Patron Mexican Restaurant
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One of the best Mexican Restraunts I have been to and I have been to many. They have many choices, and I have never been disapointed. Our favorite is …
Char Miller
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Patron is a very clean restaurant with good service and friendly staff. My husband and I were happy with the beans and salsa served with the chips, bu…
Joanne
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Great Mexican Food - but need to post menu. We have spent a great deal of our lives on border towns with Mexico growing up: Corpus Christi, TX, San Di…
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Patron Mexican Restaurant
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7 Reviews on “Patron Mexican Restaurant”
One of the best Mexican Restraunts I have been to and I have been to many. They have many choices, and I have never been disapointed. Our favorite is the shrimp fajitas. Yum! I like they offer whole and refried beans so I can eat healthy. Chips are always hot and crisp. Owners are always friendly and support our schools and community. I have lived in California many years and been to Mexico and this restraunt is just as good or better. I do not like my food to hot and spicy and this is perfect, but if you like spicy and hot they provide many sauces at the table for you to add.
Patron is a very clean restaurant with good service and friendly staff. My husband and I were happy with the beans and salsa served with the chips, but the tortilla chips were almost burnt. We ordered the Arroz con Pollo and the Fajita Sampler. Both entrees were so salty, we could barely eat them. We were really disappointed in the food.
Great Mexican Food – but need to post menu. We have spent a great deal of our lives on border towns with Mexico growing up: Corpus Christi, TX, San Diego, CA, and spent lots of time on the interior of Texas: San Antonio, Sinton, Killeen, etc. I LOVE Mexican food – qualify that – Good Mexican food. Patron is good Mexican food. We used to go to Corral (mid Whidbey Island) for Mexican but after trying Patron, we switched. The food is good, the atmosphere is regular Mexican; not flashy (like Chuy’s – my favorite Mexican food – a chain in Texas – excellent!!! Chili Relleno, crunch crust, WOW!!!) …I digress…it is clean, quite, big servings, good variety – for a good Mexican meal, it is a really good place. The one downside is the bar. Like most restaurants, they need a good bartender who can make a tasty drink. Most either use too much mix or too much alcohol. A good drink has a kick but has a great flavor, so that you need to use restraint to not order too many. Overall – if you like good Mexican food, you’ll like Patron’s. As an aside: one negative review said the music was loud, food dry, etc – I don’t know which Patron’s they went to but it is not the one I eat at. Hope this has been helpful.
Happy to find flavors of home !. I was so happy to find a restaurant with the flavors of favorites from my former home in Texas. Our service has been excellent the four times we have visited Patrons. I have had the enchiladas plate, Carnitas Patron, a seafood stuffed burrito, and we always leave pleased and often take portions home because the servings are large. Thank you for being here on Whidbey Island Patrons !
TOO LOUD MUSIC. I went to Patron’s after reading a couple of good reviews. Big mistake:The salsa for the chips was watery and tastelessThe service was uninformed and could not answer basic questions about enchiladas and/or tacosThe music was like bar music: loud, waaaay too lively, and the cooks were singing along. It sounds like fun but it gave me a headache. Before the food arrived I asked for a ‘to go’ box.The chicken enchiladas (one with Mole sauce the other with Verde) were so dry that I couldn’t finish them. The sauces were tasty but not near enough to offset the dry stringy chicken.But that music……I wish them well but it will be a long time, if ever, that I will go back. The food was just to insipid and ‘meh’ (worse than meh) and not better than was there before.You’d think in an agricultural area where the Mexican/Hispanic population is well represented, the food would reflect that.
Just…wow.. So – here we are, back on Whidbey Island after being away for years. Dinner is up in the air and we’re not sure what to do. We take a gamble and try the hole-in-the-wall place in a kinda scabby strip-mall. This was – by far – the BEST Mexican restaurant I’ve been in for decades. Ingredients were fresh and the cooking techniques were superb. The prawns in my dish were cooked to perfection – something hard to come by. The food actually tasted like real MEXICAN food – like the little places tucked away on side streets in real Mexican towns, the really good stuff. To top it off, the service was fast, friendly and perfectly non-invasive on conversation. Both of my picky-eating children inhaled their dishes – my spouse and I fully enjoyed our entrees as well. If we missed this restaurant last time we were on the island, it was sincerely our loss. We know not to make that mistake again.
Excellent and authentic. I was completely amazed by the menu and food at Patron when we visited two nights ago. To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much. Here we are on an beautifully isolated island in Puget Sound at a non-descript strip mall standing outside a restaurant we have heard nothing about. I am glad we walked through that door.Patron is a pretty simple-looking restaurant, but the menu is ambitious, authentic and (most importantly) delicious. The first thing I noticed on the menu were sopapillas, a wonderful dessert I have only seen in Mexico and a few select restaurants in the Southwest. That clued me in that this joint had a grander vision.While we were studying the menu for items that might precede dessert, warm home-made chips arrived, with Patron’s similarly homemade salsa and warm refritos. Essentially everything his homemade at Patron, including their truly fabulous mol, a complex and beautifully spicy nutty chocolatey classic sauce for pollo or pavo. Rarely have I had as outstanding a mol in a restaurant because most places put convenience above quality. Patron apparently puts quality first.Even the simple stuff was impressive:Guacamole. The server came to our table and blended the avocados and fresh-chopped cilantro, onions and tomatoes in a large volcanic Molcajete to our personal tastes. Soup. The tortilla soup was a nuanced and aromatic joy, with a rich chicken stock base enhanced with herbs and spice, delicous queso and moist chicken, with the textural contrast of crispy homemade tortilla strips.Carne Asada. I’ve had this many dozens of times elsewhere and, with the exception of the legendary Fonda del Recuerdo in Mexico City, it has always been totally forgettable. Now Patron comes along with the most tender thinly-sliced steak ever. I actually could cut it with my fork!By the time it came for those sopapillas that first caught my eye… well, there just was no more room. Next visit, which will be soon, I might just have to order dessert first!