Señor Pancho's of Middlebury

The staff were so e of the nicest people I ever met. The atmosphere was wonderful, and the food was delicious. I had a taco salad with shredded that had the right amount of very mild spice, wrapped in a crunchy tomato tortilla shell. But the best part for me? The drinks. I am a martini aficionado, and Oscar made the BEST pomegranate martinis I've ever had. RUN to this place. You won't regret it.

We love Señor Pancho’s, but we rarely visit the Middlebury location, and this trip just reminded us why (which is unfortunate because it’s our closest location). The restaurant was on the busier side in the bar and on the patio, but there were plenty of open tables in the dining room where we were. The waitress took our drink and appetizer order, and we received our chips, salsa, and guac pretty quickly. The service went on a rapid decline from there. We asked for a salt shaker to salt our tortilla chips, and we were handed a shaker completely void of salt but full of rice. We understand this is common to keep the salt from clumping, but this was empty, so we asked for a new one. One of the bus boys mansplained the concept of why rice was in the shaker in an almost argumentative way, and we had to say we know, but there’s no salt! (We think it was him that almost ran us over in the parking lot leaving aggressively at the end). We finished our appetizers and the drinks hadn’t even come yet. It got to a point where we were heavily debating leaving because our main orders hadn’t even been taken yet, but finally our waitress came back when we were about to lose our patience. The food was all delicious, but it was so unfortunate that the service was subpar. Also, we found the margaritas were small (especially compared to their other locations), the guacamole wasn’t made tableside and was also served in a pretty small bowl, and my husband only received 3 corn tortillas with his fajitas. He tried to ask for more because he ran out, but never received them. Between the skimpy portions, weak service, and lack of air conditioning and insufferable humidity (thank god someone finally opened a door for a breeze), this location doesn’t live up to Prospect or Southington, and we likely won’t return.

Food was wonderful. Tried three different street tacos, and all were good (carnitas, Baja, and Black Bean/plantain). These are not the traditional small street tacos, btw. They are full size flour tortillas. Mexican egg rolls were good. Chicken tamales were very good. And the house made salsa may be the best I've ever had. Margaritas are good, but on the thick and sweet end of the spectrum. Service was amazing!

Good food, typical Mexican food offerings, daily early bird happy hour specials, habanero hot sauce is $2 extra, shown is happy hour nachos, pork tacos, beef tacos, "mini" chimichangas.

Went here for dinner last night with family. Service was slow (25 min for the drink order to be taken). Drinks were excellent though! The Connecticut sling was excellent. Tapas were mixed. The lamb chop was tough and the calamari was rubbery. A mixed bag describes this place best. It’s worth giving another try down the line though. I would go here for drinks and a light meal in the bar. The bread and cilantro lime butter was excellent.