Los Baez Mexican Restaurant
2920 Commercial St SE, 97302-4552 - Salem
Mexican
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Phone:
+1 503-363-3109
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https://www.facebook.com/LosBaezCommercial/
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Address:
2920 Commercial St SE, Salem
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Google Reviews (8)
*Semi-Recommended*
The food is good, service is fast but the amounts are small.
When they say a scoop of rice and scoop of beans, think of 1 ice cream scoop size for the 2$ - 4$ for the rice and beans serving sizes.
Enchiladas sauce is good but sort of tasteless, serving size of the enchilada was decent, if you have a big stomach you might need 2-3 enchiladas just to be full.
Enchilada sauce is like a broth that was thickened with flour.
Customer service:
Its ok could use some work, a little rushy type of service and needs a little more work on taking orders.
Parking lot: easly accessible.
Male Bathroom: old, dirty and door to the toilet can close but does not line up to be able to be locked.
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Oh boy, so much food for their lunch special at such a good price. Pork burrito and came with lettuce and tomato with rice & beans. An extra tortilla to build another from the left overs, and of course, chips and salsa while I waited...which wasn't long at all.
You can tell lots of love went into this and so much from scratch, you can't go wrong. Plenty of dining space inside, wonderful atmosphere and very friendly. I still can't belive they've been here over 45 years, go down and show some love to this hard working family.
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Always friendly and welcoming. Enjoyed the Angel dip and a bottled beer while I killed some time. I was checked on often and surprised to see my bill was under $10 total! Still somewhere that is reasonably priced!
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Really good tortillas that they make in the kitchen. Tortillas are the reason we go to Los Baez. Having lunch was covid safe. The server was fast and friendly and pretty.
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Had been years since I ate here. Food used to be great but it has seemingly radically changed It tears at me to leave this review of los Baez because I do know the owners, but a friendly smile isn't what I'm eating.
Bottom line:The dinner I had tonight was simply bad
I ordered $60+ of food last night that was perhaps the worst restaurant food I've eaten in recent memory..
Quality has simply fallen off a cliff.
Poor quality, skimping in everything, clumpy chunky rice, dried out beans, lacking cheese, missing onions, and stale lettuce. That was just my chimichanga.
All 4 dishes were equally off..
Food seemed as if it came off a warmer at a low quality Mexican buffet.
Normally I'd give a place a one day pass and chalk it up to a off day but this was such a lousy meal I won't be back..
Frankly it felt as if I donated $60 as we chucked most of the food and our family ended up cooking at home instead.
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Ordered 2 fish tacos, a shrimp taco, chile relleno and a bottled coke. Server quickly asked me if I was sure I want to do that because it's very expensive to order alacarte. I asked him how much per taco and he says everything is $8 a piece including the chile relleno. I said you're right that is expensive, but how good are the fish tacos? I then asked is it homemade, do you fry the fish and batter it here? He replied yes everything is made here and we batter the fish. I then said OK well if that's the case I'll go ahead and order exactly the way I did. So the plate arrives and I instantly knew that he was so full of it.. The tortillas are not homemade they are storebought and the fish is obviously battered frozen prepackaged fish. All they did was drop it in the fryer. I waited for the server to reappear and pointed at the fish and said there's no way that is battered here and he replied yes it's battered here. I then informed him that I was a culinary expert with 2 decades of professional experience. He then replies well I'm not a chef.
Fraud is a big thing. I cannot let this one go. You can't claim your making stuff from scratch and hand battering your fish when you are not. This is something the Department of Justice definitely needs to hear about.
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Can I please leave 10 stars!! Amazing food and service!! This is the best Mexican food around and it seems like it keeps getting better!!
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5/24 Initial review:
Honestly, this was a bittersweet experience, being my closest Mexican place and first time. Both of our different meals were very “soupy,” and the sauces had a clear taste of chicken broth. Gross! And the chips were definitely stale. The drinks were great, though, as was the service. After, I felt like they were trying hard with the service to make up for the food quality. I assume this is because of COVID difficulties, so I’d consider coming back. Still, I might want to see a new chef in the kitchen or new management. I love Mexican food, and this was terrible! Please fix it!
6/30 Update:
Well, I’m sad to confirm, again, that this food is gross! Chicken broth! Seriously, who puts chicken broth on every dish at a Mexican restaurant?! This place adds some kind of soupy sauce to their dishes, and it doesn’t seem to matter which one you get, and it tastes and smells strongly of chicken broth. I’d go here for some A/C, drinks and chips, but definitely nothing else.
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