Maribel Navarro

Food was yummy! Enchiladas were great! Burrito was huge but so delicious! Now the dessert was awesome!! Go check it out!

michael moore

The food and service is a ten! The prices are reasonable and I always leave feeling great. Our server this visit is Crystal and she’s exceptional. We’ve also had Gabriel as a server he is also excellent. Both made sure my dine in visit was top notch. Thank you

Alexsandra Luster

Great food. I like that the food is NOT salty like other places and somewhat of a mild flavor, easy on the tummy. Chips are light and crispy. The green salsa is extra $. I will definitely bring my parents here next time.

Always great Tex Mex. The cheese enchiladas are the very best. Have gone here seen 1970!

This place is always consistent with the service and quality of the food. Food is always hot and fresh. The dining room is clean and comfortable.

This place is always consistent with the service and quality of the food. Food is always hot and fresh. The dining room is clean and comfortable.

This place is always consistent with the service and quality of the food. food is always hot and fresh. The dining room is clean and comfortable.

This place is always consistent with the service and quality of the food. Food is always hot and fresh. The dining room is clean and comfortable.

This place is always consistent with the service and quality of the food. Food is always hot and fresh. The dining room is clean and comfortable.

The food, the service, the atmosphere were all excellent! I recommend and if in this area again would patronize.

The food, the service, the atmosphere were all excellent! I recommend and if in this area again would patronize.

The food, the service, the atmosphere were all excellent! I recommend and if in this area again would patronize.

We are long time customers of El Fenix. We live in Austin Tx now but every time we come to Arlington we stop to eat. The food and service is amazing. We have been customers for over 30 years. Thank…

Authentic food that's consistently tasty. Always get my order correct plus my family and I can eat there for a fair price!

clean restaurant great customer service great prices excellent queso Went here with my family we had the best meal.

Clean Restaurant great customer service great prices excellent queso Went here with my family we had the best meal.

I always appreciate the quick service during lunch I’m able to order and eat within 30minutes. Service is always good and food nice and hot. Also the chips and salsa fresh.

TSJ Uzere

The waitress was the BEST. I always enjoy your chips and salsa. The tamales were ok, but not great. I'd still go back to maybe try something else.

Luke Rodriguez

Classic mexican food, tex mex is pretty darn good

+3

Scott Price

It has been 20 plus years since last here, my wife's first, were wanting some Tuesday Tacos and ended up here. No taco deal so order my fallback, I get everywhere Nachos. These are Picadillo Beef and were very good as these are individual chip nachos. Very tasty... my wife got the El Fenix Dinner, little bit of everything and green sauce...she really liked it, and plentiful... portions are large... staff was quick to seat and serve... we were lunch eating dinner plates... they had lunch specials but opted full portions... we won't wait another 20 year we will definitely return much sooner...great place Arlington location...

Always reliable for a good Texmex cheese enchilada with chili con carne! So many places to go, but you want good consistent food - this is it - never changes, always same good quality and fast, fri…

Good margaritas good chips and salsa \nI enjoy the tostadas \nJesus and Ariel are the best \nAttentive great service

They use Tostidos Restaurant Style for their tortilla chips. I wish they would stop that. I DO NOT LIKE TOSTIDOS! Especially at a Mexican restaurant.

They use Tostidos Restaurant Style for their tortilla chips. I wish they would stop that. I DO NOT LIKE TOSTIDOS! Especially at a mexican restaurant.

They use Tostidos Restaurant Style for their tortilla chips. I wish they would stop that. I DO NOT LIKE TOSTIDOS! Especially at a Mexican restaurant.

Paula Peterson

I had my food delivered. I ordered the El Fenix Dinner, with 2 cheese enchiladas, 2 tamales, crispy beef taco. I received 1 cheese enchilada and 2 beef enchiladas. A crispy taco shell with no beef. Beef, bean, and cheese Nachos with jalapeños. No beef or jalapeños. The lemon ice box pie was fabulous! The corn tortillas were great! The main portion of my dinner was a rating of a flop! Total waste of my $30!

Mike Ritchie

I haven't been to an El Fenix restaurant in probably forty years and when I spotted this one, memories of my youth filled me with nostalgia and I had to relive the past. After getting past the memories, I realized why I haven't been in so many years. It is a memory that can just remain in the past as there are much better options going forward. I'm not saying there was anything bad about the food, service, or prices, I'm just saying there wasn't anything great about them either. For run of the mill, fill your belly Tex-Mex, it's okay. Fond memories aren't always great realities.

+2

A disappointing lunch. Perfect chips and salsa to start and great sweet tea. Ordered cheese enchiladas and a bean and beef chalupa. Chalupa was excellent. But the enchiladas were awful; the cheese …

Nice ambiance. Comfortable seating. The food was "ok" except for the fish tacos, which I really liked a lot. Our server, Gabriel, was terrific. \n\nBecause this is close to home and we didn't have …

William Boyle

We chose to eat at the Arlington El Fenix. First thing I notice as I walk in the door is this ridiculous sign that states Firearms are prohibited on these premises. Seriously....I can understand not wanting someone to OPEN CARRY, but a blanket statement of NO firearms. What about those that have a concealed carry permit. They are confirmed capable to carry concealed and one day may save your life. Now for the food. I like El Fenix, but I was very disappointed when we were served chips that were the size of dimes. I actually had to ask for a better bowl of chips. What is worse is I believe it was brought to us by the manager, a lady who was not in a uniform. The main dish we ordered came out within 10 minutes, which made me kind of nervous. Was this a meal that has been sitting on the hot shelf waiting for an order????? I am very disappointed in the Martinez family and what they have let their resteraunt become!!!

R R

Stopped in at El Fenix in Arlington (Cooper at I-20) for dinner and was honestly pretty disappointed. Our server was very friendly, but there were repeated issues just getting tea and water served correctly. When my chicken fajita dinner arrived, the portion was about the same size as what you’d expect from a lunch plate. On top of that, the fajitas were extremely dry, lacking in flavor, and looked like they may have been cooked earlier for lunch and then reheated for dinner service. The server said he spoke with the kitchen manager and came back with flan as a way to make up for the unsatisfactory food, but I couldn’t eat it due to an allergy. Unfortunately, no other option was offered, so the gesture didn’t really help. While I appreciated the friendliness of the server, the overall experience was disappointing. For the price, I expected fresh, flavorful fajitas and a more thoughtful response when the food wasn’t right. Hopefully management will address both the food quality and how they handle customer recovery, because El Fenix has a long history in the area and should be able to do much better.

As a frequent patron who's always had attentive servers/wait staff, please go somewhere else! Manager MANNY is HORRIBLE & should be FIRED! He charged my husband $23 for a PINT of child con carne. Whe…

extremely disappointed with how I was treated by the MANAGER MANNY. He was not only very condescending but also racist. As a frequent visitor, I will NEVER spend money at El Fenix again and if this…

Poor service did not refill our drinks only checked on us one time food was okay but not hot

Was at the restaurant 10 minutes before the new closing hours - 9pm. Would not sell me a bag of El Fenix tortilla chips. They obviously DO NOT need our business!! But, there are plenty other finer …

Food was not good and the service was okay but if your going for the food I would advise you to go somewhere else. The drinks were the best part about the restaurant.

Just had another bad experience with the South Cooper location in Arlington. This is 2nd with delivery and we’ve also one that we picked up ourselves – this is all within last 16 months. While th…

Just had another bad experience with the South Cooper location in Arlington. This is 2nd with delivery and we’ve also one that we picked up ourselves – this is all within last 16 months. While …

Daniela McCreary

Do NOT go here! After years of being a faithful patron & a small business owner who knows how to treat a customer, the way that Manager MANNY treated me, was HORRIBLE & he should be FIRED! He charged my husband $23 for a PINT of chili con carne. I returned it (was not even asking for a refund) wanting to discuss the HIGH pricing. Manny said that the computer sets the price & he has no control over it. Well, a mgr CAN override the price. I asked him for the corporate # NOT to complain about him, but to "discuss" price GOUGING. Why would I spend this when I could have ordered a meal & a half for the same price?! He refunded the money & then told me, "look up the corporate number on the internet." VERY rude! Two weeks previously we had called to place a catering order for a family event & he answered. When my husband told him he could not understand him, he HUNG UP! When we talked to him about it in person, he pretended he knew nothing. When I told him about this today, he said, "it was not me." This is NOT the way you treat a LOYAL or ANY paying patron. You apologize & discuss a solution. He pretty much scooted me out of the restaurant and argued with me in front of patrons and employees. Clearly this man has NO business sense! I will be posting on all my social media and telling all my clients to go elsewhere. With so many Mexican restaurants out there, please join me in going somewhere else!

Connie Wood

I got enchilada dinner with Charro Beans. When I poored the beans in a to go cup, a used butter top was in the beans, of course I didn’t see it in the original cup, it had to be at the bottom. I told my waiter, he told the manager. She came to table and show me it was the top of butter package. Huh, they don’t put butter in beans, how did it get there, figure that out. She only offered to give me new beans to go. Not sure if I will be back, I’ve been coming here forever.

Jake Thomas

The service was slow, they were not busy so we should have been served a lot faster than we were. The food was cold, cheese not melted, rice hard, chicken in enchiladas was stringy , hard to chew and tasteless. The tortilla in the beef enchiladas was hard, like they were prepared way in advance and heated up to serve. All in all my family did not enjoy dinner at El Fenix. We looked forward to our visit, however, it did not go well. I remember the food being hot and tasting great. Unfortunately El Fenix does not seem to care about the quality of their food or service anymore. The El Fenix we had dinner at was the downtown location in Dallas Tx.