I have been to Memo's four times since I moved into the area. The first time was late at night and I thought it was decent. However, subsequent visits to this crappy little dive have left a bad taste in my mouth. Memo's employees are largely incompetent and completely disrespectful to customers. They will always screw up your order. This is a given. What's worse is that when you attempt to get them to correct the order, they treat you like crap and act like they don't understand what the problem is. The last time we went through the drive through the woman failed to take down half of our order because she was talking on her cell phone. When we pulled up to her window and my husband tried to tell her she didn't get the full order, she waved her hand in his face and continued her personal phone call. When we got the order it was wrong and we had to go back. We were polite and respectful when we returned, but the lady at the window was downright nasty. I can't readily recall a time when I have been treated so badly by a restaurant employee. This last visit was not an isolated incident but only the worst example of the poor service I have experienced at Memo's. During a prior visit we were overcharged and the man who rang it up conveniently spoke only enough English to repeat the order and take the cash. I also found a bug's leg on a cup they gave me. Yum. I shudder to think what other kinds of health hazards lurk in their kitchen. After this last bad experience, I did note that they have repeated critical violations from the Snohomish County Health Dept., mainly for preparing food with bare hands -- you had better hope Jose washed his hands after he used the loo! -- and unsafe food storage. To add insult to injury, the food is mediocre. If I'm going to be treated like crap at an overpriced taco stand the food had better be amazing. Sadly, Memo's missed the mark on flavor and food quality as well. Don't go here. read more

It's hard for me to give this a bad review, because the food is so good. Then again, it's just as hard to give it a decent review. Here is why: I am half Mexican from Los Angeles. Lets say I've had my fair share of roach coach's and have eaten authentic Mexican food, whether it be from my grandma, friend, boyfriend, boyfriends' parents, etc. When my mom and I moved here a few years ago, we lived in Everett and kept a crazy schedule. We were truly amazed to find MEMO's. It really helped us deal with the culture shock we were experiencing at the time. this makes the benefits of Memo's: Open 24 hour Drive thru. Quickly prepared . Filling (Their "Jumbo Burrito" is the size of a small-child's arm). We ordered from there often for a few months, pretty much to be known as "regulars". We are not picky, we order as is, not an abundant amount but enough to feed two people (sometimes three). One of the guy cooks has even come to the window to be sweet and give us free churro's! Just really friendly almost like a family-ran restaurant. Unfortunately there is a specific female employee that seems to dislike us. We try to tip her, be nice to her, but to no avail. She has no problem cutting you off when you speak, taking money and "forgetting" to hand over the food, slams the window each time, and obvious eye-rolling. To put it in short, there is a huge communication issue, once I tried to order in Spanish, and all of the sudden she speaks perfect English, and there are three-four other employees piled around the window to see what's going on. Before this, I've heard her on multiple occasions call us names in Spanish, and say mildly offensive things she wouldn't say if she knew we actually did speak Spanish. I'm obviously part Mexican, so maybe she wanted me to hear? My mom and I work in customer service, we are usually genuinely polite to others that have to work with the public (at one point we hated our jobs too, no worries). We love it there, so we can't let one rude employee keep us from going back. Hopefully whoever runs that joint takes notice and kind of gives her a little advice on how to treat people. read more

closest thing to California Mexican food I love this place they are extremely delicious and they never fuck up my order. Everything on their menu is bomb you can't go wrong read more

Being from San Diego... Its a good attempt to bring 24hour mexican food to Wa. Have I actually had mexican food in different parts of mexico? Yes Have I had food from street cars and real beachside restaurants in mexico? Yes Have I have every type of drive thru mexican food in San Diego: north county/east county/southside/coastline off the 101? Yes. Would Memos survive in SoCal? Yes. Its exactly what you should expect from a 24 hour drive thru mexican place. read more

I am not drinking the Kool-Aide on this one. I have been to Memo's twice and first time the food was just OK but went there again yesterday after I was STARVING and searched the Everett area for a Burrito on Yelp. Memo's came up and I looked at the reviews and decided to give it another shot. The Burrito was soggy and the combo consisted of a little tiny bit of rice and a smaller portion of refried beans with a tiny soda. I got home and opened the Styrofoam hoping to be greeted by a magnificent Burrito only to find the little soggy Burrito crying in shame and trying to hide under the tiny portion of refried beans. They are open 24 hours and that is 24 hours too many! Should be called Meh-mo's read more

There are peppers in everything, but the menu doesn't warn you. Wasted $24 on food we threw away. The chips and salsa comes with Pico De gillo on top, not salsa. The chips are good though. My husband liked his WA burrito but didn't love it. We will most likely not go back. Inside is dirty and stinks, cobwebs hanging from the ceiling. I don't know how people love this. I'd rather have crap from taco bell or taco time or take a minute and go to El pariso. read more

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Memos scares me a little. I get that it is a dive and I love dives don't get me wrong. For whatever reason though, I just get an uneasy feeling about them. Service has always been fine. I had the breakfast burrito which I remember as being amazing. Not this time. No. Flavor. At. All. Seriously. Yes it is HUGE but that doesn't matter when it all tastes the same. I got a Chirror too and half way through it I discovered that it was not cooked all the way. Can't say that I will be back again. read more

In the Pacific Northwest, you generally have two kinds of Mexican food available: Mexican-style food and Mexican food-like product. In the former category, you have places that serve you hot platters of unified Mexican flavor in or around a tortilla, drowning in an unidentifiable red sauce, and smothered with cheese. In the latter category, you have places like Taco Bell and Taco Time which create approximations of Mexican food. More rarely you have places that serve authentic Mexican food such as some of the taco trucks. All of these types serve valuable purposes and, over time, I'll satisfy my cravings for every one. Up until this past week, I had forgotten that there was another category, one with even less representation than the others. In fact, if it wasn't for Memo's, I would think that there was no representation of it at all. What is this mystery type? Homestyle Mexican food. What does that even mean? It means crispy tacos served in thick, flaky shells with heaps of lettuce and shredded cheddar cheese that had clearly been sitting out room temperature for a long time which is melted only by the heat of the taco meat which, for me, is delicious chicken in some kind of mildly spicy marinade. Also, these tacos are big. The burritos are big, too: fluffy flour tortillas stuffed stupid with beans and rice. It's practically obscene. This is the same kind of Mexican food I used to get at home when I used to live with Mexicans (which, of course, makes me an indisputable expert). My then-girlfriend's grandmother would be up at the crack of dawn, making tortillas for breakfast (which were so violently delicious that all they needed was to be rolled up with a dusting of salt and the shoveled unceremoniously one after the other into happy mouths) or, on some Saturdays, prepping the kitchen for a tamale assembly line. This food is similar: it isn't fancy, the recipes aren't complex, but it's all so hugely comforting and satisfying. I suppose one of the best accolades I could give this place is that, now that I've gone, I can't stop thinking about it. Especially those crispy chicken tacos. Man, you don't even KNOW. I can't remember the last time I had a taco shell that didn't shatter like thin plastic on the first bite, creating a dangerous fault line along the spine that most certainly after the second bite would leave you with less of a taco and more of a tortilla sandwich. These shells flake like biscuits and they hold together for a heck of a lot longer than the carefully manufactured shells of other restaurants. HAVE I MENTIONED THE TACO SHELLS. HOLY CRAP PEOPLE. read more

Pros: Open 24 hours & fast Cons: Service is iffy. I order a chicken chimichanga NO BEANS. When I recieved my chimichanga, yes there was no beans but they filled it up with bean paste! No Bueno dude. It felt like I was eating a bean paste burrito. I counted like 3 pieces of chicken in the mass amounts of bean paste. read more

24hrs! Bonus. Asada Fries for people with healthy tummies I've even had a few- they smell so good Everything else is also above average to great read more

The closest to taco shops in San Diego. Portions are generous and the re opening to a cleaner place worked. Highly recommended.

How can you F up a breakfast burrito? When I say ham, egg and cheese, I didn't say add cilantro, onions and tomatoes. When I ask for a bean and cheese with egg burrito, how about adding the cheese? Fail on many levels. They are the closest thing to SOCAL burritos in form and taste but if you can't get the order right, you might as well not even cook. Too bad really. This could have been a good review but you did it to me twice on two separate visits. Avoid this place like the clap. read more

I'm just done with this place. I'm so done that I haven't been back in at least a year despite them being a stone's throw from where I live and I'm still annoyed enough to post about it on Yelp. When I first moved here from California, it hit a bad taqueria spot I missed from home. But it was never very good. I just kept hoping it would be. Even a simple no substitutions order will be wrong. They will talk about you and assume you don't understand what they're saying. And quite often they will overcharge you or miss items in your order. I did try ordering inside, being polite, and tipping well and this strategy did not improve the experience. The food just isn't good enough to be worth the effort, insult, or money. Too bad, it could have been a regular stop for me. read more

Every payday I splurge and order dinner at work and this has become my go to. I work overnight and they are actually open! I usually get the enchiladas combo and they are awesome. Just enough spice without being too much and, unlike some places, they don't put so much red sauce that you can't find the enchiladas. read more

Honestly one of the worst customer service I've seen but the prices are really good for how much you get and it tastes great

I would give this 0 stars if I could. I have eaten here once, and that was enough. The food was super greasy and left me feeling ill. There are a lot better Mexican places in Everett, I would bypass Memo's read more

I love memos. It's not a high end restaurant and you have to know that going into it. You're going to get what you get. The food - I love it and I actually enjoy that the consistency isn't reliable. (Sometimes you'll get a random but of chorizo in your burrito) The environment - it's Everett and it feels like that. While yes, it is sketchy, that's part of the experience. All in all it's a great bang for your buck at any hour of the day. I love memos read more

Living and working near Memo's, I hear about it a lot. "Oh you haven't tried Memo's? It's amazing!" "You're missing out!", etc. Finally, I was like "okay, let's go". I love Mexican food, so it has to be at least okay. It was very late (11pm or so), and my boyfriend and I had just went to a concert so we were hungry. We went through the drive-thru and I ordered a taco salad, beef, no guacamole, no sour cream. He ordered the super nachos, no guac, no sour cream, beef. The employee confirmed our order back to us. We get our food and don't really look at it, it's all boxed up and we just want to go home. We get home, open the boxes and low and behold... chicken, on both of them, and both of them are COATED in sour cream and guacamole. My salad was drenched and so were his nachos. We're not that picky, if we have to eat a little sour cream, chicken, and guacamole, we will. But this was just disgusting. We ended up throwing the food away and we've never been back. Maybe it was a disgruntled employee who just wanted to give us the complete OPPOSITE of what we ordered on his last day. Maybe. read more

Went last night for first time. My husband said his carne asada burrito was good. My daughter and I had the taquitos and they were good. We all shared a carne asada fries and they definitely need to step up their fries. The taste of the fries themselves were soggy oily , gross. Not crispy fries. The fixings were good but that was about it. read more

Yelp seems to love Memos, so I gave it a go. I ate in the restaurant - big mistake. I get that the place is supposed to be a charming dive, pretty obvious from the 60 year old building and bright paint. The food wasn't too bad either, I would say that it basically was like a taco truck (and I like taco trucks) though nothing fantastic. Memos is open 24 hours per day, and has a drive through. If I had never gone inside the place, and had just driven through I would have given 3 or 4 stars like most of my fellow yelpers. Here is the deal: the inside of Memos - at least when I was there was dirty to the point of killing my appetite. There was mold on the floors and walls, none of the tables were wiped down. The soda machine looked like it hadn't been cleaned in months, and some of the sauces were being cooled on ICE! There was crap all over the floors, and flies buzzing around inside. Maybe it isn't like that all of the time, but here is my suggestion: If you eat here and want to be able to enjoy the food - go through the drive through! read more

I always get the asada fries. They are so good! The service is always fast and friendly. I prefer to get it to go, as the seating in the restaurant is kinda limited. I have been multiple times and would reccomend it! read more

Consistently get orders wrong, they don't listen to you at all and cut you off every chance they get. I've never had someone help me there that isn't rude. They throw the containers in at all angles so that it spills all over your other food. The serving sizes have gone down as well as the meat quality. None of the food is seasoned as well any more. Mostly I'm just pissed that they can't get orders right. Ordered a fish burrito and got a chicken and rice burrito, they forgot our enchiladas. We went back for the enchiladas but had already gotten home when we found out the burrito was wrong. read more

Waited while in drive thru and watched as the cashier had on a glove covered in food (stained orange) and handled money, food, and drinks for the two cars ahead. Finally I pulled up to pay and waited for drink and food. She had on the same glove! Handled my money, made my horchata, put my food in bag and handed it to me. WTF. Change your damn gloves. I'm disgusted. Very disappointing because the food is actually okay. read more

I've been here twice. The first time I got a quesadilla and it had about two pounds of greasy cheese. I have never seen so much cheese in my life. It was cheese with a side of a little tortilla. There was nothing on it. No salsa or anything. It was the drive through so I couldn't get my own seasoning. But some people may like it like that! I went today and asked for Diet Coke and the gave me regular. I know, I know... #firstworldproblems, but it gave me a raging headache and 3/4 of it went down the drain. Disappointing when you get home from the drive through and don't want to go all the way back about a drink. Little things like that make you lose business. I think if they actually spoke English it would have worked better. Two strikes so far. I like Tacos Guaymas, myself. They have the pickled carrots and radishes too, and they can understand you! read more

Our go to place for late night Mexican food in the north-end. We never really come here during the day; hence our amazement the other day as we drove by during daylight and realized what colors the little house was painted. Our main favorites are the Washington burrito, carne asada fries, fish taco/burrito, churros and sometimes tacos. The tacos are definitely on the pricier side then say taco trucks... but they're pretty large. It's like an in-between from a Mexican sit-down restaurant and taco trucks. We love their sauce bar (not quite salsa?)... sometimes late at night there can be some creepers or drunks... but 24 hr Mexican food... who can complain!? read more

there was a piece of metal in my vegetarian burrito... that's vague..it was like a staple from a stapler..

Memo's is 24 hrs. and has a great menu with lots of selections for your middle of the night munchy fetishes. They have breakfast and lunch specials, most of which are under $4.00 and are quite large. Nothing on the menu is over $6.99, including the combo plates. Most items are a little greasy, but this is to be expected with most meat and cheese dishes. They have a dine in or a drive through and since its a fairly new restaurant its usually a quick in and out. My favorite menu item - the Washington Burrito - comes with steak, potatoes, salsa, and cheese. Hubby says don't get the taquitos, which he likens to Costco brand with quac and cheese. There is a second location that has been around for longer in Seattle. www.memosmexicanfood.com for menu and to call in order. read more

Been coming here since moving up here from Cali. I was so happy to finally find Mexican food with the same Cali style taste. Not sure what is up with today's order but my taquitos had a burnt after taste. Like the cooking oil had not been changed. The carne asada fries was so bland and came with beans when I asked for no beans. There was no guacamole either. Very disappointed with the food today. I may just start going to the other taco shop an exit away from here. read more

To be fair, I grew up on the West coast and have seen my share of taco trucks and Mexican Drive thru's This one by far has to be the most eye catching taco shop I have ever seen. It is Painted in Huge Red and Yellow stripes. Like the traditional shops it is open 24 hours and has the long wrap around drive thru. The menu had the classic staples and makings of a great west coast taco shop.. rolled taquito style tacos with cheese and guacamole... REAL carna asada burritos... Wet burritos.. and real Mexican style tacos. We ordered the 3 rolled tacos with guac and cheese, we also ordered the carna asada burrito, and carnitas tacos. In the bag came the traditional red and verde chili sauces and sliced up limes and sides.( Naturally being so far from the west coast for so long I was pretty stoked to find a place like this when first moving back). The carnitas were just ok.. My girlfriend loves carnitas and orders them everywhere we go.. she was not thrilled with them this time around. The Carna asada burrito was very good.. lots of flavor and they had the traditional combination of meat, pico, and quac. Simple but truly delicious when done right. The three rolled tacos we done exactly how I remembered them. Here is the only issue that I saw with this place. With the over abundance of taco shops and mexi-style fast food places in the area I would expect the prices here to be more competitive. Our order was over $23 bucks for a burrito and some tacos.I dont know if the years of living down south and frequenting places like Roberto's, Pepe's, or El taco fresco has tainted me for other places... or if possibly being exposed to some of the fantastic offerings of some of the competition in this area, but that seems really high priced for ordering a few items out of a drive through taco shop. Purely based on taste and authenticity I would recommend this place. The portions are good and the food was definitely worth checking out. If you're looking for a lite snack or a meal for not a lot of money I would suggest looking else where. read more

Used to love going here but there is too much inconsistency in the food. Sometimes the burrito is not even completely wrapped and is leaking all over the inside of the bag. And there was too much gristle in the meat now. Read the Snohomish County Health Department review to find out why this place keeps closing. read more

I've been to Memo's once. If you are looking for it, it is the building painted halfway between Waldo and Freddy Krueger next to the former Tanning Salon/Brothel on Evergreen. The interior is clean and the menu is fairly extensive with nothing over $7 and a discounted lunch menu. I had the Washington Burrito at the recommendation of my father-in-law and it was great - kind of like a Mexican version of an Irish pasty (not the nipple covering, the steak and potato filled dish). Be very clear about what you want when you order - we got an extra burrito that we didn't want or need, but it was pretty good for lunch the next day. Finally, and again, you can get 15% off or a free chicken taco with a Valpak coupon: http://www.valpak.com/coupons/query?keywords=memos&geo=98203&x=0&y=0 read more

California transplants...you know Mexican food! Have you been looking/craving for good ol' California style 24 hour Roberto's/Humberto's/Superberto's etc. Mexican food?! THIS IS IT! From quality to price...spot on. They even have carne asada fries! You have to ask for no beans for it to be the classic carne asada fries, but who cares! Now if only they could put that inside a flour tortilla...this place would get the 5 stars! That's right...add a California Burrito to the menu and I'm back in San Diego! Don't wait...go try it out. Added bonus: Their hot sauce is also spot on...even in the little plastic containers! read more

I'm a taco truck fan - here's my issue with Memo's no standard small tacos - the spicy pork is too fatty, same with the chicken asada. Yummy corntorillas (and they give you lots) the beans are kinda nasty (too much lard?) the rice is good. The horchata is good. Where's the jaritos fruity soda? You get standard coke here instead. :( I will try the Carnitas next time and if i still don't like it, i'm not coming back. Everett has lots of mexican food, and my wife doesn't work graveyard, so the 24hr advantage is not needy - and plus we kinda like (gasp) Tacobell for that quick and nasty meal. She's vegetarian BTW. Something at Memo's just leaves me with a little regret albeit, the portion is big and i'm full... I like a place called El Sabor in Shoreline (converted Tacobell) read more