Los Ocampo Restaurant & Bar

Great customer service every time I come here with the co-​workers and family! Love their margaritas and discounted tacos on Monday nights. Much recommended!

We had not been here for a long time. Four of us went here for lunch. The bill was well over $ 100.00 and we did not have any alcohol. The menu has changed and the prices have increased, They now charge $ 2.50 for a basket of chips. Two of the four of us became ill upon arriving home. I would not recommend O Campo.

The chocolate cake was awesome! The dinner entrees are delicious and big! Will definitely come back for mix drinks!

OMG, new menu and new prices! Expect to at $ 2 more for each item. What a rip off. Shrimp fajitas for $ 18.00? No thanks!

When it comes to a local Mexican restaurant chain, this is the place to enjoy great authentic Mexican food. I’m a fan of the Torta Pescada and this is the place I frequently visit with my kids for fresh Mexican cuisine.

Delicious, fresh, many options and one of my favorite places for Mexican. The home made huaraches are to die for.
Tacos are delicious — I’ve tried the chicken tinga, carnitas and the barbacoa. All are amazing. The salsa options are great and they have really good, spicy salsa where the spice does not over power the flavor.
The churros here… oh my goodness, they are good and definitely worth the calories. Wish I lived closer to this place as it is delish!

Pros: The food was great and got to eat it within 10 minutes.
Cons: the waitress had a disgusted look on her face when my partner started speaking Spanish to her, and she responded in Spanish. Also, the waitress, manager, and bus person all came to ask if the meal we were eating was good, which it was fantastic, but they all came around twice.
I am not sure if they came around 2x because there were other customers being loud. It was a Monday night and they were watching football. As long as the other customers didnt bother us eating, everything went well and tasted fantastic.

This place has friendly and fairly quick service, but the food just doesn’t deliver. It’s a convenient place to come for lunch: you can totally be in and out in under an hour, which is not something you can say about most sit-​down places. But for me, it’s all about the flavors, and the dishes here don’t really have it. They’re honestly not that appetizing to look at. I know, I know, this isn’t Iron Chef. But when I decide to venture out for food instead of cooking my own, I expect some effort to be put into the presentation. On the other hand, you can get a meal for under $ 10, and the staff is super nice. So I’d maybe come back in a pinch.

My family loves Los Ocampo, it’s one of the places we can all agree on. The food is great, the service is excellent and the atmosphere is fun. Our regular server even knows our usual order (I always go with the sincronizadas)! This restaurant is a perfect addition to the neighborhood.

Delicious! And they have happy hour burritos for $ 6.99! The guacamole is amazing. Nice place to come eat and relax

I’ve been here a times. A few very different times. I’m actually a little confused.
The first time was for lunch. They have pretty good weekday lunch deals that come with soup or salad and small sides of rice and beans. When I got there, I was craving a hot, cheesy, gooey quesadilla, ya know? I quickly ordered one but what I got was a dry tortilla filled with mostly lettuce and radish, with a little bit of dry crumbly cheese. It didn’t have much flavor either. I was very sad and even hit an all-​time low of considering going to Taco Bell while sober.
I gave them a second chance and came back in for lunch with a friend. This time, I stepped up my game and got a pork tamales special. It came with chicken soup, but I was confused to find that the shredded chicken felt very dry, even though it was swimming in liquid. Thankfully, the tamales redeemed the dry wet soup! They were flavorful and topped with plenty of melty cheese. My friend got the Cubana Torta — this is what I recommend you get if you come here. It’s packed with Steak milanesa, chorizo, egg, salchicha, ham, topped with a mixture of chicken and melted cheese. I’m pretty sure the «salchicha» was sliced hot dogs, and I’m still not sure how I feel about that. But altogether it made an impressive (and HUGE) mouthful.

I originally rated this place 5 stars! The lunch time service is still stellar and the food is still great. It is unfortunate that one bad service experience can really hurt a person’s overall opinion of a place but it can, and does. Everything was going swimmingly on our dinner date until bill time came… or didn’t come. We sat there, empty tabled, waiting for our bill to pay for like 20+ minutes while the server chatted with her friends at a nearby table. Then upon looking at our bill we not given the happy hour price we were quoted at the start of the meal on our appetizer. I don’t mind paying full price, especially for delicious but know your own specials and don’t promise a price you can’t deliver!

After sitting in the car for 15 minutes debating amongst my sister & friend what should we eat for dinner we went back & forth between «Chinese? No, something different! Famous Dave’s?!»…silence. I mentioned I wanted to eat outside since it was so nice so the debate continued with places with patios. Shout out after shout out. «Mexican?!» «Sounds bomb!» My sister said. Ok, fast forward to MY decision to dine at Los Ocampos because I already knew how much I love Chile rellenos.
The host greets us immediately & without knowing they have a patio! Yippee! sat outside. The sun just beaming (& burning). You won’t see many if any of my reviews with alcoholic drinks or beers. I’m not a drinker, but my sister & friend were wanting a margarita. I’m not a big fan of tequila so I decided for a daiquiri (rum). As adorable and endearing as our waitress was we didn’t receive any of the correct drink orders. Instead 3 strawberry blended regular margaritas with tequila. Bah! I’ve been a waitress for 10 years and my sister is a bartender so nah we aren’t really into complaining much.
Food. We ordered ALOT. Sampler platter, tostadas, green enchiladas, spicy tacos & my favorite Chile rellenos. The flautas were way over cooked & ultra thin rolls. The chicken in the enchiladas were stick to the back of your throat dry. I didn’t receive my rellenos so I had to reorder them & I wish I hadnt. I’m guessing because my waitress felt bad for forgetting; it was rushed because it was extremely greasy & nearly inedible. I was more disappointed that I decided to choose this restaurant for my ladies than the experience with the grub. I really love the smaller version of this place on on Arcade in St Paul. I might stick to my hole-​in-​walls. All in all no gain no loss except for 80 bucks we spent!

Good food and for a awesome price. The lunch special comes with soup or salad, your choice meal and soda. Good deal! Service was good and it wasn’t crowed, will be coming back to try other stuff on the menu.

This isn’t the best Mexican food you can find. So why do I give it 5 stars? Because it offers a unique combination of the following:
— Tasty
— Great selection for both vegetarian and meat-​eaters
— Affordable
— Great house-​made hot sauce
— Full bar and cheap beer (not a huge selection but they have Summit)
— Free parking
— Great service (waitress knew her stuff and made great recommendations)
— Restaurant ambiance great for lingering
Could I go to a taqueria around town for better food, yes. But would there be parking? Could I order a 24 oz beer (for 6 bucks)? Will I want to hang around for a couple hours to visit with friends? The list goes on. Now, there are times when a truly great taco is more important to me than parking, beer, expense, or ambiance. I will, of course, still be frequenting my local taquerias. But for a comfortable, long, full-​service happy hour/​dinner with friends in the neighborhood, Los Ocampo was an A+ experience.
Also, the guacamole was great.

One of my favorite Mexican spots in the Twin Cities metro. Super good! Never had bad service & have been multiple times. Tacos are delicious & authentic. Salsa very good & the flautas are the best! Bomb. Get yo a$$ here & enjoy!

Had the fish tacos. I thought they were very good. Had a little bit of sweet heat. I like things spicy so I asked for their salsa which added the missing spice.

This is the tastiest most authentic Mexican food in the state. The service is fast and everyone appears to truly enjoy working there. I truly plan to eat here once a week.

At first I avoided this place because a friend told me it was kind of like Acapulco, which I can’t stand. I prefer rustic little taco joints or trucks – the food is almost always better than at a sit-​down restaurant. But my curiosity won out, and I’m glad I went. The resemblance to Acapulco ends with the bar and table service. Food at Ocampo is WAY better.
We started with chips and salsa, and I thought the salsa was little better than ketchup. But when I asked our server if they had something spicier, she brought out a super-​hot green/​avocado salsa and a super-​flavorful orange-​colored chili sauce. Both were excellent, and I was a lot happier.
My husband ordered the huarachazo with carnitas. Five stars for that! The masa base was crispy and light, and the whole thing was absolutely delicious. I had two tacos al pastor. They were good, but not memorable.
Service was friendly and prompt, décor is what you would expect at a Mexican restaurant (colorful serapes, sequined sombreros, and piñatas hanging from the rafters.) The music selection was a little weird – it switched between schmaltzy European classics and mariachi tunes.
I still prefer hole-​in-​the-​wall taco joints, but for a sit-​down Mexican meal and a wider menu, Ocampos is as good as it gets in the Twin Cities.

Authentic Mexican Food? Not exactly… but about as close as you get in the Twin Cities. Certainly more authentic and better tasting than Acapulco but not quite as much as El Burrito Mercado.
Things I love about this place:
1) Many meat and vegetable options — pick a dish and you can make it your own
2) The spicy mexican chicken is incredible — especially if you request extra spicy (which you have to do for anything you want spicy)
3) The queso blanco is tremendous — it is the primary reason my daughter likes to go here. I order an extra cup so I can combine my portion with some spicy salsa to give it some kick… Muy bien!
4) Alambres — choice of meat with peppers, onion, bacon, ham, mozzarella cheese over a bunch of mini tortillas. Very tasty — but eat fast because it does cool off quickly. I like to get the camerones and add mexican chicken. Yes, it is WAY too much food but it is amazing.
5) Shrimp tacos are outstanding
6) Tamales are good
7) They are always happy to modify any item to make sure it is the way you like it.
Things that made me drop a star:
1) Service has been either really good or painfully slow — regardless of how busy it is
2) The last two times I’ve been there I’ve had to ask for salsa — even though we ordered queso blanco. What kind of mexican restaurant doesn’t bring you, and keep refilling, salsa?
3) Elotes — I LOVE mexican street corn and often make it home on the grill. Here I have ordered it twice — once is was good (but not great) and the other time is was awful — luke warm, corn was mushy. If you’re going to serve elotes they should be freshly grilled, fully coated and sprinkled with lots of cotija cheese and chili powder. If not — don’t bother.
All in all, this is a great place for very tasty mexican fare. I’ll definitely put up with a few annoyances to satisfy my cravings for good food!

Have you ever tried a place and have almost no feeling or opinion of it? That’s Los Ocampo for me. Don’t get me wrong, I have been here multiple times to try and get a feel for whats going on here and still. nothing. I’ve been scratching my brain trying to think of what I can say about this place and I’m just not really coming up with anything.
I can only recall the food I had the last two times I’ve come here because they were relatively recent and even then I have to really pick my brain.
The queso blanco was pretty good but not discernible from any other queso blanco I have had. That’s not a bad thing, it just means the flavor was totally expected and not anything exciting.
My margarita was good and potent.
I don’t like the chips here. They taste like paper bag to me and I remember the very first time I came here with my sister there was cheese and a tomato stuck on one of the chips. Flashbacks of shows on Food Network about restaurant reusing the chips left on the tables popped into my head. I certainly hope that wasn’t the case here and I won’t say it was. I now make it a point to dump salsa on my left over chips before I leave a place, just in case. I could have sneezed on those and no one would know. Just sayin’.
The chicken tacos. There was chicken in a taco shell. The chicken was dry but had decent flavor. The taco itself needed oomph. I stole some of my mom’s guacamole and slathered it on for some moisture. It helped but even the guac didn’t add anything interesting to the taco.
My tacos came with a side salad, which I felt was kind of weird. It was the tiniest side salad I have ever had at a restaurant and I actually thought it was kind of funny. That, too, was nothing special.
The Huarache with chicken which was pretty much the chicken taco on a fried masa cake instead of a tortilla. I like masa cakes so this was a little more interesting but the chicken was still dry so I assume it’s just how it always is. They put radishes on everything which I have never seen before and I personally don’t think it added anything to any of the dishes I’ve had.
Huarachazo which is like the more stereotypical Mexican version of the huarache, oddly enough. Sam ordered this with roasted pork and it came with spicy beans, and avocado sour cream and cheese. Normally with pico, but Sam has a deep, deep disdain for pico so it was shunned and left off the plate.
It was okay. The bite of roasted pork that I tried tasted a little fatty and despite the pork being a nice rich red color it didn’t have any special flavor to it.
I generally expect more vibrant flavors and colors from mexican food and the food here is just food. I would come here if I wanted food but I don’t think I would come here if I wanted anything festive.
I will say, though, that our waitress was very helpful and saved Sam the horror of ordering something that he thought was something else. They definitely know their white folks here.
My suggestion: Come here if you’re craving food.