Mi Rachinto

The food is made to order! Fantastic. The guac is amazing and fresh. It takes alil long to get to your table but that’s only because it’s being made fresh for your tastebuds. Worth the wait! Gets alil noisy in the evening as music is played really loud. But you should def go!

Great food… great staff… great place. Now in 2015 they have karaōke thursdays fridays and sundays with great security services. The only reason i rate it 1 star less than a 5 is because sometimes when it gets packed the service is slower than usual.

Washington heights is a little bit of a trip uptown, but I’m up here with friends and stopped in Mi Ranchito for a late dinner. It’s not a big place, with four tables and bar seating– but there’s live singing in Spanish, and a local Spanish speaking crowd (there’s a large dominican population here). It’s fun. And I haven’t gotten to the food– check out the combination platters and get the guacamole. You can pretty much randomly select a few items because everything is tasty. So if you don’t make it this far uptown, well, go exploring in this neighborhood.

Excellent service and friendly staff… CLUMSY MANAGEMENT.
As a disclaimer Mexican cuisine is hard to be terribly original with. So if you frequent too many Mexican joints in a row, it starts to get a little redundant. Its like expecting one Chinese takeout place to produce better food than its neighbor. What do you expect. So this is my 2^nd Mexican place in 3 days and so… my tongue is in a ‘meh’ mood.
Clock times were quite reasonable. I’m not going to give that grade on this review because I forgot to hit the button when the food came out and so I don’t remember how long it took for plate service. It didn’t take long. Maybe 10 minutes.
The Mexican dishes just like with many latin/​caribbean cuisine comes on multiple plates and has a lot of moving parts. Take this fork and take a glop of this and use this spoon and put it over there on that tortilla and fold it up with this salad over here… look — not today. I just sat and at each item exactly as it was and it apparently threw off the waitress who came over and told me that I was doing it wrong. I maybe wasn’t in the mood for that today, either.
All tasty ingredients and the beef was just the right limit of spicy without going overboard. You can tell the four slices of jalapeño contributed to the heat. But again it was nowhere close to being too much.
My problem came when the waitress told me that she couldn’t charge my card without there being a minimum $ 15 order. I didn’t find it terribly odd except for the fact that this limitation isn’t advertised anywhere in the store. Not in its printed menus; no signs around the establishment. No signs on the tables in those little plastic frames that restaurants normally use to advertise promos. They just leave it to the waitress to tell the customer.
I offered to add $ 2 as a tip (my ticket came to $ 13) and she said that she could not do that either… without the order being at least $ 15 the cashier computer literally would not put the purchase through.
Well now we’re at an impasse because guess what. I don’t have enough on-​hand cash to cover and so I’m basically stealing service. She offered me the chance to go to the bodega a couple of doors down to draw cash but this is the thing… she doesn’t know me! She has no idea as to whether or not I’m going to go and get cash AND COME BACK, or ditch the place!
The other faux pas that isn’t unique to this restaurant is that they have both musical and televised entertainment going at the same time. When the digital jukebox is playing, you have to basically watch a TV you can’t hear.
Would I ever go back? Absolutely. I want to try their smaller menu items. But their owners are absolute morons. And I get the impression that $ 15 limit is going to stay in place forever regardless as to how many people complain. I mean come on. People being sent to actually LEAVE the restaurant to go and pull cash? I wonder how many theft-​of-​service calls they’ve had to make to the police thus far…(and still have learned absolutely nothing from it).

So this is my go to spot for when I don’t feel like cooking. Unfortunatley, I order the SAME thing every time I go… because its soooooo good I never get tired of it. I always get a plate of the hot bar food that’s by their front window. The employees know me so well they don’t even have to ask what I want, they just start making my plate. The portions are so large, it usually can cover 3 meals for me. If you are ever in the Heights, you must eat here!

A solid place to dine. Plus they gave me free bottled water, not sure if that was a mistake or not.
I had the enchiladas and it was pretty good. would def come back.
9.50 for that

Very good steak tacos.