This normally wouldn't be a place I recommend as an authentic Mexican food restaurant, but the service was fantastic, the refried beans were just about the best I e tasted before, my wife's shrimp fajitas were great. The Carne Asada plate was more like a steak plate covered with Salsa, for me, I've had better Carne Asada plates but with everything else being so good, I'll be back to try something else. read more

Sergio was fabulous and our meal came out hot tasty and we're very happy. Will definitely come back to El Cholo

My last visit here was over 6 years ago and at that time I stopped coming here because I wasn't too impressed with the service, and I had a bad experience with my entrée. Just recently I revisited this restaurant on a whim with my family and I'm happy to say that this time around I was impressed! The carnitas plate was tasty and the seafood enchilada was wonderful. Vicky was my server and she made my dining experience so much more enjoyable. Her knowledge of the menu really helped me decide what to order thus making it such a positive experience this time around. My picky teenagers also enjoyed their entrées and we will now put this restaurant on rotation if we're ever craving Mexican food. Give it a try if you're ever in the area and ask for Vicky. read more

Our waiter gave us the best suggestions for our late afternoon lunch. He was knowledgable about Margaritas. We ordered a pitcher and enjoyed it a lot. So nice refilling our glasses. Their anaheim chile relleno is fantastic.. They have spacious size booths. All in all a super meal, delicious cocktails!! Great service. My favorite Mexican food restsurant. read more

Service was good, very attentive. Place looks a bit run down, can use some modernization, same with bathrooms. Fajitas were delicious..... got more veggies than meat, but nonetheless very good. read more

Went to dinner last night and we were very impressed with the food and cleanliness of the restaurant. Combination plate and Albondigas soup were all excellent. Our server (Julio. G.) as always was outstanding. Pleasant and very professional. Thank you. read more

El Cholo has such a festive ambiance, the food and service is excellent. We always seem to order the Southwestern Chicken Salad, but substitute the chicken with Carnitas, ask them to make the Carnitas crispy, it is the bomb! read more

We've been here on several occasions and have been satisfied with their food and service. However, my wife and I have been disappointed with their margaritas. If you're going to charge $15 for a margarita it should at least come in a nice margarita/cocktail glass and not the same standard cups they use to serve water. To top it off they were watered down! I believe they need to step it up here since other El Cholo locations are known for making great margaritas! read more

My husband and I stopped here for an early dinner today We were greeted by the nicest hostess and had a wonderful waiter named Martine. Our meals were awesome and plentiful. I had the carnitas tacos. The meat was delicious. My husband had the fish tacos which were equally as delicious. We had not been here in awhile and so glad we stopped by. Great job! read more

WARNING PRICE GOUGING!!!! Came in for lunch and a margarita. Middle of the road quality, I knew, but sometimes that's good enough for lunch. $41.50 FOR LUNCH!!! And I had ordered off the "Lunch Specials" menu!!!! They are price gouging here. Rip off not worth it!!! read more

Two of us had lunch. The combo of cheese enchilada, Chile riano, and a green corn tamale. All of them were well prepared. I had the bowl of tortilla soup. A little salty but very good. The service was okay. The receptionist was lovely. She tracked me and delivered me to my table. Nice surroundings. The music stayed in the background. read more

El Cholo - Tortilla soup - Mexican Near Me - Anaheim, California

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Green chicken enchilada was soooooo goood!!! The sauce was so tasty! Beans and rice were good but I've had better. Food came reeeally fast!! Ambiance is authentic. read more

This place is superb! They have been around for about 100 years! I can taste why. I asked for the spicy salsa with my chips and it didn't disappoint. Could have been even spicier. I like how they market their history. The items on the menu show what year they introduced that dish. Restaurants come and go, but this one has staying power for sure. Ordered the crab enchiladas and they were hot and flavorful. Also ordered the 1/2 order of fresh guacamole. The service was on point and very attentive. This place has it all - great food, great service and a great atmosphere. I have to say that the other 1 star reviews I saw were not even close to my experience and I suspect they had some other agenda for leaving this great restaurant such a poor rating. I highly recommend it! read more

Uhm. Pretty shook by this place given the reviews and smiling people walking out. The only thing that I would actually go back for was the blends strawberry Margarita. We ordered the Fiesta Platter for 2 and was wildly disappointed. The quesadillas seem to be "cooked" in the microwave. The crab taquitos were fishy. The nachos were mid, okay cheese and mushy beans. The chimichangas had a really nice sauce but I was not convinced on anything. Service and staff were nice. Ambiance was pretty and things looked clean. read more

El Cholo - Fiesta Platter for 2 - Mexican Near Me - Anaheim, California

Love coming here. Zapata's Widow and steak fajitas make for a perfect combo. The chips and salsa here are my favorite in OC. Service is always good. Owners daughter runs this location and she's lovely. read more

El Cholo - Steak Fajitas for the win - Mexican Near Me - Anaheim, California

First time at this location. Great food; extraordinary service by Mr. Martin. We will return.

Underrated when comparing there mexican food with made with from scratch sauces. Must try Cheese Enchilada..Pork Tamale ..and Chile Relleno ..each sauce unique to each item ..perfect in texture and flavor..and not greasy. Good service as well. read more

Food was great! Service was excellent. Our sever gave us top notch service. I think his name was Francisco.

So we have been coming here for quite sometime now. But everytime we come here the food quality goes downhill little by little. This time it was my dads birthday and my brothers kids wanted to take grandpa to this restaurant! Their salsa had no taste or it felt it was store bought. In fact the medium salsa had gone bad and we did complain to the manager that it smells kinda funky! Their chips are a little better but still had a bitter taste. Their enchiladas green sauce was way toooooo sweet. I mean there was all sorts of 'wrong' with the food. The saving grace was their flan. It actually tasted decent. I ordered a Michelada and my drink was not mixed properly with Clamato or whatever they used to make my Michelada with. The bean and cheese burrito that we ordered for my niece had literally no cheese inside, when asked our server why is that! To which he replied, they made the burrito so fast cause they were watching a boxing match between some Mexican Boxers hence they forgot to put cheese inside. Yea definitely! not coming back here again. In the end we paid $160 with tips, which was definitely not worth it. read more

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Food is always great but, what really what keeps me coming back is the staff especially Ivan, Cristal and Irvine. My wife and I go at least once a week. My favorite order is the Mexican chopped vegetable salad. It's quite unique. read more

This was one of my husband's late father's favorite place. We wanted to take his mother there to celebrate Mother's Day but I called too late to make a reservation. Our brother in law went there personally and was able to work out a solution. All of us had a wonderful time celebrating Mother's Day and remembering our beloved father. Great service and great food. El Cholo, thank you for making our celebration happen. read more

Food was really good, our server Pancho had some great recommendations, we loved everything he offered!! The place is so cute, we came on a weekday at like 12 and it wasn't too busy. The place is really clean and has a nice look to it!! We can't wait to come back! read more

Awesome place! Great service and most importantly, delicious food and drinks!!! If you are in the Anaheim Area or LA hit it up!!! read more

El Cholo - Deliciousness - Mexican Near Me - Anaheim, California

Very simple menu. Food is delicious. Service is fabulous. Love the peaceful ambience especially during weekdays.

I wish we had time to go to the original location, but this location was fantastic! It's everything you want from a classic Mexican restaurant. My only disappointment was they didn't have one of the desserts listed on the menu. read more

A truly underrated restaurant. We love el cholo! Their food is great, service is great! And their bar is perfect.

O-V-E-R P-R-I-C-E-D. BIG TIME!! CHANGED FOR THE WORSE!! Prices- Ridiculous!! Menu - Limited, Tiny Drinks - EXPENSIVE!! Food - Mediocre Service - Average NOT WORTH YOUR TIME, THERE ARE WAY BETTER PLACES TO EAT!! My wife and I are here on Saturday for lunch, came in about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. We are pretty familiar with El CHOLO, at least the old El CHOLO, but we are very disappointed by our experience today. It is hard to know which part of our experience to criticise first, because that is what this review is, critical! I am pissed that the management thinks they can pull this on the customer and the customer is just gonna keep-on-coming-back like nothing is wrong!! NO NO NO IT AIN'T HAPPENING WITH US!!! Prices - the prices here are ridiculous for what is being served and don't even try to start with a sad story about prices and the cost of eggs and butter et cetera. You have Jacked the prices skyhigh and you have the gall to sit there and smile at me while I look at the menu that is about 1/5 th what the old menu used to be in terms of selection, I mean it is a joke. Let's take a brief sidetrip to margaritas and drinks on the menu. Today I had the El CHOLO coconut margarita and it was almost $16 for what was about a cup of ice and liquid - I mean seriously that's just overpriced period!! I paid for it. I'm here, but coming back? Hell no!! I am sitting in the bar area and to my left is a full bar and a bartender. MY MENU HAS A TOTAL OF 5 DRINKS TO ORDER - 5!! What the hell over? What are you idiots thinking, the best you can do is offer me five drinks in a Mexican restaurant, five drinks from a menu that used to have a ton and a half of them until you cut it down to 5?? Oh wait, maybe the reason that there is only five drinks offered is that the whole front page of the menu is taken up with bullshit crap about the El CHOLO club and getting my El CHOLO card or something like that. I didn't even pay attention to it, I just noticed that it's taking up a lot of space in a really small menu . Do you seriously think people are joining the El CHOLO club with what you're offering? As I mentioned above, the menu is tiny compared to the old El CHOLO menu. I think the offerings are crappy, and as my wife noticed, you can't even buy a fricking taco off the menu - what the hell over !!??? The food we ordered was mediocre at best. There was nothing stand-out at all about it and for the prices they're charging for a lunch - 20 to 24 or 25 bucks for basically anything, I'm just not coming back. The selection is so small, the prices are so high and the service - the service was mediocre too Hey management, here is a note for you, when I order a drink and then I finish the drink and the drink glass sits empty, while one, two, three different employees come up to the table to wait on me, bring me my food et cetera, maybe you could train some of them, one of them, to look for the empty glass and ask if I'd like another drink !! Don't get me wrong, I would've politely said no if I was asked, but the point is you don't even have the common sense, the quality, the smarts, I don't know what to call it, you can't even train your people to look for an opportunity to make more sales. Jees!! Oh!! And if you didn't know it, I'm pretty sure liquor sales are the most profitable part of a restaurant's business. This is NOT a restaurant that is struggling to make ends meet THIS IS A RESTAURANT THAT SURVIVED COVID AND NOW THINKS BECAUSE THEY SURVIVED IT, IT'S OPEN SEASON ON THE CUSTOMER AND HIS WALLET AND NOTHING HAS TO BE DONE BETTER OR SPECIAL. JUST THE FACT THAT YOU'RE OPEN, YOU'RE SOMEHOW DOING A FAVOUR FOR THE CUSTOMER BY BEING HERE TO SERVE EXPENSIVE FOOD AND MEDIOCRE DRINKS, SOMEHOW THAT ENTITLES YOU TO CHARGE WHATEVER YOU WANT. IF YOU'RE STUPID ENOUGH TO THINK PEOPLE ARE GONNA KEEP COMING BACK , GO FOR IT!! AS MY WIFE OBSERVED WHEN WE WALKED IN AND ALSO WALKED OUT, THERE WAS VIRTUALLY NOBODY IN THE RESTAURANT AT ALL ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON. NOBODY ! read more

Great Happy Hour prices on beer. The chips and salsa filled me up too. The Happy Hour menu is 20-40 percent off certain apps so all in all a good place to watch a game. read more

I've been to the El Cholo in LA many years ago. While visiting my friends from the OC, they raved about the Coconut Margaritas. Being a fellow coconut lover, I had to try it. To cool off in the OC heat and for a late afternoon "snack," we ordered nachos and a pitcher of margaritas on the rocks, not blended, which was a great value. These margaritas and nachos were a dangerously good combo. The glasses were rimmed with toasted coconut flakes. The Nachos were super-cheesy, no guacamole or sour cream on top, but still very good. Will definitely come back and order another pitcher again! read more

El Cholo - Coconut Marg @ El Cholo in Anaheim Hills - Mexican Near Me - Anaheim, California

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Okay, this is gonna sound weird because I'm a huge fan of El Cholo! I've been coming here for years and years and love the food everything is top notch as far as Mexican food is concerned. Tonight I just stopped in for a quick Margarita and I ordered the Es Un Milagro...And it's really tasty. Here is my beef...The glass is super small like something that my grandma used to serve wine in at Thanksgiving dinner and it's 3/4 full of ice...But the damn drink cost $16.95 Yes I can read the menu I knew what I was getting into but I just didn't know it was gonna be so small after three cops all the alcohol was gone! I think at that price the glass should be double the size and I should feel a little buzz at the end. read more

El Cholo - Bar - Mexican Near Me - Anaheim, California

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Second time here this time with the family excellent service and the food is delicious best place even if we drive almost 2 hours read more

El Cholo - Mexican Near Me - Anaheim, California

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Server: 5, Super nice Ambience: 2.5 Food: 1 bland, nothing exciting here Came here last night on a whim. From a guy who eats out all the time, I'll tell you this; save your money, go elsewhere. You'd have a better time at El Torito and tastier food. Everything was meh, from the bland salsa, weird chips, ehh. I was so unimpressed. Server was super nice, ambience was ok, but overall. No thanks. I got the shrimp fajitas. read more

Skimpy portion of food for the price .... Barely a 1/4 cup of beans on the plate , enchilada was pretty small

This restaurant is the shadow of what it used to be, If you want low quality food there are less expensive options. This place makes Taco Bell feel like an authentic Mexican food, never again. This place is so outdated that you can smell the years on that carpet. Another thing that amazes me is the plates so damn hot and the food is not. read more

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They have great margaritas. Wish the happy hour pricing would be better considering they have a BJ's next to them and El torito on the other side of the freeway that have great happy hours. They don't have too many vegetarian options though. The service from the bar tender was great. read more

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Very expensive, food was not great. Service was just ok, ambiance in the restaurant was nice though.

All day everyday here!! Been here more times than I can count never had a bad meal... Wait staff is questionable at times.... But drop me some of their fajitas and damn...your good to go. Lunch or dinner. Good both times. read more

Horrible service, we order margaritas, to remind twice, we finished our food, and we had to cancel the order because our server forgot to bring margaritas, we had asked for extra sauce/salsa, she completely ignored us, we asked another server to get salsa finally we got a little bitty one our server was his manager s, very lazy did not want to service the bills game in the little tray and she just threw it at us The food was very mediocre, I got only like 56 pieces of chicken in my fajitas, this place has gone down from food to service. I would not recommend this place again. read more

Great Food! Great Experience! Got the chicken fajitas were delicious. Salsa has great flavor. Love the chips.