El Sol De Mexico - Corvallis

El Sol de Mexico is a just fine restaurant, in fact we were willing to come all the way down from Salem to visit this fine restaurant. We enjoy this restaurant as one of our favorites. For this reason we were rather saddened to find out that the restaurant is now Petty place. Yes I said Petty, meaning in every other restaurant of the Mexican variety they give you chips and salsa of plenty and they never say anything about this because it's part of the Mexican hospitality included in your meal. But now is a part of the policies of El Sol de Mexico they even include right in their menu that the policy is that your first basket of chips is free and each additional basket is going to be $2.50. as if the restaurant is not making enough money that they needed to be so incredibly Petty as to charge $2.50. was there some sort of major run on people stealing free chips? Were people coming in and not ordering food and just eating free chips and salsa never ordering an entree? Makes me wonder how Petty or restaurant has to be to think that the free Mexican tortilla chips and salsa now need to be charged for? Reminds me of the way McDonald's charges for extra condiments.. that's the reason I don't go to McDonald's. So if you don't like being treated Petty you probably won't like this restaurant. And for any owners or managers reading this review I actually have a degree in hospitality and I would love to see you change this policy or respond to this. Because trying to steal from your customers a few extra dollars wherever you can get it isn't good hospitality policy, and it isn't good fiscal policy. It's poor policy all around. I guarantee you're going to lose a lot more customers then you're going to gain with this and when you lose customers you're going to lose revenue. You just may have lost us.

I was not particularly impressed with this restaurant, but I was also not completely disappointed. They only give you one bowl of chips and salsa, and if you want more, there is an extra charge. The food was just okay, nothing amazing, but not the worst I've ever had either. The service was decent, no complaints there. The prices were a bit all over the place - some items seemed reasonably priced while others were quite high. Overall, my experience was average, so I'm not sure if I would recommend or not recommend this place.

Some of the most unfriendly wait staff that I have ever dealt with. The woman who waited on us did not smile once while we were there. She obviously did not care about her customers or her job. I won't go back there. Their restaurant on 9'th is way better.

First time ever I've been to a Mexican restaurant and was served a coctel de camaron boiling hot. It was tasteless and I didn't even finish my plate. It was my first time there and my last time. I will not be returning ever again.

This restaurant reminded me of the Mexican restaurants my family and I ate in growing up. Loved the decor. Great service, good food and reasonably priced. When in Corvallis, we'll definitely go here again.