To my surprise, El Maguey is pleasantly good! The service was good. The food was just as great. The chips & salsa..hubs and I agreed, the chips here were pretty darn good. Other Mexican restaurants, offer the thin chips & salsa. The chips here...are a breed of it's own. Chipotle needs to carry these chips. They're thick, thiiickkkkkk. We went through 2 baskets of chips & salsa. I had the 2 enchiladas & taco (sub with pastor taco). Did have to send my plate back, to fix. Told them no cheese, they sent it out loaded with cheese. The pastor taco, had lettuce on it. Never had a pastor taco w/ lettuce. But it was alright. Hubs had the chicken, beef and shrimp burrito, and absolutely annihilated it! Don't let the ratings fool you, it's pretty darn good. read more

El Maguey - a burrito on a plate - Mexican Near Me - Grain Valley, Missouri

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Love it but still not as good as el rancheros on 7hyw blue springs. Would be close if they added some more tequila in the margs!

This is my mom's favorite Mexican restaurant to go to, and we go so often it's now an inside joke with the family. And honestly, I see why she likes it so much. Easily the best Mexican food I've eaten out by and far; my favorites are the Nachos Locos and the Tamale Deluxe. The restaurant itself has a nice, comfy interior with nice decor. The waiters and cooks are super friendly and we've mostly had wonderful service with them. Only one time was there a waiter who didn't quite give us our whole order but every other time was great. Would easily recommend. read more

This evening, my Grandfather treated my Aunt and I to one of his favorite Mexican Food restaurants in town, and I couldn't believe how good it was! o___o I used to live in Lake Havasu City, AZ, and There, you have access to incredible, authentic Mexican food of many varieties. I am impressed with El Maguey and their rich and flavorful Caldo de Camaron soup! ^__^ I look forward to trying more of their menu's goodies in the future. And MAN their in-house chips and salsa is bomb! I sorta over ate on those too and still feel it hehe.. We opted carry-out so he could be present for tonight's football game! I hope the team he and my Aunt are root'n for wins! read more

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Great Food but HORRIBLE SERVICE Picked up food and nobody was at counter when I came in. A long line had formed. The person who came didn't know how to run the register. They treated me and several other carry out customers like an annoyance. Didn't want to talk or communicate with us. I was unimpressed. Your food is great. Your carry out and register service is sub par. This is not a one time occurrence. read more

My party of 8 was seated and we waited 45 minutes and were never even offered drinks. Groups seated before and after us had ordered and already eaten. We waved three employees and were told several times someone would be with us soon. Then they kept giving refills to other tables. Terrible service. We had a newborn with us. After 45 minutes of waiting. We ended up just walking out. read more

We have visited this location several times and always have had a good meal. The fajitas are good, and today, I had the #5- Beef and Cheese Enchiladas with refried beans and rice. No complaints and everything was hot and tasty. The dining room is big with a couple of smaller sections for dining. Our server took good care of our table and the food came out hot and fresh. Take your check and pay at the cash register. There is plenty of free parking just outside in the parking lot. read more

El Maguey - #5. 1 Beef & 1 Cheese Enchilada - Mexican Near Me - Grain Valley, Missouri

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Great service, Great food, Great experience! love coming here all the time and the workers are so nice and welcoming during every visit! plus AMAZING QUESO! read more

I was shocked when I saw the average rating of this place was a 2.5 out of 5. I think this is one of the best Mexican places in the area. This is a fairly priced places where the quality of food lines up. They definitely have some of the fastest service, that's for sure! I also, don't think I have ever had a bad meal from here! The range of food on the menu is great and leaves lots of room for choosing different items each times. read more

El Maguey - Mexican Near Me - Grain Valley, Missouri

best mexican food in the country. i loved in san dirgo for 8 years and their medican food is trash compared to El Maguey. they have a white cheese dip that no other restaurant can get right!!!! seriously read more

This place is just okay for Mexican. Definitely nothing to write home about. The service was pretty slow and the ground beef lacked seasoning. I noticed to add on avocado slices the charge was $4.50 - eek. My husband didn't check the menu first and ordered a large cheese dip which was $13.50 - eek again. read more

El Maguey - Large cheese dip - Mexican Near Me - Grain Valley, Missouri

I really wanted to like this place, especially because I'm moving to this area and I would like a good Mexican restaurant. They brought out a huge basket of chips and a little carafe of salsa. The first bowl for pouring salsa into it was dirty, however the second bowl was fine, and the wait staff noticed the dirty bowl and brought us a clean one. The chips taste like stale pieces of cardboard. I don't know why I went there thinking "I would sure like some good chips and salsa" but that's one of the terms of a good Mexican restaurant is trying out their fresh salsa. I ordered the quesadilla mexicana. The beef tip was fantastic, but the plate of lettuce tomatoes guac and sour cream was flat and tasteless. In the Covid world, there are not many places to go in and have a sit down meal. This place falls very short of my expectations. The building was filthy, there really needs to be some attention to the floor, the windows in the junk that's in the windows. read more

usually i love el maguey but first of all it took us 30 minutes to get greeted then after we finally get our food there's a string in it! they then try to convince us it's a bay leaf vein and so we pull it to show it's a string and the manager just walks away. read more

We always get El Maguey's to go and everything is usually as it should be. Just as all other El Maguey's in the area although I've heard negative things about the cleanliness but never witnessed it myself. read more

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This is the first time eating at this location and might be the last. The food was "meh", definitely a few notches down from the oak grove location. What was surprising to me was the depressed staff. It made us feel like we were annoying them just by being there. No cheer at all in the building. More like a morgue than a restaurant. Very sad to see. read more

slow service! I waited for ever after being seated. The service is always slow here. The food is good most of the time but lately it's been bad. last chance here. 3 strikes and you're out. El rancho Blue Spring from now on. The Burrito Gordo was horrible tasted like the steak was burnt and No shrimp. when he asked how it was I said not good. He ask if I told my waiter It's hard to tell your waiter when he doesn't follow up a refill your drink. I told him that my meal always comes with white cheese on top. He said it doesn't say that on the menu I order the same thing every time and I said well they didn't have any shrimp in it anyways so the cheese sauce is a moot point they charge me $25.00 Every time I go when there is $18.90 with a drink. Beware. read more

I use to eat at this restaurant all the time looks like the quality is going down and the flavors getting pretty nappy don't really like hair in my food either read more

Food: 4. Not the best mexican food but definitely a good place to go, i have been going since i was born and it was in blue springs Service: 2, didnt really speak to us much, kinda just came said a few words and left. Never checked up on us much and didnt really seem like they speak much english so i think thats why Cleanliness: 4 was decently clean, very clean but from a few quick looks in the back it didnt look as good as the parts we could see read more

I love this place. The reviews here are people who suck. Go check other reviews if you're unsure.

Not sure where to start. Service was good. Food was not the best tasting. Chips hard and salsa very cold. The guy at the register can't make change so don't pay cash. People nice. read more

Used to love this location, not anymore. Had dinner there tonight, poor service, salsa that tasted like vinegar, no refills on drinks, didn't even get the ticket. Will only be going to the oak grove location from now on, picking up desert from there, wasn't offered at gv. read more

While the food certainly looked and smelled good, when I asked for gluten free options, the server said there were none. I found this odd since their post on Groupon says there are gluten free options and several recent reviews on Google rave about the ease of eating here if you need to be gluten free. Either the reviewers were deceived or the server didn't feel like dealing with a food allergy. Either way, this is not a safe place to eat if you have food allergies. read more

After today's visit, I don't care if their extra hot sauce is great. How did they screw up fajitas. The little amout of steak was burnt tasting, tiny amount of shrimp and chicken, mostly tomato, onion and a lot of green pepper. Chips tasted stale. Never will I return here ! Many other choices in kc to put up with subpar food. Lucky I have not got sick from eating here today. NEVER AGAIN !!! read more

Bathroom alone made this a 2 star but the service was terrible the food doesn't even taste like real beef there. I ordered their beef enchiladas and there was chicken in with the beef. The "red sauce" is prego from the store. I got there white quseo dip and I feel like they got it at the price chopper down the road. Everything was overly salted and over fried. The first batch of chips were stale and held under the heat lamp for 1hour. Never go here what's so ever. Honestly I would rate this place lower if I could.P.S the one amazing thing that came from this place was that they used lemon Lysol to clean EVERYTHING! read more

I had the worst meal of my life at el maquey in Grain Valley. I had ordered the pork corneetas and they were disgusting and I didn't get my money back. I will never ever go there again. read more

Recommended by a family member as the best Mexican around KC. Food was ok. Service was worst. Young man waiting on us brought us chips and salsa pretty quick. Then 12-15 min later asked for our drink order. Good thing the salsa is mild if we weren't getting drinks quick. I ordered a beer and my spouse ordered a margarita. Several minutes later he shows up again with my beer and a water for my spouse. We said no it was a margarita. Before he could leave to fix that we told him we wanted to order - thinking we might have a long wait again. My spouse ordered double beans and no rice with his combo meal. Long wait again for margarita but it finally came and it was the smallest margarita I've ever seen at a restaurant. Or anywhere for that matter. Food arrives and my meal has zero rice while my spouse has double rice. Not double beans. Oh well. Let's just eat and move on. Food was decent. Not great. No chip refills. We didn't even finish our drinks we were so ready to leave. Across the room another couple with the same server was having the same issues. We chatted across the room a few times about it. Nervous laughing. Waited for our check that never came so decided to go ahead and head for the front and ask someone about our check so we could leave. Of course the server then sees us and thinks we are running so quickly gets the check together and hands it to us. I went up to pay the cashier and was asked how our food was. I let him know the food was ok but our service was horrible. He said they had a big table. I said it was not only the wait. It was almost like this guy didn't understand English or something and couldn't even get margarita right and brought us water. Bad experience. He barely apologized and took my money. First time in my 53 years I walked out without tipping. Not rewarding such awful service when nobody really seemed to care. read more

Pretty spot on. Try the pull pork soft tacos! Nice crunch and moist. Came in at 3pm had great service. Very clean. Margaritas were the only let down I had read more

El Maguey - Mmmm - Mexican Near Me - Grain Valley, Missouri

Fantastic! My favorite chicken tacos in town. I crave them daily. The salsa is always so fresh and the tacos flavorful and cheesy! The to go is so quick and convenient and the servers when dining in are enjoyable and attentive! Definitely my top 5 favorite date night/eat out places to go. And the margaritas? A pitcher for the price?! And they're just how i like them. Straight tequila with a hint of margarita mix! Yum! read more

American Mexican food. It's not authentic, but is good comfort food in large portions. The service has always been great for us.

We're huge Mexican food fans and we visited El Maguey Saturday evening (10/4/14) while visiting family in Grain Valley. I ordered #4 in the combo section. The "tostada" had flavorless ground beef and liquid cheese...You couldn't pick it up...no lettuce, tomato or other garnishments...same with the taco that came with the meal. The pork on my wife's dish, while flavorful, was overcooked and hard. The wait staff seems to look right through you. Someone at the table wanted black pepper and it was hard to relate that to our waiter...finally when I said, "You know, like SALT AND PEPPER? Pepper," he got it. My wife asked for a to go box and the waiter wouldn't even acknowledge that he heard her. Won't be spending money there again. Maybe it was just an off night...but I won't take the chance again. There are plenty of places to spend my money. Positives: The salsa was decent...and I DID like their hot salsa. Chips were nothing special. read more

Hair in the cheese sauce. I was offered more. Horrible service and I still had to pay for the cheese sauce. Just do yourself a favor and find a different Mexican food restaurant. read more

I understand that I am partially to blame for choosing a Mexican restaurant during a road trip through the Midwest. Luckily- others can learn from my mistakes. You're in Missouri so the spice level being non existent is to be expected, that's not my problem here- the problem is ground up tasteless mystery meat or soggy under-fried rellanos. I was able to finish my dinner, the chorizo chicken bacon tacos which were over salted yet serviceable - my traveling companion got the worse end of the stick and sat there miserably contemplating the mush in front of her. The servers at El ma-gooey are actually pretty good, being attentive and somewhat gay. Margaritas were also decent- surprisingly enough, and if you only need a drink and are the kind of psychopath who'd sit in a family restaurant, order a single drink, and then leave I think El Maguey would suit you well. read more

I got the pollo a la parilla it was delicious and the chips and salsa were good too! Been going to this restaurant for over 5 years . It's good Everytime we go. My waiter has always been very attentive. read more

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"El Magooy"...make sure to have a handful of Nexium ready; the vegetarian menu is mushy, tasteless, and covered in shredded lettuce...the refried beans were slushy and watery, this is without a doubt the worst "almost mexican" food I have had...and as you know there are many awful mexican eating spots in our area, perhaps too many! The chips tasted like they were purchased at the next door" Sunfresh" market, bland and course flavor... ...thankfully, the cervaza "Sol" was on special for 99 cents...after 3 of these and some antiacid,..I think I will pass and not waste my money at El Magooy" and continue going to "Berrigas" restaurant in Greenwood for authentic mexican cuisine! read more

I moved away from the midwest 5 years ago and on every trip back I make it a priority to go to El Maguey to get their chicken soup. EXCELLENT. I have had many other items and am never disappointed. Good and quick service, reasonable prices, and great portion sizes. read more

Really who gives a tex mex restaurant good review that has ketchup on every table. Seriously it is barely a notch above taco bell. I love tex mex and this place blows. If you like this place you have no clue about even mediocre food. You must be from the Midwest if you like this weak excuse for tex mex. Seriously taco bells taco meat is comparable which is really bad to say about any tex mex restaurant. read more

Service was great!!!! Food another story...taco meat no taste or should I say it was grounded up hamburger that had been washed. No juice...no flavor. Won't go back. Will go to Lee's Summit Jose Pepper first. read more

Been coming here for over 10 years. The chips and salsa are great and endless! You gotta get the cheese sauce! Always clean and friendly and the food always comes out quickly. I'm a fan of the grilled chicken quesadilla, burrito, and tacos. The fajitas mix (chicken, steak, and shrimp) is hands down the best fajitas I've had and something I crave on a weekly basis! Portions, food, and staff are all great. read more

I would not have expected to find such a good Mexican restaurant in Kansas! Tilapia and shrimp plate was absolutely delicious! Didn't hurt that it came out in less than 15 minutes, either. Will definitely be back read more

There is a reason this place is packed every time I go in...it is delicious! Especially if you want quick service! However, if you have special requests, make double sure your that your server understands your request. I would have given it 4 stars, but I can't stand that they still allow smoking. read more