They finally reopened on airline. Spouse and I had the bacon wrapped, meat stuffed with cheese jalapeño, then whole red snapper, scallops and rice with house margaritas. All were excellent. Wife said restrooms where top notch. Pricing was better than we expected from other heights places especially with our drinks.
Excellent seafood! Great fried green plantains with creamy avocado dip.
The seafood here is PREMIUM! Not crazy expensive either. The flavors are amazing, so much spices. The place is a good size, the upper lever is being fixed so it hasn't been open but they typically have tons of space. The waitress are very attentive to your needs. Drinks are good here too.
My husband & I have been eating at Tampico's for over 20 years & last night was our first disturbing experience. Our waitress spoke little to no English & kept interpreting my husband's order wrong to the point that another (English speaking) waitress stepped in & told our waitress what he wanted. She left then came back asking him yet again what did he want. When his meal was brought out it was still wrong! The 2nd waitress intercepted my husband headed over to speak the owner & apologized profusely & about 10 minutes later brought his food out. The rest of the evening both waitresses apologized so many times it was borderline harassment. Easy solution: make sure wait staff interacting with customers speak enough English to understand food orders. NOTE: 95% of customers last night were English speaking, non Hispanics.
My family and I have been coming here for over 15 years!! We drive from the southeast of Houston to the northside! This place has amazing shrimp and fish fillet! They make the cocktail shrimp with this amazing sauce. I’ve tried other places and it’s not as good as the one they use here.
Some of the waitresses are on point but there’s been times that we don’t get good customer service like not refilling our drinks or taking too long to check if we need anything but other than that this is our go to place for seafood.
We have been dining here for nearly twenty years and Tampico on Airline never disappoints. The snapper a la plancha was super fresh along shrimp and scallops. We tried crab legs for first time which were also very fresh and flavorful. I highly recommend this local Houston gem
If you love French fries, you will be surprised when you try them at this restaurant, they are super tasty! I love the fried fish here. Shrimp cocktail is actually very good as well.
Delicious food! Best vuelve la vida. Snapper is amazing along with tilapia chciharon
Got the jumbo shrimp and scallops combo to go. The food was very tasty; the seafood was good. For my combo I chose fried rice, and it also came with a little salad, and bread, too. When I got here, there were 2 buildings with Tampico signs on them, but then with the help of a man directing traffic in the parking lot I found my way to the right location. Good meal!
I can’t wait to go back to visit Houston just for this restaurant! I am still dreaming of that fish. This is a must try restaurant!
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