Sal & Teresa’s Mexican Restaurant
1111 S Beeline Hwy, Payson, AZ, 85541
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Address :
1111 S Beeline Hwy
Payson, AZ, 85541 - Phone (928) 474-4305
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Opening Hours
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Specialities
- Takes Reservations : No
Delivery : No
Take-out : Yes
Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Parking : Private Lot
Bike Parking : Yes
Good for Kids : Yes
Good for Groups : Yes
Attire : Casual
Noise Level : Average
Alcohol : Full Bar
Outdoor Seating : Yes
Has TV : No
Waiter Service : Yes
Categories
Mexican Cuisine
If you enjoy Taco Tuesday, then you have officially fallen in love with the Mexican Food. The main grain of Mexican cuisine is maize. Also known as corn, maize is grown for the past 9000 years after the crop was discovered by the people in Mayan civilization. Mexican empire flourished when they started growing beans, tomatoes, chili pepper, sweet potato and cactus. Till this date these ingredients are used in cooking authentic Mexican dishes and drinks.
Great use of spices, fresh chili pepper dishes like fajitas, tortilla chips, corn chips, salsa, chimichangas, burritos, nachos and quesadillas are invented in America. But when you are looking for authentic Mexican food then you must find a restaurant in the city that serves Rajas con Queso, Garbanzo in a Guajillo Chile Sauce, Pork Filled Chiles Rellenos, Chiles en Nogada, Molcajete Salsa, Pico de Gallo and Frijoles de la Olla. An eye-opening fact – Mexican don't like their food hot. They use fresh chili and other spices to create a flavor that lingers in your mouth.
Mexican food is great for those who are Gluten Intolerant as they use Corn instead of wheat in most of their dishes. Also, you can easily find many beans based Mexican dishes. Another dish which didn't get similar glory as tacos or nachos is the Mexican hot chocolate. If you love something hot on a chilly day, then go for Mexican Hot Chocolate. On merry days, you can enjoy the authentic Mexican Drinks like Tequila, Mezcal, Tecuí, Sotol, Bacanora, Charanda, Posh O Pox, Puebla and Pulque. Mexican Cuisine is for people who enjoy strong drinks and hearty meals.
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Gary M.
We have dined at this restaurant since it opened this summer and really enjoyed the "Authentic Mexican" food. However I guess all good things must end. Sadly this restaurant started out with great food and service, but has been in a slow decline lately. Main complaint here is inconsistent flavors, heat and amounts. I regularly eat jalapeno's with my meals, but the last Carnita Burro here was so hot I was unable to finish half of it. Their menu states 12 Large Shrimp in their Shrimp Cocktail and it started out that way, however the last one we had there had three full shrimp, four half shrimp, and misc. pieces probably meant for a Shrimp Taco. The Cocktail was as hot as the Burro if not hotter. When we asked the waiter what happened to the shrimp that were supposed to be in the Shrimp Cocktail, he argued with us and said they've always been served that way. SORRY - they will not ever be served to us "that way" again.
(2)Joanne I.
Taco Tuesday is what Sal and Teresa's is known for locally. A special menu for lunch with all items a dollar. When there do not expect quick service, it is not. A good place to meet friends to chat and catch up. Large clean restrooms, very casual atmosphere, family owned.
(3)Ben B.
Chips and Salsa were so good (hot sauce too). We saw the sign that read "Hatch green chile lovers" when we were on our way through town. After our camping trip, the place was calling our names and so we decided to give it a shot. Our server Scott was way above par! Great attitude and service lead to a great experience! I had the green chile burrito served Christmas style (enchilada style w red and green) and my wife had green chile chicken enchiladas. They both were exceptional. Don't forget to try the soppapilla's with honey either! They finish off the meal perfectly!
(5)Carrie H.
This restaurant is awful. They treat their employees awful. Their service is awful. The owner has an anger issue. Their food is marginal at best. We will NEVER go to this restaurant again.
(1)Karen L.
I eat green chile every time I go for Mexican food (which is ALOT) this restaurant has fabulous flavor and authentic food! They even have flour chips mixed in with the corn... Yum...
(5)Tristan L.
Excellent shrimp burrito. Loads of shrimp with nicely sautéed peppers and onions. My boyfriend said the chili relleno was very good with nice spice.
(5)Doug S.
What a pleasant surprise. We saw the signs out by the highway advertising food made with hatch chilis. Homemade chips with salsa that was out of this world. We wanted the chili rellenos but they were out so I had the shredded beef chino and wifey had the rolled tacos. The chino had the green sauce on it and I can honestly say I have never had better. Really good. The place is easy to miss coming in to Payson so good incentive to slow down and look to the right.
(5)Jen R.
We didn't eat in, but it seemed like a fun place and the food looked good. We took a quart of green chile home. It was in stew form, with pork (I think). Damn if it wasn't hotter than the blacktop in Phoenix, but it was SO GOOD. The Albuquerque native was even satisfied with it (and no chile in AZ ever lives up to his expectations).
(4)Lauren B.
Got here a little before 2 pm today (a Saturday) and there were about 3 other parties in the restaurant. 1 party walked in before us and left because it was taking too long to get a table. I really wanted to love this place because I come to Payson a few times a year and eating out is totally a thing of mine. 1. There was one person working as both hostess and a server. She was friendly but a little forgetful. My biggest complaint is that her shirt and pants were too small and all I saw was her asscrack. 2. It took almost an hour to get our food. With 3 other parties in the restaurant. And we ordered 3 plates. Luckily, the food was good. It wasn't enough to make me come back, but it was good enough to make up for the shitty service. That asscrack, however, will probably haunt me for a bit.
(3)J. Chris H.
This place has good food but terrible service. I asked where the owner were and the answer was they didn't know. I wonder if they know they will soon loose all their life savings because they don't care. We went there yesterday waited for an hour for our food. The waitresses are nice but the management needs more help.
(2)Nesto M.
First of all, for a town this size, Payson has far far too many Mexican food restaurants. While that is not this establishment's fault, in order to wow, you gotta...well, WOW to get the people coming back. I just don't see this place hanging on. Of the 14,000 places to get a burrito in payson (population aproximately 14001) Sal & Teresa's isn't the worst, but it isn't the best. It's just...meh. The niche it has filled the best, and gets the biggest crowd, is what it calls Taco Tuesdays. Lots of good menu items for a $1 a pop. People flock and flood the place on Tuesdays. But on all the other days, it seems like a ghost town. This makes total sense because, from a PR standpoint, luring the people in on Tuesdays with killer deals is a GREAT idea...if your food blows them away. That way, the other 6 days of the week stay full with people who just can't get enough of your crave-worthy chow. Not the case here. With such mediocrity in their dishes, people snap up the low price Tuesday deals, and find somewhere else to eat on all the full price days. I have been, on both Taco Tuesdays and on regular menu price days. Either way, the food is unspectacular. So given the choice, I, and it appears the rest of the town as well, would rather j pay the once a week discounted price for food that is nothing to write home about. I do like that there are both corn and tortilla chips in the complimentary bowl. The salsa is nicely flavored. Green chile is tasty. and they have enormous margaritas that are so massive, the menu states that there must be more than one drinker to even order it. The staff is friendly enough, but there definitely isn't that personable vibe that you can get in many other local places here. They do their job, but wrong orders and general aloof attitudes is what I sense from most of the servers. The food is passable, but it isn't in any way memorable. I have been to their original location in the Show Low area, and I have to say, while they may have brought the name to Payson, it seems they forgot to bring the heart and soul of the place from the white mountains.
(2)R W.
We went in Taco Tuesday. Prices were good. Place was pretty busy. We didn't have margaritas so can't comment on drinks. I had chicken enchiladas and Taco. My husband had pork dinner. This was our first time. Food was fairly tasteless. Chips were flat tasting sauce was not remotely spicy. Food was just bland which is not what you expect from Mexican food. We will keep looking or go to Taco Bell!
(2)Michelle B.
We went to Sal and Teresa's for the famous "Taco Tuesday". The best part about Sal and Teresa's was the sandwich I made for dinner when I got home after waiting for two hours and did not receive any food. We didn't even get our drinks after an hour of waiting, then we sat down and waited another hour for our food, which we did not get. We gave $20 for our drinks and told them to keep the dollar tacos. I give them one star because I'm not allowed to choose zero stars. 9/23/14 amendment 03/9/15: Friends advised us not to go on Tuesdays as it is too busy to keep up with the demand. They brought tacos for us one day to try it out and it did taste good. I am editing it to 2 stars as the food was good, but my family will not return due to the previous experience they had.
(2)Jeff P.
I really wanted to like this place, as the server and other people were really, really nice. However, the food was sub par, even for Payson. I'm always disappointed when I can get better Mexican food in my Seattle home, and quite frankly, I had a better Mexican meal at the Chile's across the street the next day :-( The margaritas were priced good, as it was happy hour, but I feel like they were could have used a little more tequila, and a little less mix. I had the Chile Relleno plate, and it was just not very good. Also - I couldn't find ANYTHING on the menu for vegetarians, since every dish is based on either their Red or Green chile sauce, both of which contain meat. Your only bet is to get something without the sauce, and put salsa on it instead. I guess that's not too surprising for Payson, but it would be nice to at least have a meat-free cheese enchilada or something, like most places have.
(1)Laurinda O.
Terrible food & margaritas. The veggie fajitas had about 1/8 of a sliced bell pepper and the rest was grilled onions. That was all! It should have been called "onion fajitas" or they should have just said they were all out of vegetables! The margaritas did not have any alcohol!
(1)Michael B.
If good texmex is what your after then this is the place. Dinner for two and Margaritas for about $20 is nothing unusual and on Tuesdays it get better with food and drink specials. The decor is bright but hokey mexican but the place was clean and so we're the restrooms. If you don't stop and eat there while you are in Payson you will go a long ways before you get food this good and reasonably priced.
(5)Teresa W.
We visited your restaurant this weekend. The rain slowed business but not our meal. Server was friendly and courteous. Food delicious and price decent. We loved the chips and salsa--they mix flour tortillas with the corn so if you are on a gluten free diet be prepared. At our request the second bowl of chips was corn tortillas only. Husband had such a big plate of chicken fajitas that he brought some home for lunch. We missed Happy Hour but we're coming back!
(4)Ken R.
My folks live in Payson. I went yesterday to visit and wanted to try this new restaurant. It's almost impossible to describe how much I hated this place. The vividly colored sombreros on the wall and the old dusty red jalapeno pepper pinatas hanging from the ceiling would normally have made me walk back out, but this is Payson. The good stuff. Our waitress greeted us promptly and delivered menus and took drink orders. So far, so good. I thought the iced tea had good flavor. It was at least real tea. My Father asked for water with "lots" of lemon and that's what he got. Mom asked for Dr. Pepper and commented several times that it was better than "most" Dr. Pepper. I don't know what that means but we need as much under the "good stuff" as we can get here. One more thing on the good side. The chips and salsa came with a mix of fried corn tortillas and fried flour tortillas. My Cardiologist hates it, but I love the fried flour tortilla chips. These were good. The two salsas had little flavor or character and would not be remembered except for the memory of that day "we ate the really bad salsa." My Father and I ordered a red chili burro and a tamale with rice and beans. In Arizona, Mexican food almost always means Sonoran style with the ubiquitous rice, beans, taco, tostado, burro, tamale, chimichanga, etc. This menu reflected that. OK fine. If that's what it is, I can eat that. I like that. This was not that. Everything I ate was something dumped from a can into a pot and barely heated. The red sauce was the color of day glow orange which is normally only seen in trout bait. The meat was chunks of (God, let it be beef) meat cut into 1/2 inch dice and steamed. That mixed with the same sauce was spooned into a tortilla and topped with more day glow orange sauce. The sauce did have some spice to it, meaning heat. My Dad said because of that he really enjoyed it. OK. I agree that it did have some heat, but what it didn't have was flavor. It was a canned, not so hot mess. Hey Sal, have you ever heard of salt? The rice was cooked well but was mixed with nothing but this same bland sauce. Yuck! The beans were dumped from a can and were thick and tasteless topped with melted cheese. Yuck! I heard Mexican speaking people in the kitchen. WHY WHY WHY won't one of you stand up to the perpetrators of this establishment? My folks told me that this was a refreshing change of pace since the "El Rancho" has gone downhill. It's difficult to imagine that anything could be downhill from here. There must be someone, somewhere with some cooking skills who would like to open a Mexican food restaurant in Payson, AZ. Please??!!
(1)Perry V.
It was Friday night about 7pm, my son and I were tired from fishing all day and we didn't want to get back to Phoenix too early for rush hour. We were driving through Payson avoiding all of the tempting restaurants saying we would wait and go to Mixteca when we got back to Phoenix. But unfortunately just before we got out of Payson, my son saw this restaurant. All of the other Mexican places we passed that night around 7pm were jammed, this one had 5 cars outside. The parking lot is way too small and almost dangerous for the location where 87 veers off, the speed limit increases near where the point the restaurant is at the end of town and most of the traffic of Payson seems to converge here because it's a bottle-neck at that point. Plus it's right next to a turnoff to a road that goes uphill, very steep. I saw one car pull in while we were waiting for our food and it took him about 5 minutes to get turned back around when he realized he did not want to go to this restaurant.. We walked in and it was dimly lit with 50's music playing, it was cute at first but it got annoying after a while, too loud and not fitting of a Mexican restaurant. There were 4 tables occupied at 7pm, we sat at a booth. We were immediately served chips and salsa by a busyboy. The sauce and the chips were good, but that's about all I can good about the rest of the meal unfortunately. I ordered the taco dinner with 2 ground beef tacos. The rice and beans were tasteless, almost like they were frozen then microwaved. The tacos were fried (????). Is the cook from California? That's California style tacos and I like them but these were too crumbly, VERY SMALL, and the meat was tasteless. My son got a tamale and enchilada which he said were not good. My feeling is that everything was frozen and the microwaved. To top it off, the food came about 30 minutes after we ordered it, there was only one waitress serving the place. She was good, deserved the tip for working in such an awful place and for all the work she did. To me it's pretty obvious by the number of cars outside that the locals avoided this place, I should have known better. Do not eat here if you want good fresh Mexican food.
(1)David P.
Good little ma & pa type place. Only been once and they have great deals on Tuesdays.
(3)Haley W.
Went to Sal & Teresa's last night to try "Taco Tuesday." A lot of people we know go regularly so we figured we'd give it a shot. The first thing I thought when I walked in was "Wow, it looks like they bought decorations from the dollar store for a child's birthday party." The piñatas and sombreros should've given it away that the food would be a joke too. It was pretty busy for a Tuesday night, so I assumed it must be decent. Our waitress came over right after we sat down at the table (which was a huge table for only two of us. It looked like a picnic table and wobbled like it was missing a leg.) She took our drink order and brought them back fairly quickly. We were also served chips and salsa. It was awful. It tasted like a can of tomatoes with too much lime. Very bland and sour. Not good at all. The waitress came to take our order 15 minutes later. When my husband was ordering, she couldn't write fast enough and shouted "Hold on, hold on, hold ON!" I've been a waitress for 5 years. You never shout at a customer. Our food arrived quickly and was very hot and looked very fresh. We ordered 2 red chile and 2 green chile cheese enchiladas, a bean burrito, and 2 beef tacos. Because it was Tuesday, nothing cost more than $2. I only ate half my food. It tasted as good as you would expect $2 food to taste. My husband thought it was alright. I could've made better food easily. It was all drowned in sauce that had no flavor, just heat. The beef taco was so greasy, I only took 2 bites. We had to keep asking our waitress to fill our waters, because she didn't seem to notice when they were empty. All in all, we're glad we went to see what the fuss was about but we will never go back again.
(1)Xander A.
Freaking awesome. Great food, good atmosphere.
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