better. I got the brisket quesadillas dinner. Huge. Brisket was good. Tortilla was thicker than normal, but good. Rice...man, it was right up my alley. I was really happy. He got the barbacoa plate with charro beans. He was very happy too. He said barbacoa was authentic and tasty. Charro beans were good, cooked with bacon and sausage. Tortillas were homemade and good. He also liked the rice. The chips were thick, and likely homemade. We liked them, but just a heads up. Salsa is good, not too hot. Not runny, but not chunky either. House margaritas on a Saturday night were $3. They were decent. Especially at that price. We went back: Tried the brisket taquitos. A great choice! He got the gordita plate. He said the cactus was...different. He ate it all, but wouldn't get it again. He had a brisket one, which was his favorite. And a potato/chorizo, which he said was good. I tried a bistek dish that was in tomato sauce, the #13. It was ok. Meat was pretty tender, just a little fat. The tomato was a little too much for me because there wasn't any other flavor with it. The sliced potatoes were good though. S Back again: The sombrero ranchero- fajitas with chicken and beef and shrimp. For 3 ppl...yeah, that meant 4 or 5. We had 3 men eat it and still had leftovers. They liked all of it. Cheese enchiladas were given a thumbs up. read more

One of my to go places in Rowlett. Good authentic Mexican food not to mention excellent service.

I've been coming here a lot of times but I never get a chance to leave my feedback until now. Only because I was at Fort Worth today and went to a hole in a wall authentic Mexican restaurant which is famous for their menudo. I got so excited that I ordered menudo to go so I can eat other food from their breakfast menu. To my disappointment, it wasn't the best menudo I've ever eaten. That's when I realized Amelia has the BEST menudo and it's close to my house! I've been a fan or Amelia's and their former restaurant in Garland since I moved here from Cali. Guys, please don't ever change the quality of your food. Thanks for that and reasonable price. Salud! read more

Amazing food and the best server/bar tender Claudia. We always have a great experience at Amelia's.

Amelia's is a good atmosphere and good. The Taco Salad, the taquito's are dry but it is ok. read more

Amelia's - Awesome food good atmosphere. - Mexican Near Me - Rowlett, Texas

Great food, great service. I judge Mexican restaurants by their enchiladas and tamales. Both are great. Margaritas are delicious.

Ordered Queso flameado which comes with tortillas. Got home and realized they gave me flour instead of corn which is what I ordered. Upon calling they asked me to bring back the food so they could replace the tortillas when the cheese would then be cold. The woman proceeds to tell me to bring the cheese back and they would warm it up, in lieu of remaking the order. With gas prices as high as they are it makes no sense to make two trips for one order that I paid for an ordered correctly. This is not the way to conduct business, they only want to "fix" the bare minimum instead of actually making the correct move. Not to mention taking food back into the kitchen in todays climate of Covid seems unsanitary or unhygienic at the very least. I will stick to Kikis Mexican restaurant who never gets my order wrong. read more

They don't have normal Fry's and they didn't have Mexican coke and the beef tortas taste kind of bland and when you pick em up they fall apart but the service was pretty good but make sure to get the sombrero that was the bomb read more

CLAUDIA is a wonderful waitress. She is so friendly, patient, kind, helpful, attentive. Food is brought to us just the way we request, drinks are never empty. We will continue to return with delicious food and exceptional service read more

Claudia was really nice! The food was great. OMG the handmade corn tortillas were delicious.

I have been coming here for 2 years and I must say it never fails that the food and drinks are amazing! Claudia always attends me with a smile and great chipper attitude! She has been such a doll! I highly recommend this place!! read more

We walked in got serviced. Called in 2 times to make an order i guess they were super busy. We walked up to the bar and they took our order we waited 15-20 minutes for our food. The food was delicious it had flavor all the way around from the rice to the shrimp tacos read more

Amelia's is our best little secret for amazing and affordable Mexican dining. Saturday and Sunday brunch from 8-3 is fantastic. $10.00 Mimosa bucket or just a single mimosa for a $1.00 with great choice of juices or a $4.00 Bloody Mary is definitely a brunch favorite. Everyone that works at Amelia's are friendly and helpful and always accommodating. Nate was our server today and was outstanding. read more

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This was my first time eating at Amelia's. It was wonderful. The food was excellent. Everything was fresh and tasted good. I tried a Deep Eddy Strawberry Lemonade, which was excellent. It was prepared by our waitress Caroline, who was attentive and friendly. She made me feel very welcome and happy to be a customer. I hope in the future to come back to enjoy the same level of excellent service and food! read more