The food is always great, but what really makes this place shine, is the staff! Always friendly, and fun. They work so hard to make sure their customers are taken care of. We are usually a larger group, and sometimes a bit noisy, but they always join in the laughter. We never feel rushed, or neglected. Truly our favorite place on the mountain! read more

Taco / Enchilada combo was very good. Beans need salt. Wasn't crazy about the rice. Pozole which is why we came here was excellent! No fatty meat and great broth flavor. Excellent service as well. read more

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Green chili is "spot on", margaritas are great, service is attentive and the DJ was fun. We really enjoyed it here! read more

Sal & Teresa's Mexican Restaurant - Mexican Near Me - Lakeside, Arizona

Love the food and the love the service. Everyone is friendly even when really busy. Not that the other servers aren't great, but Max is our favorite. Love this quaint little place. read more

Jan 2024. Show Low location CLOSED! New location is in Pinetop, one block behind the movie theatre right on Woodland Road! No need for the address it's easy to see the big sign. We gave our two breakfast plates 4 stars. Chips & hot salsa was very good. Chorizo plate delicious, but/and very mild - I like chorizo and thus added a lot of salsa to mine. The beans are very good, and take note.... no need to order hashbrowns extra crispy here - let the cook serve them as he most often does. The Mexicano Plate was beautiful- tasted good but my husband didn't like the pickled jalapeños in the dish at all as it made the eggs too sweet. He preferred my chorizo in the end. Tortillas very soft and nice. Service was quick. We bought green corn tamales and can't wait to try them. read more

Sal & Teresa's Mexican Restaurant - Mexicano Breakfast plate - Mexican Near Me - Lakeside, Arizona

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Always such a great experience dining with friends and family. Music on Friday night was amazing too. And the food is always good! read more

Their food is always delicious. Nothing soggy coming out that kitchen unless u preorder.

Great service and great food. Well kept and clean with happy staff. We had lunch and will return for breakfast tomorrow while here on holiday. read more

Clean. Chips and salsas great. Started out with green chile quesadilla which was excellent, lots of cheese and green chile sauce very flavorful. Husband had flat red chile enchiladas with 2 fried eggs on top along with rice & beans. Red chile tasty and a good bite to it. I had shredded beef tacos with rice and beans. Disappointed, shredded meat had zero flavor--Won't order again. Service was good. We will return. read more

Chile relleno - amazing! Absolutely the best I've ever had. Authentic, made from scratch, oozing with cheese and just enough batter coating for a crispy outside. Order the house margarita. The special ingredient? Mango juice! read more

Excellent food, incredible service, warm tortilla chips and two types of salsa with varied heat. Drinks refilled before half way gone, consistent check ins from staff and the food, all of it, is soooo good! Only suggestion is to make the newest menus for 2025 available online for review prior or take out orders. So much to choose from! Our go to every time. read more

I went with my husband for the first time today. It was excellent!! Food was delicious; I ate to much. Service was friendly & knowledgeable. We enjoyed the Mexican Music. Ole' read more

Wow. Just wow. Let's start with the service. The unpleasant "hostess" sat me at a nasty booth and left. No greeting. No"your server will be right with you". Once I finally got a menun the waitress acted like she was put out to take my order. When my order finally came...: The most horrible mexican food I have EVER had. The salsa appreard to be a can of stewed tomatoes thrown in bowl. The taco salad "special" was special alright. Special that it should have gone strait in the trash. I paid $13 for a bowl of lettuce, a few tablespoons of shredded beef (at best boiled in plain water), a few CANNED bean. Honestly, it was disgusting and inedible. I was served flavorless gruel and I couldn't wait to get out of that place. But could I? No! They held me hostage! First had to ask no less than 3 times for the check. Then never came back. I finally just slapped a $20 on the table and got the heck out. How they are in business I'll never know. Sal and Teresa should be ashamed. read more

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Food so under seasoned. Tasteless & dry shredded beef. No flavor and very little red sauce for $3 extra. My so called flauta was really a well overdone taquito. Even hot sauce was bland. Even salt did not help the guacamole. Really wanted to like this place but we will not be returning. read more

Amazing green chile! Had the ground beef Navajo taco with green Chile and it was delicious. House margarita completed the meal!! read more

Sal & Teresa's Mexican Restaurant - Green Chile Navajo taco!! - Mexican Near Me - Lakeside, Arizona

Good food, great service, Luis was awesome. The deco in this restaurant was So precious!

Best Mexican food in Pinetop. Green chili is great, margarita was too. We judge Mexican food by its rice and this was good rice!

Always have had good food & service. They have a good menu selection. Lots of room so usually no waiting for a table.

Horrible!!!! Felt off entering, the vibe is strange. Was seated and brought drinks. They were busy for 1pm Thursday. Waitress was answering phone, bussing tables and waiting on the entire restaurant. Explained this was our 1st visit, we asked questions but waitress was so vague. The food arrived and it was horrible. Red Chile beef burrito. Red is hotter than green. NO!!!! How on earth they were voted for best red Chile is puzzling. No spice man only gravy and very little meat. So many other places to enjoy on the mountain. Just odd!!!!!!! read more

It may always be busy, but the atmosphere is awesome, the service is great!! Food is so yummy read more

We were thrilled to find this place for lunch and had high expectations. It was after 1pm so we missed most of the lunch crowd and found a table outside. The chips and salsa were delicious, we had both the "hot" and mild and both were tasty with out much heat. And then we waited and waited, by the time we got our food we were so hungry. It obviously had been sitting a while, the green chili, which was pink, had skin formed on it. My pósale was good, also lukewarm warm, as was the Machacha and beans. Yeah I know we should have complained and sent it back but 1) we had waited so long already 2) hot food is basic minimum. We won't be making a return visit, but i hope they can improve. read more

We have liked Sal & Teresa's for sometime. The Show Low location was always full. Good food and service. They moved to Pinetop-Lakeside. It's just not the same. All three times we dined there was problematic. Order incorrect. Breakfast barely warm and burnt. Dinner mediocre. And our last visit 3 times my husband's burrito was incorrrect. How can they screw up a meal 3 times. By the time he got his correct order my food was cold and our friends had eaten and were leaving. For our trouble we were given a 10 percent discount on his meal only. We won't go back. read more

Keep looking for good Mexican food in the area. Honestly, I haven't found a place locally that is any better than mediocre. And this place was mediocre. With one exception, nothing was terrible. It was just pretty bland. And the homemade tamales had nothing in them to speak of, were too doughy and made with too much maza, and relied on some sauce to flavor them. The only bad part of the meal was the margarita. There was little or no tequila evident, and the ice actually tasted bad, like the icemaker was dirty. Even on happy hour they were disgusting. read more

Good food, great prices, and very well-trained staff. We only waited about 5 minutes for our delicious food. We also loved the salsa and chips. We will make this our go-to restaurant whenever we go up. So glad they are back in business. read more

1.5/5 stars I am so sad to have to give this restaurant a 2 star rating. I had high hopes it would be good but it just wasn't good :( We got there and the place was packed!! And the couple before me and the pile after me formed the second wave that would keep the restaurant packed for a couple more hours! This gave me more hope. We were told a 10 minute wait and 15 minutes (quite good for guessing how fast people would finish & leave) later we were shown to our table and given menus. Adrian (more later about him) took drink orders and our food order since our menus were closed. Great eye, Adrian! I ordered margaritas and mentioned the $1 off for Yelp check-in and he started saying it's Tuesday (so I started the evil eye) so margaritas are $1.50 off for happy hour! Wow-better than the check-in offer! Adrian, again, came to the rescue. Our margaritas came fast in a large plastic soda glasses (guess that's because they ran out of margarita glasses I saw on tables due to the large group). Ok. I'm not gonna complain since it's big. Chips and salsa were also given. The chips were just ok. Thin and crispy but no flavor-maybe old? The salsas (we were offered hot as well as the regular salsa. YES!) were ok. Food came shortly after the drinks. Hubs ordered beef & chicken fajitas and I got the Teresa's especial chile rellenos. It looked as if the kitchen was crazy busy. On hubs plate was a big ball of sour cream which obliterated the salad and onto the rice-beans. The tortillas wrapped in foil were plopped on the refried beans so they stuck. I had to remove them and scrape beans off. The fajita meat was over marinated and hubs said the chicken texture was like marshmallows. Eww! The chile relleno was barely warm, had a thick enchilada type sauce not the thin fresh sauce I'm used to and an orange cheese inside that wasn't good. We didn't eat either meal. The food was just awful. The beans and rice were the only thing we both ate. They weren't great but not bad. I didn't even finish my margarita as it had an off flavor =0 Service was the one bright spot of tonight. The kitchen and servers were a well oiled machine. They put food out fast. Adrian was amazing. He was friendly, professional and never missed a beat. He knew what we needed and even offered more salsa when he saw one bowl was low. He is 5+ stars by himself. Too bad the food brought the score down to 1.5/5 stars. If they could improve the food, they would get higher scores. But I guess, cheap wins over flavor here. read more

Sal & Teresa's Mexican Restaurant - Front. - Mexican Near Me - Lakeside, Arizona

Great family run restaurant! They have the perfect patio for enjoying margaritas with friends.

We had dinner there after hearing how good the food was and I was very disappointed with the amount of green chile that they put in a burrito. It was maybe a large spoon full with 4 small pieces of meat, just enough to taste the green chile, ordered the chimichangas plate and paid $18 for it. For a minute i thought it was a pancake that is how small it was. When the waitress asked how everything was , i said not that good and she walked off. We had to ask 4 times for the extra hot salsa and more chips. Service was slow to start but ended good only because it was time to get our check. To many other places in Pinetop with much better food, we will be going to one of them going forward. read more

Great food for an outstanding value. The staff is so attentive and of course smiles all around. I've been a fan of Sal's cooking since the late 70s. The dishes always take me back. read more

Best Mexican food on the mountain! My favorites are the Mexican pizza and the chili rellenos. When I'm craving a Mexican pizza and not in Pinetop I'm always disappointed that it isn't this one. read more

Food was ordinary. Mexican you can get anywhere. The building could be spruced up..right now it's totally run down. No effort to make interior attractive. Very happy-hazard. I heard good things but was disappointed. read more

The new location is great. This wad our first time here. Our neighbors have been going for years to the Deuce location. She they invited us to go along to check out the new location. The food is excellent quality! We'll be back! read more

I stayed up the street @ the holiday inn and I went with the reviews on Yelp and decided to try this place rather than the one that's literally next door. First off the place was busy so that made me think ok this will be good but overall it was a mistake. There's no social distancing due to Covid just so u know. The chips were horribly stale and I asked for a new batch & the second round was really good but she said if I wanted another round it would cost me wth seriously your first batch were not even edible. So here's where it went south. I ordered the #6 but I asked for one chicken one hamburger and one cheese with double rice. She said absolutely no problem & walked off. The food was actually really good & I have no problem there. The issue was when she gave me the ticket she charged me for the #6 then added on for a cheese enchilada. $19.75 for what should've been $13 I just feel like I was bamboozled I asked what the heck and there wasn't much explanation other than I was charged for the beef when i had originally asked for hamburger not shredded steak Like I said the food was outstanding but the explanation on what I was getting never was explained before I ordered. Had it been I promise u I wouldn't of ordered it read more

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Excellent service and food. Friendly and welcoming atmosphere. Staff and customers were all smiling!! We had chimichangas and burros, with all the trimmings and I can't wait to go back and try some of the other entrees. read more

New location is so much closer to me now. Atmosphere is friendly and inviting. Love the Mexican food but, the fish fry is awesome. read more

In my opinion, this is the worst place for Mexican food in the White Mountains. The food was horrible. It had no flavor at all. All I can say good about this place is there was a guy playing music and the outdoor seating area is nice. Won't be going back, will stick with El Charro. read more

Sal and Theresa's has definitely lost something since their move. Service has been subpar every time we have been. The server normally forgets to bring our Sopapillas that are included with some meals. Finding your server when you need something can be challenging. The food is nothing special. It is like so many other places. ​ ​ read more

Cockroachs in their restaurant and I heard there was mold in the soda machine and I would get sick from their drinks. A rude manager and they will always get my order wrong. Always packed and had to wait 40 minutes to get my food. Not somewhere you should eat. read more

A little more $$ than other Mexican restaurants in the area. The tamales are homemade which you just don't find anywhere else in town that I know of. The sauce on the overall plate was a bit runny as well as the beans. The guitarist was great! read more

Sal & Teresa's Mexican Restaurant - A to-go box, 3 Items Combo Plate, a few chips and an empty margarita glass. - Mexican Near Me - Lakeside, Arizona

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Great service and friendly atmosphere. Even had a cheesecake burrito for dessert! We had the mild in the hot sauce both were great. read more

Sal & Teresa's Mexican Restaurant - Chorizo plate! Homemade chorizo. It was delicious. - Mexican Near Me - Lakeside, Arizona

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The food was good. I ordered mini chimis which were enough fir more than one meal for me. The rice and chimis were very yummy. The customer service could use some work. My food took so long I had to ask where it was, no one came back to the table to ask if I needed anything else and then they just delivered the bill. I will come back because the food is good. read more

Sal & Teresa's Mexican Restaurant - Mini Chimichanga - Mexican Near Me - Lakeside, Arizona