Armadillo Border Grill & Cantina

Only one waitress on the bar side to tend all the booths. My husband enjoyed his food but I ordered the crab enchiladas only to find out it was artificial crab meat. It was gross :(

Disappointed — haven’t been to an Armadillo in a couple years but this most recent visit has changed my mind about them. Used to love Armadillo food but now seems very cheap in preparation and taste.
Nice people and clean restaurant, but I can get better food for the same price elsewhere.

Food was really good, especially the chili con queso, just the right strength.

I enjoyed the coffee, food, atmosphere, and the service. Sunday brunch A+. The team were courteous and just dandy.
I recommend the Brunch on Sunday. Have the cravings for everyone from pancakes to sopapillas, green chile to biscuit and gravy. You can’t go wrong with taking the kids here.

Good mexican food. Casual dining. Family friendly. Will go again.

The Aurora location is alive and well! I was on vacation last week and visiting my brother, he informed me that the Armadillo in Aurora is still there, so off to lunch we went. Great! Loved it!

The owner let us in late last night for dinner, five minutes before close, and was very gracious and hospitable. My wife had just returned from a trip to Europe and was craving Mexican food. The owner spent time asking my wife about her trip and was great to my whole family. After that, the food and service was excellent. Thanks for a great welcome home experience!

Been a favorite since 2003. Love the queso and chorizo dip. It is my favorite appetizer at this location. Ultimate margaritas have become a nice addition to a three piece create-​a-​combo.

The service was wonderful and the food absolutely delicious! In fact we can’t wait for our next trip to Denver and are very much looking forward to dining here again when we do get back there!

Good food, lots of it. I like their white sauce. Wait staff attentive. Great atmosphere… lots of booths for privacy. Although their cocktails are on the weak side and a bit pricey.

I love this restaurant. If you have a chance get Ramon, he is a wonderful waiter! You can get as much chips and salsa as you want. Salsa is a bit watery but has flavor and chips aren’t baked in house. I’ve tried everything on the menu and I have a few favorites. The penne pasta, and the stuffed poblano relleno is delicious! Oooooo don’t forget the chicken and sour cream tostada. I really like the brunch buffet on Sunday’s as well.

We used to love dining here. The food was delicious and hot and the service friendly. Our last few visits have been lackluster and we have not been back in months. The hostess seems annoyed and the server/​bartender never smiles and usually has a section way too large to tend to while making drinks for the entire restaurant. The food is now mediocre at best and if the bartender/​server had time to come to my table and check on things –including my long empty glass– we could have told her. Instead we asked a manager for the bill and ended up paying cash as the server never came to run our card.

We love this place but tonight our waiter was not aware that we were there! It took him forever to get our order and then he charged us wrong! This has happened before! We will keep coming back but just ask to sit in a different area!
We love the food!

This is one of North Metros best. Great service, excellent food and great experience. Must try.

I hadn’t been here in a couple years and it was better than I remembered. The food was fantastic and quick! They have always had the best salsa around. I will definitely be coming back in the near future. I gave it 4 stars because the service was a bit slow at the end. I wanted to order some to go food and the server had disappeared for about 30 minutes before he came back to the table. Other than that, the experience was enjoyable.

So torn on this place. The hosts and busser staff are fabulous and on top of things, keeping our drink and chips/​salsa filled, finding our seating right away. The servers themselves are hit or miss. Some are wonderful and make eating these a pleasure: others are so disconnected that I actually had to walk a bad plate back to the kitchen to find someone to fix it for me.
I’m also really frustrated. For months, various servers told me the cilantro rice, black beans and enchilada sauce were vegetarian. Recently, the head server (who has worked there for over 10 years) told me all of the rices use chicken stock, as does the enchilada sauce. She told me the black beans are vegetarian, as are the Healthmark red and green chilis (which I had not heard of before, so she brought me a sample of each). I cannot understand how so many different servers had wrong/​erroneous info about something so commmon, and something that could have serious reactions.
Jury is out. May it try it again one more time to give it a last chance (again, the bus/​drink/​chip service is awesome), but not in any hurry to do so.

Service was marginal. Water glass empty 3 times. Food was plentiful but the chimi needed extra green chili. Charged $ 1.75 for what should have been an apology for skimping.
Probably won’t return. Pretty expensive for what you get.

Update:
Removing the review I originally wrote because the manager of the restaurant reached out and profusely apologised for our experience.
That care of customers alone reflects highly with me so I’m altering my review.
While I can’t take them up on their offer to make things right, as I don’t live in town and was just passing through, I will not give up on their establishment.

What? Did I read this right, a FREE Margarita for checking in on Unilocal and extra spicy green chili — all in one visit. (Cue the Angels singing).
I love Armadillo’s green chili, the color, the consistency, the flavor and the spice. Then they kick it up a few notches with an extra spicy selection without losing any flavor. What they’ve done is make you crave the next the bite, as that little bead of sweat starts down your nose… and of course warrants the next margarita purchase.
Spicy green chili, great service, affordable dishes and phenomenal margarita selections are the reasons I continue to go back.

Spending the day north with my family in town. My brother decided he wanted to go to a place they used to go quite often when he lived here. Enter the Armadillo.
It was a Monday Lunch so it was a little quite when we got there, but as we stayed more and more showed up. It is a pretty busy lunch place. The Deal of the day was a Unilocal deal of 15 for 30. I bought that baby right away!
The do have a pretty large menu of choices. That is one thing about Mexican food. With some basic ingredients, the combinations are endless.
I had the fajita sandwich. I couldn’t decided what I wanted so it seemed to fit the bill. It was cooked and seasoned really well and full of cheese. It was sort of like having a steak Quesadilla on a roll instead of between 2 tortillas served with fries.
My niece had a Quesadilla from the kids menu. It was way bigger then I would have thought for a child’s portion. It was service with rice and beans. We traded out a little of her rice for some of my fries. The rice was definitely lack luster. I guess never really knowing what it’s supposed to taste like, it’s hard to judge what you should be getting.
Can’t remember what my brother had, I was too busy with my niece.
We decided on desert as well, I guess this was what he was really after. Sopapillas
They were actually very good, not greasy and sprinkled with some powdered sugar and served with honey. Get the basket, they are more reasonable that way then individuals.
Over all it was a nice experience.