Acapulco Joe's Mexican Foods 33

They have cheapened their recipies and ingreients. The cheese used to be wonderful, beans flavorful, the rice had chicken & peas for flavor.

Absolutely horrible “mexican” food, I’ve given it a few tries, and it continues to get worse, don’t understand how this place is still open.

One of the worst “mexican” places that I’ve ever eaten at. It’s absolutely horrible. I don’t understand how it’s been around for so long.

Joe’s has changed and is now horrible. They have bad owners, bad food, dirty, and the employees are miserable. Recipes are not the same!

Joe’s has been around for over 40 years.This eatery remains exactly the way Joe wanted it. I love Joes, and many others love it too.

Joe’s has been around for over 40 years.This eatery remains exactly the way Joe wanted it. I love Joes, and many others love it too.

The nastiest mexican I’ve ever had… So many that are much better. GROSS

I wanna try this one. I’ve heard about them. I usually get tips for Mexican restaurants on www.mexicanrestaurantfinder.com

Some interesting good sauce with the chips they bring out. A true American vibe by this glorious Mexican food joint. Four out five.

I have friends who love this place. I have not been there in years, but I love salsa and when salsa is served out of a ketchup bottle… well, that about does it for me.

That is the biggest disappointment.

Have friends who love it though, so I think we’ll be going there for lunch soon…. will try to keep an open mind and just pretend they don’t offer free chips and (ketchup).

Acapulco Joes is my favorite mexican restaurant in Indy, hands down. The chips and salsa are excellent, the flavor of the salsa is truely spectactular. Having moved to Texas a few years back, i have yet to find a place down here that even comes close to the great tasting dishes served at Acapulco Joes. Indy you’ve got a real treasure on your hands, enjoy it.

I do not know why people like this place. Maybe it is because everyone from Indy is use to processed pre-packaged Mexican food. We had one of these out in Brownsburg and it lasted all of 1 month. I had a few friends who worked there and they said many of their dishes were preassembled prepackaged meals. I guess it would be a good place to eat is you are used to prison food.

Let me say this: I’ll never go there again and I wouldn’t recommend it to any of my friends. A dive has to deliver something – this place delivered a stomach ache to me.

I made a 25 person reservation for my birthday more than a week in advance for the outside deck. The reason I chose this place was b/c of the outside seating. A woman even called me from the restaurant the morning of to confirm my “outside reservation for 25 people”. When I arrived, they had 2 tables set up INSIDE and ended up giving away one of my tables b/c not all of us were there at the same time. I asked the owner if we could sparatically sit outside once tables started opening and she said it wouldn’t be a problem, well it was a problem b/c I never got to sit outside until the last 5 minutes. I was infuriated. Aren’t reservations suppose to RESERVE your seat? They did absolutely nothing to accommodate their mistake. Their margaritas are straight mixer with a drop of cheap tequila, they played God Bless America every 20 minutes (horrific), no festive music was ever playing and someone kept obnoxiously yelling over their PA. It was a nightmare. I will NEVER EVER EVER go back.

My mom started taking me to Alcapulco Joe’s when I was only 6 weeks old. I love this place… it just screams home to me. It is a bit dirty… the service is a bit slow… but the queso and tostados are to die for and there is real history there! I like that I can walk in and VERY little has changed since I was 4 years old! It was a really neat experience taking my own son there. I love a good 4 or 5 star meal, but the “dives” are a real asset too!!

I used to go there in the 90s but haven’t been much at all lately. I always went with the tostadas—beet slice, hard boiled egg slice and olive on top—-funky but filling.

I am not very impressed with this place. The service wasn’t very good, our server never even refilled our drinks.

The “salsa” in the sqeeze bottles just plain grosses me out. Why would I want to squirt that watery, too-sweet stuff onto my chips?? They need to offer regular salsa as well. The food is okay, I liked the nachos but the cheese enchiladas were WAY too greasy.

This is def not my first choice when it comes to mexican food.

I have tried my best to like this place. I agree with others that it seems to have gone downhill over the past couple years. Used to be pretty good. Have gone there twice with my wife (who is a Mexican food fanatic!) and both times had extremely poor service and poor food at best. Very dissapointing.

I have been going to Acapulco Joe’s for 30 years now. I DO remember the the original Joe Rangel. He was there EVERY time the place was open…a decent, kind, HARD WORKING man. Personally, I love the food..even the salsa in squeeze bottles! By the way, when they play God Bless America every day at noon, its Kate Smith singing.

Hell yah im an orriginal Rangel. FOUNDERS OF THIS PLACE. get off my sack. my great uncle and my grandfather went through hell to get to indy, and to start this restaraunt so hell yes!

thank you :)