On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina

My husband and I had just come back in town from a week long trip and we were starving. We heard that On The Border had endless tacos for $10.99-13.99 so we decided to try it out. The hostess greeted us with a smile and waitress, Kelly, was very hospitable. We explained how this was our first meal since coming back in town and, without us asking, she put a rush on our order so we could eat sooner.

The food was great and Kelly took great care of us. We will definitely be back soon!

I came here on hearing the promo of endless tacos for $9.99 on National Taco Day.

I couldn't find any gluttons to accompany me so I went solo around 8pm to avoid the rush also. I have only been here less than 10x in the 15 years living in Natomas
Just rarely came here. $9.99 endless enchiladas I have tried before too.

Upon parking in the Del Taco lot cuz breakins in the lot by the eatery has been regular of late, I approached the entry. Some dude pops out and told me the tacos are shit! He said Del Taco was better. I said really? He seemed quite preturbed. I heard later he was in and upset about the wait or such.

So I head in and there was a 10 minute wait for a booth and zero wait for a table on the floor. I took a table for zippo wait.

Cool western decor (see my pics). H20 was brought to me and chips and salsa. She told me my waitress would be coming. I dug in. Chips are wafer thin and big. Too big almost. Salsa was light and smoky. Yummy. Both passed the taste test!

Waitress Tiffany came and intro'd herself. I told her I had a free queso Yelp checkin. I got the Endless Tacos but for $2 more you get brisket and southwestern chicken choices in addition to ground beef and chicken tinga tacos. She checked back often. We chatted like bros. Tiffany is a BOMB waitress. Up there in my top 100!

She got my queso. More water. More chips and salsa. Only thing, not on her is the 1st order of 2 tacos took like 15 minutes. Way too long. But I think the place does that for cost control.

Brisket: ehh. Ok but dry and not tasting like real brisket. Shredded meat.

Southwestern: ok also. Some nacho cheese sauce on it. Meh.

Chicken tinga: average and alright.

Ground beef: now I like this bad boy! Prob cuz it has much more flavor and oily meat. Haha. Best is the most common taco.

I had plans to eat 10-12. I did 8. What hurt me was that they cram a bunch of fried onion strings on top. On my last 2 I stripped them all out. Who puts onion straws on a taco? A non-authentic Mexican place that's who. Also to fill you up no doubt.

Regrets: minor but I would not need to add $2 for the brisket and Southwestern choices. The $9.99 for the ground beef and chicken tinga more than worked.

Tiffany was the highlight. She checked up on me, came ready to take more taco orders, she was pleasant, friendly and fun. I think Chevy's has better non-authentic Mex but I do have to try other menu options and see. The food wasn't great but my server was so I will definitely return just to try other items and request Tiffany. If she is your server when you visit, you will be more than taken care of. 100%.

I was definitely on the border about coming back here...

This used to be a place that I would frequent with friends on a regular basis, and hadn't been here for awhile.

Since it was girls night, we decided to go to On The Border for happy hour before we went to see a movie.

I arrived a tad earlier to grab enough tables for us. The place was empty, so seating shouldn't be an issue. The seating hostess was confused if they offered happy hour after I asked if the seating was limited to the bar area., and she had to go ask if they even offered happy hour. She followed that up with " Ive worked here for a long time, and didn't know we had happy hour". Okay, then.

Diners tip-with Yelp check in, you'll receive a free queso dip. The dip is pretty tasty.

The happy hour "menu" is on a printed table top card, and it's nothing special. The deals are rather limited.

The waitress was unfriendly, and for a place that wasnt crowded, she barely made contact with our table. In fact, she would speed walk by the tables as if she was in s hurry.

We all ordered different tacos, and they weren't anything special. My brisket taco was stringy beef with cold fried onions on top. The tortilla was cold. $4.00 for one taco, and s cold one on top of that, does not s happy hour make. Most everyone picked through their food, but no one raved about any of it. That includes the drinks.

I gave the waitress a generous tip, in hopes it would help her disposition. I don't plan on going back anytime soon. There are far too many other places in town that offer great happy hour drinks and food.

Typically we have a great experience at our Favorite Mexican Restaurant, but unfortunately this time we had a bad experience. The manager on shift tonight (5pm on 11/24) did not honor a coupon that we found on Retail Me Not. We have used coupons here before without any issues but Heidi, the manager, would not permit us to use coupon. I used the Retail Me Not App hundreds of times before without any issues. I am posting a picture of the coupon she would not honor. It was very disappointing.

2/26/2020

We were actually done with eating at On the Border because the manager never followed through on our last yelp review but tonight Jessica blew our experience out of the park!!! She always delivers phenomenal customer service and works hard to keep her customers happy. The management team at On the Border owes you big for doing service recovery with us. We hope to come back soon and dine with Jessica again!!!

Fast service, friendly workers, and solid food. I recommend coming here on the weekdays between 3-6 for their happy hour menu. Discounts on beers, pitchers, and shots, along with a portion of finger foods and appetizers. Very nice feel in the restaurant. Great for bigger parties if you want to have drinks and watch sports games. Outside patio is nice as well, during the warmer season. Try their signature queso bowl. Along with their OTB mixed drink. If you can't decide on what to order, their border sampler allows you a taste of chicken quesadillas, steak nachos, and chicken flautas. served with guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo and original queso as well. Come hungry and you'll leave stuffed.

I've been to this location many many times since they've first started opening here in Natomas. It's always a hit and miss with their service. Some days I get great service and some days, not so great.

This will be my first review for them.

I came here for lunch, just before noon. The place was pretty empty. We were seated right away. Our waitress came and took our order right away, but we were still deciding on what to eat. So, we had asked for water while we waited. As we were munching on the AYCE chip and salsa, the thirst kicked in. As I looked over to see where our waitress was with our water, to no available. A few minutes had passed. Usually, your drinks gets to the table pretty fast, but to wait almost 10 minutes for my water was kind of ridiculous!

So finally our waitress shows up to take our order, but before we started, I had asked where our water was, she of course looked baffled with no apologies as to why our water had not shown up to our table. So after she took our order, she went and retrieve our water.

I had ordered their border bowl with steak. I was not impressed. The steak was chewy, not much flavor to it. I've got this tiny bowl with beans, mostly lettuce and red and green peppers in it for $11! I could of got bigger portions at Chipotle and better tasting steak for less!

Mostly, I'd enjoyed the AYCE chip and salsa, that was the highlight of the day.

One of our favorite places and definitely top place for out of town guests.
always busy, always good food.
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I received a gift card at Christmas so I figured let's try a new place out. Came in for dinner on a Monday night. We were seated right away figured out what we wanted to drink and eat then just sat there. Our original server either didn't notice we were there or just ignored us. After 15 min I went to the hostess and asked who our server was. The manager come over gave us a free queso dip and assigned a new server to us. Raeshon completely turned the experience around for us. We told him we were trying to catch a movie and he had our orders taken, drinks out, food served, and we were ready to go within 10 min.

The food was good and if Raeshon is our server I would totally come back.

Loved the food, and my wife loved the margaritas and food. Ok our priorities differ, but no complaints on the food, very flavorful, place fills up fast.
You know its good when you look at the menu for your next time i

Not my choice first of all. Graduation dinner and I was a guest of 10+. Going with the flow. Yes, chips and salsa brought as soon as we were seated. Ordered queso and guac. That was brought eventually, but with no chips and we had already burned thru the prior baskets. By the time we had to ask for Chips the queso was cold and stiffened breaking the chip. They brought a fresh hot cup of queso after I brought it up their attention.
Food was eaten. Nothing special.

Prickly Pear Margarita supposed to be top shelf, but tasted more like a lemonade. Tequila fail
Just never liked anything about this place
In general. Thanks for reminding me why I don't Patron here