La Machaca De Mi Ama

Food was decent and the place was clean and there are gender neutral restrooms available. The only issue was our waitress after delivering our food never returned and, after trying for a while to make eye contact/flag someone down, we ended up having to get up from our seats to find someone to ask for a more spicy salsa or hot sauce option (they didn’t have one). They definitely weren’t short staffed and it wasn’t busy at all, just no one was looking in our direction. If you’re looking for more mild Mexican food this is definitely the place for you, but might recommend takeaway as opposed to sit down if you want good service.

Amazing authentic Mexican food and great service (a little slow) but kind.

I gave it a 5 star eventho the wait time was so long on a Saturday afternoon. Waitress was friendly. We ordered green juice which was tasty then we tried the coffee which has cinnamon. It was actually good. Food was good but like I said, the wait time was longer than 15 to 20 minutes. Not sure if it was because Sunday is mother's day or because Friday was Mother's day for the Latin families or if it's like this every Saturday. Also a plus is that the restrooms are clean.

If you are wanting authentic Mexican food, this place is the spot. Our waiter was very attentive. Food was delicious!

Our minds were absolutely blown by this place! HEAPING amounts of toe spreading-good food. You will not find better tostada dishes anywhere in Denver. This place is as authentic as it gets! ☕️Tostadas sinaloensas de res, paired with a delicious cantarito 🌮Tacos de birria, paired with legit homemade horchata 🐙Tostadas cueta, paired with a HUGE michelada 🍲Carne en su jugo, paired with a craft margarita de mi ama 🥚Omelette light, paired perfectly with a classic but boozy mimosa 🥑BEST GUACAMOLE IN DENVER. Why? The addition of asadero cheese makes for such a light, refreshing take that puts it above all others Shout out to Isabel and Katia for taking such good care of us.✌️

The food was amazing i ordered their cafe de la olla and the mi tia ana plate. I can definitely say their food is authentic, definitely not your typical mexican restaurant. The service was great and they also had live music.

The food tasted amazing! We got the liver and the chicharrones. They were to die for!

Diner style Mexican restaurant focusing on Sinaloan dishes. Went for Saturday brunch and was welcomed into a spacious, well lit dining room. Staff was super friendly, seated us and served a complimentary cup of soup before taking our orders. They preface their kitchen cooks to order so it takes time but we got our food fairly quickly despite the busy dining room. Started with a café de olla, this is one of the only places in Denver to consistently have this wonderful drink on their menu! Served with a small donut, great for dipping. Their quesobirria is one of the best I've had in town: consomme has the deep beef flavor but not too salty, plenty of tender birria meat and queso, and the corn tortillas were grilled to a crisp. Add the side salad and this is a fantastic brunch, with great flavors and generous portions. Also, try their dishes with la machaca, a shredded dried beef they serve mixed with peppers!

Delicious Sinaloa-style Mexican food with bold flavors and a massive menu. Whatever you do, order the Café de la Olla--it's sweet, spiced, and unforgettable, no matter the time of day. The servers are friendly (though mostly Spanish-speaking), so it's a great chance to practice! Amazing food, great vibe, and a beautiful setting--you'll love it

Our minds were absolutely blown by this place! HEAPING amounts of toe spreading-good food. You will not find better tostada dishes anywhere in Denver. This place is as authentic as it gets! Tostadas sinaloensas de res, paired with a delicious cantarito Tacos de birria, paired with legit homemade horchata Tostadas cueta, paired with a HUGE michelada Carne en su jugo, paired with a craft margarita de mi ama Omelette light, paired perfectly with a classic but boozy mimosa BEST GUACAMOLE IN DENVER. Why? The addition of asadero cheese makes for such a light, refreshing take that puts it above all others Shout out to Isabel and Katia for taking such good care of us.

This place is a must try! I have been here about four times and each time I walked out happy their food is delicious. Their staff is super friendly and that café Olla is so yummy ! I'm yet to order something I don't love. Also, the ambience is dim. It's not loud. It's very pleasant. It almost feels like when you went to eat at your grandma's house in Mexico. love it 10 out of 10.

The food is amazing. If you have the time to be patient, well worth that wait. My wife and I go here at least once a month. It's definitely a place we can relax and not feel pressured to be in a hurry.

La Mesera Isabel tiene super mal servicio. Es muy mal hablada y irrespetuosa. Actúa como si no quisiera estar allí.

Dude this place is Really really good. The tacos are Hand made , these birria tacos are soooo delicious . Very juicy and cooked to perfection

We visited from out of town and loved everything about this place. The food was delicious and the staff was friendly. I highly recommend!

Food is amazing, service is really bad. When we arrived they were half way full and they sat us down we waited for about 15 min then the waitress came over super rushed asked what do you want to drink took our drinks and left. We waited for another 15-20 mins (seriously) before she came back with one drink and to take our order. She really didn't seem to care about us because as she was taking our order she was more focused on big parties coming in she literally told us " esperate" (wait) twice while taking our food order (a table of two) so she can go sit there bigger tables. She finally came back and we finished telling her our order and reminded her of the missing agua de jamaica. About another 15 mins past before she came with our food she gave us a carne en su jugo when I had ordered a pozole she said " I picked up the wrong plate" no worries imistakes happened she came back with my agua de jamaica and no pozole. We saw her take 3 tables ordered before she came back to ask me " what was your food?" I was upset but we were half way done with the birria as my partner didn't mind sharing she came back with a cold plate of pozole probably from sitting there I really don't want to say anything anymore as I knew it would take for ever to get some service. By this point the restaurant is now full and they have people waiting she came and gave us our ticket and said here ya pa que pagen y se vayan, ocupamos la mesa, here so you can pay and leave we need the table, we paid and left. Again the food is delicious, even though the pozole was cold, its a must and the birria is amazing

Una mesera llamada Isabel súper mal servicio, se equivoca en el pedido y todavía hace chistes al respecto... súper mal servico, hace chistes de mal gusto. no volveré.

Just ok. They don't speak English here. Service was weird and very slow. Birria tacos are 3 for $16 - no sides. The beef dip was bland. The appetizer soup was tomato sauce and macaroni noodles. Just weird. No chips and salsa. The pace seemed clean enough but we won't be back. I've had much better tacos and service for much better price.

You know you've found a winner when everyone at the table goes silent while eating except for occasional muttering of "Oh my God...." Please see attached photo of biggest cauldron of queso fundido I've ever been served. Their menu features things I've never seen on a Mexican menu before, like liver fajitas, as well as lots of things everyone knows like flautas and enchiladas. I am super excited about the fact that they do breakfast all day... it's just a shame they aren't really open during breakfast hours! Perhaps that'll change once the pandemic is under control.

Decepcionados regresamos ayer. Era uno de nuestros restaurantes favoritos pero la comida ah cambiado bastante, no tiene el mismo saber cómo las primeras veces que empezamos a ir, ayer se tardaron muchísimo para traernos las tortillas las cuales estaban súper gruesas. Los pedazos de carne en los tacos de asada que ordenamos estaba gigantescos aparte de que la cuenta fue muy elevada. No fue de nuestro agrado, ayer fue nuestra última vez ahí.

Delicious! It was truly a taste of Mazatlan as advertised. Great service and wonderful food.

This place is Authentic at its best. I am from Mexico and northern Mexican food is just so good here!!! Service was great. I have to say we got there EARLY in the morning, so I highly recommend if You want to have a good and personalized service, go at this time (8:00 am - 9:00 am) the food was amazing and the coffee and juice was delicious!! Definitely order the orange and carrot juice. Birria plate was delicious and my machaca breakfast plate was the best. Definitely recommend and coming back soon!!!

The food here is really good and very traditional! But the last 2 times we've been here service is not great. They sat us down and no one came to the table for at least 15 minutes and this happened 2 times in a row The servers walked by us many times and no one came to our table. I noticed they went to the tables that arrived after us.. they really need to work on this.

Great flavor and Birria Taco's were the Bomb! Nice People too! I enjoyed the wide variety of sauces flavorful not over spiced! Love the atmosphere!!!

Food is fire! Place is nice inside and clean. The service was efficient. However call before going the site says open. You drive by it says open but we went by just this week again to eat and it was closed.

Excelente servicio! Primera vez aquí y pienso volver muy pronto! Mis amigas también disfrutaron sus platillos y el jugo de zanahoria está delicioso

While my short stop in Denver I decided to eat breakfast here... the service was good and the chicharron was good along with the chilaquiles

While visiting Denver enjoyed a great breakfast here. Food was good, homemade tortillas. Prices you can't beat.

The food is very good but the service is terrible. It took them 30 minutes to take our order and more than an hour to prepare it. We decided to order for to go and it took even longer. The truth is that I don't return to this place anymore

We ate at La Machaca de mi Ama right before the shutdown. I had been waiting for over a year for this new restaurant to open as Lupita's (the previous restaurant) has been one of my favorites. The makeover is beautiful and the food is totally different from Lupita's and very delicious. The liquor license had not been secured yet so I could not taste a margarita. However, the Sinaloa style food was delicious. Tortillas are handmade and so good. I will be going back soon to make sure the 4 star review is still good but in this day and age, they earned a star for opening days before a pandemic.

The customer service sucks. I sat and waited about 30 minutes and nobody even approached me to ask me if I needed a menu or any help. So I just left and they seemed to not care.

Went here and got a carne en su jugo and was very disappointed that it was $22 for very little meat and beans, food is good but the need better portions for that price, i also didn't get my cheese or corn tortillas

The food is usually ok here but their customer service sucks , always. It never fails

The food is very good and that's why I decided to go for the third time.... But like the two previous times, the service is very slow and most of the time they forget that people need to attend them because it is not a buffet for service alone .. but if someone who is already known arrives they do not stop giving good attention... La comida es muy buena y por eso decidí ir por tercera vez.... Pero como las dos veces anteriores, el servicio es muy lento y la mayoría de las veces se olvidan que la gente necesita atenderlos porque no es un buffet para el servicio solo .. pero si llega alguien que ya se conoce no paran de dar buenos atención...

Amazing. The service. The food. The soup. If anyone says it's less than five stars, they are wrong. I'm literally sitting in the restaurant eating the best Mexican of my life. My niece almost cried when she tried the tacos. Run, don't walk for the guacamole. It's all amazing.

EXCELENTE comida, como regresar a Mexico. PÉSIMO Servicio, cada ves que vuelvo el servicio se vuelve cada ves peor. Cero atención, el 80% de las veces se les olvida algún platillo en la orden, horas para que te cobren y te atiendan en general aun estando el establecimiento con pocos clientes, estando lleno ni se diga. Un restaurante con mucho potencial pero muy desperdiciado.

Excellent! We had a great dinner. I tried the Birria beef tacos and they were amazing. We will definitely be going back. Check out this gem and experience some authentic food from the Sinaloan region of Mexico.

My boyfriend and I waited an hour to just get menus. We came in on a Friday around 4:30pm. The food was pretty good, I'd rate it an 8/10. But the prices were really expensive. I got a margarita for $12 and I didn't even feel a buzz. I ended up laying down $75 for a meal that left me still hungry. Pretty disappointed.

This is the best Mexican food I've ever had and that is saying a lot! It was extremely expressive with great flavors and amazing margaritas. The service was incredible! The food was even better! You can tell they love what they do and take great pride everything from the moment you walk in until you leave. I had the shrimp tacos and my friend had the cheese enchiladas. Our desert was amazing and the Mexican coffee was the best I've ever had.

This is a absolute NO. We came in on a Friday evening around 6:30. There were hardly anyone there (first bad sign). We had to ask twice for chips and salsa. I ordered Enchiladas and she brought me completely a different dish. And when they brought me the enchilada it looked completely different than the picture in the menu. She never came back to check on us or refil our drink or even bring us water. My dish was overly salty. Don't go here. It is a waste of money and time.

I wish I could give this place a 5 star rating, but maybe that can change in the future! I came here yesterday for my first time and ordered 4 orders of three tacos. I was told the wait would be 25 min, but it ended up almost being an hour. The manager (I think?) apologized for the wait and told me they were making new meat which is fine, I just wish he had told me that 40 minutes prior so I wasn't awkwardly sitting at the bar shaking from being hangry. I think it may just because it's a smaller, family owned business but I'm not sure! This place is blowing up from some TikToks and such, so keep that in mind for your wait time. On the other hand, the tacos I got were to die for. 10/10 recommend. I'll be going again for sure but maybe this time I'll get a drink to hold me off.

PROS: * Featured cuisine is from a different region of Mexico than most other restaurants in the area * Friendly wait staff. The wait staff is friendly. They can get be busy at times but they are usually well staffed and attentive. * Great food. They have a variety of dishes with which I was not acquainted or they prepare mainstay dishes differently. This is refreshing and it is also a fun reminder that "Mexican" cuisine isn't monolithic. Some dishes that come to mind are the Cafe de Olla (coffee brewed in an earthen pot and lightly spiced), the menudo blanco (a white menudo featuring no chilies), their takes on enchiladas, and also chicharrones and chilaquiles. Try the green sauce chilaquiles with red sauced chicharroness. * Nice interior. This business was renovated just before the pandemic (I believe). It has a nice refreshing and bold look even if the seating appears sparse. I haven't confirmed, but I believe it is because they use the stage and open space for live music and dancing. They have a few screens featuring the ambiance music and also a digital jukebox. CONS: * I really only have one complaint: inconsistent "over medium eggs." That's it. If you're looking for something different, this place is a great option.

Wow. This was an amazing take out meal. Some of the best Mexican food I've ever had, and this was my first Sinaloan adventure. We had beef tostadas smothered with consommé and a stewed beef dish with some incredibly delicious green chilaquiles. Beans were awesome as well. Homemade tortillas rounded everything off. Please support this newer restaurant so I can keep filling my belly with this food! Very clean and quick take out service.

Horrible service we were sat and no one came to take our order after being there 20 minutes and the servers walking past us we got up and left

This place is amazing. I have been back 3 times this week! It's not typical mexican food. If you want bottomless chips and salsa this is not your jam. The food has the beautiful balance between spicy and savory. They make their own corn and flour tortillas. When I took my first bite I was in shock at the good fortune I happened upon. I don't get the negative reviews for this place. I guess idiots wander into all kinds of places. Service is awesome too.

Delicious. Went here for lunch, got the aguachile which was delicious and sooo spicy. I didn't have the coffee special but the people I was with did and they all said it was delicious. My husband had shredded beef chilequiles and loved it. The service was on the slower side but sometimes that's part of the price you pay to have really good authentic food. Our server was so sweet and so excited about the restaurant and the fact that it's family owned.

I waited for an hour for the food And another 15 minutes to be charge lol Food it's not as good as they say in social media nothing especial there..

This was the worst place I have ever eaten. The cheese is fake, the margaritas are 12.00 for a watered down no tequila taste. No one speaks English and the prices of entree are ridiculous for this low class restaurant who has no business. Horrible food. Don't waste your money or even go there.

I came here for breakfast. The food was fantastic. I had the Quilete, the pork was tender, savory and perfectly spiced. The beans were solid, and the Chilaquiles were hot, crispy and the red salsa on them was delicious. It was an awesome breakfast. I'll be coming here again for lunch

Got breakfast burritos from here this morning. Ordered a smothered burrito and didn't get it. The meat tastes like poor quality, the eggs were old and dry and the potatoes also old and dry. Out of the 4 burritos we go we had only one positive response to it.

Wow! A must try!!! The service was excellent...the food was fresh and delicious...the restaurant was clean...the price was reasonable...what more can I say? I was so excited about my tacos birria that I ate them before I snapped a pic, sorry! Lol!!!

Horrible servicio al cliente. Te sientan para que nadien te atiendan. Los meseros sólo te pasan, y nadien se acerca a brindar servicio. 3 meseros para 3 mesas que tenían comiendo. Tardamos sentadas para que nada más de vean los meseros. No es la primera vez que voy y pasa esto. Lastima de buena comida, si tienen muy mal servicio.

Muy buena la comida y el servicio es bueno pero la cerveza siempre la tienen caliente

$13 for a Margarita which was nothing but juice. Food is horrible. Service is even worst. I was cheated by maybe fake reviews. Do not go here.

Delicious birria tacos. Delicious rice and beans. Delicious salsa. Delicious margaritas. And all for great prices. And not to be weird, but when I went, I was the only pale person there. An awesome sign, in my book.

MY best friend took me to La Manchaca yesterday to celebrate my birthday. I remember the restaurant by it's old name and business and didn't know it changed owners. We decided to give it a chance and went in. It was different but, oh so delicious! Let me tell you this was the best dinner we had in a very long time. We had their guacamole and it was made a bit differently but very tasty. We had the Manchaca and Chilaquiles! The Margaritas were good too. The best part was our waiter, Antonio!!! He was absolutely fabulous and attentive to all our questions about the food from his region. He explained their food and made suggestions to our likes. When you go there, ask for him to serve you. Top Notch! Please give this restaurant a try. It's very clean inside.

Every time me & my family come here, we always sit ourselves down because no one welcomes us even if its really slow no one seats us or takes our order we have walked out twice from this place because of the poor staff. The food is good don't get me wrong but they need to improve.