Mesquite Grill
Mexican · Rochester
About Mesquite Grill
Mesquite Grill in Rochester offers a warm and inviting dining experience for lunch and dinner, with extended hours on weekends. We pride ourselves on serving delicious Mexican cuisine in a beautifully decorated, accessible setting. Customers rave about our friendly staff and the overall welcoming at...
Mesquite Grill in Rochester offers a warm and inviting dining experience for lunch and dinner, with extended hours on weekends. We pride ourselves on serving delicious Mexican cuisine in a beautifully decorated, accessible setting. Customers rave about our friendly staff and the overall welcoming atmosphere. Signature dishes like the flautas and birria tacos are highly recommended, alongside a great selection of beers and cocktails. While some find the portion of meat in fajitas could be improved, the guacamole appetizer is a popular choice. We also offer convenient delivery and takeout options, in addition to dine-in service.
What Customers Say About Mesquite Grill
Mesquite Grill is a well-decorated Mexican restaurant known for delicious food, friendly staff (like Claudia and Janel), and generous portions. Popular dishes include beef enchiladas, flautas, and fajitas. Some found the food bland or the service slow on occasion.
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This place is amazing and food is delicious differently authentic food. The people is very warm welcoming and friendly. I highly recommend this place.it has changed since covid the servicing is too little
Beef enchiladas are really delicious. The corn tortillas melt in your mouth and the beef is well seasoned.
This was a happy surprise find! Never heard of this place before, it is a bit hidden within the plaza but the staff is super friendly, the restaurant atmosphere is warm and welcoming, the food is delicious, authentic, and comes in very large portions. This goes for the drinks as well! Highly recommend!
It seems like they’ve changed some things up! We always used to joke about the slow, unenthusiastic, service here but decided to give it another try on a Saturday night. Everyone was very welcoming and attentive, we received chips and salsa refills without asking, and all of the food was great. Definitely seems to have a different vibe than before.
Stopped in for lunch on 8/26/25, four adults and two children. My first time here. We were seated right away, comfortable table for six. Very clean restaurant and nicely decorated. With plenty of menu options we all found something to our liking, and everything was fresh and tasty. Our server, Janely V, was very good and made sure we were all pleased with our food. A very pleasant experience!
I’ve been here 3 times and it’s been delicious every time. I keep getting the flautas because they’re so good. This time we got the birria tacos to share and they were amazing. I can’t believe it’s not more crowded in here. The margs are delicious and actually have liquor in them, and the queso con carne is so good and we’ve gotten it every time for about app. The staff are also so nice, 10/10 everyone should go here.
Our entire experience was excellent, from greeting to farewell. Our server, Claudia, was fantastic. Her genuine smile showed she liked working there. Chips and salsa to start with the best guacamole I've had in months. She was very accommodating about the types of they had. Steak and shrimp fajitas and enchiladas mole were excellent. Took some flan home for dessert, wonderful! First visit, we'll be back.
I have always enjoyed this place. I have been going here since it opened. I was however, disappointed with the enchilada and the chili poblano today. It seems like they changed the recipe for the filling. Previously, the filling was more typical ground beef, minced onion, minced garlic, cumin, coriander, a typical filling at most restaurants. This feeling seems much more like chili that would be in a Chili con carne or something that you would put on a hotdog to make a chili dog. Also, it was extremely greasy like the beef was not drained. I don’t know if they changed recipes or perhaps the chef that prepared it.
My family and i stopped by for dinner while in the area. We were seated right away. Drinks, chips and salsa came out right away. We ordered queso blanco, it came out a min later and it tasted great. The rest of our dinner came shortly. Everything was good, but kinda bland...definitely could use more seasoning.
I ordered a single take out order of chicken, and shrimp fajitas from Mesquite Grill. When I arrived to pick up my order, I told the hostess I wanted to add an order of guacamole. The young lady asked me if I wanted the small side, or the larger order. When I asked what the size difference was, she told me the small size was like a small side cup, and the larger order was 16 ounces. I decided on the larger 16 ounce order for ten dollars. As for the quality of the food I received; The fajitas were very tasty, and not over salty, and the guacamole was very good, and balanced, with no single ingredient overpowering the others. Unfortunately, that's where the compliments end. My order did not contain any tortillas (an important ingredient for fajitas!), and as you can see from the picture, the container for the guacamole was indeed a 16 ounce size, however, it was less than half full. Here's the kicker...When I called the restaurant to let them know about the missing tortillas, and the half filled cup of guacamole, the person who answered the phone said, and I quote "we were really busy with take out orders, and someone must have forgot to put the tortillas in." When I then asked about the amount of guacamole in what was described as 16 ounces, I was met with silence on the other end of the phone. No apology. No offer to put the manager on the phone. No attempt at all to acknowledge their mistake, or make things right. Just a basic 'oh well, we were busy, so we forgot'. It certainly didn’t appear to be busy at 5:15 on Saturday evening with a near empty dining room, and no other take out orders waiting next to mine. As for the guacamole...that's not 'shrinkflation', it's just plain shortchanging the customer. If you're going to offer, and accept take out orders, you really do need to take the extra ten seconds to ensure the order is correct, and complete. Seriously, I don't want to sound overly harsh, but this really is not that difficult! This was my first experience with Mesquite Grill. It will also likely be my last.
I have ordered the same meal from this restaurant 18 times including my order today. I’ve only had 1 other incident with the food I will not disclose. Today I ordered the same meal and the avocado looked really bad. I respectfully called back and they apologized and said they would make me a new order. I drive back, pick it up and get home and the avocado is practically the same. I’m aware of the different stages of avocado and of the 18 times I’ve ordered it NEVER looked like this. I am absolutely livid with this experience and this will be my last order. The first photo is the original order and the second photo in the white container is the replacement.
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