On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina
| Address: | 870 N Meacham Rd, Schaumburg, IL 60173, USA |
| Phone: | +1 847-481-8908 |
| Site: | ontheborder.com |
| Rating: | 3.7 |
| Working: | 11AM–10PM 11AM–10PM 11AM–10PM 11AM–10PM 11AM–11PM 11AM–11PM 11AM–10PM |
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tepe tongo
My first time there. I guess it was the wrong weekend to be there. It wasnt full at all. I would say they were at 70%. My wife and I got a table right away. Waiter came and introduced himself, offered drinks and went on his way. All normal up to now. When he brought our drinks, we had already decided on our meals, but he didnt ask us anything. Just left drinks, chips and walked away. He never came back. We asked the hostess to please get our waiter but he still didnt come back. He was there but not stopping at our table. After 30 min a different waitress noticed we were looking around for this waiter and she decided to ask, so we explained the length of our wait and just asked for the check on our drinks. She then was apologetic and explained they were short staffed. It may have been in the kitchen area because there seemed to be enough waiters. On an extra note, during this whole ordeal, another two tables left due to the wait and the couple next to us waited nearly 40min for their food. Definitely not a good weekend.
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Lane Greer
Service was great. I am from Texas so I pretty much give all On the Boarders 2 or 3 stars. This one got 3 mostly because the fact that I could drink local draft beer. Most On the Boarders have an awful beer selection. This ones wasnt great but they did have some local beer so that got them another star. The food, on the other hand, WOW (and not in a good way). I just wanted some apps to tide me over till dinner. I ordered stuffed jalapenos and chimichangas. They were some of the greasiest things Ive eaten in a long time. I got their taco appetizer as well and it was pretty good, but wow. Those other two items were so rich and fried and greasy I walked out feeling awful, and I only ate half of each. That said, they got 3 stars. If this place hadnt literally been in the parking lot of my hotel I wouldnt have even thought about it. But, hey. Thats why they were there.
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Cheryl Hoekstra
Maybe its because we went on a Sunday afternoon, but I got a side of guacamole to go with the hard, bland nacho chips. Not only did the guacamole look old, had too many large onions, and tasted too sour, 2 small scoops of it on a saucer cost $7. A glass of ice tea was $3. We shared one appetizer: nachos with lukewarm chicken bits and a little beans, all covered with a terrible orange cheese sauce that was likely poured from a jar. Thats all we had, and the bill, before tip, was $28. Service was friendly, a manager must have come by and interrupted our conversation 5 times - however, we wont be returning. Hope the entrees are better than anything we experienced. Felt bad for the family of 4 who came in after us. The dad probably got a worse sticker shock than we experienced.
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Raj Desai
Spacious and well decorated restaurant. Free chips and salsa is nice and dont forget to ask for the spicier salsa if your feeling dangerous. Food and service was admirable. Wait staff was great and extremely friendly restaurant was clean. Fajitas were mediocre at best with my chicken fairly unseasoned and very dry unfortunately. Tried the brownie Sunday but wasnt very impressed. The only reason for the 4 star was the chips salsa and $2 margaritas which is an unbeatable deal. I am willing to return and try another option as my wife enjoyed her veggie enchiladas. There is a nice sized bar with some TVs incase you want to catch a game and have a drink. The area is nice and the restaurant is well-lit and clean. I look forward to giving this place another shot.
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Stephanie Diaz
I love there food. I dont care that it isnt super authentic Mexican it has many components Mexican food would have. I really enjoy their carnita tacos with a crunchy shell. They have amazing apps my favorite has to be the jalapenos that are stuffed they are so yummy. Also when they bring out chips and salsa you can ask for a hotter one !! Beware very spicy . Service is great most of the times we go there we get the same waitress and shes awesome her name is Jessica ! And she works on the bar side so if you happed to get her she is great !! All in all great food usually little to no wait ! Go and try it
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Michelle Barth
Had their pick 3 dinner. Mini chimi, spinach mushroom enchilada & chicken taco. I didnt care for the enchilada. Ive had the same thing at other restaurants and this one was just really thin and not very flavorful. The chicken taco was good, and the mini chicken chimi was ok. My mom got the taco salad. It came with homemade flour tortilla chips. she ate most of it and said it was delicious. They were busy and our server was new but she did a good job taking care of us. Id give them another try maybe try another type of taco, or fajitas.
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Raj Thakkar
Worst service, they had plenty of table open stll they made us wait more than hour and half. They were seating people who came after us and I asked for to speak to the manager, the manager didnt bother to come by and speak to me for literally 15 min. I wouldnt recommend this place just cuz this kinda behavior showed they didnt need my business.
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Kristopher Hightower
Okay restaurant, I wish the chips were gluten free but they cook them with other things. A little on the expensive side and they overdid the meat. Its open later and have margaritas so you cant complain to much. Service took a bit, but it was the end of the night and I think they had the bar covering several tables too.
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Ian Moone
Nora or Mora (female manager) was very rude regarding her staff serving COLD DINNERS. Ordered with my party of 8 and HALF OUR FOOD WAS COLD....MINE WAS BARLEY ROOM TEMPERATURE...... drinks were horridly slow from bar..... overall DISAPPOINTED.... and the female manager is totally rude and could care less.
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Mario Melnik
If you want to enjoy your food make sure with the host, because he will tell you one thing before you are seated and something else after.... His excuse is the he was Assuming .... The server and the kitchen manager were very professional and if I can give them five stars separately I would.
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Roger Gil
Terrible experience. I ordered Carne Asada-- which was not on the menu, but they cooked and served it anyway. After getting home, I started to get get massive stomach pains and suffered for the last 3 days, When this place is busy, there seems to be no quality control.
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Barry Jackson
Bar was dirty, waited 10 mins before drink was ordered, ordered black beans but got refried beans, food was mediocre, food was barely warm, flavor was below standard and expectations, small fly in drink. Just made another one and gave it to me. No thanks.
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jeffrey torres
This was one of the best dinner we had while in the US. The food was great and the staff fantastic. The waiting was a bit long though,we had to wait nearly 40 minutes despite our reservation, that is why Im not giving a 5-star review.
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Kimberly Luke Scherer
Great food, great service...until they dropped servers after the dinner rush. At that time the remaining servers struggled to catch up and it took a long time to get our bill, while the servers cleaning up and other Staff talked.
