El Tarasco

Todo nos parecia bien hasta que una mesera media delgada bajita de pelo negro, nos atendiendo de mal modo eramos un grupo de 8personas celebrando 25 aniversario de bodas y a cada rato iba enojada a preguntarnos si estaba bien, pero lo hacia de mal modo y con una cara de enojada todas nos dimos cuenta que lo que keria ella que nos fueramos y eso que todas consumimos, aperitivos, bebidas, comida, café. Nos parecio de muy mal gusto que casi nos corrio del lugar .en cuanto salimos decidimos no volver mas a este lugar .la comida es muy rica hay y muy limpio pero estas actitudes No Nos parecieron mis amigas y yo no aconsejamos ir en grupos grandes. Nosotros YA NO VOLVEREMOS A ESTE LUGAR

If you want to have authentic Mexican food this is not the place. I ordered the the sopes with rice and beans the beef had no flavor whatsoever the beans were just as bland. I had a coconut margarita that was ok but needless to say I will not be coming back here being that there are plenty of good places to eat in the valley.

Just finished eating here, everything tasted fresh. By far best mango margarita ive tasted! Their flautas were on point, atmosphere was pleasant.

This place has excellent food and excellent customer service. As I waited for my food the waitress kept checking on us to make sure we were ok on drinks.

My issue with this place is regarding the cleanliness and food preparation. The bell pepper in my shrimp dish still had the sticker on it from the supermarket. If they had cleaned the vegetables, then they would’ve noticed the sticker still attached to the vegetables. But because they did not clean them, they did not notice it. That leads into my second point: the lettuce had a very «earthy» or shall I say «dirty» taste to it. I assume they didn’t clean that either since they didn’t bother cleaning the other vegetables.
The shrimp tostada was very tasty and so is their chips and salsa. The extra large jalapeño cucumber margarita was delicious. The rice and beans that came with my shrimp dish we’re nothing special.
Will I be returning to this restaurant? Absolutely not. Clean your food before you serve it!

Save your time, money and sanity. Steer clear of this place. You’ll wait a long time just for chips. Let alone your watered down drink and mediocre food.
Then the wait is on again to pay to get the hell out of there. Wait staff don’t give a crap about you either.
Maybe some regulars like this place– maybe they get the good service. I’ve been here 4 times in the past year– each a little worse than the last.

OK, can we say hell to the no?
So, you are looking for authentic Mexican fare, get on Unilocal,(full bar filter on), and you find this gem. OR, you find fool’s gold!
This place is terrible. And that’s being polite. Shrimp crispy taco. COLD! Shrimp destroyed in some microwave disaster.
Carne con Chile. If you like spicy, it won’t disappoint. If you like food that’s been microwaved but not long to actually warm it, I say go ahead with this item. Even the refried beans had been produced by perhaps an ex airline food prep cook and kept awhile… so greasy and watery, avoid.
So you want wine, sounds fair. You order Chardonnay (this is California after all.), and you receive a glass of frigid cold RED!
Well, let’s just say the errors in drinks were corrected, thank you very much! The food was largely left uneaten.
If you like coconut, and you think the coconut margarita is a good idea (my dining partner ordered it), I would say don’t you dare. I have had pecan pie’s with less insipid sweetness.

Still a give star place!
The service is super friendly. Their food is just as great as their drinks!
On Sunday mornings this place gets packed for menudo and pozole! Both soups are especially delicious and great for that cruda aka hangover. Don’t forget to also try their Chilaquiles!!! :)
I also enjoy their micheladas! They are served in a large glass and the rim has a pretty thick coating of chile! Yummmm.
I also really enjoy their décor inside the ladies restroom. Pretttty nice

5 stars for the best margaritas in town and excellent service. I appreciate the craft of a good drink. Extra large cucumber jalapeño is a must!

How have I lived in the Valley my whole life and I’m only now discovering this Sylmar gem?! The ambience was lovely, and the service was attentive as hell.
My boyfriend ordered a monstrous size burrito, and I ordered the chili relleno with whole pinto beans (vegetarian friendly). Overall food was good, and the drinks were a plenty. A watermelon cucumber margarita… with Tajin on the rim? Yes, please! x2! The passion fruit martini hit pretty hard.
There was a mix up in a reservation for a large party next to us, so the host asked us to move to another table. They were totally apologetic, and made up for it with two Bob Marley shots on the house. The shot was layered with pineapple rum, Midori, and strawberry daiquiri. Needless to say, we ended up taking an Über home that night. We’ll definitely be going back!

This place is a bonafide food and service disaster.
Came in, seated, waited 35 minutes to get drinks, 15 minutes to get chips and then an additional 20 to get the salsa. Over an hour later we finally got to order and when it came the food was so bland I was really confused how this place stays open when there are DOZENS of 4 – 5 star restaurants less than one block away. Carne asada was tasteless and tough, chicken was dry and over seasoned, cheese was rubbery and fake.
To top it off the AC was broken on a 92 degree day so our entire party was sweating balls and suffering through bad food.
You can walk anywhere in this neighborhood and bump into really good Mexican restaurants that there’s no reason to come here.
SKIP.

Good food, great service! Place is very clean and well decorated. Crunchy Chips, fresh salsa, shrimp tostada was very fresh, carne asada sope was delicious! Will definitely come back and try something new.

Yes, I’m a Unilocaler and more Unilocalers should Unilocal for the sake of small business.
Absolutely worth the trip. I had stopped coming to this restaurant because of poor service. Today, I felt like having a good home made menudo. I’m saying «excellent» with the works. I thought I’d put up with the low quality service. But!!! But!!! To my surprise the service has changed to a 10 star!!! Wow!!!
Immediate seating. Plenty of visits to our table by different waitresses. One continual waitress for the small items service (condiments, coffee refill, etc) All dishes ordered were 10 star. We even tried the churro and ice cream dessert. That was hot and fresh.
Yes, we spent $ 40+$ 6 tip, every penny was well worth it!!! Loved it and will make it my usual, again. Thank you!!!

I have been coming here for years. Never had an experience like today. Today’s customer service was horrible my appetizer (choriqueso) took forever and when ¡t was brought to the table we were not brought the tortillas to enjoy.
I never received the tortillas by the time our main courses were brought to the table 40min in by to women other than our waitress. I did let them know that our order was partially wrong one of the women rolled her eyes and walked away while the second asked if we wouldn’t just keep order as is. We requested it to please be corrected.
Our food was left but no tortillas to eat our food or our appetizer. After that service, just got worse. I notice that our waitress was complaining bout not feeling well and all her co-​workers were more concerned in catering to her than working.
We fished our food at different times due to the missing tortillas and the correction of the wrong order. We requested the bill waited 20 min and was still not brought to us till a second person asked if we had been brought the bill when we let her know it still has not been brought she hurried to find.
The check was finally brought to us and as we got up two of the women rushed as if they were going to quarrel for a tip. Unfortunately we by no means were going to reward such horrible service.
I suggest that this establishment get new staff younger, good energy and trained. Current staff is old tired and drained. Pinches viejas amargadas

Come here you won’t disappointed! !! This place is easy to miss. The outside says Guidos pizzeria… but its not.
Hands down the BEST drinks in town. No REALLLLLY.

At first I was hesitant of going here because of all the bad reviews on Unilocal,but we still went because my friends wanted to go here. I was expecting a bad experience but to my surprise it was the opposite.
When we got there they sat us right away and our waiter took our drink orders. The service was great and fast, not just our waiter but others waiters came around asking us if we needed anything else. The food and the drinks were really good, except for the rice, it was bland. But everything else was good.
So in conclusion, we will come back here. I repeat the service was great!

First off, this place has the slowest service I have ever experienced. I don’t know if they were under staffed but we joined our party a few minutes AFTER they had sat down, due to the serious lack of parking.
When we sat down, and it took them almost 15 minutes to even acknowledge that we were there and that was to take our drink orders. I ordered the Pina Colada, which they actually forget about. I was able to finally flag down a waitress to remind her almost 45 minutes after the initial order.
The food itself was okay. I really wasn’t impressed, especially since my food was cold. It had definitely been sitting out waiting for the other meals from our table. The beans had formed a film on them from sitting out, and the beans were not good. I’m really not a fan of white pinto beans and the carne asada was very fatty.
We sat down just before 6:15 and didn’t leave until 8:30. I can’t stress enough how slow the service was, and just getting the bill took 30 minutes, and having them come take the cards? I finally had to flag a woman down, and boy did she seem offended. Like, I’m sorry I had to wave you over, but nobody was coming over to process the check. And we were one of two tables sitting in the large dinning room, so it’s not like they didn’t see us.
Our actual waitress was very sweet and I liked her. The chips were also really good and I enjoyed my Pina Colada.
Would I come back here? Probably not.

I really, really, really want to like this place more but I can’t lie. The service is slower than slow. Our waitress was an amazing person just learning the basics in English. It’s not fair to her by the management to stick her out there and expect her to carry out her duties if she doesn’t even know the happy hour specials! I felt bad for her. The bartender was busy chatting up friends instead of making drinks… That added to the already snail place service. The drinks are actually very very good, but they really do need to work on the service aspect. It’s borderline ridiculous. I’ve already said I’m not going back; not for a long time anyway.

***PEOPLE BEWARE… DOUBLE CHECK YOUR BILL, OR RISK GETTING CHARGED FOR ITEMS YOU DID NOT PURCHASE!!**
Wow this place really went downhill fast! As other Unilocalers have mentioned customer service is some of the worst I have ever experienced. I was there with a party of 5 last week and our waitress was constantly getting our drink orders wrong. Also, the cucumber shots make for a nice presentation but don’t be fooled they totally rip you off with the amount of alcohol they actually pour inside. The margaritas are made up of SUGAR AND ICE Oh and if you order one with cucumbers in it you can pretty much make a cucumber salad with all the cucumbers they add to one drink.
The icing on the cake was when the bill came and one of my friends (bless his soul) realized we were being charged for stuff we didn’t order. When all was said and done we were about to get OVER-​CHARGED BY ALMOST $ 100 Yes, you heard that right! When the waitress came back after deleting all the crooked charges, my friend told her «oh wow you were literally going to over-​charge us by almost $ 100» and she was like «Nooo». Ummm… Yes you were
(Judging by other reviews this is a common business practice for them)
I guess they thought since we had ordered several drinks we wouldn’t notice the extra charges. Thank goodness for their sugar and ice drinks which kept us sober enough to realize we were about to get screwed BIG TIME! I have been here several times, and to sum things up their food is BLAND and OVER-​PRICED, drinks are waaay too sweet with very little alcohol and TONS of ice, customer service SUCKS, and they have CROOKED staff that will OVER-​CHARGE you if they think they can get away with it. They lost a customer in me, without a doubt, I will never be back, EVERRRRR!

Hoy fui en compañía de mi familia a desayunar y una mesera que ni siquiera tenía mi mesa comenzó a retirarnos los platos cuando aún teníamos comida y cuando yo le había pedido una caja para llevar mi menudo por que no lo había tocado retiraron todo como si nos estuvieran corriendo! Y aun le digo que se llevo mi menudo y me da solo el caldo! Horrible servicio tienen

Mi favorito restaurant para comer un burrito de asada yo te recomiendo que ordenes un burrito de asada es el mejor restaurante de sylmar en comida mexicana.

This was my first time here and I would have to say my experience was so so. We were a table of 10, so mind you gratuity is 20%.
When we got here the service was good until it got busy. Once it got busy, it took literally 20 minutes to get our drinks every time we ordered. So basically in between every drink, we got sober. What a bummer!!!
My fiancé and I just ordered a shrimp cocktail and around 4 micheladas, 3 margaritas, 1 cucumber shot and 1 regular shot. All in total it was around $ 140!!! That’s crazy!!! This place is pretty overpriced!
Just for advice, do not order the cucumber shots. Yes, it looks cool but it’s not a as much as a regular shot. It’s probably half a shot cuz it really didn’t get us buzzed.
The coconut margarita that I got last was mostly ice. I wish their drinks was mostly alcohol instead of ice.
The overall experience gets 2 stars, only because the shrimp cocktail was good and our server was awesome.

Man! This place is sorry.
You want to like this place cause the drinks are so tasty but then you realize they lack booze. It ends up tasting like the leftover juice from your fruit combo you got from el fruitero posted up outside church.
The food was worse. Carne asada had a lot of fat. The sope tasted old. You know what that tastes like if you come from a latino home. Your mama makes sopes on Friday and on Sunday, you’re hungry as hell but she tells you «Solo queda uno…» It tastes like THAT sunday sope. And to top it off, $ 3.95 for a pinche small side of pico de gallo. Don’t do this to me, por pliz!!!
Btw, the service is like nails on a chalk board. Long wait for anything & everything. You’re just cringing the whole time cause all you wanted after pay day was a meal with your loved ones.
With the aforementioned, I wouldn’t bring my parents here for lunch/​dinner. I wouldn’t bring mis compadres here for dinner & drinks. I wouldn’t want to come back.
Your Homegirl,
Violy

Me recomemdaron este lugar por el menudo total mente desepsionado el menudo como que no lo labaron bien olía mucho la gente que sepa de esto sabe de lo que estoy ablando tratare otro de sus platillos