El Azteca

We live in the Twin Cities and always stop here for lunch or dinner whenever we‘re driving through on Hwy 35. Now our daughter will be attending Iowa State this fall and I have 4 years of visiting my daughter and El Azteca to look forward to! Yummmm!

This place not only has very friendly staffs, they have delicious food in cheap price. From the chip and Salsa to your meal, which is generous big portion. It‘s cheaper to eat at weekday lunch, but even for weekend and dinner, it is reasonable price, too.

This place is so good! The food comes out fast and hot and they have always been attentive to the kids. We love coming here!

I won‘t eat at another Mexican restaurant in Ames. By far the best in town with great food, prices, and staff. Better than La Fuente!

This is the best mexican restaurant in Ames no doubt about it. Great pirces, awesome food, chips are always warm and the salsa has great flavor. Drinks are strong which is always a plus.

Easily the best Mexican food in Ames. Nice, polite staff, and very fast service. Food is great too and inexpensive. Overall a great place to go, the only Mexican place in Ames I will go to.

Good prices, fast service, good food. Easy to forget about, out on Dayton, but a very good choice if you want Mexican.

There is no doubt El Azteca is the best mexican restuarant in the Ames area. Never have had a bad experience there and talk about service, their staff are the most polite and courteous i have encountered. If you can‘t get in due to them being extremely busy well you can always go to La Fuente they are fairly decent but El Azteca is worth your wait.

Second best place to get Mexican food in Ames. Good service, decent food at fair prices.

Reasonable priced, Quick, and great Food. Never had a bad experience there.

The service, food, and atmosphere are awesome! We take our kids here and they love it. The servers do a great job at bringing out the kids‘ food first, and they make sure there is never an empty glass. The food is delicious and fresh!

This resturant is the best in Ames! My husband and I love going there. The staff is so friendly and the food is amazing! This is always our first choice if we decide to go out to eat!

My family loves going here. The food is great, and the service is excellent. The prices are very reasonable. Also, a fun atmosphere. No matter what we order, we must have at least one beef taco - they are so good. The salsa is fantastic.

Best Mexican food in town.
And yes, the monster margarita is HUGE

We were disappointed when we first moved to Ames and weren‘t able to find good Mexican food. That was until this place opened! The food is great, the wait staff is wonderful, this is definitely the place to go if you‘re looking for Mexican food in town.

This place has the best american style mexican food in Ames. The friendly owner and staff are what make this place top notch. While the combo dishes aren‘t spectacular, give their specials a shot. One of my fav‘s is the fajita burrito, if you like spicy, I dare you to try the "camarones a la diabla" (shrimp of the devil). If you like rich food, try the Chori-polo, a dish of chorizo and chicken. The margaritas are great, they added a bar last year and have put in tv‘s for watching games too. If you are looking for the authentic mexican food, Des Moines is your closest bet (try Los Laurales), but if your in Ames, I wouldn‘t eat mexican food anywhere else than here!

Good Service. Food is poor and not authentic. Soggy crispy beef tacos. Beef enchiladas drowned in cheese... no doubt to make up for the blandness of the meat. The Mexican Steak was so salty I almost had a coronary. All dishes had no true Mexican seasonings. Just salt, black pepper, some cayenne and veggies from a can. We‘re from Texas and we eat at Mexican restaurants religiously. There‘s no way the staff eats this stuff. One reviewer said he lived in Mexico and this is how the food tastes. He has to be lying (about something). I‘ve been to Mexico many times and have never had food taste like this. It has an obvious bland, side of the highway truckstop taste to it. Mexico is a big country and there are a lot of different spins on one dish. But I‘ve never been served canned jalapenos in Mexico. On a high note... the chips taste fresh and the salsa is pretty tasty. Still searching for anything that passes as "decent " Mexican food in the area.

awesome food, great service, can‘t beat the prices!! we love this place!!

This place has the best Mexican food in Ames, hands down!
Great service, great prices, big helpings.
And the Monster Margarita! what more is there to say?

Seriously one of the best mexican resturants in Ames! The people are nice and arent staring at you while you eat like some other places in town. You cant beat the prices for the amount of food you get!

I had a great experience when I went here with a group of friends. The food was delicious and the ambience was great! The prices are pretty awesome too! Its a great improvement on the restaurant that used to be here...

mmm, I got the Camarones a la Diabla last night, sooooo tasty.

I lived in Mexico for a while, and this is the sort of food I got in restaurants there. Try the Camarones Diablo if you want a spicy seafood dish at its best. Muy caliente! My son likes trying the Mexican pop. Pineapple is one of his favorites. The salsa is outstanding, and the prices here are great.

el azteca has the BEST service in town, they‘re food is inexpensive but tastes awesome, this is definately my favorite place to eat in Ames!

Best mexican in Ames! Sadly, that‘s not saying much despite the abundance of mexican eateries in this town.

When I got there I realized why no one was there at lunch time, the food sucks if you are looking for something edible

I threw up in a snow bank the first time I had a monster margarita

its the fucking best thing to happen to me!!!!! ever!!!!!!