Mariscos Los Jarochos

Service is ok. Could be better. Party of five… Found this Unilocal list of and decided to check it out despite its negative reviews. Well… Big mistake. Someone in my group had a fish entrée. Right away you could tell the fish was old and possibly had gone bad. Not fresh fish. We told our waiter who was nice. He went to check with management. Management supposedly tasted the fish and said it was ok and refused to correct the issue. Never again. Actually going to consider reporting them to the health department in Austin. Huge fail on their part.

I’ve been passing this hole in the wall for well over a decade and had never stopped to try it until today. The interior is much bigger than the façade suggests. Loud Latin music greeted me and there appears to be a stage for karaōke. It’s clean with a full bar, lots of wood surfaces. I had a hard time choosing what to get, since everything on the menu looked amazing and authentic– no tex mex here. I decided on the ceviche tostada with fish, the pescadillas and the Camarones Jarochos. The tostada came out with a mound of fresh tasting ceviche and a slice of avocado on top. It was tasty. The pescadillas were amazing. Think chicken flautas, but with folded tortillas, rather than rolled, and with tuna filling. I’m nut sure what variety of tuna it was, but it had a pleasant fishiness. The Camarones Jarochos was the star, though, consisting of a parrillada of small, sweet shrimp tossed with diced tomatoes, onion, peppers, BACON and covered with MUENSTER cheese — toasted and buttered French bread on the side. Light years from tex mex. It was an amazing meal and I can’t wait to go back and try some of the other offerings.

I’m pretty picky about eating shrimp out as I got Hep A once prom eating shrimp at a chain restaurant. Its a hot day and wanted something cold so ceviche was the word of the day and a Unilocal search turned up this place that was near to us at the time. The reviews suggested this was the place to come and while it’s not a fancy setting the reviews are spot on. The ceviche was very tasty and quite the great value. Just as important to me, the shrimp were super clean. All perfectly devined. Same held for the Camarones jarochos great taste and prepared with clean fresh ingredients. As far as atmosphere is concerned we came early for dinner so for us it was quiet and the service was awesome. Also just looking around the tables, floors and table condiments were all clean. Overall a Very pleasant experience.

So good ! A little bit expensive but real Mexican food ! I definitely I would go again !

Everything we ordered was amazing! Forgot what the dishes were called, but they were great. They also have happy hour after 7 Monday thru Thursday.

Went there because my boyfriend said they had al pastor. Once we sat down he realized it was a different restaurant, but we thought we’d give it a shot. I’m not easily off put by how a place looks, but after eating there I can say that it looked filthy in there and that should have been a warning. The food was inedible. The sauce on my octopus ruined the flavor and there was a water park inside the burrito with some shrimp floating around. Gross.

This place is SUPER OVERPRICED. The service is the worst and don’t even mention the accommodations, they are primitive. Place looks dirty over all and the food is not that good. I am from Mexico, and am used to going to Mexican seafood restaurants and this is in True, the worst I have been to.

Worst service ever and they couldn’t even get the food right. My mom said the servers and managers were rude and didn’t care.

The other reviewers hit the nail on the head with their assessment of the music in this place. It is LOUD. You have to holler at whoever is sitting across from you to carry on a conversation!
Other than that, no complaints. Everything we ate was excellent. I had some spicy shrimp dish, my fella had a breakfast dish with eggs and tostadas in some fantastic sauce. The shrimp had been deveined *yay* and tasted fresh. Perfect!!! The chips & salsa are great. Menu is in Spanish, though, so brush up on food terms before you go there or check out their menu in English online if you aren’t a speaker of Spanish.
Will definitely go back!

Nice place good food great service music and good drinks chips and salsa is delicious

Very traditional Mexican environment. Very loud music and football playing on TV. Huge bar with lots of selection. Some waitress didn’t speak English.
Chips n Salsa was good. Ceviche was too sweet. The empanadas was oily but filling was generous.

This place has a jukebox playing out so loud. I asked them to lower down the volume and said no.
The waitress was very nice, but her English was very limited.
Now for worst thing about the restaurant is their return policy. I order some tostada with shrimp off the menu and there was no mention the tostadas came mayonnaise.
I brought up this to the waitress and she said that it could not return. Her excuse was the order we’ll be deducted from her check if it gets return… that’s bull!!!

The food is good. Authentic. My daughter’s enchiladas were lacking chicken, it was as if they filled them in with the sauce. But the green sauce was good. We loved the chips. The salsa could have been spicier. But the waitress took a while when we asked for things. For the price I think you need to be served better.

My God No. Never Again. DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME HERE.
I struggled to not use profanity in writing this. This place absolutely sucks.
Simply put in bullet points:
— The music is too loud to hear someone across the table from you… in fact, you can hear it through the wall of the next door restaurant, Together… which I would recommend going to by the way. I might need to call the police on Together’s behalf because they’re too nice to complain about the obvious noise violations.
— The staff is straight up ignorant. They ignore you and ignore your table pretty regularly.
— The Prices are WTF expensive… basic Mexican stuff is $ 14.99…like something that should be no more than $ 9… so you’re not getting out of there under $ 50 – 60 for 2 people for Mexican food… and I didn’t even bother to see how expensive drinks were.
— The inside at best looks like your creepy uncle’s basement.
Please don’t waste your time here. I beg of you.

Maybe I’m just bad at authentic Mexican, but this was way too loud/​slow/​salty/​unfriendly for me. Do not recommend.

This place was ok. it definitely had its pros and cons.
PROS:
ambiance for soccer games. pretty cool.
CONS:
Regulars just walk past the servers and seat themselves. We waited for about 15 minutes, but finally the waitress interrupted another and told her no, the next table is for that couple. Thank you unknown waitress.
Prices. were a little high. my love ordered a molcajete. $ 21. it was a lot of food but ive seen those for half the price, and taste a lot better.
When the check came my love game them his debit card, the waiter asked for cash. My fiancée said he didn’t have any cash, because this is 2014 and everyone carries their debit card. its like visa, everywhere you want to be!
He said he didn’t know how to work the machine. (uh… that sounds like a waiter problem, not a customer problem). He finally did run his card since he had to, and he included his own tip, which he added $ 4 to the total which is fine, but he’ll never know what he would have gotten if he wasnt trying to be sneaky.
Sucks b/​c he was ok before that. I ordered the carne asada platter which he said he didn’t recommend b/​c it was very dry (only knew this b/​c my fiancée translated this for me) I love the authentic places but I also wish I wouldnt get crazy looks when I’m not bilingual. Do they do this to other nationalities or just me b/​c they figure I should know spanish. I get it, I am mexican american. but I am a 3^rd generation TEXAN (that I know of could be farther), sorry i speak English, I was born here, sooo. this is where I learned to speak. Now if I was born in Mexico and didnt know spanish, now that would be a shock! but please dont judge me for my lack of spanish knowledge, I came to enjoy your delicious food. be nice.

My sister freakin’ loves this place so of course we had to go when my husband and I visited her recently. It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon and the place was buzzing because FC Barcelona is playing and you know futbooooooooooooooooooooooooooollllll.
With this big menu of wonderful seafoody goodness, I thought I might have trouble deciding, but there was a seafood rice dish (whose name I unfortunately don’t remember) that was sounding really good, and it was super nice. A little more saucy than a paella, and more of a tomato based broth instead of saffron, but otherwise kind of the same thing. Lots of shrimp and octopus, with some mussels and fish as well. I kind of loved it. My husband had the camarones a la diabla (as he does) and he approved highly. My sister got her usual seafood soup and my brother-​in-​law got what appeared to be seafood fajitas. All were pleased.
And I’ve talked about the entrees before the appetizers (how dare I!) We got ceviches and «camarones diablas» (not to be confused with the entrée my husband got). These were shrimps wrapped in bacon and stuffed. The ceviche was definitely near the top of ceviches that I had. I approved highly.
Portions were astoundingly large. Prices were reasonable. Service was good enough (our server kind of disappeared near the end, but it’s all good). A++. Would eat again.

It was the «Inception» of restaurant experiences: it was a nightmare within a nightmare within a nightmare.
We first decided to come here because of the
coupon. Well, that and the fact that I’m a pescatarian on Atkins who thought, «Mexican seafood! Finally! Food I can eat!» When we walked in and presented the coupon on the app, there was mass confusion, and we were told that it had to be printed. I protested a little, because I’ve redeemed these things through the app previously at other places, but whatever. We decided to get to a printer, and try them again another day.
We should’ve swapped our
coupon for a different restaurant.
A week passes, and we finally sit down with a server who says that the printed voucher will be fine. The place is loud. It’s Tejano music karaōke night, or something to that effect, and there are huge speakers near a stage. Various televisions dot the place. One was displaying static; another was showing ‘Naked & Afraid.’ When they went to take our drink order, I asked for a vodka soda. Panic ensued. Our server didn’t understand what I meant (there’s a major language barrier here), and brought 3 different people to our table. We even said it in Spanish, but I guess this place (which has a very large bar in the middle of the establishment) can only make the cocktails listed on their menu. Every time they heard the word, «soda» they asked me, «What kind?» At this point I gave up, and said «Vodka with whatever doesn’t have sugar in it. I’m on a special diet. I can’t have any sugar. Diet coke?» So the manager, who’s there to help translate what I’m saying to our server (I think that’s why he was there?), suggested that I get a vodka Sprite or a Mexican martini. The man clearly doesn’t know what the word sugar means, or is very confused and thinks I asked for… Actually, I have no clue what could have possibly lead him to believe I wanted Sprite or a Mexican martini. I see a regular martini on the menu, and point at it. «That. I want that.» He also asks if I want Sprite in that, or if I wanted the Mexican version of a martini. (He was really set on those two drinks!) When I get it, it tastes sweet, which is a huge no-​no for my strict diet, and I realize that even in their regular martini, they use triple sec. Pretty sure it was a glass of vodka, olive juice, olives, and triple sec.
My partner tries to order from the breakfast menu because it indicates that there’s a certain price before 11, and then the price goes up after that time. Turns out, you can’t order from it. No big deal, we settle on crab ceviche and some sort of meat dish. The ceviche is meh at best. Actually, it was worst than that. I’m pretty sure it was canned crab in citrus and tomato juices. It was limp, and extremely watery. It was kind of like a fishbowl full of water, with little bits of stringy canned crab meat here and there. My partner was less than thrilled with his dish, and admitted he regretted eating there. As painfully loud music blared, we struggled to talk to kill time during the painfully long wait for the check. I remember seeing my server dart around the mostly empty restaurant doing everything but dropping our check, and freeing us from our Hell. I stared at 3 dust-​covered Mexican Barbie dolls that sat atop a shelf over our table. It was a nightmare within a nightmare within a nightmare.

Here is your Mexican sea-​coast vacation, right here in Austin. Get ready to party with the natives as they serenade you with pretty good, and loud, Mexican Karaōke. Drink like a fish as you eat several.
The menu is extensive and inviting and all spanish. We treated ourselves to the Seafood Grill for two. Think: tasty seafood fajitas. A huge portion of food for two for $ 27. Accompanying corn tortillas were store bought, but soft. There was all kinds of flavor in here. Even bacon! And all of the meat, including octopus, shrimp and catfish (???) were cooked perfectly and tasted great. Do do not know if the shrimp was from the Gulf, but it didn’t taste like it. Always a plus for me!
The chips are very authentic and homemade thick delights served with a tasty, spicy and fresh salsa. And the chips work well broken on top of the entrees for super texture!
Our daughter danced heartily to the music and was rewarded with a cute pink balloon animal/​animé sculpture.
This place really looks like a «local’s» place after a certain hour on a saturday night. And that helps, in my estimation. Because the locals always know.

Looking to get some seafood, that wasn’t Asian or New American-​ish fare, wife and I hit Mariscos Los Jarochos.
We read up on some reviews but didn’t have a lot of expectations. As somewhat infrequent Mexican dishes eater (Tochys don’t count), it was more of an adventure than anything else.
Well, we had the Parrillada de Mariscos and the Mojarra a la Veracruzana, and both were excellent. The meats were perfectly cooked, just the right amount of spices (and being Koreans, right amount of spices usually means hot-​to-​burning-​fire), and attentive service.
Perhaps the most interesting part of the experience were the looks we got when we walked in. I don’t think too many Asian couples frequent the place, and lot of the regulars had what I’d call an «amused» look on their faces. Mind you, I know that look since I also sport that face when non-​Koreans walk into a «real» Korean joint and try order from a menu with no English on it.
Don’t let that discourage you though — we’ll certainly be back, and perhaps soon.