Came by for a quick lunch and was pleasantly surprised by the delicious food. The flavors were very good. Casual setting with clean bathrooms. The only thing which irked me is that they do charge $3 for chips & salsa, however they did deliver some on the house as I was waiting for the rest of my group. Delicious food, would come back. read more

Castillo's Mexican Restaurant never disappoints! The food is fresh and authentically prepared. Kind staff, very warm and welcoming, the atmosphere feels like home. Definitely one of my go to local spots for great Mexican food! The Machaca breakfast burrito is Anthonyxibarrax read more

Castillo's Mexican Restaurant - Mexican Near Me - San Jose, California

Last time we got lost on a busy night. Been coming here for years. Carlyn made sure we were taken care of & apologize for last visit. Jose was our waiter & he's great as is all the friendly staff. Food was fantastic & recommend this place for great food & service. Gets busy on some weekends & is great place to hold small parties for special events. Had my son's baby shower here 20 years ago. Place doesn't stay in business that long unless it's great. read more

Very generous with the beans and cheese. It was almost the size of a full size burrito but just beans and cheese. Also I liked that the beans were very soft and almost runny. Salsa was like a restaurant style salsa, I liked it a lot read more

Castillo's Mexican Restaurant - Bean and Cheese Burrito - Mexican Near Me - San Jose, California

The three item combo with the cheese enchilada was missing the cheese as was the chile relleno. This is the meat for these dishes and for them to be missing is absurd.p The beans were dry lacking. No flavor as was the rice as if it had been cooked last week. The sauce had no flavor for the enchiladas and they used that to just throw that soggy under fried chille in it. Beef taco was like chewing on leather too. My dog wasn't even enthusiastic about sniffing it read more

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Love this place. Arturo is just the sweetest and the food is very good. Get the green salsa. You will not be disappointed. If you're looking for a super quick lunch just let them know. It isn't Taco Bell. They'll accommodate you. Definitely try this place. :) read more

Date: Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 Meal: Dinner Delivery Ordered via: Grubhub Time Ordered: around 6:30pm Time Arrived: around 7:15pm Delivered to: Evergreen Combo 3 ($21.00) *Crispy Taco - Shredded Beef *Enchilada - Chicken *Burrito - Carnitas The bro in law was ordering food from Castillio's and asked me if I wanted anything. I decided to get a combo to share with the hubby as all I wanted was a crispy taco. With Grubhub, there are no automatic meat options to select for the combo, so you have to look up what they offer and add to the notes. The taco was good. The shell stayed crispy and it had a good amount of filling. I did find the taco a little bland, but I easily fixed that with hot sauce. I didn't try the other two things, but the enchilada looked fine. The burrito however, just looked like another enchilada. Or maybe I could classify it as a rolled soft taco? Idk, I wouldn't really call what they gave us a burrito, but I guess with a combo, you get what is equivalent to a baby burrito. I like places with combos, so not a bad spot if you want to try a few different things. REVIEW #3742 read more

Castillo's Mexican Restaurant - Combo 3 ($21.00) *Crispy Taco - Shredded Beef *Enchilada - Chicken *Burrito - Carnitas - Mexican Near Me - San Jose, California

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Stopped in for breakfast on a Friday morning. Hostess was very friendly and seated us right away. Ordered our food and it arrived rather quickly. Food was really good, it reminded me of the breakfasts my family made for me on the weekends. Waiter was accommodating and the prices were very decent for such a big sized breakfast place. read more

Castillo's Mexican Restaurant - Huevos con Chorizo - Mexican Near Me - San Jose, California

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I still love their food and portion size. It was a little slow to take our order this visit but fast to get the food to us. I notice they started charging for the chips and salsa which used to be complimentary. Sign of the times I guess. I love the carnitas ands enchiladas. Tastes so good. That's includes the rice and beans! Comfortable restaurant not. Not too loud. Have always been able to be seated right away. Tons of free parking in the lot. Very polite young man attended to our order. read more

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The plating is sub optimal. For $22 for Chile Verde I expect larger portions of rice and beans. Not teeny weeny minuscule amounts. Not enough Tomatillo sauce to complement the large meat chunks (the only thing GREAT) to meet this specification they will need a larger plate. The food should not be limited by the size of the plate. A thousand other restaurants do this the right way. I will not come back. The music comes from YouTube near the register. The sound is inferior. The world has been conditioned to hear quality stereo sound. More ideal to have professional sound balanced by 2 speakers spaced opposite each other. So to reach all tables the ONE speaker is cranked up to an annoying volume. Only other great thing was ERENDIRA, my server. read more

Castillo's Mexican Restaurant - Chile verde. With a paltry serving of Green Salza and miniature servings of rice and beans. - Mexican Near Me - San Jose, California

I'm not sure why I haven't rated this on Yelp before. It's been our go to Mexican restaurant since we moved to this part of San Jose. It's a family owned non chain restaurant which is a big plus for us. The food is consistently good with a great menu and options. Today we decided to go there for breakfast and I had the Machaca which not every Mexican restaurant even offers. It was a good mix of eggs, beef, peppers and came with nice hot melty-refried beans. The best surprise today was they were also having Albondigas soup which is a fav of mine. So I got that to go for my dinner tonight. Service is always friendly and on point. So if you are looking for a great Mexican place this is your place read more

Man..we were in a last minute pinch to order food for an "already in progress event" and Castillo MexRes "came thru"!!! we ordered over 20 Enchiladas and they were hot and ready to go within the time they specified ( and they were good too) Shout out to Castillo for coming through in the clutch.. read more

Really appreciate how friendly and accommodating the staff is! The food is consistent and good, but it's the nice staff why we return. Most recently we came 15 mins before closing (not realizing they closed at 9, not 10) and they still were happy to do a to-go order for us. read more

A year ago, would have given this place a 4 star rating. My family and I WERE regulars for many, mannnnny years and spent a LOT of money here. Now, after giving them THREE chances . . . THREE times of diving over 30 minutes just to get to their establishment and THREE times of being COMPLETELY IGNORED by their staff. Never felt so profiled in my LIFE as I did by this staff as a whole. Very sad because they USED to treat ALL RACES with respect. Not our experience there in the past year at all. However, it has given us the fabulous opportunity to find new restaurants where we are treated with respect and new places for our family celebrations. read more

They just continue to knock it out of the park! Came back for another round of chicken mole a few weeks ago. Came back this morning and ordered the chili verde omelette with country potatoes and it was excellent. Big portions, so much meat in the omelette that I was making mini tacos with the tortillas! read more

The food is excellent and tasty. I have been here a few times and I have loved each and every experience. Today I had the albondigas soup. It was delicious and full of vegetables and meatballs. Service was excellent. The ambience is perfect. The restaurant is much bigger now and still has food that I love and enjoy. read more

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We love this restaurant and have been coming here for the past few years! There food reminds you of the homestyle meals you would eat at home! So flavorful and fulfilling! We're always treated with kindness here care! We've never had a bad experience here when it comes to service! We haven't had any issues with having to wait to be seated! Usually it's not busy with a hefty crowd! It's pretty standard relaxing setting! read more

Castillo's Mexican Restaurant - Red Enchiladas, Chile Relleno (in middle) Rice and refried beans. Super good and flavorful! - Mexican Near Me - San Jose, California

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Not a fan. There are sooo many Mexican establishments in SJ and this one does not rate to average for me. Unfortunately, its below average. I ordered a chili verde super taco which was dry. I didn't taste like there was sour cream and I don't like the cheese they use. Not very cheesy. My man was disappointed with is food as he ordered the shrimp diablo and received something different. Looked like garlic shrimp? He wasn't a fan. Service was kind of slow as I still waited for my food after placing an online order and waiting before I left home. read more

Castillo's Mexican Restaurant - Shrimp Diablo? waste of $27 dollars - Mexican Near Me - San Jose, California

Always wanted to try this local restaurant finally brought my elderly momma. We had three Fresca drinks horchata, pina and jaimica. Ordered chile rellano, cheese enchiladas and chicken enchiladas. Everything was delicious we were hungry didn't get any food photos. Service was good, I would have appreciated napkins & utensils as soon as we were seated and asked what we'd like to drink( we often had to get waitress attention) , place is clean, dishes came out quickly. Our plates were spotless (lol) give them an opportunity to serve you. read more

Castillo's Mexican Restaurant - Fresca Pineapple - Mexican Near Me - San Jose, California

I haven't had the opportunity to visit in person yet but found Castillos on door dash when searching for pozole. My favorite soup. Since having Castillo's pozole, it's my go to. It's incredibly fresh, not greasy, with great flavor. I love that it has chicken. My order is always packaged extremely well and comes with all the toppings. Highly recommend making Castillos your go new pozole spot too. It's so good that I called to thank the staff and kitchen staff this evening after having it again. Thank you Castillos. Will definitely find time to visit in person soon. read more

Visited this restaurant yesterday as I always do once every other week. Let's just say after getting food poisoning I will never be coming back to this restaurant again occurred. October 14 from a Carne Asada burrito. read more

Skip, doesn't even taste like authentic Mexican food. I got the combo plate with enchiladas and a pork tamale. I never had a tamale that was this mushy and wet before it was nasty. It felt uncooked. The red sauce on top didn't even have any spice. The salsa also wasn't spicy. I feel like this restaurant might be catered to more American people, so that why the taste here is kinda off. The service was whatever, waited 20 minutes for someone to take our order while the other tables got serviced first even when they came in after us. The Horchata was bland and flavorless felt like the drink was just watered down. read more

It is a glop on a plate Mexican restaurant. The chips were dark brown and greasy, which means the cooking oil is old and has started to break down. The chili rellenos were limp and covered in a greasy cheese sauce instead of a fresh ranchera sauce. I could go on........ read more

All I can say is yummy! Came here with my husband & daughter, we left very happy. Ordered chilaquiles rojos 10/10. Huevos rancheros 10/10. My daughter had pancakes they were amazing as well. The orange juice is freshly squeezed & the lemonade was freshly made as well. I recommended 100% read more

Returned last Friday for lunch and was happy that everything on my plate was great. No complaints, only compliments and good service. The only problem was on my second visit for lunch a few days later I ordered something different called a Tostada and it was bad. The flat tortilla was black and tasted burnt, over cooked and greasy with no crunch. I tasted like it was left over and refried to many times. I will never eat here again. read more

This is a go too for some good Mexican food. Staff is friendly and food comes out at a reasonable time and hot. The atmosphere is very chill and friendly not loud at all. The chips are so good you will definitely be asking for more. read more

I've been going here for a while now and love their food. The service is good and friendly as well. My go-to is there chicken enchilada suiza and the seabass dish. But everything is excellent. Highly recommended. read more

This place was pretty good. I got the horchata which was ok. The chile verde was very good, but I dont even know if they used tomatillos or not because there were no seeds in it. I ate half and took half home. My daughter stole my leftovers, ugg. But overall everyone loved their food here. read more

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While I'm cordial to my seat mates on a flight, with a four hour flight ahead of me, the last thing I wanted to do was start a conversation. And that's exactly what happened. The flight "flew" by as my seat mate and I chatted about work, family, world events and finally San Jose. I told her where I was heading and she told me that her husband, who is Mexican, regularly drives out of his way to eat at Castillo's. That was enough for me. We were babysitting tonight so takeout was on the agenda. I've been wanting to try Castillo's since the moment I stepped off the plane so that's where I went. I ordered carnitas and Chile verde (and a margarita while I waited). The food was off the chart. Definitely the best carnitas that I've ever had. The Chile verde was also awesome. The chips were obviously house made and were what all chips should strive to be. The salsa was excellent too. Both dinners came with rice, beans and tortillas. A couple of extra tortillas would have been nice but that didn't take away from the meal. Castillo's is less than a mile from my daughter's house. It took a 2300 mile trip to hear about it. I will definitely be back. Heck, I'll probably be back before I leave for home! read more

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I tried this restaurant for the first time for a late lunch today and was unfortunately disappointed in my experience. The food was below average at best and the service was not pleasant. I ordered a carnitas quesadilla. The menu said that the carnitas were deep fried, however, they were not. They were slow-cooked, not fried whatsoever, and the meat had a strange flavor to them. There also was barely any cheese in the quesadilla and it was very very dry. The lady taking our order was not very friendly as well. She first came to our table and all she said was "You ready?". No hi, how are you, or anything like that. While my mom was ordering, she had questions about her order but the lady kept cutting her off and turning to me to ask what I wanted. Ambiance is okay, nothing nice or special. The space was fairly clean but still felt dirty at the same time. Sadly won't be coming back here again. There's many other Mexican restaurants on the Southside that I'd go to before this one. read more

Castillo's Mexican Restaurant - Carnitas quesadilla - Mexican Near Me - San Jose, California

I've been to this restaurant several times. Most occasions I will order the fish tacos and I thoroughly enjoy them. But today I ordered the chile verde enchiladas to try something different. I was not too happy with my choice. The flavor was rather bland. I needed to add tapatio to my enchiladas to give it any type of flavor. I wasn't incredibly impressed with the Spanish rice either. That also was really lacking salt and seasoning. Likelihood is, I'll probably be back though because I do enjoy their fish tacos as those are really good. But I'll probably never order the enchiladas again. read more

Castillo's Mexican Restaurant - Chile verde enchiladas - Mexican Near Me - San Jose, California

I'm giving them 1 star, not because of the food, but because they keep messing up on our orders that we've placed through Doordash! Every time we order 2 of the same combo, it shows on the doordash order, 2x Combo #3. I don't understand why they only deliver 1 and not 2! They keep shorting us one of the meals! This has happened twice when ordering for delivery, and once when we picked it up! Unfortunately it ruined our delivered meals. Luckily on the pick up order, we checked the to go bag to make sure and of course, it was wrong again. When my husband told them they shorted him 1 of the combos, they insisted he was wrong, and then he had to show the detailed doordash receipt, which showed they were incorrect. Their food is good, but their customer service is terrible!! Unfortunately...three times and you're out! You've lost long time customers! read more

First timer at Castillo's! Right when we got to the restaurant, it was packeddd on a Friday night. When a restaurant is packed it truly is a good sign. Waited for about 15-20 minutes which wasn't too bad. Once we got seated, we were served chips and salsa. The salsa was really good! It took awhile for our order to be taken, but that made sense since it was pretty busy. I ordered the enchiladas suizas and my bf ordered the camaranoes a la diabla. We wanted tamarindo agua fresca, but they ran out of it. Unfortunately, our food took awhile to come.... And once the food came, my food didn't really feel hot and fresh. The chicken in my enchiladas had more so dark meat and the quality of the meat wasn't really to my liking. The Camarones was pretty good, but it wasn't as spicy as other spots where I've tried it. Portions were however generous and the staff were really nice and friendly. read more

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I wish I had a lot more to say, but this is going to be short and sweet. My best friend took me here as it's one of her favorite places. We were the only ones in there for breakfast. We thought they were closed. We almost drove away but I told her we should check the door. She made me do it because she's super shy lol. Low and behold, they were open! Lol. The OPEN sign was broken. It is a neon sign. The food was fresh and hot. Our server was nice. We got the chilaquiles and shared it. It was a generous portion. That's all I got for ya. =] read more

All we wanted was a nice meal on a Saturday night. After being at Kaiser ER down the street for many hours with my elderly mom who fell, we drive to Castillo's as quickly as we could since they close at 9:00. We get there at 8:45 (which i hate doing to a restaurant but this was something that couldn't be helped). The manager(?) said they would seat us then seconds later as we start walking with him, he stops and says, no never mind, we're doing "to go" orders only. This was still 15 min before they closed. So we left which really sucked after a long mentally draining evening and I really just wanted to sit with a nice meal. Lack of good customer service for sure. read more

Castillo's Mexican Restaurant - Even though it said "Open" he refused to serve us. - Mexican Near Me - San Jose, California

My absolute favorite Mexican food!! The service is always exceptional & the food is delicious. Their salsas, burritos, tacos, & drinks are exquisite. I've never had bad food or a bad experience at Castillo's. read more

I fucking love this restaurant. Great service. Outside patio. Dog friendly. Good beers.

Wow - so freaking good. I ordered Enchiladas Rojas. My expectations coming here were actually low due to the rating but I was hungry and this place was close so I gave it a shot and so glad I did. The flavor was fantastic from the sauce on the outside to the meats on the inside. Will definitely be back to try some other enchiladas /sauces. Service was also phenomenal. Everyone was so friendly and I loved the music with music videos playing in the back making for a great atmosphere. The restaurant looked clean and orderly as well. read more

Ordered the carnitas plate and it was mixed with turkey leg. Unbelievable! Scammers and not that good anymore read more

I like this place a lot. It's not As good as my beloved La Milpa but it has some great tasting dishes. It's also close by my house and very convenient. I'm a huge quesadilla fan, and I'm a weirdo who loves quesadillas with veggies added instead of meat! Even though I'm not a vegetarian I'm very picky with meat so I tend to prefer veggie quesadillas. I am forever looking for a veggie quesadilla option on a Mexican restaurant menu which actually has veggies in it in addition to the cheese. This one has a good option for me and I have gotten it several times. I also love that it includes sour cream sauce, pico de gallo and guacamole...not every place includes that automatically. Lots of places charge you extra for that stuff and that drives me up the wall! Hahaha. I also enjoy their Enchiladas Verdes & Enchiladas Roja, as well as their veggie taco salad. I will say that I have noticed that when I order via Door Dash or takeout the enchilada filling is often wrong which is a bummer but not a dealbreaker. Door Dash always makes it right and credits me for a wrong item, but it would be nice to get the correct enchilada filling I requested each time. I also like their nachos too because I actually like nachos that are no frills, just bean and cheese. Again I do think it's because I'm so picky about meats and how restaurants prepare them, the cut etc. I like these because they also come with all the fixings.. sour cream, guacamole and salsa. You can of course customize your nachos to whatever toppings you want added. And I do like that on the DoorDash deliveries they send you free chips and salsa...not everyone does that anymore! All in all, Castillo's is a solid family owned restaurant that I will continue to patronize. When I walk in to get my orders, It has an awesome authentic Mexican restaurant smell! Love it!!! read more

Castillo's Mexican Restaurant - My beloved veggie quesadilla - Mexican Near Me - San Jose, California