El Zarape - Roswell

Love this place! Best Mexican around! Great staff! We always come here once a week!

Good menu and quality tex-mex. A little expensive compared to local competition, but this is expected in downtown Roswell. Staff sometimes don't know how to act when you get in. Just say hello and ask if you can help us or how we do it. Not hard. To stare at customers when they go in, is just not a good mood.

Happened upon this place on Cinco de Mayo. This place was so much fun! The staff was amazing, the dj waa great, and the food was good! I wish we lived closer because it would definitely be a hang out spot!

We showed up at 7:30 on a Friday night with 13 people and they handled us well! Good food, good service. Live entertainment. Nice place.

Friendly and quick service! Free chips! Lots of daily and lunch specials! We have been passing this place for years but have never stepped foot inside. Finally, on a recent Tuesday evening, we gave it a try for the very first time, and they did not disappoint us! They offer a decent amount of both indoor and outdoor seating. We went for outdoor and they let us pick our own table. They don’t have fancy tables; in fact, our table was one of the common plastic foldable tables, but we didn’t mind the casual setup. They have nearly) daily food and drink specials, and a lunch menu from Monday to Friday at $8.99 soft drink included). Right after we sat down we were offered a good sized basket of chips with a small jar of salsa that was enough to pour into two ramekins. They offer a lot of menu options and many of them are priced very reasonably. We had to wonder, after seeing the portions of foods we received, with these price points, and giving out free chips, how much profit could they really make. Especially at this economically challenging time with everything being so expensive, they must not make much on the daily food specials, and rely on people ordering alcoholic drinks to recoup the profits. We could choose between chicken or beef ground) for our items. To upgrade the meat would cost $3 for each item e.g. to steak). We also ordered the jumbo house margarita which was one of the specials on Tue $7.99). It was indeed a jumbo sized glass! And we felt the alcohol was pretty strong too! That special is definitely a good deal worth ordering. Our food was served on HOT plates! Even the server had to use hot plate silicone finger holders to hold onto the plates! Hot entrees on hot plates, this is definitely the way to go and we don’t see many Mexican restaurants following this practice. This was a big bonus for us! And indeed it kept our food remaining hot for a much longer time! As we finished our basket of chips, we politely asked if we could get more chips. Oh boy~ we didn’t expect the server would bring us another round of chips and salsa. They could have just given us half of that amount and we would have been super happy and satisfied. Now we felt like if we didn’t finish it, we would just be wasting a lot of food we ended up packing them to-go). They could have totally charged us $3 or $5 for the refill and I think that would still be very reasonable! All in all, great dining experience, good food, great value, great outdoor seating. We will recommend this place and will definitely return!