Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

Mexican Radio is now open.  The RENAISSANCE of the City-County of Schenectady continues.  We will be hearing more good news during this summer.

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Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

Mexican Radio is now open.  The RENAISSANCE of the City-County of Schenectady continues.  

Yep, higher taxes, tax base falling more, more tax foreclosures, more politically connected tax deadbeats who the city does not foreclose, more falling home sales, more falling home sale prices, refusal to reassess the whole city, more reduction in ESSENTIAL city services, and more tax hikes.


There was a lot of buzz for a long time about Mexican Radio coming to Schenectady.

A brief item in the Times Union in 2010 said the restaurant was expected to open by early 2011.

In September 2011, we wrote that Lori Selden and Mark Young, who run Mexican Radio, were still looking for a space downtown. Their locales in Hudson and New York City were a hit.

Then in July 2012 came word that negotiations for Selden and Young to lease the old Off Track Betting complex on State Street fell through, but that they were still trying to work something out. "Mexican Radio back on the dial?" the headline read.

Finally, a deal was struck in October 2012.

It then took another year and a half, $4 million and barrels of yellow and green paint to transform three connected brick buildings at 325 State St. from an OTB into Mexican Radio's colossal restaurant.

Finally, after four years of waiting, Mexican Radio opened with much fanfare in mid-June.

So it was a bit surprising to find it not packed on a Friday night less than two months later.

With at least a dozen tables open, we still had to wait at the bar for 15 minutes to be seated. My friend was perplexed. I explained that there likely weren't enough servers or tables were being held for reservations, which, unbeknownst to me until I got there, Mexican Radio had just started taking.

Young later explained they also sometimes limit seating to keep the kitchen from being overwhelmed, though he said they haven't done that much recently.

If you invest $4 million in a restaurant, you should have enough staff on hand to take whatever a Friday night dinner rush brings. It's unclear precisely why we had to wait.


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Quoted from mikechristine1

Someone said their chips work out to be $1.00 each

Quoted from sanfordy2

after this years taxes who can afford one?      

Quoted from Henry

Reviews are horrible online, long waiting times, $17 burritos which many are saying Taco Bell's are better, crappy staff which don't even refill drinks. No thanks