Salas Mexican Restaurant

Had lunch today at their new place on Gore. All the great food and super service of the old place but with better décor. Overall a pleasant lunch and reasonable prices. Can’t go wrong here.

Carne asada (tacos) was good; nice char, tender, tasty. However, the chile relleno and chimichanga were less than stellar. Finally, the sopapillas were, umm, huh? Whole wheat flour? Funky taste and texture, not light and airy and puffy. Bottom line: there are better Mexican options in Lawton.

This place was my favorite until new owners took over. Now nothing tastes the same. There were nobody there when I went there to eat. That should have been a sign. I am looking g forward to the previous owner opening up a new restaurant in October on Gore called Salas’s Urban Cantina! It will have all the old favorites you remembered

We were very pleased with the friendly staff and the quality and freshness of the food was exceptional. Our food arrived quickly and was steaming hot. We were happy with the item descriptions contained within the menu and the cost was very reasonable.

Still one of the best homey places to go in Lawton! Bernice has done an excellent job of keeping up the food and the presentation I love since I was a kid.

Very delicious food and great service! Everything we ordered was great! The guacamole was super fresh and yummy! The cheese sauce was really good!

Food was so good a lot better than before!!! It has a new feel and the staff was awesome very friendly and welcoming! I had the Mexican deluxe my plate was hot and delicious!!! Highly recommended! The other 1 star reviews with no comments sound like sour grapes lol. Also, why would someone with no agenda give this place a 1 star and Tony’s place a 5 star. Enough of the drive by attacks. Live and let live.

Very disappointing Byrd on the new owners. Food was tepid when we got it out I had mexican Felix. Hated the ground meat in taco. The cheese enchilada was okay. Chili telenovela was crispy not the original and tasted awful. My daughter’s bean burrito was pinto beans smashed with a spoon and put in a flour tortilla. No spices.
The grilled cheeses for both grandkids were black. They lost part of our order and had to remake it – so why was my food cold? My husband said his hamburger was okay.
Really likes the waitress but waiting an hour for the food. Cheese dip was okay. Didn’t like the green sauce. Totally flavorless.

Delicious! Ordered spinach & shrimp enchilada, beef taco, charro beans. All were exceptional. The salsa with chips were very flavorful.

Lived in lawton my whole life and have never been here. Heard lots of good things lately so I decided to check them out. Blechhh. Nothing about this visit was good. The cheese was like jelly. Enchiladas burnt. Chips super greasy. Server had better things to do I guess cause she was never around. Just a bad experience. Will more than likely not return.

We eat here all the time and have since I was a kid. Food is always good. We love it!

The food was okay. The service was quick and polite. If you’re looking for rather decent Mexican food this would be it. Nothing amazing nor horrible but suitable.

TERRIBLE is all I can say. The food was horrible. We ordered 4 different meals and they were all horrible. I only gave it 1 star because 0 stars wasn’t an option.

Garbage over cooked dried meat bones in the chimichangas a chicken burrito is a pile of chicken half way rolled up in a tortilla the only good out of it is the dr pepper margaritas and the chips

I’ve been coming to Salas since I was an infant. Once a month my family would make the hour drive to come to Lawton just to eat at Salas, it was a big deal… poor people got poor ways and that was something we all looked forward to. Drive an hour, follow my mom around while browsing local shops, eat at Salas and go back lol Maybe that clouds my judgement of Salas but it is one of my favorite Mexican food places… and yes, I know good Mexican food.
Their queso is unlike what you will find anywhere and I could eat it like soup. I think they make it with chicken stock. I see several don’t like it but I love it. They also have the best taco’s anywhere. They use good beef and only add vinegar to it… no other spices I was told by a guy I knew that worked the kitchen… I think back in the day that was their «secret». Now they bring vinegar to the table.
Honestly that’s the best part… the queso and taco’s…oh and the chili sauce is fantastic also… not «real» Mexican chili sauce but I love it. Salas will always be near and dear to my heart and my family’s heart. My son is 3 and like me has been coming to Salas since he was 2 months old.

It wasn’t bad… BUT it wasn’t all that great. I think I came here with great expectations hoping to find a sort of diamond in ugly and unexpected location. Shame on me. The food was average, the atmosphere was annnhhhh, the service was.. .ok. Not much to write home about here.. .sigh onward with the hunt for the great Mexican restaurant in Lawton, OK.. .I may have to cross the border into TX to find it. .but hey.. .they’re neighbors. It could count. Lol. Not!

The host was gorgeous. Dark hair and light skin, you might have been a mix of Filipino and some other race. I couldn’t really talk to you because I was in uniform and that would have been unprofessional. Next time I’m in town, I’ll talk to you. If you’re reading this, hit me up. We’ll set something up.
The food was not that great, but the service was pretty good.
Not better than Passion of the Christ. Not better than Lethal Weapon 4.

I love coming to Salas. The chips salsa and cheese is the worst thing there I think. If you ask for some habanero sauce just dump some of that in the salsa… much better. I don’t think its the greatest food but they do make awesome drinks. For being in Lawton maybe I could make it a 4 star but I will just leave it a 3 as their are several other mexican places to eat in Lawton that are jsut as good and they are not 4 stars either. I keep going back tho, I eat there at least once a month.

This place had too much hype built up before we went. We were expecting «the best Mexican food in Lawton» and I would have been happier at Taco Bell. To start off, the «queso» they serve you with your chips is disgusting. It’s runny, yellow and salty. There’s no spice to it at all. I can get better cheese on nachos at a baseball game. Te salsa’s flavor was ok, but it was too runny to even keep on a chip. Our food came out and wasn’t anything special. It seems like the food you might get at a «Tex-​Mex» restaurant in 1960. I understand that they wantto stick to the way they’ve been doing thing since the 50’s, but I feel like people have come to expect a little more than that. I give it 2 stars because the wait staff was very friendly and helpful — maybe this place’s saving grace. If you’re cruising through, try Taco Bueno instead.

Probably a 3.5 star place but because it’s Lawton I’ve given it the bump. They make their own chips and I think they make their own salsa. They also give you cheese dip. The chips were good and fresh. The salsa was nicely spicy but very very thin. I had the soft Tacos al Carbon. They were really tasty but super small. For $ 8 I really shouldn’t be hungry when I leave. Please add some more meat to the tacos! The service was good and the place was quite crowded. I haven’t tried any of the other mexican places around, but I don’t expect much from them. I’ll update later to say whether or not this is the place to come in Lawton for mexican food.