If you ever get to Prineville or you are a resident, do yourself a favor and order the chicken enchilada's and mole sauce w/ black beans, washed down with your favorite choice of beverage. Listen to me today and Thank Ranchero Tomorrow... read more

I love rancheros it's my favorite Mexican food in town and they have great specials and happy hour

Our second visit was definitely better than the first time because our first time the a/c was out. So everyone was uncomfortable. The second visit made up for that. From the friendly and speedy service to the food, it was tasty. We're a family with small children so service matters. Unlike their competitor that is a lot closer to us, here we feel comfortable and the food and margs are fine. read more

Excellent food and the staff is awesome! My favorite dish is the pineapple fajitas with steak. Everyone is so kind and helpful.

Paid $26 for the molcajete ranchero. Got the molcajete. No quesadilla and no guacamole salad. $4 difference. The molcajete is served in a metal bowl that is placed in a cold molcajete bowl. This defeats the purpose of the bowl. The 2 of us had our entrees served on 5 different plates that came out 1 at a time with a 4-5 minute gap between each delivery which made food cold by the time we had everything to put our food together. Very disappointed in this place. Fabiola, you really let me down. read more

Good food, great service. The fajitas were delicious, the chips were fresh and warm. We will come again

Always good food with many choices. Fresh! Decently priced. And friendly service. Also enjoy to go!

Order the fajitas for one it's plenty for two and by far the best Mexican food in Prineville. Service was great. Ambience is a little run down but worth it. read more

Our waiter was so charming, and attentive! Our food was perfect! Fresh and delicious! A friendly atmosphere made us feel very festive for my husband's 51st birthday! read more

Despite there being low staff, they were so sweet and attentive. They didn't even feel understaffed at all, we got everything very quickly. I ordered the chicken flautas and prickly pear margarita, and both were amazing. There is reasonable pricing and it's nice and quiet and calm in the restaurant. I appreciate that the initial chips and salsa also include a bowl of beans. Great place to go!! read more

Excellent shrimp and beef fajitas! Great service and comfortable booths to enjoy dinner.

one of the best Mexican restaurants I've eaten at. Besides the usual Mexican dishes, they offer some of the best seafood that I have tasted. Also, their ceviche was outstanding. I just wish they were open on Sundays. read more

Been a couple years since I ate here. Was not disappointed! Great Food, very well prepared and good service! Will be back!

Food is excellent service was great . Had a wonderful time. You should try it was great

This place is a friendly environment and the food is like no other and the place is well kept ..

This place has been one of my favorite restaurants in my hometown since I was about 12 years old. This is where I learned to love Mexican food! I remember always begging my parents to take me here so I could have their enchiladas and Mexican rice. Still one of my favorite dishes to this day from here and it's been a tough one to beat wherever I go. If you happen to drive through Prineville, OR for any reason at all, try this place out! read more

Ranchero Mexican Restaurant - Pork verde enchiladas - Mexican Near Me - Prineville, Oregon

We've been to Ranchero before and enjoyed it. We went back for another visit. Mayra was our server, and she was very attentive. My wife and I tried something new this time. We enjoyed the bacon wrapped shrimp and their version of chicken mole. It was a Friday evening and not crowded, so that was very nice. Our food came very quickly and was just as ordered. The serving size was just right! Although we didn't have room for dessert. We will be back again. read more

Best Mexican in Prineville! Friendly, prompt service. Their food has great flavor and is always piping hot! Skinny margarita is the best I've had. Totally recommend Ranchero's. read more

This is our favorite sit down Mexican food restaurant in our small town. Wait staff is always friendly and accommodating. Usually get seated right away. Food is served hot and within reasonable amount of time. Nice atmosphere, clean tables, and consistantly great tasting food. Our family go-to's are the chicken chimi, arroz con pollo, chicken la creme, and enchiladas with Verde sauce. Love the chips, salsa, and bean dip brought to the table. Our big family usually goes through two. Tasty mango margaritas and traditional on the rocks. And when they drop the bill at your table, they always bring little strawberry and creme cinnamon chip sweet treats as a special dessert. read more

Ranchero Mexican Restaurant - Mango margarita blended - Mexican Near Me - Prineville, Oregon

One of my favorite places to eat in Prineville. They have a really good food, The servers are always really kind and talkative. The restaurant is nice clean. They have amazing tortilla soup. read more

Typical Mexican style with nice decor, full bar and the usual menu. As seems to be the trend, both refried beans and salsa are served with tortilla chips. My chicken and rice included some mushrooms and green onions, a bit of cheese along with an iceberg lettuce salad and four tortillas. It was too much food for me, maybe because I had too many chips and a beer. The restaurant is a few steps from the Rustlers Inn. On the other side of the inn is another Mexican Restaurant--it doesn't serve alcohol. read more

Love this place in small Prineville, Oregon. Right next door to the Rustler's Inn, very convenient to walk over and get a great meal. Have eaten here a few times, and food has always been great tasting. Bar makes an excellent margarita as well. Perfect to end a long hard work day. read more

Stopped in with friends, friendly service off to a good start. My first impression in a Mexican Restaurant is always the chips and salsa. Salsa was too blended, not enough chunks of vegetables. Flavor lacked the definition of the ingredients everything just fell together, I look for the different ingredients to define themselves with each bite and have texture and visual appeal. Ordered fajitas, good portions but again flavors could be more pronounced and the salsa was not going to help it. Very small garnish of guacamole, come on now that's what makes fajitas great. Others had the enchiladas which looked like a better choice. Might give it another try but overall not very impressed. read more

Ate here one time and it was not a pleasant experience. We waited over 20 mins before we even ordered drinks, another 20 before we could order food, which arrived cold and we had could not get the waiter's attention again until we were nearly finished...the food was nothing to write home about, and was expensive. Will not be returning. read more

This was our first time dining at this resturant. Food and service were excellent. We had a Fajita Taco Salad and the Enchiladas Poblanos - both were very good and we had to take leftovers home because there was too much to eat at one time. We'll be back repeatedly to try out the varied menu. read more

This is my favorite Mexican restaurant when we come to town for the Oregon Star party. The food was super. We had nachos and guacamole made at the table Along with an excellent Cadillac margarita. We're coming back for lunch too. read more

Not that I'm ever coming back here, but if you do want to eat here I would avoid the steak/carne asada. I ordered the steak skewer and i was served shoe leather skirt steak that had been chopped and griddled rather than charbroiled as advertised. Besides that, my partners food was drowning in cheese to mask the low quality. Service was fine. I know I should have said something but I really just wanted to get back on the road and I hate conflict anyway. The bunuelos that came with the check were the best part! read more

S.U. and I had been driving all day (from Boise) and had checked into the 'value' motel right next door. It was July 4th and most places were closed so we walked across the parking lot and entered a classic, overdone Mexican-themed Cantina. They're in towns all over the American West. They're not dirt cheap taqueria's, They offer a full menu and specials (July 4th spicy prawns, $9.99) and they're hit or miss for quality. This one was a hit. The chips were home made, the salsa spicy and plentiful. S.U. had a chicken tostada, the chicken was flavorful and moist. I had the chicken mole and it was a knock out. I asked the owner who said they made it in house and he rattled off the ingredients (no peanuts) including chocolate, pine nuts and the several roasted, fried and ground peppers. I'm a sucker for good mole. A few more Negra Modelos and we walked back across the parking lot to our balcony to watch the fireworks. Great spot. Long live the Revolution! read more

My friend and I had a few minutes to kill, decided a brew and a quick bite of Mexican food sounded good. We sat in the lounge(A family with squealing children were in the dining area). The same time our order was brought to the table a couple of employees decided to do some cleaning in the kitchen. You can see into the kitchen from the lounge. The fumes from whatever cleaning product they were using soon engulfed us! I made it out the side-door just in time to blow-beans! My gal was right behind me. After apologizing to the people on the next door motel balcony(which shares the parking lot)that had to witness my barfing, I went back through the front-door, paid and left. I'm a local...I've been there a half dozen times or so and it never was anything special from the start. Prineville is sorely lacking in good Mexican food. read more

After you get some chips, salsa and bean dip (great salsa FYI) it's all down hill. Long wait to place order. Entrees showed up at different times. Drinks arrived after entrees Margaritas way too sweet. Carnitas in odd lil bits, completely dried out. Nachos looked like you could buy them at a gas station. Rest of the food was meh, I'm actually ok with meh Mexican food in Oregon. Bill arrived, but none of plates were cleared. Waiter never returned to collect payment, wandered up to an empty cashier stand and waited 5 min for someone to show. Do yourself a favor, hit up the taco truck a few doors down. You can thank me later. read more

The only good thing about this place is the guacamole made table side and that's even made sans a smile. The beans tasted like they were cross contaminated with fish so my boyfriend used it as a dam to block it from the other not so tasty mole. I had the taquitos which were average. Were thirty minutes since we finished dinner and still haven't been asked if we would like our check. I've had time to write this review and could take a nap before they get back to us. I would not recommend this place. read more

Without going into the long and crazy story, my husband and I found ourselves driving through Prineville on our way back home to Portland from Idaho on Saturday night. We needed to stop and get something to eat for dinner and the usual fast food locations didn't interest us. We drove by Ranchero and thought it looked promising and sounded good, so we turned around and pulled in. Since we were still several hours from home, we didn't want to be there for a long time. The waitress brought us chips and salsa and our drinks right away and took our order as soon as we were ready. Luckily, the restaurant wasn't completely slammed. My husband ordered the taco salad and I ordered the fajita salad with shrimp. His salad came in the usual fried tortilla shell and he was surprised that there weren't any rice or beans at the bottom - usually there is one or the other or both in a taco salad. Other than that, he enjoyed it. My shrimp fajita salad was absolutely delicious! I was surprised to see that it did include a little rice on the bottom as well as the lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, sour cream and guacamole. Seriously, this salad was very very good. If we find ourselves back in Prineville, I would imagine we would go back to Ranchero. read more

Service was fast and food was great! Prices are very affordable. Best Mexican restaurant in town! I highly recommend it.

Okay so I was hovering between 3 and four stars on this one. We went there last week and I ordered the seafood chimichanga, I didn't even make it out of the restaurant before I know I clearly had eaten some bad shrimp. YUCK! Stomach churning bathroom visiting fun. We have been to this restaurant many many times before. The service is supper slow but the food is really good. My first mistake was to order seafood in the desert. oops I called the restaurant to let them know later that evening and they were pretty dis-concerned. I would go back but I wouldn't order seafood! read more

Good food even better margaritas! I try to eat here at least a couple times a year....super friendly staff.

I drove my family from Bend to have a late lunch here (2:30-ish). If you've ever had chicken soup by boiling the carcass, you know how authentic and homemade it tastes. Well let me tell you, the chicken tortilla soup tasted like that! The chicken was moist and it all was VERY flavorful. Even the chicken in other dishes looked and tasted like it was roasted. Awh-maze-ing!!! We're going back again soon. Oh, and the service was excellent too!!! read more

Had some great carne asada tacos and some pretty awesome chips and salsa from this place yesterday. I was pleasantly surprised with how fresh and authentic it all tasted. Definitely my new favorite in town and will be a go-to for my Mexican food needs. read more

We loved this place. COVID restrictions handled well. The food tastes homemade, perfect portions, nicely plated. Friendly staff!

Typical Mexican food. Enjoyed some fried jalapeños and the pineapple fajitas. Service could be better but we got everything we asked for. read more

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HORRIBLE SERVICE!! Food is not good either. We get there we were seated, they brought chips in, then they forgot about us. They never asked us what we wanted to drink she only brought water then left again, she was not even friendly. Took forever to come back to ask if we were ready to order. We ordered & they still had not asked us what we wanted to drink, the food was not good, messy, old. They brought us a wrong order too. The server was apparently in a bad mood. Also, they never brought us utensils until we asked them, & that was when we already had our food on the table. Very annoyed. Never going back! read more