Picante!

I loved Picante! I grew up in Alexandria and was visiting the Udvar-Hazy from NYC, but I’d never gone to Picante before. My family and I were in search of lunch in the Chantilly area and Picante was highly recommended by a friend who used to work there. He told me to order the fajitas and he was not wrong. Good grief. We ordered a pound of mixed beef and chicken and we almost finished it. One of us is usually very disappointed by Tex-Mex restaurants in the DC area because they don’t taste anything like the food he grew up eating in Texas, and he was floored by how good Picante was. The salsa is the kind he eats whenever he’s back in TX and he almost never finds it on the East Coast. One of us ordered a quesadilla and was very pleased too. We will be back! Thank you, Guillermo!

A Northern Virginia favorite! I ordered the white chicken enchilada, not too spicy but the accompanying green sauce adds a great kick. My family friend’s have been going here for years and told me it’s been open for 20+ years and this is there place for birthdays, and even catered my best friends wedding!

This was our first time at Picante! Excellent and authentic Mexican food, we tried several items off the menu my entire table enjoyed their entries, I had the steak/shrimp fajita. The restaurant space is big and comfortable. Great drinks and the servers are very nice, top notch customer service everyone works hard and pitches in. The service is extremely quick, variety options on the menu, the drinks are great, tasty food and the prices are good. Don’t forget the yummy churros and honey for dessert. Highly recommend!