Oscar's Mexican Restaurant

The best!

Ambience relaxing, food could use some more taste/spice

I believe in trying something or someplace new at least once. Local resident that has lived in Redlands now for 6 1/2 years, but had never tried Oscar's. Decided to take my wife out on a lunch date...Quickly realized I had not missed a thing! This is gonna be painful and not in my nature to leave a horrible review but this visit in merits it... Chips and salsa. Mexican restaurant. This is a staple setting the tone for the visit while awaiting arrival of your food, right? Salsa was bland AF! I am not judging if hot or not. It was BLAND. Like, I had to add salt just to give it some kind of flavor aside from smashed tomatoes! Didn't taste onion, garlic, cilantro - literally just tomato. Chips were on the cold side, too! Ordered a frozen strawberry margarita for myself. Did not taste strawberries at all. Again, BLAND. Wasn't even one of those occasions where the bartender puts too much alcohol washing out the other flavors. It was an ice-cold, blended mix of nothingness aside from merely appearing to be a strawberry margarita (referring to its color)! Food. Ordered an Oscar's 3 Item Combo (chicken enchilada w/two carne asada soft tacos) and a shrimp cocktail. Chicken enchilada wasn't bad, but the enchilada sauce wasn't cooked long enough. Beans and rice were whatevs...Soft taco meat and flavor were the same as something from Alberto's/Adalberto's, et al. What kinda turned me off was after taking your initial bite seeing the mini lake of grease accumulating on my plate. Saw this on my wife's plate, too! It was a good thing their corn tortillas are on the thicker side or they would quickly fall apart from having to absorb this! I'll say this: I have a good appetite and did not finish but half of a taco before saying enough is enough... Shrimp cocktail. Came in a bowl. After all we had experienced with our meal my wife laughed looking at it out of disbelief! Even had to tell her to keep it down LOL! I'll start it with that...Shrimp was a good medium-size but not thoroughly thawed (close!). Cocktail sauce I swear was the same as that found in a glass jar! POOR PRESENTATION and HORRIBLE ATTEMPT at another Mexican restaurant staple. I do not like leaving bad reviews but sometimes they are truly earned. Service was friendly and you could tell the waitresses cared about their patrons. Did not complain, just paid and went about our day...

A good place for Mexican food. The service is good

Great portions and lots of options, but the menu is sadly super non-descriptive and what I ended up getting wasn't quite what I expected.