Plaza Azteca Mexican Restaurant on East 26th Street is the kind of place where the chips hit the table before you've settled into your seat, and the margaritas are poured like they mean it.
The menu covers the ground a Mexican restaurant should: enchiladas with sauce that actually has depth, chile rellenos done properly, carne asada that earns the plate, and tacos that don't need a paragraph of description to justify ordering them. It's family dining in the real sense — booths that fit everyone, portions that don't leave you calculating whether to order an appetizer, and a room loud enough that kids aren't a problem.
East Side Sioux Falls has options, but Plaza Azteca keeps pulling people back because the kitchen isn't coasting. The food tastes like someone made a decision about it. No watered-down salsa, no upsell pressure, no mystery about what you're getting — just a consistent plate of traditional Mexican food that does what it's supposed to do, every time you sit down.