Cinco de Mayo

This is a great authentic Mexican restaurant. I go to this location and the one in Union Station. The food is solid and the Chicken Soup is one of the best I have ever had.

Awesome Mexicano food! Burrito grande was great and full of flavor. Taco salad was teeming with beef… made my mouth water! The chips were also freshly made with a nicely ‘hot n spicy’ salsa accompaniment. Go! You will like it!

After a long day doing touristy things in downtown Nashville I was famished. I began looking up nearby Mexican restaurants on Unilocal that had pretty good ratings. I was drawn to Cinco de Mayo’s and for good reason. The staff were friendly and attentive and not to mention authentic people, authentic delicious food! We got the mixed fajita plate for around 15 bucks and we actually was able to split the plate with getting an extra order of tortillas (80 cents) We both had plenty to eat and even enough to bring some back to the hotel to finish later. I enjoyed the salsa it was good and spicy and I also enjoyed the angus steak meat in the fajita mixed plate. I would come back to dine here when in the area.

BEST BEER DEALS IN TOWN!!! $ 4.99 pitchers on Thursday! That’s 7.8 cents per ounce of beer! Try to beat that… let me update you… you can’t…unless you’re buying from a gas station. So if you want to drink cheaper than you can at home then go to Cinco De Mayo. Also, the camarones con pina is awesome as is the sopa de pollo. They have drink specials on sunday, monday, and tuesday as well — $ 2.99 32 ounce brews which is 9.34 cents per ounce of beer — not bad!!! Go now! Also, the beer is crazy ice cold. I think I’m going to go tonight! Yeah!!!

Cinco de Mayo makes the claim that they have the best margaritas in town. Totally not accurate. Around the corner from the White Bridge location, Las Palmas on Charlotte Pike has far superior margaritas at a substantial size for a great prize. However, the $ 2.99 margarita specials ($ 10.99 pitcher) on Sundays-​Tuesdays make Cinco de Mayo a good deal.
Otherwise, the rice and other entrees are rather generic in quality, but cheap.

Fast, cheap, easy. Chile rellenos are my go to but the steak fajitas are good too. Not a fan of the tacos here. Margaritas are good too and cheap.

This place is amazing. My girlfriend and I have been coming here for a few years now, and it has never changed. The specials they have each day is incredible, especially the 2 dollar margarita special sun-​tues.
Great service, great environment! I would definitely recommend this place to anyone who is ready for some great Mexican food/​drinks.

our go to Mexican restaurant in Nashville. the food is always so good, the portions are huge and the prices are excellent. We have had several things here (fajitas, chimichangaz, burritos, chicken fundido) and can never decide what to order because it’s all great! the steak tacos are simple but amazing and their drink specials couldn’t be better. happy hour all day Sunday through Tuesday, 99 cent drafts Friday’s after 8, and mango margaritas I could drink for breakfast!
typical Friday night order of two meals, cheese dip, 2 margaritas and 2 beers comes in under $ 45 after tip!

Best Mexican fast cheap
Good and not Lard based love the owners brothers prices and food. Cannot say enough good things about this place. Another weekly go
To for dinner in and takeout!
I get the soup when sick but love everything

Delicious mexican food. I went on Cinco De Mayo, when it was PACKED– and the service was still patient and attentive; I really appreciate that.
The margaritas here are also amazing!

Let me begin by saying that Sun– Tue they have $ 2.99 margaritas and $ 10.99 pitchers of margaritas!!! That was the determining factor to get us to decide to go there! The margaritas are pretty good too, and if you split a pitcher with about 4 people you can get about 2 cups each for about $ 3.50, not too shabby! We ended up going in a big group this past Sunday around 8pm and since we had a large group we were in our own separate area which was nice, because we were loud and obnoxious!
The server took our order quickly and correctly and the food arrived about 10 minutes later with no complaints from any of us! He kept our chips and salsa replenished anytime they got low! My husband and I shared a combination plate that had a burrito and enchilada on it with rice and beans, plus we both shared the pitcher of margaritas, before tip our bill was only around $ 15! The food is anything outstanding our different, just regular olé Mexican food you could find anywhere but for the convenience and the cheap margaritas, we will be back!

Been here several times. the service is good, drinks are great, the chicken quesadillas are awesome and I love the chips salsa and queso! Highly recommended

This used to be our weekday dinner place. We enjoyed the ambience until one day we interacted with the manager for the first time. I am not sure if he was having a bad day but he was not accommodating for a party of 9. we were not provided with enough chairs for 10 mins and upon reminding him (manager) he said «it’s not been 10mins yet». Then also he did not accept our state issued drivers license saying it was not a permanent id. It was a print out by the DMV department. I UNDERSTAND HIS POSITION BUT HE COULD HAVE BEEN POLITE ABOUT IT, instead he was behaved rudely with all the guest.
This cinco de mayo has a monopoly on Charlotte as there is no bigger and better ambience place nearby.

Busy place but we still got a table immediately on a Friday evening. Very loud atmosphere. Try to get into a side room if you want to chat. Not sure if they have hotter salsa but the salsa they bring is definitely for gringos. Food was decent but definitely not the best Mexican food in Nashville (I’m looking at you, Nolensville Road) and a far cry from what I’m used to. Don’t even think about ordering a sopapilla. I was expecting the hot, soft, puffy pillow variety with oodles of honey to pour as I wished. Instead, I got a crispy, thin, flat frisbee. Yuk.

This is one of my favorite Mexican restaurants of all time. Start with their drink specials: Sunday-​Tuesday, pitchers of (very strong) margarita are $ 10.99 all day long. They have fantastic drink specials every day of the week, and, unlike a lot of Mexican restaurants, never skimp on the alcohol.
There food is delicious, and affordably priced. An order of fajitas that includes generous helpings of steak, chicken, and shrimp is $ 13.25, and though the menu lists these fajitas as being a «single order,» there has always been enough for both I and my boyfriend. Oftentimes, we have even had some to take home! We have tried pretty much everything in this place, and experienced the same consistently high quality.
My only (mild) complaint about this place is that the salsa is just okay. It is not very spicy, and somewhat watery. However, the quality of the rest of the food more than makes up for it.

The food was just alright. I don’t like when you go to these types of Mexican places and the food looks like slop on those prison movies. I am a big fan of their monster margarita. I doubt we will go back to this restaurant because there was nothing authentic about it. The guac served with the chips wasn’t fresh and you could 100% tell it was frozen prior to being served to us. But the three stars were definitely for the monster margarita!

This place is in my top 3 for Mexican Fare here in Nashville.
It is difficult to find Mexican food in Nashville that I really like as I travel a bunch and have access to really good Mexican and TexMex food many times during the year.
For here at home I have 3 places I will eat and this is one.
The service is always good. I don’t drink but am told the drinks are really good here.
If you get a chance, give it a try!

You know how everyone has their favorite cheap Mexican place and no other place can touch it? Well mine is El Porton in Roswell, GA, and I’m still trying to find a place that lives up to that.
In Nashville, Cinco de Mayo is as close as I’ve come to finding my favorite Americanized Mexican. It’s inexpensive, friendly, and downright tasty. Also, they have some KILLER drink specials.
If you too are looking to fill the Mexican void, Cinco de Mayo will fit the bill.

We love Mexican food. L.O.V.E. And love authentic Mexican food — so we try all of the restaurants around town.
There’s a lot of trendy Mexican Restaurants around town, but if you’re looking for authentic Mexican (w/​awesome Queso), Cinco de Mayo is my favorite. And if it’s not on the menu — ask. They’ve been very flexible on my meet-​free days as well.

I flew in from NY to a hotel across the street and I was STARVING. I saw the «mexican restaurant» sign and decided to give it a go. (And obviously checked Unilocal to make sure it wasn’t a one star joint)
I must say… I’ve had some GOOD mexican food in my life.
This restaurant was just sort of average to me. Nothing really stood out. Service was fast & friendly. I got the enchilada and burrito combo. It came with a heaping portion of beans and rice. Was it good? yes. Did it satisfy me? yes — all i had were peanuts on the plane. would I come here again? nope. sorry.