Reputed to be the best Mexican food in the southern tier. I wouldn't argue. Los Tapatios satisfied our Mexican cravings. The decor might not be anything fancy, but the food is what we were there for. My wife got combo meal #15 (Chile Relleno, Tamale, and chicken Burrito). I got the Taquito Mexicano ( 2 chicken Taquitos, 2 beef). Both were tasty and we plowed through them like nobody's business, washed down with a margarita and bottles of Pacifico. So hands down, best mexican food I've had in the southern tier. And for you BU students, its an easy walk from campus. So definitely check it out. read more

Great good and good prices. I love the fajitas and the arroz con pollo. The service is good and usually pretty fast. Can sometimes get pretty crowded on the weekend. read more

Great tacos!! Service was excellent and food came out quicker than expected. I was thanked for coming in and seated in a great spot. I felt like a king. Thank you Los Tapatios! read more

The most authentic Mexican food you'll find in the Southern Tier. I love the free chips and salsa they bring to the table - but be warned, once you start, you can't stop eating them! Luckily, the staff is nice about refilling the chips and salsa again and again. Be prepared for a big, heavy meal that will leave you satisfied and smelling like deep-fryer for days. Limited vegetarian options, but they have enough to keep me satisfied - I recommend "Vegetarian Special B". read more

No Mexican food I've ever had has even come close to touching Los Tapatios in quality or quantity (or price!). This was one of the restaurants I frequented when I was going to BU. If you have a chance to check out Los Tapatios, do it. It will become an addiction. read more

I love coming here with my wife for 99 cent Taco Tuesdays. My favorite is the soft chicken taco. The beef and bean are really good too. Great service and people....huge windows let you feel like you are outside even when it rains. Great overall experience read more

Perhaps this isn't the most authentic Mexican food, but for the Broome County area, it is pretty good. The salsa was delicious, I'd go back just for that alone... read more

I completely agree with most of the other posters, it's delicious, inexpensive, and fast. I work right across the street at the University and I can get in, eat lunch, and get out, all within my 30 minute lunch break. It's by no means gourmet cuisine, but for a quick lunch or dinner its great, and won't break the bank. read more

Fun place with basic, reliable old-school Mexican food in a dated but pleasing room. Would recommend the spinach quesadilla and the "make your own combination" plate that lets you can pick either two or three items. Both come with Mexican rice and beans. Large but not very strong (but that's OK with me) margaritas. Nice place for Mexican food in BGM when you feel like a change of pace from Chipotle and Moe's. read more

Bumped into this place on our way! I totally regret waitress wasn't interested it seemed very old smelled like old oil! I ordered fajita taco salad was very sloppy! Didn't have any fresh tomatoes or onions on it! Also ordered side of red hot salsa and enchiladas, enchiladas had very hard tortilla but surprisingly red hot salsa was very good! read more

Strong frozen margaritas. One will definitely get you buzzed. There's also free chips and salsa. Nice place for cheap Mexican food.

My mother and I stopped here for dinner to get some food before we started to shop. I don't live in the area anymore but my mother suggested we stop here . We walked in and this place smelled disgusting and the hostess/waitress completely ignored us. The waitress and the hostess seemed like they were giggling at us and giving us evil looks. They finally seat us..but guess where? Right by there their nasty bathrooms. We were totally grossed out and weirded out, so we decided to just leave. Guys, do your self a favor. Do not bother going here. Service sucks, the place smells. Go somewhere else that does not smell and where they have people that treat you like humans, read more

The last time (literally the last ever) I was here we waited almost 20 minutes for a seat (and the place was not full, but we seemed to be ignored), we were put in the front corner and apparently forgot about, took about 15 minutes to get a drink, another 10 to get an order placed and then 20+ minutes for the food to arrive. Top all of that off with some sort of food poisoning and you wont me see eating anything from here again. read more

I visited the Vestal location last week with my 2 kids. It was my first (and last!) time there. The first thing I ordered was guacamole (price: $4.00). I received a very small bowl of green slop. It tasted terrible and had the consistency of baby food. It reminded me of that "Wholly Guacamole" stuff you buy in the produce section of a grocery store. After two bites, I sent it back, and requested that the charge be removed from my bill. For my entree, I ordered quesadillas, which were not fantastic but okay. My kids (8 and 3) ordered the mac and cheese off the kids menu It came with rice for a price of $5.90. When it came, it was clearly Kraft. To charge $5.90 for a scoop of Kraft and a scoop of rice is ridiculous. On top of that, all of our drinks (we all had iced tea, mine was in a regular-size cup and the kids' drinks were in smaller "kid-size" cups) cost $2.25. When I ordered the kids' drinks, they didn't even ask me what size cup I wanted. I also ordered a side (2-3 spoonfuls) of sour cream to go with my quesadillas and it was around $2.00. I was absolutely floored when I received my LUNCH bill and it was ~$35. The food was mediocre to bad, and the prices were ridiculous. I have no idea why people are raving about this place. read more

I ordered a mango soda and the guy gave me an orange soda. (3.00) the whole sale price for that soda is like 79 cents by the way

Ok so I love the food. But it got a one star because they told us as soon as we got there that the kitchen closes in ten minutes????!!! It was 845...... This is Vestal and right beside Bu you need to stay open pass 9...... Then halfway thru eating they turned the music off and swept the floor around us. Just rude read more

So I'm from Westchester and have spent ample time in NYC. I think I have a good handle on Mexican food. This place is simply okay, the food isn't quit spicy enough, That being said the service is good, it's clean, the staff is friendly. Everything taste pretty fresh, but there isn't anything on the menu that will impress you. If you leave the southern tier, you'll never really think "boy I wish I could go to Los Tapatios right now". Part of it, is I think to appeal to the palate of the area, I don't think to spicy or overly authentic would draw the Binghamton crowd. Not criticizing the people of Binghamton, just their experience with food. It's the best place for Mexican without driving for several hours from Vestal. Basically it's better than good enough, and with the quality o read more

Let's put it this way...Taco Bell serves better Mexican food. I would not waste your money at Los Tapatios. Our experience started off with what they call a margarita and what I call a large glass filled with sour mix and ice. We both had their steak, chicken and shrimp fajitas which tasted like shoe leather. Their rice and beans were terrible and I'm sure it didn't help that they were ice cold. Service was horrible; servers were extremely pushy at first and then barley came back to our table. Next time I want Mexico food (which will probably be never) Taco Bell's drive through will be much more appealing. read more

One of the worst dining experiences I ever had. Food was sloppily prepared and I doubt chef put any effort. Do not recommend at all especially when there are *much* better restaurants right around the corner. Avoid. read more

I have been here many times with my family. Serine and food was excellant. Thank you. Not many authentic mexican restaurants in our area.

It was fine. Nothing special. Decent prices, average service...Not much more to say.

Gave this place a try during BU family weekend. We were greeted and seated promptly. The salsa is delicious but the chips were a bit overcooked. We ordered mixed fajitas, one of the carnitas special, and tacos for dinner. Food came promptly. Portions were generous. It was well seasoned and tasted good. Our waiter kept checking on us. Margarita was good too. Decor is not pretentious and typical of mexican restaurants. Will definitely go back. read more

We stopped here on our way through. Huge Mexican food fans. This place is located a little off the main drag in a plaza. It's fairly basic inside but we had very prompt service. The salsa was very spicy and had a unique flavor. A bit watery. The meal came fast and was yummy but definitely a small portion. The margarita on the other hand was pretty large. It was very sweet from using a premixed base. I felt the food was fresh and tasty and I would come back again. read more

We were craving Mexican food and I hadn't been to Los Tapatios in a while. Now I remember why. The service felt rushed and not very friendly. The food was bland and very runny. The only good thing was the salsa and chips. Won't be going back. read more

There's nothing terribly wrong with Los Tapatios, it just serves inferior food to Margarita's Mexican Grill(which isn't exactly five stars itself) The three item special at Los Tapatios was disappointing, I couldn't make out what each item was supposed to be and they were all coated in white cheese that I didn't like so much. The chimichangas are a lot like Delgado's with that eggroll-like crust around the outside. I'd eat here again and try something not quite as typical as the burrito, since my options for Mexican are limited. I'm no Mexican food snob, but it's strange that I can make more flavorful tacos, nachos, burritos at home than the couple local Mexican restaurants(and I'm an idiot) read more

Great place to stop in for an inexpensive and decent meal. Place is about average inside when compared to other local lower-end restaurants, kind of hokey with cheap furniture. Food is not spectacular cuisine, but for under 6 dollars I can get a meal that is tasty, hot and filling. Always order from the vegetarian selections, only issue is that they seem to use American cheese in everything. Good food for less money than you'd spend at a fast-food place, and actually has vegetarian selections. read more

Great food. Great people. I really love the sizes of everything. Great servers. I think it's the best Mexican around 5 stars

Once again I wish I could give a place 2.5 stars, because this is one of the middlest middle-of-the-road restaurants I've ever been to. I ate here several years ago, pre-Yelp, and had a terrible experience, so I went back yesterday hoping for redemption (also because my girlfriend loves Mexican food and we've had a terrible time finding a good place in our area). We probably should have taken it as an omen when we walked in and one of the staff was standing in the entryway crying. The most charitable way to describe the service would be "efficient," I guess. We had to wait a few minutes for a table because, as it turned out, the host was busy taking paper towels to the bathroom. When he came back out he didn't bother introducing himself, just raced off toward a table and presumably expected us to follow. After we sat down my girlfriend had to get back up to go get another menu because hers was missing the entire middle section and nobody was around to ask for a new one. We waited for someone to take our orders longer than I expected in a half-empty restaurant, to the point where I asked my girlfriend if we should just leave. The server cleaning the table behind us was quick to tell us that our server was busy but not quick to do anything to help us. Our server turned out to be the same guy who had seated us, who again didn't introduce himself or tell us about any specials or ask if we had any questions or bother with any small talk (that last part I didn't mind; again, efficient), just took our orders and disappeared again. We ordered queso for an appetizer, and it was so runny it didn't really even stick to the chips. Tasted like watered-down milk with salt. I had arroz con pollo, and it was delicious. The watery queso actually worked pretty well to flavor the rice without making it clumpy. My girlfriend got chimichangas and didn't like them at all. The shredded chicken also contained mystery shreds of something unidentifiable (vegetable skin, maybe?), and the whole plate was drowned in that same watery queso and covered in hot shredded lettuce. She said the whole effect was "like chewing on nothing." Our server ended up sending one of the chefs/owners out to talk to us, who assured us that the queso is always that way (ew) and everything was made fresh to order ... which is just not possible. Our food was brought out in under 5 minutes; there's no way it went from raw chicken and rice to a fully seasoned and cooked meal that quickly. My girlfriend called him out on this and he doubled down, insisting that not only was it made fresh, but he had traveled all of North America learning about different variations on Mexican cuisine. (Side note: I asked the chef what Mexican food tasted like in Canada, and he told me "like going to church," which was one of the best lines I'd heard in a long time and probably the truest thing he said in that whole conversation.) The chef ended up comping our meal and giving my girlfriend a leftover t-shirt and tote bag from the previous day's Cinco de Mayo promotion, which I'm pretty sure was a direct response to her threat of a bad Yelp review. Overall, the food fell in the OK-to-gross range, and the service went from bad to maybe OK after all to come on really? We won't be back. read more

Food is simple and good. Service is a little slow. Just don't look at the fake plants, they are covered in a thick layer of dust. Makes me wonder about overall cleanliness read more

Have had many experiences in the range of Mexican cuisine. This is a modified traditional Americanized menu. The food was hot, fast, and presented well. The prices are fair for the atmosphere and overall quality. Would recommend to anyone. read more

Good lunch prices, decent service and the food is good. Nothing out of this world but I enjoy eating here. Not a lot of places to get Mexican in the area but I've been pleased with my visits. read more

Food is always good!! Fajitas are delicious and if u like mushrooms, add an order to your dish - so good! Margaritas are delicious and food was hot and fresh. Service a bit slow. read more

Awful. What an absolute bummer. Food was bland, and terribly under-seasoned. Meat was bland and dry. They used American cheese on everything which is a disgrace. Portions are VERY small. Our waiter who called everyone "amigo" took our order and never came back. $35 later for my wife and I, and I know where I'll be getting my Mexican food in the future. Somewhere else. read more

I've had plenty or Mexican food & this was my least favorite place. The two times I've been there, the Food did not have much flavor; it is was just ok. It wasnt horrible but definitely not great tasting. This is definitely not real authentic Mexican food. read more

I didn't think Mexican food could be THAT bad. I've had authentic so I'm confused by other reviews. This is frozen food quality. Stay home. If it wasn't for the hot sauce on the table I wouldn't have been able to choke the little I ate down. It really is that bad. read more

The food is meh and the service is terrible. The servers clearly hate their job and have to be flagged down by customers to place an order. The ONLY reason anyone would say this is the best mexican food in the area is because they think this is the only mexican food in the area. I go here maybe once a year to confirm why I hate this place. Bad food, overpriced. and aweful service. Best mexican food in town, hands down is JUANITO'S COCINA - 1166 UPPER FRONT ST. The food is better, the price is better and the it's family owned, by some of the nicest people I've met. People need to stop saying Los Tapatios is good if they haven't been to Juanito's. read more

Decor was nice, it felt like a servers training location, no personalization, asking how everything is. No drink refill after 15mins to get our drinks. The food was under seasoned, and served Luke warm. I got the enchilada supreme, needless to say I'll be avoiding this place in the future. Very dissapointed from this experience. But still better than #5 restaurant! read more

Save yourself the huge headache of dealing with the rudest waitress on the planet! My fiance and I went for lunch after reading fairly decent reviews. We both had fajitas. There were exactly 2 tables of guests in the entire restaurant, yet, from the moment we arrived, the blond waitress acted like she was extremely put out to have to serve us. My fiance and I both were extremely kind and friendly, trying to make up for her noticeably negative attitude. We ordered our fajitas and I ordered a Negro Modelo. The food was o.k. Nothing at all worthy of a recommendation, especially for over $8.50 on the lunch menu. We ordered extra salsa and the waitress snapped at us that there would be a charge for it. We nicely said that was fine. When the bill came, there was a charge for $5.00. We asked what the charge was for, and again she snapped at us and said it was for the beer. My fiance pointed out that the sign on the bar said Modelo was on special for $2.75. She very rudely said, "You asked for Negro Modelo." My fiance told her that even so, $5.00 for a beer was pretty exorbitant. She again said very, very rudely that I asked for Negro Modelo, not Modelo. I asked to speak to the manager, and the waitress behind the bar told me very rudely that she had just left. Apparently, our waitress was the manager! I asked for the owner's name, and the waitress behind the bar flat out said, "I'm not giving you that information!" She then went outside, found our original waitress and told her my fiancé and I were yelling at her, which was a blatant lie. We have never in our life had such a bad experience and we eat out all the time. Never have we yelled at someone who is serving us. I am a former waitress and restaurant manager and know how hard the hospitality industry is. The caveat came when our original server/manager came back in and asked us what the problem was. We explained that there was a mix-up regarding the beer. She started waving our bill around, walked into the middle of the room and shouted, P*ta M*dre! My fiancé, who happens to be Latin and a PhD student at the nearby university, told her, "Now you are insulting us." This horrible woman then said, I'm going to call the police! What??? Call the police because we disagree with a charge on our bill??? As we were paying our bill at the register, we both told her we would be calling the owners to report our horrible experience. The waitress/manager yelled, "Go ahead, call them. They're my parents!" Obviously no checks and balances whatsoever for her horrible behavior and horrible service. Seriously, do yourself a huge favor and do not give this place a penny of your hard earned money, as they could care less if your dining experience is even minimally pleasant. read more

The Mexican food here is so authentic that Donald Trump would build a wall around it.

I called them to ask them what time they were open until and was hung up on. I learned that they were going to close in about a half hour. So instead of answering my question, they hung up. Guess they don't want anyone's business. read more