Guadalajara Grill Mexican Restaurant

Our favorite Mexican restaurant in town! Prices are reasonable, margaritas are good, and queso is delicious.

Definitely not as good as it used to be but still decent. Really wish they would make their food the way it was five or six years ago. But it is one of the better on east Washington street if you are over that way.

The food is very good. A little higher on price. The staff is always prompt and friendly. I love the bright décor and paintings. It’s a cheery place to have lunch.

Our favorite for Mexican Gooding the east side of Indianapolis. It’s always busy when we’re here. Our food always good, and saved promptly. The service is very pleasant.

I. Wish everyone could taste how wonderful this food tastes! But if I tell everyone then the place will become so crowded that I won’t be able to have such a wonderful relaxing meal.

After recently moving to the east side of Indy, we were on the search for our new «go-​to» mexican restaurant. After positive Unilocal reviews and at the recommendation of a family member, we dined here for the first time.
The parking lot was packed at 6:30 on a weekday evening and we had to walk a bit but we were seated immediately, as the dining room has plenty of tables. The restaurant was bright, colorful, and very clean. I loved all of the live plants and the beautiful water fountain in the center of the dining room. Our chips served with salsa were fresh and refilled quickly. Our service was spot on, although we could tell our server was extremely busy. Our orders were accurate and our drinks were kept filled during our visit. My only negative is that their guacamole was quite bland and tasteless. Being a guacamole lover, this made me sad. We were thanked by three different staff upon paying and we walked out happy, knowing that we had found our new «go-​to» mexican restaurant.

Excellent service and food was served to our group of five tonight. Our drinks were kept filled. The chips and salsa came out quickly with no extra charge for extra refills. Everybody’s food portions seemed very large. The servers continually checked on our table to see if we needed anything else quite often, which was very good. I would definitely recommend this place for the food and service both. Even though the parking lot is big it was parked up quite a bit, and the place was very busy, but we were able to be seated immediately, even for a Saturday night.

Horrible fish tacos. They tasted like they had been thawed and frozen again out 2 or 3 times. The only thing good was the chips Never coming back. I could have gotten better fish tacos at Qdomba.

This is The best Mexican restaurant we have found. The décor is traditional Mexican and extremely spacious and comfortable seating. The staff is courteous and the food is delicious. We go here at least once a month and take our grandkids there when they visit. There’s a beautiful fountain in the center of the restaurant and we let the grandkids throw a coin and Make-​A-​Wish. You won’t be disappointed if you eat here, their margaritas are delicious!

I really Like this place. It is one of the 1^st places I ate at when we first moved to Indianapolis. The name has changed but the food and service hasn’t (good thing). The chips and salsa are good. I know that is a simple thing, but there are Mexican restaurants that can’t get them right. The cheese dip and the cheese and bean dips are good. The large dips are more than 2 people can eat (most people).
You can get Margaritas by the pitcher and can pay a small upcharge for a top shelf tequila. They do serve frozen and flavored margaritas.
I go through cycles here where I will eat the same dish every time I go, then I will switch to something else. Right now I have been eating the Burrito Guadalajara. It has shrimp, chicken and steak in it. There is a green sauce and cheese sauce topping on it. It is really good and the shrimp in them are a medium to large size.
I also like The Shrimp Diablo. It is a little spicy but with the name diablo I would expect my nose to be running by the end of the dish. It tastes great, but don’t expect to be begging for water.
My wife just gets soft and hard shell tacos. The beef tacos are really good. The are not greasy, they drain the meat well. I usually go with chicken tacos for that reason, but here I will get the beef. you can get them in a hard shell and they wont be soggy.
The dessert I usually get is the flan. It is really good and not overly sweet.

Pretty decent for Indianapolis. The refried beans are delish. Topped with white cheese. Spanish Rice very MILD in fact everything is extremely MILD in flavor as well as heat.

Super generic mexican food. There was cauliflower and broccoli in my veggie burrito for example.

Tastes cheap. The salsa and chips are sub-​par compared to the other restaurants in the area. Also, their margaritas are almost entirely orange juice and mixer (even the Top Shelf). The veggies taste like they came frozen from a bag. You would be better to pass on this one.

I was just introduced to Guadalajara in March and have been back probably 10 times since. First of all prepare to be wowed when you walk in the door as every single surface is covered with beautiful and colorful decorative art. The staff is always pleasant and most are bi-​lingual enough to carry on plentiful conversation. The margaritas here are the best (strongest) I’ve found in Indy. The Texas margarita has 3 kinds of tequila, triple sec, orange juice and fresh lime! Yummmmm. The menu is huge and offers lots of great Mexican dishes. The fajitas as well as the tres amigos are among my favorite dishes. Affordable, clean, authentic, and I always leave with a buzz after just 1 (maybe 2) drinks. Worth your time if you’re on the east side of Indy!

The service here just keeps getting worse and worse. The food is still amazing, but not worth a wait that is going to be hours on end.
My party was 12 people, we called ahead, had a reservation. They knew we were coming. And our waitress was either stretched way too thin (some of my companions suggested she was working multiple other tables) or just really bad at what she did. Either way, you’ve either got a management problem or a staff problem.
Typically, I won’t deduct stars for bad service, because I try to give the restaurant the benefit of the doubt and not hold them personally responsible for the conduct of all of their employees. But I’ve been back to this place 6 times now with the exact same bad experience. Wait staff that is inattentive, wrong orders, margaritas that are utterly lacking in alcohol.
The food is still super amazing, but I really doubt I’ll be going back. Too many bad experiences over too short of a time span.

This is my family’s favorite Mexican restaurant in town. The chips are always fresh, and the salsa is flavorful without being too spicy. There are always a ton of waiters working, especially on busy weekend nights, so you are always taken good care of. There is a bar staffed with 1 – 2 guys at all times to make drinks. The food tastes like traditional Mexican, not Tex Mex, so not too spicy unless you want to make it that way. The beans and rice are fresh and good. I like the burritos here the best. Unlike some Mexican places, I don’t find the food here to be too salty, either.
My favorite part about Guadalajara Grill is how cheap it is. The prices here are better than El Jaripeo, and you get more attention from the staff.

The Wife’s & I Favorite Mexican Restaurant.
Fast Service and the Best Price around.
Check them out when your in the area

Service: 5+
Food: 4.5
A friend treated me to an early birthday lunch. I got the arroz con pollo lunch special for $ 6.99 which is very reasonable for the portion. As usual, servers are on point. As soon as we sat down, chips & salsa soon followed. Servers are amazing here! Loved that our server referred to us as amigas! Food comes out quickly, and it’s deliciosa! Feliz cumpleanos a mi! Trying to sprinkle in the little bit of Spanish I retained from my high school years ;)

This is the first time Unilocal has let me down. My years of Unilocaling experience has taught me that an establishment with a 4-​star rating and 20 reviews (as is Guadalajara at this writing) is as close to a sure bet as one can get. Well, not in this case and I know why — but read on, I’ll get to that.
To be fair, we were seated adjacent to a large group of high school Spanish students on a lunch field trip. There was over 20 of them with two teachers. We placed our order just ahead of them. One order didn’t come out, and when it did it was incorrect. Our waiter argued with my colleague, insisting that he had ordered chicken quesadillas. The three of us insisted that he hadn’t, but the server decided his manager had to get involved. He soon appeared at our table and worked it out.
The food itself was strictly OK — certainly nothing to rave about. After our mixup, the service was fine.
Here’s how Unilocal let me down: I’m from Texas so for me the bar is set pretty high for Mexican food. Guadalajara’s wasn’t even close — but maybe for Indy it’s just fine. So it’s really not the fault of my fellow Unilocalers. We all write based on our own experiences. I’ll still swear by Unilocal ratings — but not for Mexican food in the northern climes. Lesson learned.

Fool Me Once Shame on You…
Fool Me Twice Shame on Me.
Second trip here and I am the fool. Just sad I came here with my wife and her Mother.
We have asked for everything 3x today.
Water not refilled.
Tacos were a mystery meat, not beef and had to be held up to drain the grease off.
Beans were liquified and like a cold soup.
Rice was the highlight of the meal and it was bland.
I would cross the street for Taco Bell with my $ 10.
We wont be back.
Mom would like me to say, (despite having a lack of chicken in her rolled chicken fajita) «my lunch was good». (Such a kind soul.)
We asked and a manager never came to the table.
We asked at check out and they agreed to comp the meal. Even with that the food qaulity has been so poor we will not return.