El Chaparral

Very good!
Great service, great family environment and very tasty food. I’ll be back :)

While in Rome do as the Romans right, the surroundings had all the pizza and burger joints you find in every city then I found this place. Service is great, atmosphere is welcoming, clean establishment. I ordered Fish & Shrimp Soup came with a side of rice and toasted buttered roll, Awesome! Very tasty, fish pieces were fresh not frozen and meaty chunks no fishy taste, shrimp had a snap to it also not frozen, vegetables crispy not limp, broth not spice over bearing.

Service was great! Food came out quickly! My hubs loved his dish which was the tampiquena chicken and my kids loved their cheese burgers! I was ok with mine. I got the shrimp cocktail and it was just ok to me. Shrimp was good but I’ve never had celery in any cocktails I’ve ever ordered. Which made the sauce taste different… Kind of too ketchupy. I’ll try something else on the menu next time. Chips and salsa was good too!

Free coffee with breakfast and decent flautas but not a place you would want to go back a second time unless it was the only place open and you were starving. The burritos are big but nothing here really stands out. Better of going to Good Coffee.

I would have rather had Taco Bell! The food was very under seasoned. I had the #10 Chaparral Combination Plate. The steak which was a thin slice of round steak, flank or skirt steak would have been better, not a lot of sauce on the enchilada and little to no flavor, the chile relleno was soggy and again needed more seasoning, everything but the beans and rice need at least needed some salt. The guacamole was nothing more than a small slice of avocado. The service, beans and rice were the only things that were not a complete disappointment. I do not recommend.

I give it 4 stars. The burritos were huge. The service was great my waitress name was Cantiana (hope thats right) she was great, very courteous and nice. I would say ask for her but she is on her way to college so good luck to her. But all in all it was a good place to eat you will leave satisfied. They have daily specials and family meals if you want to order that.

Came here due to previous reviews. Not disappointed! Service was prompt and very friendly, food quality and quantity was very good. I will eat here again.

Good service. Good mexican food. Just not the steak. It tasted old. Maybe that’s why the steaks were so cheap… Maybe…

My mom kept raving about this place which she’s visited several times before. When i visited from out of town, we had to go. I was very pleased with the look of the place, clean, colorful, ample parking… The food tasted homemade to me, the beef ‘caldo’ was rich, meaty and served hot with tortillas. I had green enchiladas and they were cheesy and delicious. The prices were unbeatable and the service great. We did have to wait a bit for our check, but that was the only glitch in an otherwise very pleasant, satisfying visit.

Stopped by here since it was right next to our hotel. I ordered the fish special which ended up being a soup for starter then a plate with tilapia, Mexican rice, baked potato, salad (just lettuce and tomato) and bread. It was all delicious and a bargain at $ 6.99. The waiter was friendly and the ambiance was nice with a Mana concert in the background. Would not hesitate to visit again if I am in the area.

Everything started pretty well. Restaurant located in strip center. Nice location, good parking. Upon entry, it is nicely decorated and very clean. Our waiter was very courteous. Chips were brought to our table with both a red and green salsa. Both very good and hot. Impressive menu, had quite a bit to offer. After we ordered, we were brought a small bowl of soup. Soup was very good. My mother and I placed our orders. The waiter brought me the wrong order. I had ordered the mexican plate, but he brought me the gordita plate. He insisted I had ordered it, which I had not. He returned to the kitchen and brought my mother’s order. It was wrong. She had ordered shredded beef tacos but received tacos with ground beef instead. Waiter insisted it was shredded beef. We had to show him that it was not. He took the order back and returned with her shredded beef tacos. Tacos were dripping in grease. We don’t mind greasy tacos, up to a point. These looked like they were dropped in a pan of grease. Even the lettuce and tomato in the tacos were covered in grease. There was just no way she could eat them. The hamburger meat in my taco also did not taste very good. It was not sauteed with anything. No onion, no spices, nothing. It had a slightly funny taste, but I imagine it must have been the oil since there wasn’t anything in the meat. The flauta was small but had meat end to end, so that was nice. Also, that avacado and sour cream were fresh and not watered down. A nice surprise. The chile relleno was very good, but was a bit crunchy. Perhaps it wasn’t on the fire long enough when it was roasted, if it was roasted at all. Also, once we had our drinks, the waiter did not ask us again if we wanted a refill until we were almost ready to leave. We had also ordered two glasses of water as soon as we arrived, and we never received our water. It wasn’t like they were busy. There were only three other tables with customers at the time. I really wanted to like this restaurant, but I just couldn’t. I think they have a chance to be very good, but they definitely need to make some changes. The cook needs to pay more attention to the quality of the food he’s putting out, the waiter needs to communicate better with the cook to assure the customers get the right orders out the first time. And it would be a big improvement if they could sauté their meat. It’s just a little thing, not time consuming or expensive, and could make a world of difference. I know my mother will never go back there again. If I do, it won’t be soon.

Very tasty food at a affordable price, no need to search more for authentic Mexican food. Really friendly staff too.