Visiting from Arizona, we decided to give this place a try. The server was friendly and attentive, and we didn't spend unnecessary time waiting for anything. The food was average. Nothing objectionable about it, but certainly nothing that would bring me back either. Prices seemed a little higher than I expected, but since I'm from another region, it might be a regional thing. I'd give the food 2 stars, the price 2 stars, and the service 5 stars, for an average of 3 stars. read more

Great place. Friendly staff. Good food. Always come in to warmth and leave satisfied!

So disappointed with this place The food has really gone downhill. The drinks are good but that's about it. I feel like they have really cut corners in the quality department. read more

Sat at the bar and had a chicken burrito with rice and black bean sides. It was good. I like the self serve chips and salsa in the bar area. Not the best stuff, but it is tasty if you're not too picky The bar is very loud if there is anyone seated at the tables. Not sure if that is fixable. I've been patron of this place for close to 30 years now and one thing that has not changed is the draft beer. Your light American lagers, bud, bud light, etc....Tastes bad ! Something is wrong here and has been for 30 years now .It is time to troubleshoot and resolve that problem. read more

I eat at Tortilla Flats as often as I am in town. Usually get fajitas or tacos and enjoy them. Today I decided to try fried avocados, since this seems to be the thing any eaters are trying to do. Theirs was terrible. The avocado was rotten. The waitress was wonderful and I really felt bad providing feedback but seriously. Perhaps basic is what they should stick with in this location. read more

Tortilla Flat - This avocado has no business being served to a customer - Mexican Near Me - Merrimack, New Hampshire

Bleck. I keep trying to go here and hope it's going to get better, but it never does. It's right down the street from my house and they serve mexican food and tequila..how could they mess that up? I dunno, but they do. We ordered chicken & steak fajitas...what did we get? 2 small slabs of beef...uncut and 2 small chicken tenders...uncut. And by small I mean the size of your thumb. The food almost always comes out cold or luke warm and the service is hit or miss. I've had one good meal here in the past few months and it was at lunch...so maybe the lunch chefs are better than the night chef(s). It's really very poorly done and the only thing to go here for is the margarita's...which are also subpar. read more

If you are passing by do not slow down, press down on the accelerator and get out of town. There are plenty of good Mexican places around, this is not one of them. This place serves Italian food with Mexican names and shapes like burritos with what can only be classified as marinara sauce on top. Terrible food, no matter how you classify it but it is most certainly not Mexican. No Mexican style spices, herbs, nor even the slightest hint of heat. I visited this place again after a couple year hiatus. It couldn't possibly be as bad as I remember, right? Wrong, even the margaritas are bad. If you are here with friends and stuck you should fill up on bottled beer and tequila straight up, the only two things they can't screw up. Worst "Mexican" food that I have ever had anywhere including fast food. read more

It is not difficult to prepare "Mexican" food for pasty white New Englanders. They are simple creatures and desire nothing more than some sort of meat, wrapped in some sort of tortilla, smothered with some sort of cheese. It doesn't even have to be good cheese. Throw in a bottle of Mexican lager and they will drive away pleased in their rusty Volvo. Suffocating mediocrity is what Tortilla Flat does well. A recipe for success in southern New Hampshire if there ever was one. I'm very liberal (as in laissez-faire, not Pelosi) when it comes to service. In order to receive less than a twenty percent tip from me, the waitstaff has to prove itself incompetent beyond the level of a Bush Administration appointee. In both my two unfortunate visits to Tortilla Flat I left meager tips that were magnitudes greater than what was deserved. I understand that times are tight, but saving money by scraping the bottom of the waitstaff barrel serves no proprietor well. The poor service is a gripe I hear consistently from my friends who have ventured there as well. The food was distinguished only by how unremarkable it was. The chile relleno I ordered was about as spicy as a stick of margarine. My girlfriend's burrito was covered in a incandescent yellow cheese sauce that quickly cured into a plasticky shell. We shared a pitcher of sangria that was less tempranillo and more Vin gris. I'm sure it pairs well with the twenty five cent wings they serve at the bar. Tortilla Flat's best impersonation of a Mexican restaurant falls well short of being acceptable based on any metric unless it's the same one used to measure Taco Bell. I have heard it said that back in the day Tortilla Flat was far better than it is now. If true it means that it is now just another place that had to bend down to cater to the taste of the local yokel. Therefor I can only assume it will enjoy many more years of generous patronage by the community. If I could allot stars for making me miss living in Detroit (as you would imagine, a hard thing to do) Tortilla Flat would receive five. That's not why I went there though. One impotent little star. read more

Tortilla Flat has become an inside joke in our family to mean a restaurant so bad it would defy even the most comical expectations of "The Worst Restaurant in the World". To be fair and honest, we have only been there once (repeat: "ONCE") - but that was all we care to try. It's hard to do "great" Mexican food - if you want that, just go to La Carréta. It's pretty easy to do "mediocre" Mexican food, even Taco Bell can reach that bar. Tortilla Flat manages to produce food so bad it litterally defies words. I can only describe it by example. For example, would swear on a stack of bibles that their "salsa" was actually ketchup. And not even Heinz, but some crappy generic brand - that was maybe left out in the sun after it had already expired. One would assume that the only reason for this businesses continued existence has to do mostly with their bar. I also found that when you take into account the overwhelming number of reviews that Yelp deems "not recommended" - Tortilla Flat would in-fact probably rate amongst the lowest of restaurants anywhere, for all time. read more

ay qhe mal! I went a few years ago to this restaurant and I thought the food was not great. I'm a sucker for Mexican food and the little hombre inside me kept saying "go back; try it again". I did last night; and I should have ignored that little hombre. It's a nice themed interior with pleasant servers. The food; however, continues to be lacking. I ordered the chicken enchiladas with rice and beans. The chicken was a little soggy, and it's the sauce that really did the dish in. Maybe it's too sweet. It definitely doesn't taste Mexican; it tastes like a pasta sauce. It's too bad, mi amigos. read more

Tortilla Flat - Mexican Near Me - Merrimack, New Hampshire

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Okay... nice looking from the outside, plenty of parking. There are the positives. Food...ah, honestly tastes the same as if it came from a chain. I was not really impressed. But then again I left full. Service... we were the only one's there and we had to hunt down the waitress. Food came quickly, then again the waitress was nowhere to be found to pay up. This place came recommended from a Boston Celebrity, tex-mex must be horrendous in B-town if she adores this place.... read more

This place should close perm enamel and reopen as a Starbucks. Worst attempt at Mexican food in the state in my opinion. All the bad reviews are correct. Don't let the cleaned up look and new paint fool you. I made the mistake of going in cause my wife wanted to give them a fourth chance. Nothing's changed still blows. The bartender was pretty. read more

Was there 445pm today so it wasn't too busy. We went there because it's a family owned restaurant. We want to give them the business. Worse service ever!!! Got 2 tacos for taco Tuesday. They came before our 2 drinks and chocolate shake that was ordered prior to the food. Service kept getting worse and worse. Ordered another 2 tacos and it took 30 mins to come to table. Asked 2 different people for a manager because I need to discuss how bad the service is here. Never saw a manager so was there one on tonight?!? Asked 3 times for a bill so we can get the hell out of here. After 90 mins we were still waiting for a check - people that came after us left 20 mins before us. First and last time visiting. read more

Nice looking place. Bar smells a little funky. The food was average - nothing I'd go back for. The nachos supreme had an underwhelming appeal to them. Baked chips and pseudo-microwaved cheese. It wasn't served very warm and the whole mess cooled off pretty quickly. The waitress was nice and the dining area was all right. But if this is any indication of the quality of food here, I'll pass. read more

The food is pretty good; that is, if they ever bring it to you. We came on a Sunday night. I admit we were seven people, but the place was mostly empty; we had a room to ourselves. The waitress greeted us, brought our drinks -- that took about 15 - 20 minutes. That was ok, we were having good conversations at our table. She took our orders and then vanished. More than an hour later, my son in-law went to the kitchen to ask that the food be boxed up because we no longer had time to eat it and get his two sons home and to bed so they would be able to be alert for school. Suddenly the food appeared right behind him! No food for me, though, the waitress apologized and said the "order had not gone through." REALLY? The waitress said she would put the order in immediately. I said, "Ok, and bring a box because I no longer have time to eat it." She came, I got the food, and we paid up and left. I see no reason to ever go there again. Do you? read more

I have been going to tortillas since i was in my mothers belly at the Vermont location, every time I go south out of Vermont I stop to eat their DELICIOUS CHEESE NACHOS and a house salad with extra extra cheese. I have never had anything else on the menu but their cheese nachos and salad are incredible, we have begged to re open one in Burlington Vermont but I guess they do not listen!! My favorite restaurant and favorite memories at tortillas read more

This place is a legit watering hole. Don't come if your hungry BC the food is consistently, inconsistent. Ie: fish tacos, dripping w water or the fajita wrap filled w uncooked veggies and so much cheese you might as well call it a clogged artery.... That said, drinks are great and service is friendly. read more

Oh Tortilla Flat. What are you? You're not really Mexican. Tex-mex perhaps? A little bit of everything with a Southwest flair? Not really sure. Your food is mediocre but your atmosphere is comforting. I have fond childhood memories of this place, as it was my father's favorite "Mexican" eatery. Was it better then, or was my palate less refined? Who knows. So many questions left unanswered. Nostalgia bumped them from 1 stars to 2. Long live childhood memories. read more

I've stopped here a few times after going to the brewery down the road. My boyfriend loves this place I on the other hand think it's just ok. The service is usually very slow. Young kids hanging out waiting on people when they feel like it, that sort of thing. The portions are big but nothing special. The crab meat enchiladas are the only thing that sets them apart from most Mexican restaurants. They're very cheesy and filled with lump crab meat. It's defiantly not the first place I'd choose to eat but it's also not terrible. Just A-OK. read more

Admittedly I haven't been here in a while.... but we used to drive from Hudson up to Merrimack to eat here. When I was home last weekend, we were driving by it en route to Bedford and it made me remember when we used to frequent Tortilla Flat. One of the reasons we stopped going here is that we discovered that they buy beans that have cheese mixed in with them (and my sister and bro-in-law are vegan, so no dice there). They have decent, not great, Mexican food. This place is very dimly lit, yet it's kind of cozy. I'd have to try it again some time to see if I still enjoy it. read more

Tried to support this business during this Covid 19 way of life. Ordered take out, was told it would be ready in 20 minutes. Arrived on time but the food wasn't ready. No other customers waiting in the parking lot so it wasn't like it was busy. Paid for the food and they said it would be ready in a few more minutes. Waited another frustrating 25 minutes and finally got our take out( taco salads mind you, and not one apology for the length of time it took), only to get home and be totally disappointed of the quality and quantity of the food. It was so awful we even took pictures. After a few days we were still so upset about the whole experience I was going to write a review but decided to contact the manager first. Even sent the pictures to the manager as he apologized for the whole disappointing experience, and he agreed the meals were not like they should have been, and it shouldn't have taken that long. He said he would send us a gift card to make up for it so we could give them another try which I thought was fair. BUT yet again, another big disappointment. Garrett never sent the gift card as he said he would and did not respond back when I wrote him again to say we never received them. I have eaten at this restaurant many times over many years and it has definitely gone down hill over the years. It's not what it use to be and I wont recommend this Mexican restaurant to anyone when there are so many better ones to choose from. Ones who actually care about their businesses. read more

Bummer of a meal. Awful service and meh food. We went for dinner tonight with our three kids. Service was extremely slow. Restaurant was clearly understaffed. It was very cold inside the restaurant, most guests were wearing their winter coats, and even then, it was chilly. Waitress took our drink order but didn't bring our children's drinks until well after their meals were delivered. I ordered a fajita salad with steak but was brought a salad with chicken instead. When I pointed our the mistake, the waitress apologized and said she'd correct it right away. Twenty minutes later, my family was done eating and I was still waiting for my meal. Finally, it was brought out, but this time it was a taco salad (not the fajita salad I'd ordered) with the steak. II just gave up and ate it, as my kids were ready too leave by this point. The bill came, and although it was a Thursday when kids are supposed to eat free (1 free kids meal for each adult entree), we were charged fully for all five meals, with zero acknowledgement or apology for the mistakes in the service. I won't be going back here. Insult to injury, the guacamole was brownish gray and didn't taste like avocado at all. Only bonus was that the buffalo wings were pretty decent. read more

Food was just ok. Service was awful. The three people on the staff were more interested on playing around ( running, taking pictures of themselves while joking around or just disappearing for long periods of time in the basement) I'll wouldn't recommend this place read more

Being from Texas means I have a great eye for good food south of the border. This was my first time in and couldn't wait for that good southern taste. The wait staff was very friendly & helpful. However, the food needed a lot of help. Store bought tortillas, tortilla chips, and salsa... taste not authentic & bland. Combination fajitas were okay but nothing to write home about - a nice grilled jalapeño would have been great. Since the wait staff was attentive, I will give them a second chance. read more

My husband is a big fan of this place. He says the food is very good here. I am not a Mexican food fan, myself but will find something on the menu that is not mexican. read more

Huge fan of mexican food and I'm just always never satisfied here. Came here for Mother's Day ( it's her favorite Mexican place.) chips and salsa came, chips where stale and salsa tasted like a generic jar salsa and even my mother said it's diff every time she comes. Once our meals came the dry rice and crust over the retries beans leads me to believe no plate is cooked to order and just made in bulk to sit and wait to be served when needed. I got the chicken fajita and got my plate of sides (including warm tortillas) about 10 mins before my fajita came out. Love fajitas with cold tortillas and warm salsa, guac and sour cream. ( can you hear the sarcasm, as I'm laying it on pretty thick.) if you want good Mexican food there are plenty of places doing it a lot better in surrounding areas. read more

This restaurant has been better.. Stopped in at the bar, the drinks were made well, lacking some details described to the young bartender. It's all wood, farmhouse style decor so crowds and larger parties will echo across the room. Chips and Salsa is self serve, store bought Salsa, not homemade, and warmed Chi chi's tortilla chips. Seems like they don't take pride in anything but the drinks.. Ordered Beef nachos with salsa and guac on the side.. They came out a little toasted, but that's ok, but overall seemed burnt and thrown together. we got the bill and found the side of 3 oz guacamole was $1.70 less than the whole plate of nachos. How is that possible? Mark up on avocado's? Not here in the area.. I buy them from the grocery store every week. Bartender seemed to linger and give favoritism to regular and friends... read more

If 0 stars was an option, I would have given that! Understaffed, waited 20 minutes to order, person was clearly having a bad day and showed it. Arrived at 5pm, didn't get food until 6:30.... really - go somewhere else, it's a never again for us! read more

Fathers Day at Tortilla Flat in Merrimack. I've visited Tortilla Flat a few times over the last couple of years - it's a bit out of the way for me but I've always had good food there. I even recommend it to friends who are visiting and looking for Mexican food. Alas, no more. Terrible dining experience. I'd like to think that it was due to me having a Restaurant.com certificate but it seemed like the other tables were having issues too. The service was poor at best. We'd order drinks and wait. Then for refills we'd ask for a refill and the waitress would walk off without getting all the orders, empties would be left on the table even when we'd asked for them to be taken to create more space (six of us on a table was a bit crowded - even if the restaurant wasn't). The food took over an hour to turn up and then it wasn't all at the same time. I had to tell people to start eating before it went cold. The food itself was average at best. My shrimp fajitas were the last to arrive and sounded good - but that's as far as it went. I ordered the plate and according to the menu they came with 4 tortillas, rice and beans. Mine didn't. I ended up with 3 tortillas and no rice and beans. The manager for the evening even argued with me about the number of tortillas I should have got. The plate the shrimp arrived on was swimming in oil - I was told they used that much to get the sizzling sound. The rice that people did get was dry (how do you manage that unless its been sitting out for ages - oh yeah.. that's it.) and overall quality was poor. The only bright spot was the margaritas - strong. Maybe I should have been drinking that to take the edge off. We waited 15 minutes for the bill as we didn't want dessert. Because I needed $100 on the bill to use the $50 certificate then we had an issue - it was only $92. I told the waitress to just round it up or do something - I didn't care - I'd spent too much time in this place already. Another ten minutes passed. Then she arrives with 3 brownies to take out.. great. As they'd done nothing else to make up for the poor food and worse service then obviously this was how they were going to say sorry!!! Ha! As if.. The 3 brownies added another $17 to the bill. Nice.. should be $100 but now its $109. Plus they billed me for the full $109 - they hadn't taken the $50 certificate off. They ran the bill again and presented me with a bill for $59... I signed and added the tip (why I'm not sure - service was terrible) and got out and went home. When I got there I unpacked the brownies. $17 for 3 brownies that were smaller than you'd get at a school bake sale. I'd given them a chance to correct the screw up in the restaurant but the manager didn't give a damn - and to argue with me about what was written on the menu showed the attitude she had. I can't think of a reason I would go back here - or ever recommend it to anyone. To round out the experience nicely I checked by bank account this morning and the only item pending is $109 from Tortilla flat - yep the wrong amount.. looks like I may have to go back anyway to sort this out. There is still time for that to be corrected though. So happy Fathers day? No - as my Fathers day meal, and the one footing the bill, it was a terrible dining experience. read more

Drinks are good, burrito with pot roast is good. Great chips and salsa. Relaxed atmosphere.

First time ever going there today 5/19/17. We got sat right away and handed menus. We ordered our waters and our food. At this time it is 6:00pm, we didn't receive any chips or salsa that were supposed to come to the table until we had said something to our waitress. We finished all the chips and salsa, finished our waters, and not once did the waitress come over to ask us for any refills, mind you she is going to every other table there was on the patio and ignoring us. She finally comes back over gets us refills on our waters, and says our food will be out in 1 minute, the table next to us got their food before us, and came in after us. We ordered burrito BOWLS, that was it. We ended up walking out an HOUR later 7:00 pm with out even receiving our food. Worst service I've ever had in my life!!!!!!! Please do not go here and save your money!!!!!! read more

I'm not entirely sure why this place is a staple of Merrimack. I've been here a few times and I've been sadly unimpressed so despite living within walking distance, I have decided to pass on this place from now on. One of the biggest peeves I have is their need to put huge chunks of onion in their refried beans (that you cannot order without) and actually just most of their dishes in general. I absolutely hate onions, especially when they are uncooked and it seems that most of their dishes contain nice, giant chunks of them. The place is poorly lit and you are very close with neighbors, so having a private conversation is a bit hard. The only upside to this place is that they do like to overpour your alcohol, but I think it's only to make up for the slow bar service. read more

Taco Tuesday. Kinda reminded of food we prepared in Middle School Home Economics class. Thank gosh I'm not paying. As crappy as food with Mexican spices gets... read more

Went there last night and ordered their famous nachos! By far the best I've ever had!!! Even the presentation of the nachos on the plate was impressive. Side condiments of sour cream and guacamole were far from skimpy which is my a major pet peeve of most places I go to. But here I had more than enough. The nachos were completely loaded yet not greasy. Staff was helpful and pleasant. I will definitely be going back to satisfy my needs for nachos. read more

This place is absolutely fantastic, we find ourselves chowing down here for good Mexican at least once, sometimes twice a month. Their food is fresh and just downright delicious. I've had most things listed on the menu, too... enchiladas, chimichangas, tacos, tamales... it's all amazing food. The servers are great, the ambiance is unique (it's in an old house that is supposedly haunted), the margaritas are strong, and the food is really outstanding. Give this place a try one night you don't feel like cooking, I promise you won't regret it. read more

Fast, friendly service and reasonable prices. Best margarita's around! Food could use a little more 'Bam' and portions could be bigger. It's much better than La Carreta's....! read more

Absolutely LOVE this place!!! It's right down the street and the food is delish. We were told by our real estate agent to try it out when we bought our house and she was right. The margaritas are fantastic, some stronger than others... and I'm working my way down the list of specialty mixes to find a favorite. The chips and salsa are in abundance and it's kinda cute that they have them out for you to help yourself. We've been a handful of times and ordered a variety of items. My favorite so far is the 3 chimi plate- 1 chicken, 1 beef and 1 pork with rice and beans (I get double rice so I can't speak to the beans) and it's always yummy. Usually sit in the bar area because of the tv's. I enjoy the atmosphere and the waitstaff is usually very pleasant and quick. The have nightly specials, a juke box, and all in a pretty cool looking building. Love this place... Highly recommend!! read more

Went for lunch today what a mistake.taco Tuesday.from the time we walked in till we were waited on was 20 minutes. Water for wife with lemon and a beer for me.water came first no lemon 3 minutes later my beer.he took the order and left a few minutes later I asked for salsa and chips which they used to always bring right away.so he did bring it.were locals and go there a lot.thats going to change. read more

I've worked here for over a year now, and i'm still not tired of the food. I've come in here with family plenty of times, and the service has always been up to par, as well as food and drinks. Will recommend to family and friends. read more

It's tough to find decent Mexican Food in New Hampshire but this place is one of the worst. The drinks are good (but over-poured) and they probably do it to make you forget the food that is in your mouth. I ordered the fish tacos and they were dry and greasy. I've also had their crab enchilada which wasn't too bad, but the rice with it was stale. On Wednesday nights they have the most obnoxious guitar player that I even refuse to go in there for a drink after work anymore. I avoid this place whenever possible and I suggest you do the same. I gave it two stars only because the drinks aren't bad. read more