Cafe Rio

I love this location, the staff is always super friendly and the food is great! Beef salad is great and it’s huge. Great portions for the price.

You can’t ever go wrong with Café rio. Their food is always fresh and delicious. I absolutely love their grilled chicken quesadillas. I love that they have free kids quesadillas for the little ones. This place is family friendly. I personally like that it’s not excessively bright inside, it’s a little dim with beautiful colors and mirrors hung from the walls. We’ve had very good experiences here, walking in line watching the food being made is pretty neat too.

Even though they have 5000 people in line (exaggeration), the service was very fast and friendly. All the employees seem to be having a good time. Food, of course, is always excellent

Growing up in LA, I should know a lot about Mexican food, but the most I learned was what’s good food and what’s not good and Café Rio on Stephanie is always a homerun for good Mexican food. I always get their burrito bowl with sweet pork barbacoa. The enchilada-​style is an extra buck, but I usually pass since it’s just extra cheese and the burrito already has enough cheese (plus you can always ask them to go a bit heavier on the cheese if you’re feeling cheesy). The line always moves quickly, but if you’re really in a rush, you can always call in your order ahead of time before you go pick it up. It is family friendly but it can get fairly loud. Be sure to get their stamp card, you can get a free burrito (with drink!) if you get 10 stamps (1 stamp per entrée). Their staff is very friendly and I always enjoy my meal coming out of Café Rio. I am a loyal customer at this location because of their food quality and excellent service.

Tip: get café rio to go. Get the mango lime drink and then take it home and add a shot or two of tequila! Makes for an easy margarita. :)

I love Café Rio! The restaurant is always cleaned. Well clean enough. The music is a good vibe. It doesn’t play Spanish music so it’s not your typical Mexican restaurant.
The service is ok. Not much of an interaction with their staff being that they just make your food. Overall good service.
I always get the grilled chicken quesadilla. It has always been perfect the way I want it.
The ONLY reason why I gave it a 4 star instead of a 5 is because of its to go ordering system. I have never had my food right with a to go order here. Now. With that said they did make it right and gave me a few free meals out of it. But that was only one time and on one order.
Other than that it’s a great place to eat!

Awesome food, workers, and environment!!! Waiting time long but worth the wait for great tasting fresh food! All food is on point! Tortilla fresh made right in front of you.

Came in HUNGRY! It’s our first visit here and they killed it! This place is great! I had the pork quesadilla, my hubby had the pulled chicken enchiladas! Both were fantastic! We have had friends tell us it was good food and man were they right! Flavorful without all the grease, made to order right in front of you with obviously fresh ingredients. Go try it ASAP!

I’m a Café Rio fan! Everything here is tasty and fresh. They make their own tortillas and it’s one of the best I’ve ever had. I really like the chicken quesadilla with green sauce. The salads are delicious! They are lined with fresh tortilla and served with a heaping amount of lettuce and a good amount of the protein of your choice. I usually get the sweet pork barbacoa. The salads usually make two meals for me. As far as dressings, the creamy avocado one is the best. If you have kids, they’ll give you a complimentary kid sized quesadilla… just ask! Café Rio’s chicken tortilla soup is pretty good. The horchata is pretty good and so is the minty lemonade. Be on the lookout for coupons in the mail or online. There is usually one floating around for buy 1, get 1 free salad or burrito.

This is a good spot if you are craving Mexican food, but are in a hurry. When we first moved to town we ate half of our meals here. Café Rio was new to me as I’d never had one in other cities I’d lived in.
The food is pretty good for fast food. Mt favorite meats are Pork Barbacoa or Chile Roasted Beef. I like that they have a wide variety of meat options. All of the meats seem to be well prepared and flavorful. All of their food options come in huge portions that are reasonably priced for the portion size. The tortillas are made fresh in front of you which is cool. You can taste that they are fresh too. The drink options are really unique. My favorite is the Mint Limeade. They also offer specials each day to keep the menu unique.
Café Rio has a punch card to get a free item after 10 purchases and sometimes they put coupons in the mail for BOGO which is cool. That isn’t something you’ll get from their competitors.
This location gets crazy busy on weekends and at dinner time. Sometimes it takes 20+ minutes to get through the line even when the line isn’t that long. If you get something quick and the five people in front of you have an item that takes longer you’ll get stuck waiting. One night the people in front of me were very particular and my quesadilla sat while they asked for ten different sauces. Maybe I’d recommend pulling someone with one hot item to the front if others are going to be awhile. It wasn’t even the wait that really bothered me, but watching my food get cold while waiting was annoying.

Café Rio is really good and convenient when you’re in a rush– even during lunch hour. The line takes about 5 – 10 mins, the staff is upbeat and polite. I usually get the same thing, chicken enchiladas. The tortillas are made fresh and their chicken enchiladas are extremely good. Flavors are a little bland, portions are good. You have to remind them not to drown your enchiladas in their sauce. I’ll be a regular for during the week lunch breaks. Overall good food and good service.

The burritos enchilada style are to die for!!! My favorite place to eat! Yum!
Their quesadilla with chicken is also very good! Fresh guacamole made daily is delicious!

Love this location and love Café Rio! While during peak times the lines can be long, I’ve never had an issue with customer service and the line still runs smoothly. I’ve ordered online for pick up on several occasions from this office with them always being accurate and no issues. Thank goodness I don’t live too far away from this location, but the location that I work near is absolutely horrendous.
Thanks for being amazing Café Rio off Stephanie St! I wish you could train the Blue Diamond staff!

Its quality. It’s made fresh. But I always leave feeling like something flavor wise is missing. However, I do like their shredded pork and their fresh tortillas. But they do hit your pockets for sour cream and guacamole (based on amount). Kind of a self aware Chipotle Sans the beer. But with a superior drink and dessert selection. .and homemade quality tortillas.

Café Rio has been a staple for our family for years. I had a miserable experience here a few days ago at their Stephanie location. The staff was rude and the eating areas are dirty and dusty, just to start.
I requested no cheese on my pork salad and the preparer was clear on that until she got across the cotija cheese and coated my salad with it saying she didn’t realize it was cheese. (What?!) Then proceeded to pull it all off and toss it in the trash instead of making a new one.
Next, they were out of GUACAMOLE. Gasp! Funny thing is, when there’s a charge for guacamole as a side, there’s no DISCOUNT on meals that include it? Interesting. So I paid for a pork salad with cheese layered in which I have allergy to, fatty pork, and no guac. The limeade was completely out and the other drink in same machine were sitting there with strange layer on top (machine wasn’t stirring it.)
We also ordered tortilla soup that would come with guacamole.
Our experience with the staff here was ridiculous. I even had to ask three different employees for the manager’s contact info and all I got was business card of the store. Really?
I certainly won’t be back. The Eastern location is twice as busy and they’ve never been out of items when I’ve visited.

My favorite Rios!
I’m sure you can’t get a better service at Rio anywhere in town.
Good size portions, quality products and great service. Love it here.

This has become one of my go to lunch spots. I love how everything is fresh and made to order right in front of you. The homemade tortillas are delicious. There are many different combinations of items you can get from burritos, enchiladas, salads, tacos, all the usual mexican favorites.
I usually go with a salad or tostada. The house dressing is a creamy tomatillo that is totally addicting. They also have some of the best nachos I’ve ever had. Completely covered in cheese and then piled with beans, sour cream and guac. Mmmmmm. I also get the salsa fresca which I could just drink!
Don’t forget dessert. The coconut flan and tres leches are awesome. They top them with whipped cream and strawberries, are you hungry yet?
They also have a large drink bar with sodas, horchata and the famous mint limeade. The food and service is almost always consistent. Try to avoid the lunch hour (1200 – 1) but even then they get you through pretty quickly.

This place was so much fun! Instead of just waiting in line to place my order, we were able to watch the tortilla making process.
There were two ladies making the tortillas right there in front of us. One mixed the dough, while the other rolled it out and placed it on a spinning flat cook top. Once the tortillas were done, they were then stacked and ready to be used for burritos and quesadillas. Talk about fresh!
We paid an extra dollar for their Fire Grilled Chicken, and got the burrito. My husband loves heat, and asked for the hottest salsa, as well as ‘enchilada style’ with their green sauce. I love melted cheese and smothered burritos. Yum! They added greens and pico de gallo on the side. We took this home, and my husband and I split it.
The burrito was very flavorful, and large enough for the two of us to share. Even though he asked for the hottest salsa, it was tame enough for me to eat it with no problem… and I am a wimp when it comes to heat. I admit that I had been nervous when he asked for the hot salsa, but I need not have worried. We will definitely be back. Next time, I want to try the horchata as it has been way too many years since I have had any.

This place is really just okay, can’t understand what the hype is. We came again because we had a BOGO for a burrito or salad. But even with having the price slashed in half it was still more expensive than chipole and didn’t taste as good.
The staff is super fast, they’re like hovering with the sauces they think you’ll get so you kind of get anxiety that they’ll put it on. You have to practically shout at them to «no, the spicy one» or they’ll put the wrong one. They’re driven by quantity not quality.
What we got:
1. Chicken burrito: comes with rice, black beans, cheese and your choice of sauce. I asked for the spicy one and it was not spice at all. Maybe ²⁄₁₀. Tasted mild at best. Then had more hot sauce placed in it. It’s served with the lettuce and salsa next to it. 7.79ish, but extra dollar for sauce to cover it. Not worth it.
2. Steak burrito: again rice black beans, cheese and spicy sauce toasted. With more hot sauce covering it. With salad next to it. 7.79+1.5 cause it’s sliced steak (confusing, I don’t get it) +1 dollar for sauce to cover it. Again not worth it

You had me at Queso Dip…
Obviously I love their Queso. It has such a rich and delicious flavor. I could live off of that alone. Enough about Queso… They have other good food. Their grilled chicken salad is awesome! So huge and so filling. The tortillas are all made there in the restaurant. They definitely compliment every meal they are included with. –and yes the salad is also in a large tortilla.
The service here has always been consistent with a very friendly staff. They are helpful and accommodating to your choices and options.
Parking here is a bit cramped in the front and side. There is always additional parking in back by Total Wine. But it’s obviously easy to find being located right off of Stephanie and Warm Springs.
I’ll be back for more very soon!