Social Profile: 
✔️Brunch ✔️Lunch ✔️Dinner ✔️Dine in ✔️Take out ✔️Delivery
… View more
Counter-serve eatery dishing up Mexican classics including hand-rolled tortillas, burritos & tacos.
Hours
| Friday | 10:30 AM–10 PM |
| Saturday | 10:30 AM–10 PM |
| Sunday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Monday | 10:30 AM–9 PM |
| Tuesday | 10:30 AM–9 PM |
| Wednesday | 10:30 AM–9 PM |
| Thursday | 10:30 AM–9 PM |
Address and Contact Information
Address: 26811 Aliso Creek Rd, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
Phone: (888) 660-1643
Website: https://www.caferio.com/locations/aliso-viejo
Menu Photos
Order and Reservations
Order: Order online
Related Web Results
Cafe Rio: Mexican Grill, Fresh Mexican Food | Homepage
Come experience for yourself why guests proclaim they would drive 47 miles for our Sweet Pork, bathe in our queso or drink our tomatillo dressing. We’re proud …
Search our locations for individual or catering order – Cafe Rio
Find your cafe rio. City, state, or zip code.
Mexican Grill | Our Food – Cafe Rio
Chef-inspired Mexican recipes freshly crafted into a burrito, taco, salad, quesadilla, enchilada or tostada. Fan Favorite: the original Sweet Pork Barbacoa.
Reviews
Al Caida
FILTHY! Now I love eating at Café Rio, but this particular one was disgusting!
The floors were really dirty, filthy, and not mop, or only halfway mopped with clear foot prints all over the place
We looked for a clean table to sit at, But we saw crumbs on all the tables.
And there was even a attendant in the dining room they’re supposed to clean stuff but clearly somebody was not doing their job.
When we were ordering our food, it was very clear that the food had been sitting there for many hours, and was getting all dried up.
What shocked me was that I saw an employee hop up and just sit on the prep table chatting with another employee, this shocked me, and this was in plain view of the dining room. What employee does that? Talk about a health code violation.
In the bathroom there was left over toilet seat covers, so gross !
When I went to go get drinks, I noticed that the punch circulators were not operating, how long was everything just sitting there stagnant? I had to turn the switch on and then the refrigeration started up, so was everything lukewarm?
One of the exit doors was locked, that’s a fire code violation
It’s very obvious that the management is not properly training their employees well, and the overall restaurant is dirty and not kept up to proper standards.
… moreThe floors were really dirty, filthy, and not mop, or only halfway mopped with clear foot prints all over the place
We looked for a clean table to sit at, But we saw crumbs on all the tables.
And there was even a attendant in the dining room they’re supposed to clean stuff but clearly somebody was not doing their job.
When we were ordering our food, it was very clear that the food had been sitting there for many hours, and was getting all dried up.
What shocked me was that I saw an employee hop up and just sit on the prep table chatting with another employee, this shocked me, and this was in plain view of the dining room. What employee does that? Talk about a health code violation.
In the bathroom there was left over toilet seat covers, so gross !
When I went to go get drinks, I noticed that the punch circulators were not operating, how long was everything just sitting there stagnant? I had to turn the switch on and then the refrigeration started up, so was everything lukewarm?
One of the exit doors was locked, that’s a fire code violation
It’s very obvious that the management is not properly training their employees well, and the overall restaurant is dirty and not kept up to proper standards.
Sue Richards
I enjoyed the tacos that I bought on Taco Tuesday. My daughter, however, was very disappointed. She always gets the chicken tortilla soup, however, Cafe Rio doesn’t sell it anymore at this location. So she didn’t order anything off the menu. The chicken tortilla soup has been a favorite of ours. Other changes have been made to the menu that we don’t like. We will now go to Costa Vida or someplace closer to get our Tex-Mex Food. We won’t travel to Cafe Rio anymore since it is further away and doesn’t offer the same menu.
… moreSasha P
I was excited to try. But unfortunately my pork nachos came with no meat. So $11 dollars for chips and beans …. kinda upset but it was curb pickup and didn’t even think about checking to see if my order even had meat…
… moreRachel Lawrence-Boden
I’ve been a Cafe Rio customer for years and order from this location probably 3-4 times per month for our family. Today, I ordered my normal tostada salad and was eating it when I bit down on something hard. I spit it out and discovered it was a piece of pottery. This is so unacceptable. I can still feel where my tooth bit down on it and will probably need to go to the dentist. I’ve reached out to the company via their survey but I felt others should be aware of this issue as well. My hope is that the company would take care of this issue starting with giving me a full refund of my order.
… moreNeal Lander
The food is the best quality of the Rios I’ve been to, but the staff has consistently been a deterrent. From wildly inappropriate comments to appearing dead inside and completely ignoring their surroundings, the staff need some help. Whether that’s a livable wage, or to be treated like humans by the surrounding residents, they need help. But the food is still really good tho.
… moreKrista Wild
I really enjoy the enchiladas and the tortilla soup, and my son likes the tacos. But I have the damnedest time trying to get a correct order. The last couple of times we ordered delivery, my son’s order arrived without the rice and black beans we’d requested. On the app we add all kinds of ingredients we want, and it’s a crap shoot which ones are actually included. I decided today we would go in to the restaurant too order so that we could watch our food being made, which would surely lead to a more accurate order. We got to make a couple of corrections, but after I got home I realized that instead of having one beef and one chicken enchilada as I had asked for, I instead received one beef and one pork enchilada. I have no idea how that happened when I was standing right there. I mean, there was also a little bit of chicken in my pork enchilada, so maybe I turned and missed the pork being added? Unclear. In addition, my son is vegetarian and gets the tacos veggie style, but we went there so that he could customize the ingredients and leave the beans out this time. First of all, she asked him, “What kind of meat do you want?” When we said, “No meat, veggie,” she immediately grabbed two tortillas and put some rice and black beans on them and stuck them on the grill. If she had first asked him what kind of beans he wanted, she’d have known that he did not want beans this time. Instead we told her and then she had to put that order aside and make a new one. They were nice people, but I wish that they would ask more questions and listen and pay better attention to the ingredients that are ordered there and in the app. We really like their ingredients, just would like to be able to get the order as we ask for it, which doesn’t seem to be possible at this time. I also ordered tortilla soup. She immediately put chicken in it without asking me what I wanted (fortunately, it was indeed chicken). I also asked for a little rice and beans in my soup, and she said she could do that but it would cost more. I was skeptical because that’s not the case in the app, but I just told her to leave it out rather than taking the chance of being overcharged for something that is given for free If ordered in the app. In summary, somehow visiting the store to order was NOT more helpful than ordering in the app, as it turned out. I guess I will have to go back to ordering my food in the app, and then checking it very, very carefully before I leave the store with it.
… morePaul Tallent
Went to lake forest ,different menu no more shredded beef ,no more daily special drinks machine down
So came here happy tonreport they still have shredded beef specials , drink machine was working
Needles tonsay this location was also had triple the customerss
… moreSo came here happy tonreport they still have shredded beef specials , drink machine was working
Needles tonsay this location was also had triple the customerss
Leonetti Thomas
This location is no longer open. Google refuses to remove it or mark it as closed. But it says so on the Cafe Rio site that this location has closed down.
Which sucks because this was my favorite cafe rio in this area.
… moreWhich sucks because this was my favorite cafe rio in this area.
Michael Feldman
Really polite staff, clean kitchen and delicious food. We had a great lunch there after protesting on 10/18 for No King’s Day!
… moreEm P
I love this place so much, worker is great, service alway good, but they no longer service in this area, it is sad.
… more