Word on the street
What locals are saying
Rio Chico is the James Island neighborhood anchor for unpretentious Mexican food — a strip-mall find next to the Publix on Folly Road that regulars defend with real loyalty. The weekday lunch buffet, aggressive happy hour pricing on oversized margaritas, and a menu that reaches past Tex-Mex staples into chile rellenos, aguachile, and carne asada draw a faithful crowd, and the staff's warmth is the most consistent thing in the building. Execution has its rough patches — complaints about dry quesadillas, flavorless enchiladas, and the occasional off-tasting shrimp surface with enough regularity to temper the enthusiasm — but for James Island, the value-to-effort ratio is hard to argue with.
James Island neighborhood anchorstrip-mall interior punches above its lookslunch buffet and happy hour carry the weekcarne asada and chile rellenos are the menu's high notesexecution inconsistency on quesadillas and enchiladasstaff warmth offsets the off nights
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