Acapulco Joe's

Acapulco Joe's is Indianapolis' first Mexican restaurant, with over 50 years of serving flavorful traditional Mexican favorites.

5 / 10
138
ratings
  • Phone

    (317) 637-5160

  • Website

    acapulco-joes.com

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  • Type

    Mexican Restaurant

Address

365 N Illinois St (at W Vermont St) Indianapolis , IN 46204 United States

Reservations Yes
Credit Cards Yes (incl. Discover & Visa)
Outdoor Seating No
Menus Brunch, Lunch, Dinner
Drinks Full Bar

Comments / 65


Keywords:

chimichangas biscuits and gravy tacos margaritas chili seafood breakfast food spicy food lunch dinner huevos queso chips and salsa chimis peppers crispy food
Tepic Parks

Best Mexican food ever! Been coming here my whole life and love it. Four generations in my family and we all love it. Burritos , chimichangas , tacos , and the chili con queso are some of our favorites.

Bob Cross

Got to disagree with Mike R on the salsa . It is unique and more flavorful than the typical salsas served by every other Mexican restaurant . I go through withdrawal if I don't get it often enough.

Joey Ferguson

Acapulco Joe's is the best Mexican restaurant in Indy! They have the best chips and salsa hands down. These people are nuts if they believe the salsa is nasty.

Pamela June

The seafood chimichanga is my all time favorite. Delicious. The margaritas are on point.

jason Horner

It is a tough choice between the Mexican omelet and the spicy biscuits and gravy . Both are awesome.

Major Damone

They add red pepper to the biscuits and gravy to give it a kick and it is glorious!

Sarah Chumbley

Been coming here forever. You're crazy if you don't like it! My favorite Mexican food of all time.

Jana Harrell

Seafood chimi rocks!! Great wait staff , always friendly . Fav place to celebrate anything at all.

Rachel Reinhart

Biscuits and gravy are awesome! Spiciness depends on who's cooking, but always delicious!

Zachary Webster

If you don't dig the salsa , then just wait around bc the rest of the food is great. it is nice to have an unique place like this downtown

Michael Smythe

New Owner focused on returning Joe's to it former glory! Watching the changes, all for the good!

Amber Delwey

My special request...crispy tacos served Joe's way....very good!

Robert Goad

So the salsa is "unique", the door pretty average, but their top shelf margarita will put you on the floor. Worth a trip for drinks alone. Plus it's an Indy institution (for whatever reason).

Randy McGath

Love the nachos ! Staff is great too!

Andrew Furman

Decent Mexican food at affordable prices . Not the best in town , but it's solid.

Stacie Barron

Great food and great service. Bathroom a little questionable though.

Aaron Chancey

So we came here for devour downtown. Heard good things. I wanted something new. This place sucked. For mexican, they use too much sloppy joe mix. Or. Or they don't know salsa . Dumb. Read the caps.

Nicole Hilliker

Just Aww I love it :)

Sam Lopez

Find a real Mexican place ! Full review here: Read more

Tyler Lasiter

Indy wouldn't be the same without Joe's. The Chili Con Queso is amazing!

Irene Hickman

Awesome chimichangas

Gene Bardonner

Man, I miss this place!

Francisco Martinez

Listen to the reviews... they are right.

Jessica Barlow

Ignored the negative reviews but unfortunately, I do not recommend this place either. The salsa and guacamole were gross. The service was poor. Overall, it was not at all worth trying.

Jackie Paquette

Food is mediocre as mexican goes...the best part is their fried ice cream . Definitely worth coming for.

Bob Plank

Try the margaritas .

Tepic Parks

Try the burrito . It's amazing!

Dario Navarro

Run from this place. Sat down for 25 minutes and was given stale chips . A waitress never showed her face even after asking the host to get us one. The host appears clueless as to what is going on.

Larry Hughey

Place sure could use a facelift!

Amanda Nigh

Worst Mexican food ever. The queso was disgusting-some powdered bowl of yuck. Ordered the 3 amigos-which was not good either. Go eat at a real Mexican place - like Panchos II at 96th and Allisonville

Lisa Hudson

Here's a tip, save your money and go hungry.It's horrible! Salsa is an a ketchup bottle thats been touched by 1000 people, chips are not even chips they're taco shells broken in half by God knows who.

Whitney Greenwade

Their Chimichangas are the best!!!!!

Evan McMahon

Try the Huevos A La Mexicana, very filling breakfast !

CLARK L

Ask for the Chris B. Special! It's amazing!!!!

Angela Moore

Sadly, Acapulco Joe is no longer with us. But I am relieved that he cannot see what is served here. I've had better frozen lunches of "Mexican" dishes.

ᴡ Burke

As for a tip, someone needs to wrestle the ketchup bottle away from the chef .

Sarai Johnson

Don't eat here. It's like gas station food. The salsa is like ketchup . Plus, it's waaaayyy overpriced. I've never actually eaten truly nasty food before, but this is it.

Zach

Best thing about this place is leaving

Stephen Borse

Mexican breakfast ... It's much better than it sounds.

Michael Ellis

I will never come back .so freaking nasty .wiped a booth with a babywipe and it came up black ..I wiped it cuz it was sticky .Ate the breakfast burrito . Didn't taste good at all and made me sick

Paul Kenfield

Not 100% sure the busboy knows about the health code, but I'd skip the chips anyway.

Melissa Elrod

Worst Mexican food I've ever had. The dining room and bathroom were disgusting. The 'salsa ' was served in a ketchup bottle . The chips were stale. It took twenty minutes to get our microwaved queso .

Matt Grayson

Worse food and salsa I have ever had. Didn't know that you could screw up beef tacos but they were successful at it

Bryce Garman

Sport a red jersey if you love acapolco joes!!

jastina abulgubein

Yes. Terrible food. Good queso n salsa . Terrible manager wow the whole restaurant was falling apart and he stood at the host stand watching tv

Michael Ellis

Been coming here for a while... Food is ok but the service is going down hill

Emily Ferber

Soda is the best thing here.

Christopher Rucker

This place is a joke the servers and the people who work here.

Greg Andersen

Fix your restaurant

Mary Brown

Worst Mexican ever!...they served this soupy tomato catsup sauce they tried to pawn off as salsa !...boo! Then I was over charged!!

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