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best mexican restaurant in baton rouge! best chips, best salsa, best green tomatillo sauce!! batonrougestaple. going here is a must! enjoy!

best in baton rouge. ninfa's has the best mexican cuisine in batonrougearea. expect long lines on weekends. worth the wait. best tortillas i have ever eaten. made fresh and you can watch them make them. food delivered very quick after you finally get a table. sometimes too quick.

awesome food. i use to work in batonrougeand truly enjoyed this place. i would go and come out stuffed and almost to the point of sickness, but it was worth it. you cant go wrong with your choice of dishes or appetizers. i would personally recommend making this a stopping place on trips if you enjoy mexician food like i do.

possibly the 'best'. this was my second trip to ninfa's (first was back in 2007) in baton rouge, a restaurant with deep ties to classic houston mexican cuisine. being from houston, i knew what to expect, but did not expect how well the ninfa's on the outer rim operated.

getting past the food (superb) and atmosphere (dark, clean, inviting), i could have enough good things to say about the staff. i could tell the manager/owner(s) were very pleasant down-to-earth people, because you could see it had rubbed off on the staff. this establishment may have the very best service in town. our waiter took time out to talk with us about drink choices and everyday life in general for nearly 15 minutes in all.

the treats are the queso (wrapped and plattered at your table - only place in batonrougethat does this), and the sopapillas.

10 out of 10.

ninfas is not only the best mexican restaurant in batonrougeit's one of the best restaurants in the city . yes parking is limited but you have all the hotel parking next door . ninfas is the original , for the last 30 years everyone emulates ninfas . the one in batonrougehas been run by the same person since it opened in 1993. best food ever .

monicaschroeder. okay, i admit it. i'm a food snob. few places i can eat these days. found ninfa's by chance, down the street from my hotel. what a fantastic surprise! the service - excellent! the atmosphere, perfect. when they brought out the burrito with the freshly made from scratch tortilla, omg! i was in food heaven. the salsa, perfect, different from anything i had before, almost like there was a little cream in it? the sauce, the meat, perfection! i was so excited about the food, i took an order of a pork dish to go for my husband. i cannot say enough about the food! fantastic! the traffic in batonrougeis a nightmare, horrendous, but i would brave it all again to eat at this restaurant that is doing it right! well done! thank you so much for the delightful experience. i will eat there every time i am in baton rouge!

great mexican restaurant. ninfa's used to be my favourite mexican restaurant in batonrougeuntil i discovered the delights of coyote blues which it shares much in common with; ninfa's has gigantic portion sizes and an above average price for mexican food.
my girlfriend and i had heard good things about the place and so decided to check it out one day. first impressions for most of ninfa's customers will be the same; 'where the hell do i park?', as they must have the smallest car park for a restaurant and it is always full, however they make the most out of having a massive holiday inn lot behind them that you can take advantage of. after spending 10 minutes figuring this out you're finally ready to go eat.
initially i was disappointed to find out they didn't have my mexcian staple, the chimmichanga. however upon receiving our dishes this sadness quickly subsided. i had a beef burrito and my girlfriend had the pork carnitas upon recommendation by our very knowledgeable waiter. my food was good, but hers was out of this world. basically she received a massive chunk of slow cooked pork and all the accessories to build her carnitas. if you're one of those people that doesn't mind building your own meal at a restaurant (i'm not) then this is for you, the meat was succulent and melts in the mouth and the freshness of all the other ingredients was top draw.
despite the best interests of our stomachs we opted for desert afterwards which also was superb. we shared an order of their fried ice cream which, unlike many batonrougemexican restaurants was actually fried, not just ice cream rolled around in crunchy bits and so it went down smooth.
i only have a few complaints about the place. first of all the parking, which i mentioned above, however this is just a minor annoyance at best. the layout of the restaurant is slightly strange, with nooks and crannys all over the place and i feel like we were forgotten about at some times. also my biggest complaint is their reservation system. unlike every other restaurant in the world they do not take reservations on the phone. to reserve a table you must go there earlier in the day and they will take your name down in person. now i understand that this place is always busy and they probably want to make sure people actually show up for their tables, but thats slightly excessive if you have to make the journey just to reserve a table.
all in all it was a great meal, and i can't blame ninfa's for a table of about 10 annoying middle aged women yelling the whole time we were eating.