Chiquito - Leicester in Blaby

Most of us enjoyed the food, however service was very poor, we were waiting way too long for things and it wasn’t a particularly busy day.

The food was mediocre, the service very bad despite the reasonably small amount of customers. We waited 20 minutes for someone to take our drinks order, then another 20 for food, half an hour for our drinks, an hour for food and 30 for someone to give the bill, but we still had to wait an entirely too long time for the machine to pay. I am thoroughly disappointed with how the place turned out.

Still, the best nachos in the world! Lunch menu is a great deal too!

Our waitress Ella and bartender Andrea were friendly and nothing was too much for them. They were both accommodating and offered great service. Thank you both for your hospitality.

Dropped in for an early tea at 5pm on a Monday. Service was great - order taken very effectively and made to feel very welcome. Drinks and starter arrived quickly and were excellent. Main course took a little longer but worth the wait. Good food, nice service, reasonable price, excellent portion size - what's not to like.

The food is really good especially kids menu. Service is great and very friendly staff.

Shocking food?? Not how I remember

Great place to celebrate my son's birthday. Nice food, big portions and good atmosphere. Grace who served us was lovely.

Grace was great, nothing was ever to much trouble and she was very friendly/polite.

Charlotte was an absolute darling. She made us feel very welcome and kept checking if we needed anything. Its always lovely when the server is lovely and thoughtful.

Brilliant service from Grace, very attentive and communicative. She went above and beyond to ensure we were looked after and happy. Food was beautiful and cocktails were spot on! Shame there’s no churros 😂 big thanks for the surprise birthday dessert for the birthday boy too!! Very cute!

Grace was amazing, super quick service, remembered our order (we were a big table of 14!) and super friendly. The food was good and we've all had a lovely time, thank you!

Visited after about a year as we got a 40% off food voucher. Our server was very efficient and helpful, however it took forever for our food to come out. All we had was nachos to start which took 20 mins to come out and then another 20 mins for a fajita and steak. The food was really rubbish. Nachos hardly had any cheese, fajita was tiny bit of chicken on a huge pile of onion and the steak was absolutely tiny. Bill came without 40% off but was rectified quickly. We won’t be returning and it’s clear to see what they are doing 40% off food as it’s just not worth the money.

Lovely food and good service from friendly staff, served by Poppy, Thanks!

The restaurant doors open. Therefore, we believed the restaurant was open. When we entered, we were rudely informed that the restaurant was not open. The food is good value for money, we had gone for lunchtime. We were offered the lunch time deal, and on the menu, they had churros. When we were informed that they did not have this in stock and that we were not able to substitute the item.

Staff were very friendly, and there was a prompt service provided. Food was great and brought out in good time, would recommend!

Nice place, staff friendly. Service was a little slow when ordering drinks. Food was nice.

Poppy gave fantastic service !!!

I loved the food it tasted amazingg staff was really nice aswell!

Brilliant staff and amazing food and drink all at a good value.

Friendly efficient service and great food. The chocolate brownie was awesome.

Service was amazing! Our waitress was very polite and chatty went above and beyond to check every thing was okay and we didn’t need anything else. Thank you grace!

As you would expect from a chain. Food acceptable, bit pricey, staff very attentive. Drinks served after "starters" served???? 5 adults & child squeezed into booth, so clashing arms made it a bit uncomfortable. All said, would probably be going again.

Andrea is the best waitress, food is incredible and atmosphere is nice a quiet

Only 2 waitresses on, no order in which people being served. Waited over 15m8ns from being seated to taking order for drinks. Waitresses both walking round chewing gum. Whole thing was a shambles. You voukd see others not happy neither at the kevel if service

Our server Grace is always brilliant! We tend to visit around once a month and we look forward to her looking after us whilst we have our starter tapas and margaritas.

Fantastic service from Grace - swift, friendly and really made our visit.

Anetta was amazing, really made our experience feel special, she's an amazing example of what service staff should aim for when it comes to customer service. The food qas also very good. Highly recommend

The food was lovely and the service from Aneta and Grace was amazing.

Grace is a fantastic person, very polite and helpful 5-star service

Would definitely come again!! Lovely place and courteous service

Had a really lovely meal here, the food was served within a good amount of time despite them being busy. Most importantly our waitress Grace was very attentive and helpful throughout our meal. She made sure we had all we needed and her manner was friendly and helpful. Also the cocktails were really good, would recommend the passionfruit mojito!

Our server Ciaran was really kind and helpful. Food was amazing and came out quickly.

Our server Grace was amazing, we drove an hour and a half to visit as our local restaurant closed down and it was worth the drive! Service was above and beyond our expectations and the food was just as good! We will be coming back so thank to Grace and the team for making it a great experience! Just wish the Prawn Fajita was still on the menu as that would have been a bonus.

Aneta was so lovely! How she remembers all our orders and doesn’t forget a thing blew our minds!

Loved it...although really busy...service, food and atmosphere was really 👍

Amazing food, wish there was still a chilli con carne option

Had Fajitas and a veg Chimichanga. The front of house manager, forgot the wraps and side sauces for the fajitas. Another waitress, named Grace who looked as though she was having a bit of a busy shift sorted out our meal and couldn't apologize enough. This kind of worker needs praising as she stopped what could have been a complaint. Give her a bonus.

Lovely food and a great atmosphere! Always love coming here!

Its very good place, but not happy with the food

Great friendly service Thankyou Andrea

A very very generous 2 stars. Had to wait 40 mins for starters another hour for mains. I overheard they had some chef issues and it was shown in the food. Definitely not up to the usual par or standard this chain should be running on. Massively disappointing as we came as a birthday but discount was given and staff were as accommodating as they could be with a lack of chefs.

Nice place & good food. Grace who I think was our server on Satutday evening (blonde hair) was super lovley and chatty - great customer service!

Excellent food, lovely staff and very nice atmosphere! Would certainly return and recommend highly!

After an hour waiting for main course, when it did arrive the food was cold. Staff took the food back and reheated it in the microwave.(came back within 5 minutes steaming) if you want hot food go when it’s not busy.

We tried Chiquitos today for the 1st time, and we're so glad that we did. We had nachos and tortilla starters and beef burger and chicken burger for our mains. Everything was served steaming hot and was delicious. The chips were crispy, as were the onion rings and the portions were very generous. Andrea was so lovely and helped with our selection as we weren't sure what to order. We will definitely be returning.

Great lunchtime experience, food.was good, fresh and tasty. Staff were really nice and friendly

Food was fantastic. Service was even better. We were served by Aneta and she was amazing! Very informative and interacted with our two girls so well. Made the dining experience so much better. Will certainly return.

Great place for food, and the cocktails were really good too.

Hey, it's Chiquito's. Food is fine, hits the spot, crowd pleaser. We were planning on eating in the city centre but with the EDL protests, decided to go elsewhere. A special mention to staff though. All exemplary, friendly and balanced of attentiveness and reality. It wasn't schmaltzy.

No wraps or dips where delivered with the fajitas so just a pot of chicken , thanks for ruining our meal chiquitos , a waste of £110

Sat down at 7 pm took 40 mins to get starters and didn’t get mains till 9 pm Food was disappointing even with a discount wasn’t worth it at all.

Always enjoy eating here food is excellent

Nice place spacious bar. Friendly staff. Did not eat.

Options for meat-eaters and vegans alike, and very helpful staff. The hats are a nice touch. A great visit!

All there, amazing food, incredible value

My first visit to this branch. There's plenty of parking available, with a few disabled parking spaces. Wheelchair and buggy friendly entrance. We didn't have a table booked but were able to seat us straight away. The menu has a good variety of options available. Some very nice cocktails are on the drinks list, which are worth trying. The staff are great and offer advice on food and drink if you ask them for their opinion, which is good when you aren't sure what to try. All the staff were very friendly. There's plenty of space between the tables in most areas, making it go for groups of people. The one thing thing that let the place down, in my opinion, was how dark it was inside. It might be considered cosy in cold, dark winter days. However, it doesn't affect the quality of food, drink, or service.

very good food! tasty and hot. The only thing was the person who brought it out gave me a lecture about not brining a bag before realising it was my own food and I was not a delivery driver. Please double check who it's for before going at someone Chiqitos!

Not worth the price. It was way overpriced for the taste and quality of food. Got a burrito and chips and salsa. Chips were stale and burrito was flavorless. Only good thing was the salsa which they give you the smallest amount of.

First time here, what a treat! Excellent service, helpful and friendly staff, great tasting food. Would highly recommend 👌

Come for my partners birthday, food was hot and service was great! Will be back again soon!

The food is always so consistently good here!

A very atmospheric place with good food and great professional service.

Friendly staff were just not enough to compensate for the disappointing food. After a fabulously spicy habanero prawn starter my enchilada main was bland, dry and overcooked. First time at a Chiquito's so don't know if this is typical of the chain but this particular branch is not somewhere I'd plan on going back to.

Nice place to visit every now and then. Service from staff very good and polite

Visited this evening great service from Hollie. Lovely food cocktails were lovely will definitely be back

Great meal. Have ordered from here before through uber. Much better in restaurant.Friendly staff even though quite busy very attentive. Our server was hollie she was lovely noticed when my glass was empty and came over to ask if I needed another.

Good food. Lovely staff. Service can be slow at times but never a huge issue to be honest

Perfect but pricing is too high for what it is.

My sister had a fantastic birthday meal and it was very enjoyable

A great place to eat & very convenient. The food was tasty & came out quickly. The drinks/cocktails were well made & we're quite fussy with our drinks. We dined on 11/05/24 at 16:30, which was slightly quieter. The service from the blue top waiter was very good. He had a good energy about him, & went the extra mile. He connected well, even when we was playing poker, whilst waiting for the food. Also a waitress, dressed in full black, was very professional too. Unfortunately, I forgot to leave a tip, or get their names. They made the experience very good & would have received one. They also offer NHS, forces discount at 20%, which is great that they support these services. I would reccomend coming here.

Such a great place to go for a meal. Food is always banging and the staff are always so kind and friendly. Overall experience and atmosphere is excellent! 10/10

Food was surprisingly good, After having visiting a few years back, where it was obvious they were cutting costs. This time the food was good, nice portions and quick service. Attentive staff. The only negative was the Chicken Fajita, which was small....also the time when we visited, where it was very busy, but not the fault of the restaurant. However a good experience overall.

Overall amazing been here now 27 times. It’s our go to place, what I would advise is that have a till for just food order and if the restaurant is closing at 11pm then have a back up till for drinks as we like to take our time and only have that till card only! So it’s easy in cashing up with that’s last till. Felt Really rushed in finishing drinking and we were looking to get another drink but being asked to pay up to cash up that spoiled our mood. Thank you.

The team were amazing so helpful attentive and friendly. Lovely food!

Great experience, lovely friendly staff - thank you very much :)

Food ok, as expected, staff friendly and attentive, restaurant ice cold

Busy with great service and delicious good value food.

Paella was cold, oily and full of sweetcorn. Other food arrived burnt on the ends but under cooked in the middle. Worst family meal in years. Not returning

Love the food here, fabulous flavours in abundance, probably a good thing I don't live near as it could get costly. Staff were exemplary on our latest visit and service prompt and efficient. Par excellence! Very little meat on the ribs on our latest trip.

Should I visit this place? Interesting interior, but cool. Try Mexican cuisine - yes, but here it is adapted to British tastes)) The coconut margarita really turned out to be tasty, but the steak... Thickness, medium-rare, taste - everything was missing!

Placed my order via just eat. The order was placed for collection as there was a long delivery time. Arrive to collect my food which was ready on time. Food was given to me in sealed bags to ensure stayed warm and to avoid damage so I didn’t open them. Once I arrived home we open the bags to get the food and not half of the items for one of my orders was missing. I contacted just eat to inform them and complain but there were just not interested now they’ve taken my money. Would definitely think

Went for a meal last night and had a lovely meal. We had the nachos with chicken and chorizo to share to start with. Wow great portion size and so tasty, could have eaten this purely as a main course! For main I had the Texan burger which was huge and a portion of onion rings (not needed really but like them with a burger!) Mrs had a pork chimichanga. Both mains were very tasty and the burger nearly beat me. For desert we shared (I say shared I had the smallest piece) churros with the caramel sauce! Can recommend the flaming zombie cocktail which comes with a surprise when delivered, took us several attempts to blow out the flame let’s say! Will be back again!!

Went for a meal last night and had a lovely meal. We had the nachos with chicken and chorizo to share to start with. Wow great portion size and so tasty, could have eaten this purely as a main course! For main I had the Texan burger which was huge and a portion of onion rings (not needed really but like them with a burger!) Mrs had a pork chimichanga. Both mains were very tasty and the burger nearly beat me. For desert we shared (I say shared I had the smallest piece) churros with the caramel sauce! Can recommend the flaming zombie cocktail which comes with a surprise when delivered, took us several attempts to blow out the flame let’s say! Will be back again!!

Extremely disappointed in my visit here. Have loved it in the past but this visit was awful!!! Monday night and it was not busy but we had to wait ages for everything!!! I even had to collect some drinks from the bar myself as I saw them sat there for 10 minutes. I also thought the food was substandard and not as good as it has been!!! Will not be going again for a while.

We arrived for our 7pm booking and waited about 40 minutes for our starters. In this time we had finished our drinks and were not offered more. We finished our starters and had to wait another 30-40mins for our mains to come out. During this time our starter plates hadn’t been cleared, bear in mind our server had looked at our table 3 times and noticed our empty plates. Our mains came out and the empty plates were STILL on the table and we had to ask for them to be cleared. We also asked for more drinks which did not come out until we had finished our food. Absolutely shocking service, will not be a returning. The food was lovely however front of house staff were abysmal.

Went here today for lunch for a birthday treat. The restaurant was absolutely freezing 🥶 my mum couldn't enjoy herself because it was that cold, when asked about heating we were told the heater is supposed to be on but the middle vents don't work. Waitress was nice but not really available if we needed something felt like we had to try catch her attention as she walked by to serve other tables. The food was lovely & menu good value but the burger bun on the hallumi wasn't toasted so it fell apart and had to use knife and fork to eat burger. Didn't acknowledge birthday at all. Just felt like didn't really care about the customers, such a shame as we had a birthday lunch here last year and it was fantastic. Really disappointing visit today!

Fabulous meal , very friendly service . I had tacos with pulled pork and chips I would highly recommend. The waitress with the long blond hair way excellent

Booked table for 2 Adults. Arrived at 1615 table booked for 1630 shown to table 37. Drinks ordered and delivered quickly, meal ordered at the same time loaded Nachos took 40 mins to arrive then another 30 mins after for the main courses. At best it was expensive luke warm food, no meat on ribs, southern fired chicken soggy, we had to ask for main course. Asked for bill and paid cash, the young girl asked if i wanted the change, to right I do, she went away with money, another waitress came back with change. Not a great experience even with the place being 3rd full. And very expensive.

All round great night out for couples and groups of friends. Busy Saturday night but service and atmosphere was great. Loved the selection of food and staff were very accommodating.

Loved the experience not been here for a long time but really enjoyed the service food and atmosphere great place to go before your trip to the pictures made it worth it thanks chiquito

Went here for a graduation meal. I had a lovely time and the staff were lovely. The food was amazing and the atmosphere welcoming and relaxing. I would definitely go again!

As much as the food was amazing, the service wasn't to the same standard. We had to wait an hour for our food and, whe we were there, a few people walked out because they had to wait so long and the servers had quite a few complaints from others

Fab atmosphere and lovely service, the food was a bit bland but the drinks were great

Lovely friendly service and good food.

Really good food, a couple of dishes weren't that great. Overall I would go back for a meal

First time we been, food and waiting staff were good. But waiting for food was a very long and painful. 2 hrs and 45 minutes for 3 courses. Kinda on the bench whether to return or not.

Very rude white lady who was at the bar on Tuesday evening. She needs to be sacked straight away.

Amazing service & great Mexican Food!

The first and last time I visited this place food serving horrible and very overpriced absolutny not worth it.food was almost cold, long waiting time too, Looks cool on the outside otherwise it’s loud and noisy bathroom was flooded I guess someone new used mop for the first time no sign it’s wet so a child or elderly person could hurt themselves.