BC’s El Paso Backdoor Cantina

Great Service, Consistently Great Food, Casual Great Dinner spot for your whole Family. It’s probably been nearly 3 yrs since we last eat here and on Friday night it was just as great as we remembered!

I have this place 5 stars because it has a large screen television, great food at a reasonable price, a nice waiter served us, & the food came out in a decent amount of time. One suggestion… offer root beer with free refills! Otherwise everything else was great!

I absolutely LOVE this place!!! I’ve been coming here for over 25 years, ever since it opened, so I can vouch for it up and down. Here are some highlights:
— Salsa is amazing and unique
— Freshly made chips and shells
— Incredible queso and guac
— Tasty margaritas.
— Delicious chicken fajitas
I usually get enchiladas or quesadillas. For enchiladas i love their cheese enchiladas with sour cream sauce and topped with chicken fajitas.
I haven’t disliked anything and consider this place quintessential tex mex, as good as it gets for reasonable prices. Ive been to A LOT of tex mex restaurants.
They recently closed (for good i thought) and for it to become all brazilian steakhouse which seriously bummed me out, but they reopened recently thank god!!! I am thrilled!!!

Every time I drive down 75 I always think of how the food is at this little place.
Tonight, we had the chance to try it and oh boy it didn’t not disappoint. Started with chips and salsa. Their salsa is very good, not like the ordinary tex-​mex chains salsa. It’s very flavorful and have a little kick to it. For our entrée, we had the tacos with fajita meat in it and served with rice, beans and pico de gallo. The meat is tender and the tortilla is moist. The most wonderful thing is if you top it with the salsa. We had to ask for another cup of salsa because it was oh so good! I’m actually salivating while typing this review. Haha. Can’t wait to comeback and see if they are consistent with the salsa and the rest of the food.

Just got their queso to go. Haven’t eaten here since it was just El Paso, but man oh man, their queso is still the best queso I’ve ever eaten! Seriously the best in the world! And for that I will always love this place! Margaritas and salsa are very tasty too!

The food was great. I had the half order of bean nachos, my husband had the Taxco, my kids had quesadillas. The staff was friendly, and fast. They were very nice to my kids which is rare because they are toddlers and most places hate that. There was enough food for two meals each. The facility is clean and well kept. Definitely going back.

Had the lunch special. Enchiladas with chicken fajita meat covered in an awful white cheese sauce. It was terrible. The chips and hot sauce lacked as well. Service was not very attentive, although when someone did stop by the table, they were nice enough.
Not good enough for a return trip. Too many other restaurants nearby that far surpass it.

Food was average Tex-​Mex. Service was mediocre considering that there were only 10 customers from 12:00 — 1:00 on a workday. Big problem when it came to the check. Waiter brought me wrong (larger) check. Then brought me correct check WITH SOMEONE ELSE’S credit card. After I entered 18% tip and signed the correct check, they entered a higher total bill — equaling over 50% tip. Had to go back in and bring it to their attention but they wouldn’t adjust anything until they «checked their records», even though I’d given them copy of correct, signed receipt and copy of higher bank entry. Having not heard back from them in a couple weeks, I finally had to have my bank reverse the charges. The hassle is not worth the mediocre food and service. That is our last time there, thank you.

Tried this place for the first time this weekend with my husband. Very good food and great margaritas! Salsa was wonderful, queso was excellent, very flavorful! I had the sour cream chicken enchilada and tamale combo. All of which was great only thing I would have done differently had I known was to have the queso sauce on my tamales instead of chili con carne. Just because I am not big on chili con carne and the queso was so awesome! The only thing I didnt try that I normally judge a mexican restaurant by was their tortillas. But everything else was so good I kept forgetting to ask for them. Great place will definitely go again next time we are in town!

«What’s that smell?» That’s the first thing you ask yourself when you take that left that leads to BC’s. The deal is, well, this part of the building is by the backdoor and the bathrooms. They obviously use some very aggressive cleaning products and the smell leaches out into the dining area. This is very off-​putting from the get go.
The two times I have been there at prime Plano dinner time, getting a table was a breeze. The chips were a little stiff, some take a little extra jaw power to get into. The salsa I do like. It has the right balance of garlic, cilantro and cumin. I did end up eating a lot of it.
First visit with a valpac coupon ($ 10.00 for $ 5.00 plus 18% gratuity). I got the combination fajitas. They arrived in 3 Mins! the platter was barely sizzling, not because it wasn’t sizzling hot, there was just no moisture in the ingredients they threw on there to sizzle! All meat and veg was dry. I asked for some garlic butter to moisten it up a bit, and they looked at me like I was nuts. They ended up bringing me a side of Chimichurri from the Brazilian place in front. Not good with the fajitas. I ended up just dousing them with the salsa to get them down. Bleah.
Ya I bought two certificates and the next time (upon checking in I became Duke) I thought I would go for the House special platter (two fajita enchiladas and one puffed beef taco. The plate again arrived in under 3mins, it was a mess! the enchiladas were cold and the salad they put on top of the taco made the whole thing soggy and falling off the plate, a big mess.
So though I may be Duke, my robes will seldom cross left into my kingdom.

I am a huge fan of the Backdoor. I used to work in the Plano area and came to eat here for lunch at least once a week with my coworkers. Once you find out where it is it is worth coming back to. Good solid tex-​mex, always hot and flavorful. I almost always order the crazy nachos and they are amazing. It’s something with the cheese they have. Their margaritas are great as well.
It’s not a fancy, good looking place. But they let their food do the talking. Good, quality, consistent Tex-​Mex. I just went back yesterday for the first time in a while. Still good!

I didn’t like the location of the restaurant. The Backdoor Catina and Brazilian Cowboy share a building. Once you FIND the Backdoor Cantina’s entrance. Go to the left for Tex-​Mex or go to the right for the Brazilian Cowboy. They are owned by the same company.
The staff was nice, portion sizes large but in my opinion, the food was mediocre. Nothing outstanding about the chips and salsa. I had chicken enchiladas with sour cream. I’ll rate the dish 2 stars out of 5. A hot sour cream sauce and diced fajita chicken topped a barely cheesy and poorly seasoned enchilada. The rice and beans improved slightly with the addition of salt.
On the other hand my husband had the chicken fajitas and he loved it. He said it was the best fajita dish he’s had since moving to Texas a year ago. The chicken strips were large, long and plentiful. It was served with grilled peppers and onions. It also came with rice and beans with a plate of condiments and your choice of flour or corn tortillas. I didn’t sample his food because I was too disappointment with my own so can’t rate his food but he would give it a 5 out of 5. I just don’t trust his taste buds.
I would not return to this place even to try out the Brazilian Cowboy whose food smelled so much better than the Backdoor Cantina’s.

Yes, this place is actually inside Brazilian Cowboy, so you won’t see a sign for it from the street. Just look for Brazilian Cowboy. The 2 restaurants are in the same building– the Brazilian place in the front, and the Cantina in the back, hence the name.
Once seated, they brought out chips and salsa, and we also ordered a bowl of queso. Chips and salsa were decent, and the queso was the yellow cheese version I was hoping for. In hindsight, the bowl was probably a bit too much! For our entrees, I ordered the carne asada, and my boyfriend ordered the beef fajitas. The carne asada was a little tough and chewy but came with a tasty sauce. The beef fajita meat was the same, and the tortillas were disappointing. But I actually liked the beans and rice here, particularly the rice– very light and fluffy. Beans were a tad salty but better than usual.
We usually order a side of fresh jalapenos with our Mexican food, but it cost $ 1.95 here! Most places charge an additional $ 0.75 or $ 1.00, so the price seemed a little steep for something so small.
We ended our meal with dessert and decided to go with the chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream. I wasn’t very impressed with the taste, but on the plus side, it was huge! Both the cake and ice cream were drizzled with some fruity red sauce that I could have lived without.
I also found out about them on
. Our server was attentive and did a great job, but the food was just mediocre.

Well, I couldn’t find a Unilocal review with this name (maybe they’ve changed it recently?), so this may be the first review that I create! I found this place through
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So, first off, location. I need to stress this because this place actually part of the restaurant «Brazilian Cowboy» (I know what the BC stands for now). They got me good the first time (I didn’t see the restaurant) b/​c they don’t actually have a real sign for the restaurant, only a small sign in the grass that says «Cantina parking.»
Even once we noticed this sign, we still didn’t actually see the restaurant because we didn’t pay attention to Brazilian Cowboy. It was only after looking behind us that we noticed the literal meaning of the restaurant: it’s the backdoor entrance to Brazilian Cowboy! Pretty damn cool actually, but I still didn’t like the time wasted searching.
Anyways, as normal:
Time: Saturday dinner
Atmosphere: Dark brown, cozy, has a small bar, in the back of Brazilian Cowboy
Service: Friendly, but I didn’t get that vibe at first because it felt like the waiter wanted to quickly leave us. However, I think it was because he needed to rush to get food or something (only two people).
Food (4-​stars): Jalapeño poppers — nothing wrong here, came with queso. Queso — we were furious… at ourselves, b/​c we apparently didn’t need to order queso. Salsa/​chips — salsa was average, but the chips were quite tasty (light and crispy). Quesadillas — an easy dish, but they did it right, crispy tortillas with well-​sized chunks of chicken.
Beef fajitas: only let-​down. The meat seemed to be low-​grade and was very difficult to eat because it was so rubbery.
Drinks: average
Overall a good experience. They have an intriguing location and decent menu. I would avoid just avoid the (beef) fajitas.