El Ranchito de la 10 - 77720 Playa del Carmen

Service was excellent and fast. Very friendly staff and the food and margarita excellent. Happy I stopped by.

I tried the Chicken Burrito and agua Fresca with Piña. The burrito was a large portion and very tasty! Loved the tortilla chips with pico de gallo, and the red and green sauce were delicious as well!

The steak on our sandwich and in our burrito was RAW, we asked for a frozen margarita the server brought us one with 2 pieces of ice and said that’s frozen. Incredibly rude and even the owner didn’t care, we paid $439 and left looking for somewhere safer to eat.

I attempted to go to El Ranchito at around 8:30pm this past Saturday night. We waited in line outside for several minutes with many open tables before being asked to be seated. The server showed us to a half-sized table crammed against the wall inside, with a fire extinguisher jutting out into our faces. We asked to be seated at a table outside, but were told that table was for parties of 4 only. We thought that was interesting given there were at least 3 other couples sitting at other 4-seat tables. A few minutes later, we were offered the table we asked for. Then, we proceeded to sit there for 20+ minutes without being given a menu and without anyone approaching our table at all. In fact, the table next to us paid, was cleared, and had a new party seated with their orders taken in that time. We even waived over the server a few times after making eye contact but he just did not seem interested in coming over to our table. We eventually gave up and walked away to another bar 2min down the street where we were served drinks immediately.

What drew us to this restaurant was that they served chimmichangas! We haven't seen other places that served that so that makes this place unqiue. What else makes this restaurant special is the western decorations. We also appreciated that we weren't hawked in (yelled at to please come in and look at the menu). We could hear others order the chimmichangas as we could hear the frier bubbling away. It's a fairly large portion. At least, I felt very full afterwards. We ordered the chimmichangas with al pastor and chorizo. The al pastor was better than the chorizo. The chorizo didn't quite taste liked the Spanish chorizo we know, this is more crumbly and tasted more like paprika power. I think we were a bit disappointed in that, but as long as you have different expectations than us, you will be happy with that. Not that I am saying that the chorizo chimmichanga was bad, just not quite we expected.

Very ranchero style, Guadalajara food. Not a run-of-the-mill mexican restaurante. Music was a little too loud for talking. But we had a good experiencia and meal.

The food was good as the service. They brought us for free tortillas with two sauces which were too liquid and with little taste. The “quesadillas” with chorizo was fine but too oily.

El Ranchito de la 10 serves halal meats and has really good service, nice music, nice style. I didn't see any place with Halal food and the owner was really nice, very nice vibe. I recommend! It's the only place in PDC I came across with halal meat.