The Big Sombrero

Great food and service! Reasonable prices! The entire family loved it! The kids wished we had one closer to home, DFW area!

Only been here once and it was a disappointing experience. While the food was good and margaritas were alright, we had an exceptionally long wait to get even our drink orders and were almost finished with our drinks before they came back to take orders for food. Not a good first experience. You’re better off going to 7 Leguas.

We ate here for lunch today. Just moved close to the lake and trying all the restaurants to see which ones are the best! This one ranks way up there! I got the chicken blanco and my husband ordered fajitas. Both were excellent quality, taste and price! Huge portion sizes. Next time we will split, however dinner is only a zap in the microwave away! I got a frozen beer-​Rita and it was very good as well! One thing I hate about most Mexican restaraunts is there salsa! LOVED there’s and they serve it warm!
Soooo, all that to say, this is a must try. It is now possibly our favorite mex food around!

So hard to find great service and this place had the best service ever. Several waiters came and check to make sure we had everything. Plus food was amazing.

I had to leave an outstanding review after having dined here at least a dozen times — all were very good! I was surprised to see many unfavorable reviews, yet can only deduce all reviews are very subjective. My wife and I are very picky and find this to be the best quality in the Montgomery area and have never been disappointed. We stopped going elsewhere long ago. Service has never been disappointing either.

I went to The Big Sombrero twice over the last week. The first night I ordered enchiladas. They were very good. My next visit I ordered pork tamales, which were the best tamales I have had in as long as I can remember. Very good!
The draft beer is very cold.
My only complaints are that they add mixed vegetables to their rice, which I think takes away from Mexican Rice, and their salsa has an overpowering onion flavor. Other than that, it’s a great place to eat.

The food was excellent and the service was great but it was dark in the restaurant and I couldn’t see the menu very well because of the lack of good lighting and the table we were at was really small.

This is our favorite Mexican restaurant off HY 105. The food is consistently good and great service.

Me and my boyfriend had lunch there on Valentine’s Day. We sat in the bar area for privacy and preference. Excellent service (our waiter was the bartender), there were people there, but it was not crowded. The food was exceptionally excellent though. I had the spicy dirty tacos and they were some of the best tacos I have ever had. My boyfriend was pleased with his meal as well. The margaritas we delicious. Even though I don’t live remotely close to this place (we were just driving around the lake looking for somewhere not insanely crowded to eat) we will be back for sure!

Great food, great atmosphere, amazing frozen margaritas! This is our Thursday night stop! Wait staff always friendly! Very accommodating:)

They were very helpful for hosting our large group. Very friendly.
For table service I wish there was more space between the tables.

This is not even close to Mexican food and not good food at all, I’ve given them 3 tries and all were way less than acceptable. Not even good tex-​mex. I grew up In South Texas I know good Mexican food and this place is not even on the map with taste. There are so many other Mexican restaurants on the lake that are 100% better than here. Don’t waste your money or time!

Tried the place on a whim while in Conroe. Glad that we did. It is rather dark inside. We started with queso with ground meat. Very good. Their salsa is served warm which I really like. I had the tacos al carbon — the meat was very flavorful. My husband had chicken flautad which he said were also very good. The only thing I wasn’t crazy about was the rice — I can deal with corn in Mexican rice, but theirs has green beans and Lima beans… Odd… Definitely will be back.

It was always great when they were Rancho Grande but now it seems they lack customer service.

Service has become pretty bad. The last time in we asked a question about an item on the menu and she said she did not know. That is it, she just stood there. She really did not seem to know much about anything on the menu or the bar. I would go else where.

The food was terrible and the service was worse. We were there with another couple and everything was so bad that we didn’t leave a tip. Or so we thought, we each had extra money put on our credit cards despite putting 0 with a line through it on the tip line and putting the total on the bottom line. if you go here, and I wouldn’t ever again, beware

Food and service were very good. Had the fish tacos, pretty decent.

Bad, bad, bad. It was a Thursday night and the place wasn’t too packed, but steady for sure. It was me and my two sisters having dinner and they seat us ALL the way in the back of the restaurant, directly next to the patio doors, in a room with a party of 10 – 15 adults and their small kids. The kids were running back and forth past us, in and out of the doors. Why? Tell me why you would seat us there when there were plenty of places in the other part of the dining room… Needless to say, we moved to another table.
It took almost an hour for our food to come out. I ordered some sort of fajita plate with chicken beef and shrimp. Shrimp tasted awfully fishy, the beef and chicken… NOT EVEN FAJITA MEAT. Yes, they are called fajitas because its a particular cut of meat! Not a boneless chicken thigh and an unknown piece of steak. Are you kidding? The meat wasn’t seasoned or anything and it was dry, dry, dry.
Beer selection SUCKS.
Best thing about this place? The salsa. It was super good.
Yea, I don’t see that they have improved from when the owners were running Rancho Grande, which right before they closed received like 20 something demerits on their inspection! ICH.

Beer was warm. Thank goodness I didn’t buy the big glass! Food took 1 hour to come out from the time that we sat down. We saw people around us get their food that were served after us. Waiter was nice and staff were attentive to your low drink and chips. Oh, and I saw them take one of the used margarita glasses and run it through water and reuse it. I did not see them run it through any additional sanitizer. Not even to scrub it. I am so glad I ordered a beer. Never seen a Mexican restaurant run out of margarita glasses like this.
Just really disappointed with the beer and wait time on food, once we were seated.

I tried out this new Mexican place with my family. First, the parking lot was absolutely packed on a Thursday night, so I guess the good folks in Montgomery don’t have a lot to do but try out the new Mexican restaurant in town. :-)
As for the food. We got the complementary chips and dip and the salsa was all right with a nice kick to it. However, the first two bowls of chips were quite greasy, so we had to ask to get the replaced. My guess is that they were rushing to get them out as quickly as possible.
The entrees were just so-​so — definitely edible, not bad tasting, but not great. For my money, I prefer some of the other places nearby, like Rico’s and 7 Leagues.