Good service. Food was decent. I ordered a burrito of carnitas, and it was mostly made up of rice. The Chavela was ok.

Good food they made us wait for a bit but the food made up for it. The fajitas mixtas were delicious.

Seriously this is a must stop when visiting from the Bay Area whether we are passing through to Monterey or visiting family in Salinas! I can't believe I haven't written a review! My older brother took us years a couple years ago and I first had their kora shrimp we always wonder how they make it not sure if it's fried or grilled in the oven but it's mind blowing and deliciousness the sauce they use omg nothing we ever had finger licking good! We ask for shell on with head to get the most flavor. They serve it with cucumbers, avocado and oranges that bring out the flavors even more! Yesterday I placed a pick up order for these packed with flavor shrimp and also ordered their mango ceviche and octopus and shrimp cocktail! All were amazing and loved by my family! Talk about a seafood festival! Portions are huge to me and wow they do not skimp on the seafood!! I've dined in to and every time the customer service is amazing! I'm not Mexican but when I dine in they make me feel at home and it's fun watching them do karaoke on Friday nights I been there!!! I just love and appreciate this place it makes my tummy and heart happy!! This is definitely a Salinas gem!! read more

Well I'm order to give it stars I have to write a review so here I go :) they have really good food I've ordered tacos and burritos. The staff is very nice! And the place is super clean!! read more

Went in for dinner on a Friday evening. Did not have to wait to be seated. The food in one word is amazing! Good portions and great quality seafood. The waitresses lagged a little but the food more than made up for it. read more

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Bold statement: this is the best Mexican food I've had in California. Authentic, bursting with flavor, just wow. Great service, too! We had their camarones rancheros with homemade corn tortillas and ceviche tostada. Their drinks are covered in tajin (as they should be) and we left feeling so happy!! We live 30 mins away and will be coming back! read more

Food is good here, but what's the point of giving non flavored carrots on the side. Those are the nastiest carrots in the country or maybe the world. I'm sure they know it as they give lots of them. Next time just don't give me carrots. Feels like they had them inside a toilet bowl or at least in toilet water. read more

Food is not that great plus the Owner doesn't pay for any vandalism that happens on his property but still allows the the guy to wash cars and scratches the shit out of your paint in his parking lot..definitely not a clean place and wouldn't even rate 1star or even feed it to pigs read more

Hand made Corn Tortillas Carne Asada quesadillas was the recommendtion from the server Angela. She couldnt do a better recommendation than it was delicious. Definatelly hand made tortillas give the ultimate flavor. Totally recommended. read more

Los Dos Potrillos Restaurant - Carne Asada Auesadilla with Corn Home Made Tortillas!!!!! - Mexican Near Me - Salinas, California

The food is mediocre. They forgot to bring us our appetizer but later on apologized graciously. Besides that our server was great! The drinks are really good. I'd come back just for their cantaritos!! Soooo savory. read more

Kinda confusing when you walk in the first time. There is a counter and I saw several people standing in front so I assumed it's where you order. It's a cozy place blaring mariachi music, which I love but maybe turn it down a few decibels. I looked at a very small menu that I guess were specials. I ordered 3 carne asada soft tacos and a coke. She was serving everyone chips and salsa and taking their order to them. When my order came up it was wrapped in foil like to go. I didnt ask it to go. Maybe it was a hint. I sat down and she asked if I wanted my coke opened. I had to ask for chips which she seemed upset that I asked her. The tacos were mediocre nothing fabulous. Grilled meat not very seasoned. With a half of fresh jalapeno and grilled onions. The salsa was not very hot. But flavorful. The food was typical and the service was horrible. I might give them a second chance , this time I'll sit down first. read more

Never coming here again. Whole family got food poisoning from their food. Do not bring your kids here!!

Drinks were amazing especially LA Petacona. Food was amazing. Would have been 5 stars but customer service was a bit off. I would drive back from San Jose again. We had the Mango Ceviche but finished and forgot to take picture.. read more

Los Dos Potrillos Restaurant - shrimp in a barrel - Mexican Near Me - Salinas, California

Great service special thank you to the waitress claudia she is always super nice to me.I really recommend chilaquiles verdes or tacos de birria. read more

I am honestly so tired of restaurants thinking I'm stupid. I asked for a veggie burrito with very specific items. I get home what do I get ? Rice with salsa roja (and that is it!). Is it that difficult to make a burrito with rice beans queso fresco pico de gallo and avocado ?! No I'm sure it's not. Then why do I get a rice and salsa roja burrito! This place needs to listen to read the reviews on here and make some major changes. They need to start appreciating their customers and serve them what they pay to eat. read more

Great service. Ordered on the phone multiple times this week and my Food was ready on time and warm. Delicious. I recommend

We enjoy the taco Tuesdays no doubt. But over all I have had better. Do not I repeat do not go through the drive thru. For a few tacos we waited over 15 minutes, which is crazy. I would give them three stars but the place is dirty, they need to maintain their outside/indoor area. read more

Amazing food! I love how its made to order, unlike other restaurants that have a hot line, everything pre made. Recommend this place!

The carnitas plate, and chicken fajitas were very good. Except for the asada fries. I do not recommend. The fries the way thick, and overall the plate was a bit dry. I highly recommend the agua fresca de jaimica, very delicious read more

Decided to stop by to order tacos after I was told they were good, I order tacos and nachos. Simple order right? They messed up the tacos and the nachos. Usually I don't fuss but they messed up to the point it was embarrassing! The staff clearly doesn't care about anything but chit chatting with each other, as I witnessed while I was Waiting for my food for over an hour! They also forgot to bring 2 tacos I ordered. All in all tacos not worth any of this, there are many other spots in Salinas for tacos, this just ain't one! read more

This place is awesome! Best carne asada torta ever. My dining companion, who moonlights as my beautiful daughter had the carnitas tacos, and they were just as delicious. Great price, friendly staff and fabulous food. read more

This place is absolutely amazing! I receive the best service the best drinks great ambience and delicious Mexican food. We went on a Friday night where they were doing a karaoke, it was so fun seeing everyone sing to Mexican music read more

This is my second time coming here, the first time I came I had a very pleasant experience. I ordered their tacos which where very good. I really enjoyed that they offered the option to choose between fresh made tortillas or regular tortillas. On my second visit I ordered some langonstinos a la pendejada. The shrimp was good, very spicy. The service was good both times although when it's busy the service can be lacking. Overall I had a pleasant and enjoyable meal. read more

Las mejores tostadas de mariscos en el area de la bahía excelente servicio de las meseras y las bebidas excelentes.altamente recomendado

Foods alright .. michelada are so good! Waited in the drive through line for 2 tacos and a michelada to go for 45 minutes.. not the first time the drive through line took long read more

By far the best mexican food place in Salinas. After new ownership, this place has really amazed me. I work nearby and on a daily basis I highly reccomend this place to guests who come into the office where I work at. read more

Real, authentic Mexican food were the Mexicanos eat. Tuesday is $1 tacos and those tacos are the bomb! The carnitas taco and asada super burrito are made to perfection. If I lived in Salinas I'd eat here all the time. read more

This restaurant is a joke. Took forever to take my drink order. And they serve soda from a can with no cup of ice or straw. When I asked for a cup of ice it never got brought to me had to ask a different waiter. Horrible service all around. Went because of the "5 stars" you'll see once you walk in it's a 1 star restaurant. The seating sucked. The food was discussing. read more

Love this place, and they are open before 10am when other Mexican restaurants are not! My go to place for menudo with plata. Yummm!

My family and I decided to eat here (Party of 5) for the most part everyone ordered tacos however, I ordered enchiladas. My family had finished eating and I still had not received my enchiladas thus my mother went up to ask about my order and offered to give us tacos rather than making my order, I clearly ordered enchiladas since I did not want tacos. The server lacked on checking if everyone received their order. read more

I've been going to this restaurant for a while now. Nearly since its doors opened after the previous restaurant closed. This place was great at first with the amount of food served, ratio in items (burritos for example) and customer service, but unfortunately kept going down in all areas of quality. Going to start with a positive since I encourage people to try things themselves. Standards are on an individual basis when it comes to food and maybe what doesn't work for me will for you. The mariscos are great! Tostadas are always loaded with fresh seafood and the coctel is often tasty. Drinks are good even though for some reason often different even though it's the same order(chavelas, agua mineral preparada, etc). I'm assuming its the touch of the different waiter/waitress. Service is often nice as well. The ambience is WAAAAAAAY to loud when dining in, which unfortunately is the way to go for the best experience. They do have carry out and drive through which is a hit and miss since the order is often wrong (not always) but 7/10 it is. And I'm not talking about large orders I'm talking 1-2 people servings. I went for dine in taco Tuesday. This was a funny one and just had to laugh it off and go with it since I was in a hurry and prefer to just say, I don't think I'll go back. I ordered 6 tacos and they had the teeniest slightest pinch of meat compared to the tortilla ratio. I brought it up to the waitress and her answer was "that's what you get for $1" lol smh. I said charge me more but actually give me more meat. Now the tacos here are the small tortilla. I took 1 bite and the meat was gone. (It's like a 3 bite taco) if the ratio would have been normal. My friend ordered an azada burrito. It ended up being all rice, literally a pinch of beans and a speck of meat. I get it, meat and produce are expensive but that was unacceptable. I'm not one of those people that like a nothing but meat loaded burrito or tacos. All I'm saying is a balance of what your paying for would be nice.....and fair. Can I recommend this place...not anymore. Tasty if u get them on a good day but VERY disappointing if you don't. And very disappointing has been the overall experience recently. read more

Worst service! Took like half an hour to get my food , ordered some sushi that was all messy and disgusting. Don't recommend for sushi!!!!

I went with a party of 4 for a birthday dinner. Food was okay. Time waiting was a bit exhausting. The live music of a trio was too loud to enjoy food and have a coherent conversation with the person next to me. read more

I would rate the chavelas 5 stars, they are so good ! I would rate the food 4 stars. But the service... 2 stars, at best. The girls are too busy on their phones checking their social media. I had to ask our waitress 4 times for some salsa and she never brought it ! I then asked another waitress and she kept forgetting as well until I had to ask her again and she finally remembered like 10 mins later, by that time I was already basically done with my food and had been waiting for a total of about 25 mins for salsa, ridiculous. Owner needs to be more strict with his waitresses or he will lose business and repeat customers. read more

Wow. So delicious! My husband said he never knew corn tortillas could taste so good. They were incredible. The beans were perfect. Huevos rancheros and huevos con chorizo were delish! Will make the trip back if only for this place! read more

Worst service! Took over 40 min to get our food. The server came over after 30 min to check on what we ordered cause they didn't have it in. While waiting, they moved us to a different table as a couple walked in and didn't want to sit next to the people playing music. We were moved from our table to the one the couple refused and still waited another 20 min for our food. They were so disorganized with their orders. We saw people waiting longer than from before we arrived. read more

I brought my wife and mother for dinner, first time trying the place and we cant wait to come back. The food was on hit! Bold with flavor and with large portions. If the cooks continue to put out good tasting well portion plates they will deff have loyal customers. read more

This place service is super bad! We had dinner this weekend waitress was rude I guess it all depends who you are because they are pretty attentive with the guys! Any way we get our tostadas mixtas about 30 mins later tostada was super soggy I asked the waitress if I could please have extra tostadas and rudely asked how many did I want and just came and literally just tossed them to me. Also, this is the second time I get food poisoning with their sea food. read more

I tried so hard to like this establishment! I had driven past it so many times. I always wanted to give it a try. My wife and I finally decided to give it a try. We weren't sure if they had a drive thru because there was no sign but that's fine. We'll stop and head inside. Once we entered, no one serviced us. It was chaos. People walking everywhere. I didn't even know where to go to order food. A female employee pointed at a table for us to sit but we told her we wanted food to-go. She then rudely pointed at the menus. I walked to the direction in which she pointed only to find nothing. After a minute of searching around, I finally found a menu without the direct help of an employee and we both decided to go for a common item we enjoy. We both ordered a super burrito and sat down as we waited. For some reason, the female employee spoke to us in Spanish. I began speaking English but she continued in Spanish. I assumed that she only spoke Spanish so I spoke Spanish. Then she spoke perfect English to another customer. When our burritos were finally ready she handed them to me with a disgusted look on her face. It was definitely one of the worst restaurant experiences we have had in a long time. But we still had high hopes for the food. We got to our lunch destination and began chowing on our burritos. First impression of the burrito was obviously the small size of a so-called super burrito. My first bite was a huge bite of nothing but tortilla. The second was tortilla and rice. My third bite was rice and tortilla again. I couldn't believe that by 80% through my burrito, I had mostly tasted tortilla, rice, and beans. There was barely any meat and there was absolutely not one trace of cheese or cream. Both our super burritos were missing cheese and cream. At least mine had a tiny bit of meat. My wife's super burrito had a few pieces of meat and mostly beans. It seems they did not approve of us from the moment we walked in and purposely sabotaged our food. Well, there's no way I will take this personally so I'll simply move on and warn others about this place. It breaks my heart to rate a local business so low. If you don't believe me, waste your money and find out for yourself. Hopefully, they will change their ways and grow in becoming a "better" restaurant. read more

Worst service I've had. The food took forever to be brought out. Took my beer when it was still half full. Never brought out a second round of beer. Never brought extra plates so some of us had to eat off of napkins. This restaurant used to be quick and on point but somewhere along the lines it went downhill. read more