Los Tres Vaqueros

Los Tres Vaqueros has been a family-owned Mexican restaurant on Falls of Neuse Road in Raleigh since 1999. The kitchen cooks the food of the owners’ hometown, Guadalajara in Jalisco, and their stated mission is to bring that cooking to people here.

The room is warm and full of color, decorated with pieces brought from Mexico, and it has stayed much the same for years. Regulars who started coming as children are still coming as adults, which tells you most of what you need to know about the place.

What to know

• Murals are painted on the dining room walls.
• The furniture was handmade and designed in Mexico.
• Catering packages are offered for events.
• One reviewer says she started eating there at twelve and still goes twenty years later.