La Sirenita Restaurant

Good place with great drinks, homemade tortillas, and good food. Very nice for a quick bite with good prices, lovely atmosphere (partner says it reminds him of mexico) with music, art work, and people enjoying food. It can get pretty busy but if you come on a weekday or an off time you will find it easy to get a seat. Service is friendly and the menu is wasy yo navigatw and includes a lot of pictures. It's 4 star for me because of how the food compares to other places for my favorite dishes: mole tacos, and chilles rellenos. Good but not great here. The tostada my partner had looked amazing and the three tacos were a big enough portion that it was hard for him to finish everything. I took home half of mine as well after filling up on the banana shake (which is more like a milk with banana blended in but not frozen). I substituted refried beans for the regular pinto beans.

Overall a solid 7.5/10 Customer service is always bad here but the food makes up for it, I've been coming here for years and it's always bad service which it's a good sign of good food, the Micheladas are pretty good for $10, the meal was roughly 15$ so not bad for 25$ + tip. Theres a shopping center right Infront so there is plenty of parking when it's slow but during peak hour it gets hard to find parking. The salsa chips were pretty stale but ok

Lots of taquerias in Riverdale and most are authentic. This place is good & reasonable! I love getting good food in DC at a reasonable price. I had one steak & one barbacoa (stewed goat) taco with a side of guacamole. I love that they even give you chips & salsa. I’ve eaten here a dozen times and it’s always a treat for under $20. A Burritos for under $7 with a side of guacamole. Why would I go to chipotle or anywhere else?

One of the hidden diamonds in the city. The best food you can get and the ladies were always friendly.You get a home type vibe when you walk in. Best part you dont wait long for your food its fresh and you can trust it..just enjoy the vibe

Everyone I tried the best tacos in town...La Sirenita is the best Authentic Mexican restaurant in Hyattsville MD. Check them out I highly recommend them.

Not a family friendly environment. I came here with my family and there were drunk men harassing us with blowing kisses, winking, saying nasty stuff. Obviously I got fed up and cussed them out and the owner told me to “settle down I’m doing too much. She didn’t see anything wrong with their behavior” I’m not sure if she’s used to this behavior or if she thinks it’s appropriate but I don’t accept it. Food isn’t GOOD super oily

Food was really good with a exceptional customer service.

Food's delicious, free chips and salsa, and service, though not the quickest, is great and friendly.

LOVED. THE. FOOD. IN. THIS. RESTAURANT. Excellent authentic Mexican cuisine. Clean. Friendly, fast service. One MINOR glitch ... no Margaritas ... just cerveza. Not a deal breaker tho'! Quite honestly, we were too fat and full to care! Enjoy the pics of the carne de res con brocoli (beef with broccoli), Milanesa de pollo (breaded chicken), tostadas con pollo (hard shell tortilla with chicken), and fajitas con res, pollo y camarón (soft tortillas with beef, chicken and shrimp). We also enjoyed the free tortilla chips, fresh salsa and pico de gallo. Don't expect 5-star decor ... this is definitely a mom and pop neighborhood spot but it should absolutely be on your foodie bucket list for its 5-star entrees. I personally gotta go back to try the Flan Napolitano (Mexican caramel custard). ¡Buen provecho!

Back again for the Sopa De Mariscos. Again it's freakin delicious! Large portions and comes with the complimentary nachos. Got cool outside and is perfect for it. $20 bucks well spent every time.

What's there's to say My favorite spots for tacos and beer My Go to place come and try it out for yourself

This place is one of the worst places here in riverdale . From the food to the service I would definitely not recommend this place. I went inside to ask if they had tacos al pastor the lady was so rude in her form of greeting me . I had to repeat my questions at her . I then asked about the burritos and she was clearly being rude because she wasn't helping in any way . I asked her how big they were and they are fairly small. For 10$ a burrito I would at least think I'd get a regular burrito size . This place says authentic Mexican but nothing about it is authentic. This is just another fake Mexican restaurant ran by Salvadorian people . If your looking for an authentic experience I would recommend taco Rico and tacos la plácita down the street where I have never had any issues the people treat me nicely and the food is actual Mexican food cooked by authentic Mexican people .

horrible service food wasn't good wouldnt go there again they brought the wrong order the restaurant doesn't look that is for kids more for people to drink and chill. El servicio fue malo no me gustó la comida de pues llevaron la orden que no era es un ambiente más para gente que toma no para niños no creo ir de nuevo

Ordered quesadillas (one just queso and the other carne asada). They were definitely not a traditional Mexican quesadilla. They were more like taco dorados/fried tacos with lettuce, cream and more cheese on top when served. My husband also got lengua tacos. He did think they were cooked good but nothing great. I am not ready to ready to never come back nor recommend. Probably will try a couple more items and see how this place pans out.

During my breaded chicken torta hop, thought I'd dine in to try La Sirenita's. Although $9.53 was a bit pricier than the average, the quality was also better than average. Their "aguas de frutas naturales" (fruit juices) are reasonable value at $5 for a small pitcher equivalent to about a couple glasses; I had the cantaloupe one which tasted fresh like blender made. I wouldn't necessarily be like a diehard regular since there are few other places who make better and cheaper torta. But I can see myself dropping in time to time to try their other items. Previously, I thought their burrito was a little better value than Chipotle.

Online y en la puerta dicen que están abiertos asta las 10pm, llegamos a las 8:40pm y no nos quisieron atender porque cerraban a las 9pm.

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Best Al Pastor tacos in Hyattsville! I looked a while for a good place that has authentic tacos. They don't skimp on the meat either. I wish the tortillas were a bit smaller but it's okay. The whole meal is great

I'm looking for a Mexican restaurant that will help me leave the kitchen. I cook Mexican. I am Mexican. While a lot of the food here is somewhat home made... It's a place that also has the potential to be better. If you've never had fresh home cooked Mexican food... Like a fresh off the stove hot corn tortilla with melted butter and salt... or wrapped around a hot crunchy slice of bacon? Pow! Yum! Well, then this place is...meh. The Chiles Rellenos suffered from cheap waxy cheese. If they upped the quality of ingredients here... even put a cheese blend and experimented with cheese flavors, their version of the dish, would be stellar. The Enchiladas, De Mole y Pollo, were dry and the tortillas were a bit tough. Flavor was good. Tacos Mexicanos, clearly they are using pre-packaged tortillas as they doubled up on the tortillas to hold the meat. Not the best. The meat - carnitas and chorizo - were flavorful. The Tamale, rojos de puerco, was so00OO dry!! Really?? The flavor was decent and the meat filler was sparse and dry as well. Clearly, traditionally wrapped and traditional size overall. Disappointment. The Flan was home made. Extra points for that! A bit overcooked. I'll take overcooked and homemade, over pre-packaged any day. Yum. The various salsas are flavorful and have a great heat to them. Would love to see more traditional veggie options in the menu like cactus tacos! or Elotes! Or Gorditas with cactus and green chili... etc. There are so many unique Mexican dishes that would be great to add to the menu. For a Mexican place so close to a huge Latin population, I thought they'd put better ingredients, more unique offerings and time into their food. Overall, this place has the possibility of being amazing. Right now, it's ok. Not enough for me to leave my tortilla press in the cupboard, though.

Oh. My. Gosh. I have been looking for tostadas/tostados EVERYWHERE since my birthday trip to LA. I have searched high & low and even when I though I found them they were disgusting and nowhere close to it or some type of Latin "fusion" to it. UNTIL I came across this place, La Sirenita, I had lost my faith in finding them! Thank you, thank you thank you for having them on your menu and authentic! I ordered 4 of them with a side of salsa and roja. I also ordered chicken tacos too. I've added this place to my favs. just because of the tostadas. Bless you!

Sometimes you need to go out of your way to discover a hidden gem. This area is abundant with Mexican, Salvadorian and taquerias places. My friend discovered this place thanks to The Washingtonian's 'Cheap Eats" edition. Cheap it is, but authentically delicious too. I am a creature of habit, so a cheese quesadilla did it for me. $3.50 for a small, but filling Mexican cheese meal is two thumbs up in my book. It doesn't come with anything for that price, but a decent-sized side of guacamole is only $3.50. Add that and some of the complimentary salsa and you've got the perfect, spicy blend of perfection. My friend cleaned his plate like a good boy. He had a platter of chicken enchiladas in a mole sauce with rice and beans. It was quite filling for only $9.00. The chips and salsa were good, but I like my chips thinner and saltier. I can't complain about free food though. Try their horchata; almond milk flavored with cinnamon ($1.50). It is refreshing and completes the meal. If the locals flock to this place (I think we were the only ones speaking English on our visit.), then you know it must be good.

Still the great original Mexican food! Still good tacos, original Mexican soups and other dishes. Also they renovated the walls and the place looks Cleaner!

Excellent hidden Mexican restaurant in an oft overlooked part of the DC metro. We came by after a morning of shooting trap at PG Trap and Skeet and were pleased to find this place bustling (but with a table that could fit all 6 of us!), with a live mariachi band playing. We hunkered down for well over an hour and soaked in the music and leisurely atmosphere. Crowd favorites were the Coronas, lengua tacos (though all tacos were excellent), deep fried shrimps, the tostadas, the guacamole, and the shrimp cocktail. Everything was super reasonable, fresh, and oh so tasty. Definitely worth a visit if you're remotely in the area or craving authentic Mexican food.

This review is for CRAWFISH & CRAWFISH alone. Best musings in town, covered in Butter. You can tell them apart from the rest just from a photo.

They make the best tacos thus far, so good and flavorful. Also got some kind of an egg platter. Like most Mexican joints.. certain dishes on the menu were unavailable. Regardless the tasty food made up for it!

I adore this place! Although I was the only non-Hispanic person in the place, the cashier and workers made me feel welcomed. My Spanish is extremely basic, but I can see that this place has a family vibe. There were tables of families dining and laughing and having a great time. After looking over the menu, I noticed that there was a wide variety of seafood items. I don't like seafood but my SO and sister loves it, so this may be a new spot for us. Instead of dining in, I ordered take out. My SO got three beef tacos and I ordered three simple tostados and a quesadilla. It didn't take long for the order. When I got home the food was still warm. The food was awesome and the green salsa was spicy and delicious. The beans were seasoned perfectly. I'm almost scared to ask what was the seasoning (please don't be flavored with meat). I think I found a solid place for those rides home after work.

Tacos here are the order of the day. Again, this dish made the authentic way will dispel one's notion of what it is. They arrive with a double layer of fresh and soft tortilla tasting recently made and exuding its corn-goodness much like ground hominy. The filling is made with marinated chunks of meat, not the usual ground meat, cooked on the flat grill and nearly greaseless but tasting savory. Here, these wraps are served with some limes and topped with a generous amount of sweet onion and green onions and cilantro - that simple. Maybe a touch of the fiery red chili or green chili sauces would be the additional dressing, but not the slathering of salsa that we are accustomed to. The pork and chicken versions hit the spot for my BFF who loves their rendition here and makes it a point to join my group when we visit here. Other versions made with barbecued goat, Barbacoa, and cow's tongue, Lengua, are indicative of the level of authenticity one finds here. I quite enjoy the slight gaminess and chewy texture of my order made with tongue despite it being a bit fattier than the usual cuts. To read rest of review and view photos, check out my blog at Wongeats.

I always went to the taqueria, La Placita, up the street but figure I'd try this place since I recently read about it while looking for something new. You walk in, and you immediately notice the loud corridos, banda, and other Mexican music. Good sign. The lady let us seat ourselves and then brought us chips & salsa. The hardest part of the visit was trying to pick what we want. This was more than a taqueria and had many dishes. The menu was in Spanish & English, and there are pictures. The waitress was also quite helpful with questions that my Korean friend had. I kicked the Español, but my friend had no problems communicating with the waitress. One patron recommended we get tacos and the melon juice. To drink, I ordered horchata, and he ordered the melon juice. They came out in small pitchers with a straw. We both enjoy our drinks. He ordered a cóctel de camarón (shrimp cocktail) after I explained that Mexican style is so different than what he's had in the past. He also ordered taco with every kind of meat and tostadas. I ordered chilaquiles with fried eggs and bistec (thin steak). We both thoroughly enjoyed our food. This was his 1st time eating real Mexican food, so he didn't have anything to compare it to, but I grew up with it whether it was in different places in Mexico, California, Texas, and Illinois, specifically Chicago where Mexican food can actually be better than places in Mexico. This is now my favorite place for Mexican food in the DMV. I was so happy eating this food, the environment was what I've always experienced with the loud music, TVs with novelas & soccer, a table with happy drunks (at 11AM), and the nice people from the patrons to the wait staff. Before posting I read a lot of reviews on the bad service here, but that never entered our minds. In fact, it was the opposite. The frosting to this wonderful cake was when a mariachi band came in and started playing. I was in bliss. I loved it. I will return. Over & over. Sidenote - It turns out that one of the patrons that I was talking to is the owner of La Placita, and his wife is the owner of this place. Way cool! Chips - Normal-tasting. Not greasy. Salsa - Little kick, good flavor. Horchata - Normal flavor. Nothing special except that it's in a mini-pitcher. The drink brought a smile to my face. Jugo fresco de melón - I'm not a fan of melon, but even I liked it. Cóctel de camarón (shrimp cocktail) - Small order was not small. Full of shrimp, avocado, and the liquid was delicious, almost creamy. Served with saltine crackers on the side. Tostadas - 2 in an order. I didn't try this, but it looked how they should look. Friend liked them and finished every crumb. Tacos - The tortillas tasted handmade. We had tacos de chorizo (Mexican sausage), barbacoa (goat), lengua (tongue), al pastor (shaved beef), y bistec (steak). I like La Placita better, but that's a taqueria, and that's almost all they do, but these are still very good. Chilaquiles - You have a choice vèrde (green) or rojo (red). You can also choose to have it plain or with chicken or steak and the option to add eggs. Mine was rojo con huevos, queso y bistec. The red sauce had some heat, though it may be much for those who cannot take spicy food well. Breaking the egg yolk, mixing it with the rest of the tortilla chips, cheese, sauce, and cutting a piece of the steak to balance everything into your mouth brought me back many years ago to the last time I had wonderful, authentic Mexican food. I sat there and enjoyed it. The steak was a little rubbery and not juicy at all. It is actually somewhat expected so I didn't mind, but to make it perfect would be a better piece of beef. I will order this dish again, but I won't get the bistec. The dish is so good that it stands on its own.

This place is a hidden gem . It's a definition of an authentic Mexican restaurant. The food was great! Prices are reasonable for the portion. We came right on time for the live mariachi. Couldn't ask for anymore, Looking forward to coming back !

I ordered to go the 1st time there years ago not bad, then I ate there twice service is slow, they never ask you about how the food is and never prebus the table. If you want to order horchata avoid it from here is like drinking water with sugar and a little of food coloring. Prices go well with the portions and my lady's meal was not even room temperature. I live in the middle of Mexican restaurants and for Mexican food I go to this tiny spot in DC by Adams Morgan waaay different. I tried their salsa Roja chilaquiles meh no flavor just extra spicy no point even though I eat spicy... that's all.

I have eaten here every bit of 20 times. Always great (except the rice) classics like burritos, or a bit more of a hardy meal like camarones a la plancha or mojarra frita. You know its good when most of the patrons are hispanic.

Just had a great breakfast here of menudo. This place is hard to see from the road but the food and salsa are amazing. I'm from Texas and have been craving menudo for a while. This place hit the spot at every level. Te staff are friendly and have authentic Mexican hospitality you find in Texas and Mexico. I recommend this place if your craving that mex fix that the places in the big towns can't match.

Delicious authentic Mexican food with live mariachi and by authentic I mean if you ask for anything spicy your mouth will be on fire and you get Big portions for a reasonable price. Everything is under $15. I suggest the jugo de Jamaica

My boyfriend heard about this place from one of his Hispanic co-workers so of course, it had to be authentic cuisine right? CORRECT! I've recently moved to this area and there are a plethora of Hispanic and Jamaican restaurants to choose from (being Jamaican, I've tested and decided) but with no native tongue for true Hispanic cuisine, we didn't know which restaurant to visit. La Sirenita was the best! We walked in to order, which was easy since every item on the menu had an accompanying picture and English translation. The prices were also very reasonable. We ordered a variety of tacos, quesadilla, dinner platters, seafood - all coming to under $40. The wait was about 20 minutes, but they have pick-up or eat-in options available. This didn't matter because you can see into the kitchen, which they make authentic meals from scratch (I mean, the beef taco wasn't Taco Bell's mystery meat or ground beef, it was real steak strips). The taste of everything was SO GOOD! And I had food left over. If you're in this area looking for REAL Spanish food, this is the place to go. Just be wary of the parking, it's never any spots - but there are sidewalk parking directly across the street which isn't illegal :)

I love this place! I have tried mostly everything on the menu and everything is so fulfilling! But my usual and favorite dishes are the mojaras, coctel de camaron, huaraches and with a Michelada on the side. This is one of two places (that I have found)where you can find the most authentic Mexican food in the DMV. AND the prices are more than reasonable. I would only suggest that they train their waitresses better because after given your food, they rarely come back to check on you.

As a California transplant, I can't tell you how disappointing Mexican food is in the DC area. There are many Tex-Mex options, some are decent, most are bad but it simply isn't the same food. This place is Mexico. The tacos al pastor are to die for. The guaraches are the best dish in the place. Don't go expecting fine dining or great service but the food has no comparison. Whenever people from California or Texas visit, I take them here otherwise I would probably get laughed at.

Ay ay ayyyyy where to start? Maybe with the fact that I am Mexican (as in I grew up there Mexican not second generation). You probably don't care but that (in my view) put my review in perspective. Anyhow, I've been looking for Mexican places since I moved to DC and so far I've been sticking with Taco Bar in Gaithersburg. A friend of mine said "La Sirenita" was better than Taco Bar so I ventured out to PG County to try. As others have pointed out, yes that area is filled with Mexican taco places. I had high hopes (maybe that was also a problem). I should have known better when I saw the food was served on red plates with Chinese characters (the type that are used in cheap Chinese restaurants in Mexico). Why would anyone serve Mexican food on Chinese plates? I let it go. I first ordered an horchata and an agua de jamaica (hibiscus) for my brave, sweet, and kind companion. I was embarrassed when the lady brings out our drinks in PITCHERS! Yes, they don't serve it in glasses, they serve it in pitchers. This is NOT a Mexican thing. Mexicans don't drink out of pitchers, buckets, or anything similar. We are normal folk. We use regular glassware. I wondered why they would serve us in a pitcher (with a straw in it and all - so it is not like they forgot the glass). Perhaps they don't want to be bothered with refills? I won't speculate because it doesn't matter. I don't like that practice. The horchata was decent but the jamaica was not good at all. By this time, I realized this place was a little weird for MY taste so I canceled my order and ordered 3 steak tacos instead. I figured I could not go wrong with tacos. Wrong. The carne asada is fried in oil so the tacos come out all greasy. Its ok they are just served with meat and tortilla so they were eatable. We also ordered seafood soup. Ughhh that soup had potato and some purposeless shell fish. Oh and the stench! You would need a lot of lemon to be able to eat that. We tried but ended up leaving 7/8 of the soup intact. I asked where the owners where from and they said Oaxaca so I realized the food would be different from northern cuisine but still that was a lame excuse. Oaxacan food should be much better than that. I can go on and on but I suggest you look at the pictures I uploaded, take my review with a grain of salt, and do your thing. Or if you really want my opinion, save yourself the trip to Hyatsville and drive to Taco Bar in Gaithersburg instead (authentic home-style Mexican food, much cheaper and way cleaner).

Love love love their tamales and their salsa is great too !!! great food and overall good prices

I get it, I know it's hard to find decent mexican food in this area. I mean, I know this is not California or Texas, but that does not make this place a 4 or 5 stars restaurant just because of the lack of options. This is by far the worst mexican food restaurant in the whole metropolitan area. Everything we tried was poorly made, bland, just spicy and pricey for no plausible reason. I had to send back a tripe soup because it tasted like boiled, spicy tripe with no flavor at all. This is a rough latino neighborhood, still, Los Tres Reyes, just a few blocks away, offers far better food in a much smaller, almost claustrophobic mexican food joint. Poor management is written all over the place in La Sirenita...

This was the first time we tried this restaurant. My parents actually recommended it because of Yelp. We parked. We looked at each other because it doesn't look much from the outside. As soon as we walked in everyone was very pleasant, saying "hello" and "welcome". We sat down and were amazed by the prices! The week before, my boyfriend and I had dinner for $99, with tip! Here, the average was $9 per plate. Beers were $3!! Amazing! The chips and salsa were great. Just as a heads up, the salsa is really spicy, just the way we like it. They were showing novelas on their TVs, which was fun. :) So we order the food, I get carne asada and my boyfriend gets pollo millanesa (if I remember correctly.) We always have a contest on who has the better dish and I SO won this time. :) His was good, just not a lot of flavor in the chicken. The portion size was just right. When we walked in there were two other tables. By the time we order our dinner, they place was almost packed. The server was ok, not very attentive. But everyone else was nice. So with a grand total of $36, not including tip, this was a GREAT place! Cheap eats for great food! I recommend it to everyone! I'm glad it's pretty close to my house, because we'll definitely be back.

Great food! I had the chorizo, chicken and steak tacos and the chorizo was the BEST!!! My coworker had the chicken and beef tostadas. The shredded chicken on the tostada was very dry(not the same used on the tacos), so I wouldn't recommend the chicken tostadas. The beef tostada was my favorite thing of the entire meal. Both the green and red salsas are flavorful!

Horrible service! The food was ok but the service was the worse I ever experience! There was a curly back hair in my taco and when the server Viviana came around to my table it was 30min later I showed here and she didn't even flinch! She even put it on my bill! I asked her to split my bill and fix it and she got mad called me "entupida" and Walker to the kitchen! Unacceptable will never go back they need to fire her with her nasty attitude

my favorite place. it can be very crowded!! hence, its the go-to for some bomb-ass tacos. but love my experiences going here for who-knows-how-many years.

Tacos: 5 stars. Tried the lengua, barbacoa (goat), and carne enchilada (spiced pork). All were excellent, but I was especially impressed with the carne enchilada. Rice: 4 stars--traditional pan-fried yellow mexican rice, but with some nice additions such as green beans and corn (though this was a bit sparse). Beans: 5 stars--soupy pinto beans, only lightly mashed, just like I like them. Service: 3 stars. My friend ordered a red enchilada with just cheese. Came with chicken. The waitress was the one who suggested skipping on the chicken. Ordered was not conveyed. I ordered a second coke twice and it never arrived. Other: having lived in el barrio for many years, I was very impressed with the restrooms, complete with an automatic towel dispenser, and stocked handsoap. Very clean and nice. I wish my Houston joints and my spots in Sunset Park, Brooklyn took pride like this in their facilities. Pricing: at 2.75, this is a little much, though these are bigger than street taquitos. I don't like paying more than 2 bucks for a taco, but I am very cheap. Some of the best tacos in the US are really cheap, like Tacos El Bronco in Brooklyn, NY. Takeaway: Good, fresh, moist taco meat done just right. I stand by these tacos. I think they know what they are doing. And yes, they do serve lots of beer, including buckets (cubetazos) and margaritas for 6.50.

the food is great and people is OK the only thing I don't like is the musicians all over your business you're trying to eat in there and they are trying to play music in your face. I went there with my wife and it was very uncomfortable to eat. This is the kind of restaurant that you can probably can chill with your friends but never take your mother or your wife there.

Ok I found another joint the tacos are good and they serve drinks I'm in heaven this is my goto spot I found home lol

! ! Fucking bad services pluss they add the tips to ours $62 bill the only good things were the food and the beers !!

Different waitress this time, but same friendly, fast service. The posole is great and comes in a bowl big enough for 4! Guacamole is a good portion for the price, and made to order. A bit salty for my taste. Lost a star becasue of the ceviche tostada. It had krab stic in it. Boo!

If non hispanic dont bother! Im filipino so i can pass. Service for non hispanics is AWEFUL! Seafood soup was ok, didnt taste fresh. May return to try something else. Maybe...

I must take issue with the poor reviews posted. Although I speak no Spanish and have spent only lazy Cancun vacations anywhere near Latin America... This place serves up an incredible, authentic lunch - real tacos and amazing burritos, all for incredible prices. Yes, the music is too loud, the other patrons are surly construction working guys, and the table 'cloths' are plastic and stick to your elbows... the food and the service are amazing. I will go back any chance I get.

Wow.. the Tacos are REAL tacos.. I especially like the Chorizo and the Goat tacos.. Great starters. The rice and beans are delicious sides. I've tried many things on the menu so its hard to identify what I really like. The Enchiladas Verde are terrific but spicy.. beware. Family and homey with all the locals coming in to watch their favorite soccer match on!

Always check your to go order for accuracy before leaving the establishment. The Tacos were great better than the other taco restaurants that specialize in tacos (IMHO). Mexican quesadillas were delicious but it is fried. The pork soup (posole) was not that good it was lacking flavor but still edible. My husband tried the burrito and he also enjoyed it albeit his stomach was not particularly happy the next morning. So if you are adventurous and want to try somewhat authentic Mexican cuisine go for it but be careful if you are not accustomed to different "ingredients" in your food.

Yes siree Bob! this food is authentic. I was craving some tamales, which is rare, and the Mexican Food God answered my prayers. I got chicken tamales in green sauce and they were delicious. So delicious that I came back the next day and got 5 more- for lunch... for the week. LOL! My sister got a carne asada and a chicken taco. She said the beef was a little salty but that it was good. My mom got a shrimp dinner- I had some of her rice and beans and they were delicious. I will definitely be back!!!

Place is small and music is loud. Really loud. This is authentic Mexican food. I got the beef tacos. Nothing too fancy. Great taste and fast. Can't beat the price either.

Our latest foray into Little Mexico came up with a mixed bag of results. My mini dining posse (Carlos and Steven) and I arrived just after 7PM to find the restaurant close to empty, just two other tables. Still the jukebox was turned all the way up, and as we ate the restaurant steadily filled with local families until, by the time we left it was nearly full. The decor is quaint inside, with red chairs and matching vinyl tablecloths. The obligatory strings of Oaxacan cut-out placemats hang from the ceiling. Of all of the Little Mexico joints we've been to, it is by far the nicest in appearance. Chips came, along with the house salsa, which I loved, but Steve and Carlos found to be TOO SPICY. Good sturdy chips that held up well to the house made guacamole, which ranks among one of the best guacamoles I've ever tasted. Here's the rundown of food eaten: Chile Rellenos: Outstanding! Poblanos stuffed with Queso Fresco, ultra thin batter and a delightful red sauce. High Marks. Bistec Encebolledo: Good. Blanket thin marinated steak with sauteed onions. The steak needed more marinating and the onions needed more time in the pan. Carnitas Taco: Outstanding! Tender chunks of pork, rich flavor topped solely with chopped onion and cilantro. Chicken Tamale: Poor. Dry corn masa and wimpy chicken filling. I had to drown it in frijoles to add make it palatable. Ceviche Tostada: Fair. Ultimately a successful dish, but not what I really like. More of a seafood cocktail, with chunks of squid, shrimp, and crab in a lightly spicy tomato sauce over a crispy corn tortilla. They used fake crab stick. Eeek. I guess I shouldn't complain when you consider that it was only $3.50, but I would have gladly paid more for a better product. Corn Tortillas: Fair: Compared to El Tapatio's homemade tortillas, these were no match. Factory made and rather dry and chewy. Rice and Beans: Fair. Bland, bland, bland. They weren't afraid to use salt on other items, I don't know why they missed it here. Service was friendly but spotty. It's good to know a little Spanish here as La Sirenita is really a FMBM restaurant (you know... For Mexicans, By Mexicans). We gringos are certainly welcome and non-Mexicans will not feel uncomfortable. Portions are HUGE. Prices are CHEAP. $32 for the three of us. The menu is extensive and we sampled just a small portion of what they have to offer. We will definitely return to try our luck again.

Horrible Service!!! They dont like serving black people. I walk in, they come look at me, and then walk back in the kitchen. I wait for 5 min to place my order and still nobody greets me. I thought that maybe they were busy doing something, so I look in the back, and half of the people back there are playing on their cell phones. If Donald Trump does become president, i hope he sends I.C.E their first.

The service was horrible, and the quality of the food awful. The place looks very dated, and not welcoming.