Reviews of Barbacoa Mexican Grill (Restaurant)

Laura Alvarez

Friendly atmosphere. Staff was kind and helpful. We both enchilada-style burritos with everything but lettuce and brown rice. They were fantastic.

Elizabeth Carter

A favorite restaurant for fresh food in Salt Lake City.

JB S

My favorite Mexican grill! Love the Barbacoa pork and the whole wheat tortillas and brown rice options

Ella Burkholz

Good and cheap! Always a good lunch. The burritos are really good as well as the soup. Vegetarian options

Lanny Derby

The food is always good but ordering for pickup ends in the order being wrong about half the time. Also, no one speaks English and it can be VERY frustrating trying to communicate with anyone there.

Kara Clark

Gluten free except for the flour tortillas!!!

Brady Johnson

Normally I'd give this location and barbacoa as a whole 5 stars, however today my friend and I hadn't been in a while and were craving barbacoa's amazing burritos. Though when we got there at 8:30pm, mind you it takes maybe 5 minutes to make a burrito so we could've been in and out in ten minutes easy, we both knew exactly what we wanted. They had closed 30 minutes early, turning away the two of us, a family of 3 and 2 other customers by having their doors locked even though they had only one customer inside at the time we arrived who was paying. They had closed 30 minutes early which was not part of their listing online or on any signs on the building. I also called them twice to find out why they had closed early and they had picked up the phone and hung it right back up both times without so much as a hello. This is nothing like I have ever been treated here at this location in the 9 years I have been coming. I'm very disappointed.

Joshua Petrie

Always super fresh with great customer service. The wrapped tacos are great!

Michael Nelson

Customer service was not the priority of this location. And the food I am not sure if it is because I came at a slow time or way but a good 90% of it was just lukewarm. Still had all the wonderful flavors I have come to expect and appreciate from Barbacoa but something about this location was off. Not to mention all the flies they had inside with some tables just left messy. Most likely never going to come back to this location very disappointed.

Cory Maylett

In concept, Barbacoa is similar to the not-too-far-away Cafe Rio and Costa Vida, but with a different philosophy on Mexican food. Like Cafe Rio and Costa Vida, Barbacoa is a trendy, order-and-build-at-the-counter fast food chain in a nice, comfortable, well-decorated environment. Both Cafe Rio and Costa Vida, however, load up their food with salsas and various extras, while Barbacoa keeps things relatively simple. For example a burrito at the other two places is often a casserole of ingredients verging on being a bit soupy. A similar meal at Barbacoa is firmer, simpler, wrapped tightly in aluminum foil and totally capable of being eaten without utensils. Personally, I like Barbacoa's food better, but others seemingly don't agree. When Cafe Rio is packed with people, Barbacoa, about a mile away, can be nearly empty. I'd give this location four stars if it weren't for the socially awkward and work-averse adolescents who seem to be running the place whenever I visit. The last time I ordered ahead on their website, the kids running the store hadn't even bothered to start on the order before I arrived a half hour later — despite the restaurant being mostly empty. I got blank stares when I said I'd come to pick up my online order. After a few seconds, they mumbled to each other, grunted a few unintelligible words in my direction while avoiding eye contact, then proceeded to fill the order with no explanation or acknowledgement of the delay. Yeah, I know adolescents can be like this, and it's not a big deal. Still, Barbacoa could benefit from having better restaurant managers in charge, like a responsible adult.

Troy Packard

Great healthy food, and fast and friendly service.

Seth M

Good food good price.

Keaton Hancock

Very disappointed in this place. Cheep salad... This place is pretty much just a copy cat trying to be like Cafe Rio or Costa Vida... definitely not worth $9. Go to one of those other two places I mentioned, much better food for the money.

Bill Jackman

This is one of several locations of Barbacoa. It's a fast/ casual style of Mexican restaurant where you order and select the individual ingredients for your entree as you make your way to the cash register, then have tables for seating. I would say similar in style, flavor and price to places like cafe Rio and Costa vida. I like their soup bowls here where they essentially build similar base ingredients as other entrees, your choice of rice, beans and meat/ protein, and then add a savory broth to it making for a hearty soup.

Matt Pyles

Best burrito in town. With a great view of the valley from the patio.

SupaChan Wolf

I love this place.. Mmmmm good

Ryan J. Van Seters

Still just as good as ever.

Robert Forrest

Food was decent quality. Fast. High quantity. Listed phone number doesn't work

Whitney B.

The line cooks insulting patrons in Spanish, because they assumed we didn't understand them should have been my first clue. The cartilage in my Steak burrito should have been my second. I am now on day three of some of the worst food poisoning of my life, I must recommend you steer clear.

Jenny Brown

Great location. Friendly staff. Good food. Barbacoa pork all the way.

E west

Speedy service was the best part about the experience. One of the four staff on the line was pleasant the others didn’t seem to want to be at work. Chicken was horrible and dry and tasted like burnt fake chicken.

kira levenberg

I guess I could give it a 5 too, perhaps. Nothing wrong with anything. I recommend the lime rice. Although I ordered the Three Amigos (I think that's what it was called) with chicken, I think they considered that a chicken bowl. Whatever I received was great and with the same ingredients I asked for, so I was happy. There were a lot of us, and handled with seemingly smooth ease. Absolutely ecstatic about their gluten free precautions and ALL gluten free menu except for tortillas and enchiladas.

Kelby Dye

Not that impressive of food. The meats are bland and you get about half a scoop of it in contrast to a burrito overloaded with rice and beans. Not worth the $10 they charge you for a tortilla with beans and rice.

Russ Richardson

Tastey

Austinsanders9@hotmail.com Austinsanders

Not good at all food not worth the price sweet pork was nasty. salad looked like it was made five days ago. Eating here is not recommended very disappointed

Brandie Condie

Love this place

George Simons

This place was fine. Food was good. Price ($7.50) for large burrito was very good. Employees were quite low key but straight forward. It just isn't quite as good or any different from Chipotle or Cafe Rio

Ethan G

Barabacoa's glory days have passed, when they had top quality ingredients and only a few locations. The food is still good but doesn't compare to what they've been. I would recommend a burrito or tacos and the honey sweet pork.