Jalapeno Mexican Kitchen - Miami Beach

Great restaurant on ocean drive. very pleasant service, great kitchen, huge drinks, endless happy hours : in short, you have to try it!

On Friday for lunch. $250 for a group of 5 for the location seemed to be average. the owner was nice and came and spoke to us, even gave our entire table free photos. eating was good, nothing to rave and nothing to complain. I also don’t like it when putting automatically add a 20% size to the bill, good service earned more and bad service earned less 20 is the standard. our server was really great and paid with a card that I could not even add to try to give her more.

The reason this restaurant gets to much business is because it is on the strip of south beach. You go for the ambiance. However, I ordered a breakfast sandwich that was actually very tasty, as was the mojito. The thing that sucks about this place is the slow service and the 20% service charge. They definitely don’t deserve that much of a tip. No wonder my breakfast was only $7!

The food is alright but the service was a bit slow. The menu is all over the place with offerings and pricing and doesn’t really have a flow. They hand you so many papers when you arrive that it’s very confusing. They have pretty large margaritas tho!

Not exactly a great way to kick off our Miami vacation. Food was okay at best and overly overpriced. I’d say you pay for the ambiance and experience of eating on Ocean Drive. The mango margarita was bland same with the fettuccine alfredo pasta. The chicken was rough and dry, I will say the burger was probably the best thing here. Service was nice for the most part but they did seem to really push us to get the XL Margarita size which ran $40+. We just wanted some lunch but when we constantly kept getting asked if we’d like to try the larger Margarita it was a negative for us. For the price point I’d say there are plenty of better options to eat at other than Jalapeño Mexican Kitchen.