Reviews for Santiago's Tex-Mex and Cantina in Round Rock, TX

Being myfirst time as an adult in Austin I asked for a suggestion for lunch. Not far from the car dealership I was at was... Santiago's Tex -mex and cantina. I will say the advise was well appreciated. Walking though the door the environment was livelyand on inviting. I have to give the service a 9/10 because the chips and salsa hit the table very quickly, the food showed upsupringly fast. I don't know exactly what the case was on this day, but the staff was very stiff. For the time of day I wasthere. This could be because post lunch fatigue or pre dinner rush dread, either way the staff felt almost robotic Let's talkabout the food, The sweet tea was "slap your granny because her tea is trash compared to this" good. Out of the worldeven. Every morsel of food that hit the table was delicious, hot and screams authenticity. The yellow corn chips were beyondreproach. The salsa was ture Tex -mex and came in 2 varieties red and red. Now where Santiago's fell flat was on the queso, itwas AVERAGE, I mean it's good but it's the same song and dance at every tex-mex place in the contiguous united states'. Alittle effort would of put it over the top. All and all great, quick, delicious. I give Santiago's Tex-Mex and cantina a solid8/10 would bang again. Read more

The server was polite. The food was mediocre. What will prevent me from coming back is deceptive pricing. You can?t list a... premium margarita for 15.99 with choice of tequila, list your tequila selections and not provide details of an up-charge. My15.99 margarita was billed for 25.99 on my check. When presented, I was advised I ordered a super premium margarita and that itwas an additional 10.00, though they do not advise this. I won?t be back and I won?t recommend. Read more

Great place, great service, good food. I tried the menudo to see if I was going to like it and I didn't. The other plates were... great and good flavor. Read more

The service was good, the environment was clean, the happy hour was happy, chips and salsa were superb, and the taquitos we're... good, but nothing to write home about in a little bland. This would have been a four-star review if I would have gotten a reallynice grilled pepper on the plate. Good Tex Mex, but the competition is strong in that genre here in Williamson county, so tosurvive the inevitable sands of Time, a spark needs to be provided in one of the critical three of every restaurant: service,ambiance, food. I recommend the food be taken up just one more notch, and you will see four and five star reviews. Read more

Love the location...open, plenty of room, nice bar, friendly staff. A great experience for our first time here. Food was on... point and tasty Bloody Mary's a plus. Read more

Diner BEWARE! If you have 6 people you will automatically be charged a 20% service fee. We were totally unaware of that. When... we signed the bill, my husband added another 20% tip. So, we paid 20% on the entire bill PLUS the added service fee (seebelow). Would have been nice, and good customer service if they had pointed out the service fee on the ticket. Or, they couldhave mentioned it when we were seated. If there was mention of it on the menu, we didn't see it. They use hand-held devices totake orders and payment. The room we were in was so loud that we had a difficult time hearing each other. As for the food anddrinks -- all were mediocre at best. Will not return to this restaurant. Read more

Food was delicious and hot, even their sweet tea is great. Service is good up to the point after order is taken. After that you... have to keep looking for waitress to bring drink refills or anything else. Waitress didn't ever talk to us till the end when shebrought ticket. All of a sudden very kind and cheerful. ???? Read more

Not the place for me, food was blane and management doesn't have people skills, information from passed through this... establishment isn't the same to all- and no big party accommodations, or any place near this restaurant they management informedme. ???? So, in essence not the place for Us. Nuggets were not good. Read more