Caliente Cab

This place is sooooo bad… Only go here for the drinks. The beans taste like they came out of the can. The enchiladas don’t have enchilada sauce.?? They use ground beef in the enchiladas. And without the sauce it was like getting two tacos. Lol I could go on but you get the point.

This is a great place. For an airport restaurant. It is a chain so the food is normal for the chain, good even. There was no hostess as i arrived. The bartender eventually noticed me floating around and told me just to sit anywhere. My waitress came out fairly quickly. I ordered a vodka Pineapple and liked the fresh pineapple on my glass. I ate the ranchero enchiladas. The food was tasty for a chain restaurant. Pricing was fair for an airport. The restaurant seemed clean to me. I will come back here agin id i am in the area — this was a good wzperience.

I’m giving this 2 stars vs 1 because I’m pretty sure I won’t get ill from having eaten here. (Reserve the right to revise if that changes in the next 4 – 6 hours.)
Pros:
— the menu is very well-​written. The food described there sounds delicious. I would like to go to a restaurant where they actually serve that food.
Cons:
— even given that this is an airport restaurant, to call this Americanized Mexican food would be like calling powdered eggs a soufflé. Aside from the names and shape of the food, there are no taste similarities to Mexican
— refried beans are straight out of a can. If I had to guess, I’d say it was a 5-​gallon can from a generics food factory. Bland is putting it kindly.
— understaffed, and those staff that are here are indifferent. Not rude — just largely absent and avoiding eye contact when they do pass through. Don’t go here if you’re crunched for time. Or enjoy food.

Unprofessional environment along with very generic Mexican food and un-​discriptive menus. I decided to get the mexi tacos, and they ended up looking old with huge chunks of onions… yuck never eating here again. I think the hospital serves better food!

Had a great burger – large and the guacamolie was excellent.

The food sucks! That’s it. Service blows as well.
I got a plate of enchiladas. All it was corn tortillas with unmelted cheese. No sauce on top. Soda was flat. It took 25 mins to get to my table. Barely made my flight.

Yeah, even if you are craving Tex-​Mex food at the airport, please for the love of all things south of the border do NOT go here.
Service at Caliente Cab Co. Newark Airport edition really does suck! And I’m pretty sure what I received wasn’t what I ordered. I sure as hell did not order a chicken burrito with peas in it… PEAS. LITTLE DISGUSTING GREEN BALLS.
Obviously, I am not a fan of peas.
Overpriced and painfully underwhelming. Pass.

So… I’m not a business or economics major, but I can imagine that it is difficult to figure how to have fresh food at an airport restaurant. That’s why I’m always pleasantly surprised when I stumble upon a restaurant in an airport that isn’t awful.
What I DONT think is difficult is figuring out how long the food needs to be cooked in the microwave.
My tortillas came out over heated and hard as a rock. My refried beans had that awesome (see sarcasm) coating that says, I was sitting out too long and got crusty being heated up in the microwave and the chicken was warm at best.
I had eaten at caliente cab in the city and while I would promote other places like mercadito, downtown bakery and even the ever loved chain Blockheads, the locations I went to in the city were far more enjoyable than what I just ate. I would have been better off snacking on trail mix from Hudson News.
Why 2 stars? Friendly staff and with missing my connecting flight I’m hoping to send some positive karma out into the world.

Worst food of my life. This tragedy will haunt you, this place will make you question how it hasn’t been replaced with a Taco Bell yet. It makes Taco Johns look like a 5 star establishment. Myself & my friend actually paid for our half eaten food just so we could go across the food court & get a panini.

Skip the food, the bar is the only redeeming part of this place.
I’m pretty sure if this place wasn’t in the Airport it would go out of business. The hostess station seems like it is constantly abandoned. After waiting there eventually a server passes by and seats you.
You would think being an airport restaurant that they would be all over getting your order right away so you can eat and get to your flight. I didn’t time it but somewhere after about 10 min or so a waiter finally came by and took our order and brought us drinks. After that I only saw our server two more times, when our food finally came out and when I got my check. Looking around as I was sitting there that seemed to be the norm. Servers are scarce and not easy to find.
As for the food, it is overpriced ESPECIALLY for the quality or lack there of that you are getting. I ordered a quesadilla and it tasted like some one had opened a package of grocery tortillas, a bag of pre-​shredded cheese, pre-​cooked chicken and combined. It was completely devoid of any seasoning.
I dare say unless you just want some booze, head over to the MacDonalds across the food court.

This place had us cracking up! I’m not even sure why we went here despite all of the awful reviews. It was the strangest service I have ever seen. We watched one table get bussed by a server over an entire hour. Every fifteen minutes, he would take one cup or one dish off of the table. Twenty minutes after ordering, our waiter came back to our table and asked, «What did you get again?»
The food was edible! That was cool. We were staring longingly at the salad bar across the food court for the hour we were waiting though. Funny to have such slow service when you actually have a plane to catch.

Never again. Tasted like day-​old microwaved frozen Mexican dinner.

If anything, get a margarita on ice w/​premium tequila. Everything else (service, food, drinks) — terrible…
Service is slow, tables remained dirty while customers waited online, food is average even when compared to other mexican fast food.
Stay away…

Headline: identity crisis much?
This is The sit down place in the food court at Newark airport. When your competition is McDonald’s and villa pizza, you don’t have to try too hard, and they don’t.
Lets get this out of the way first. Every Mexican place should have tacos on the menu. WTF? No tacos? You have got to be kidding me!!! Unfortunately they weren’t. Also, don’t call something a torta unless it comes on a roll — preferably that nice Mexican style roll.
I ordered the Cancun Philly sandwich, which came with «Mexican fries» and a chipotle dipping sauce. There was nothing Mexican about this dish. It wasn’t even a very good cheesesteak. The fries were tolerable, but not good. The dipping sauce was so spicy I couldn’t taste anything.
Lets talk service. I’ll be polite and call it lackluster. Slow and indifferent would be more accurate. Water takes over five minutes to reach the table. Menus (which should be easy) are MIA.
Bypass this place — even if the only place open is McDonald’s. this place goes out of its way to disappoint.

The food? Nothing more than microwaved slop. Service? Perfunctory at best.
That having been said, the drinks aren’t terribly bad, albeit a tad expensive. So when you’ve missed your flight, a barely decent frozen margarita isn’t a bad way to pass another few hours in the hellhole /​time-​space continuum that is EWR. So an extra star for booze it is.

Avoid at all cost. Horrible food, horrible service and just plan ROTTEN. Read the other reviews it sucks!

Wow! I’ve had bad Mexican before, but this place definitely takes the torta.
I ordered the Mexican chicken suizas. You couldn’t tell that it was an enchilada with so much cheese put on top. The chicken was old, not expired old, but like they used a granny chicken. The meat was so tough! The rice looked like cafeteria rice with canned peas and carrots. The beans, obviously from the can, had a dried-​over look, like they just over nuked it.
I should have read the reviews before coming here, but like all the others, I ate to my demise.
Oh man… I feel a stomach ache coming on!

A lukewarm pile of pure garbage on a plate. What a horrible disaster! To call this place Mexican or even a restaurant would be an insult to both!
Let’s recount this unfortunate gastronomic experience…
Meandering about Terminal C, we decided to sit down for a meal while waiting out our layover. My fault for not checking the reviews before making our choice of venue… but seeing as we were about to be dining on non-​stop Italian cuisine for the next 3 weeks, of our options at hand we figured: let’s do Mexican!
The positives. The inside décor is actually quite satisfactory and almost whisks you away to somewhere other than the middle of a structure in New Jersey. And, our waiter was friendly.
Now, the unfortunate part. Rather than go into detail about the menu, what we ordered, or the prices, let’s just line-​item what we found with the food served to us:
Chips… chewy, pliable
Fajitas… cold, limp
Onions… old, expired
Refried beans… canned
Enchilada innards… warm goo
Beef/​steak… stringy, cold cow pieces
Iced tea… chlorine-​flavored
Believe it or not the best food served to us was actually my wife’s French fries (I know, true Mexican huh?) They were crispy and tasted of fresh, not dirty, oil. Unfortunately, a small glimmer of hope quickly dashed by the rest of the slop served.
Come back here? OH HECK NO! Our impression of this place? A place where food is prepared with the complete expectation that you’ll fly away and never return!
So if you see this place, do yourself a favor, save your money, and beat them to it: fly away and never return!

Upon arriving I noticed that a gentleman, who had entered after me, quickly looked at his phone and abruptly left. I now know that this can only be attributed to his excellent Unilocal application. Had I also checked reviews before ordering, I would have departed for ANY — I mean ANY– other spot in the airport.
When I first arrived the place was empty, yet there were no waiters to seat me. Eventually a bus boy/​bar back said «Sit wherever you want.» So I did. After waiting for 15 minutes my unenthusiastic waiter (?) took my order.
My order of fried ravioli was finally delivered, and it was absolutely disgusting. Imagine 10-​day-​old ravioli fried in beard trimmings and then refrozen in reptilian sperm. Then imagine the staff defrosting aforementioned ravioli by microwaving it in a paper towel that has been used to mop up Cubs’ fan vomit. Now add «80 days later» to every descriptor and you still won’t have anything as disgusting as I was served. Also keep in mind that I had nothing to eat all day and I was completely famished.
Uh yea… WORST EVER!

Layover on the way to Spain.
The calamari was decent though the serving was pretty skimpy (see pic). The margaritas were inconsistent: first was a pretty good pour while the second was pretty weak.