El Frison Mexican Restaurant

Our food is prepared in a way that respects the traditional flavors of the cuisine. We use a vertical spit known as a trompo to cook our Al Pastor meat.

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Our sizzling famous fajitas with shrimp served on a gigantic bed of crispy chips, cheese sauce, shredded cheese, lettuce, sour cream and tomatoes.

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Dineka Patrick

Excellent service and even better food! I’m so glad we stumbled upon this hidden gem. Although we live 40 minutes away, we will definitely be back!

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Battledude 30

Came here after a mountain bike ride with my brother. Food was great. Their jalapeño margaritas were fantastic! Great way to spend my brother’s birthday.

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Jesse Wright

New to the area and looking for a good Mexican restaurant. We were disappointed. The place looked promising, staff was friendly, chips came out quickly. 1st off we didn’t care for the salsa. It has a distinct flavor that just was not for us.
We started off with queso dip and it was good. This was our favorite part. Giving the food stars for being hot and presented well. The sour cream tasted spoiled, and everything was just off.
Come for the drinks.

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Angela Reimund

We were very impressed by this place!
We loved the food, the atmosphere, and the salsa bar was a fantastic feature.
The service was excellent! We will be dining here again.

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Dalton Farris

This is the best Mexican food in mid Missouri not only jefferson city. The portion is perfectly large, the price is affordable. The food tastes amazing, the staff is good. The salsa bar is a nice bonus, chips and avacdo salsa with sour cream included, it’s fantastic.

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Chad Winkler

El Frison is a recently opened Mexican restaurant in Jefferson City, MO (used to be Mel’s) on Industrial Dr on the west end of town. I was introduced to this place because my mom actually wanted to try this restaurant out and we were wanting to celebrate a birthday and a high school graduation.
As this used to be Mel’s in the day, the outside looks more like a Midwestern restaurant than the typical façade of a Mexican restaurant. However on the inside, it is very much a Mexican restaurant with very tasteful use of decor and some very nice tables and booths. The lighting is also just right for a Mexican restaurant. They have booth and table seating and a small bar, but I don’t recall seeing any seats at the counter.
Speaking of bars, El Frison has a salsa bar where they have a variety of different salsas and condiments. Yes, if you want sour cream on the side, there is no charge here. Or guacamole. And do be careful if you try the lemon salsa as it packs quite a punch, which my nephew found out the hard way. I don’t know if they rotate salsas but it would be interesting to see if they do seasonal salsas on that bar.
The service we had was good with our server able to manage our relatively large party in keeping our drinks filled and ensuring we had our orders done right. They were also very approachable and happily answered questions my family had on the menu.
And for the menu. I am glad to report that I think this is the first Mexican restaurant in JCMO that has dishes from Jalisco. That includes quesabirria which I think is a first for the area. And the quesabirria is very good – if you never had birria, definitely try it. The consommé was the weakest part as I wish it had just a touch more flavor to it but that is more of a nitpick for me. The birria was really tasty and favorable. I enjoyed the cheese used with the birria tacos and the beans and rice were some of the best I had with some very good flavors on the rice. As a suggestion, I would love to see the menu add straight up birria street tacos as well.
I also enjoyed the various salsas they had as well as the agua de jamaica (hibiscus tea). Glad to see they also serve horchata as well though I would love to see them add pina (pineapple) and fresa (strawberry) agua fresca.
Overall a very strong first impression from me and if I was back in the area I would definitely stop here for some good Mexican food. I would recommend the same if you’re having a craving for Mexican food, too.

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Terry Reaka

I’ve been here twice in the same week. Living in Santa Fe, NM, I always enjoy good mexican food. It’s amazing the portions you get with great flavor. Clean friendly atmosphere and staff.

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Andy B

Great experience at El Frison. The food here is outstanding and great service. I had the best pastor tacos I’ve ever had here. And the salsa bar is a huge bonus. Highly recommend and will definitely come back.

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Crafty and Sassy

I love coming to this restaurant. Foods great! Several of the staff are funny. I think this visit was my fifth trip. It’s great for a group of friends or just when you need a one on one meet up. I always extra food to take home, that’s a plus in my opinion!!!!

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Todd Schmidt

Amazing burrito so delicious. Love the Free salsa bar too.

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