El Chico Cafe
| Address: | 4301 Marsha Sharp Fwy, Lubbock, TX 79407, USA |
| Phone: | +1 806-795-9445 |
| Site: | elchico.com |
| Rating: | 3.2 |
| Working: | 11AM–9PM 11AM–9PM 11AM–9PM 11AM–9PM 11AM–10PM 11AM–10PM 11AM–9PM |
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Juanita Serge
Never have I stepped foot in a restaurant worse than El Chico in Lubbock. They claim to have been open for decades, but I have no idea how that is even possible. Their famous apple pie dessert is made out of store bought apple pie. One slice is almost $10.Their queso that costs almost $10 is Velveeta you can get at the grocery store. Their food is not even close to fresh. Everything has a distinct preservative feel. Canned or frozen for sure. And their restaurant? I drive by and see the lights on the signs out constantly. The inside is deplorable. Looks like no one has put any effort into the building since the day it opened. So no wonder it stays open, with their high prices for unauthentic food and failure to put money into the atmosphere. This establishment is on its death bed and they are barely keeping it standing. They say they are kid friendly on food review sites, so I thought to bring my kids here for a good dinner. When they say that they mean giving your child one crappy, used yellow crayon to color a sheet I could have printed out at home. It would have been better to not give anything out at all. They play creepy 50s music in the restaurant, and I could hardly hear myself think over the sound of it. Dont waste your time walking in here like I did. This place needs to go out of business. Either that or end up on Kitchen Nightmares. The only reason this place is still standing must be because people living here have no idea what good food tastes like, and no money is obviously put into improving the establishment. Its absolutely disgusting.
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Ruby Cabrera
Ottos Granary, Inc. filed as a Domestic For-Profit Corporation in the State of Texas on Friday, January 8, 1993 and is approximately twenty-two years old, as recorded in documents filed with Texas Secretary of State. The filing is currently active as of the last data refresh which occured on Tuesday, April 14, 2015. Kenneth Carter serves as the P and has interests in other corporate entities including Carter Enterprises, Inc. located in Lubbock, TX I just want everybody knows that Mr. Kenneth S. Carter are doing cybersex on webcam through chat and he loves to see little kids with ages 7-10 years old getting naked on webcam and doing shows. I will make sure that ur going to regret it after what Kenneth/Scott Carter did to me. Until now .. Ive been waiting for him to get online on skype. I will ruin the reputation of CARTER ENTERPRISE, INC. an specially the OTTOS GRANARY to ur valued customers if Kenneth/Scott Carter wont do what he promised to me and if his not going to talk to me on skype. I have the evidence or proof regarding what does Mr. Kenneth S. Carter doing on chat. Mr. Kenneth Scott Carter is the Manager of Ottos Granary, Inc.
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A Private User
Absolutely horrible experience! After being seated we waited almost ten minutes before finally the manager asked if we had been helped. He got us waters and then made our mixed drinks. He poured them at the table and my drink had 3 gnats in it so he took and made me another drink and there were still more gnats! The server must have been new. She had half of her head shaved and was generally annoyed she needed to serve us. She kept disappearing for long periods of time. I had to tip her before ordering another round of drinks to try to inspire her to come back. It didnt help. The food was wrong completely. The owner was there and when we showed him we had more gnats in our other drink he pulled it out of the glass and stated it looked like it was on the outside of the glass as if that made it alright. They completely acted like we were over reacting. We should have read the reviews first but I was at the hotel next door. The worst experience ever and way over priced!
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Dan Devito
How is this place still open comes to mind. The food is horrible, tortilla soup is more like chips and brown gravy. The enchilada sauce is terrible. Even my kids that will eat any fried chicken and think its great complained about it tasting strange and wouldnt finish their food and neither did I. Taco Bell is more authentic than this place with better tasting food. Oh and the drab music they pipe in sounds like it should be played at the old folks home across the way and the restaurant smelled similar too. This place was just depressing all the way around. Do yourself a favor if you read this go to a chain Mexican food joint or Jaliscos or literally anywhere else if you want tex mex.
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A Private User
I just got done eating there with my mother in law and the experience was horrible. The prices were high and our waitress was very inconsiderate. Called up there to complain to the manager and did not even care about the complaint. We have eaten there before and not have had as many problems in the past. Our waitresses name was Ashley, I have a twitch and cannot help it, she started to laugh and say ask if I had the hiccups or if I was cold, I proceeded to tell her I have a twitch and she continued to laugh. Will not be going here again.
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Sheila Little
Friday 29th: to start with, ordered tea, my husband asked for sweet tea the waitress told him hes getting regular tea. He then told her water. She seemed not too happy to be here. We ordered our food. Just a few things missing. She didnt ask my husband if he wanted fries or mashed potatoes. He ordered chicken fried steak. He didnt want Mexican food. No salad, no choices. My meal was okay, not great. Oh and the music was Dean Martin played over and over. Wont be back. The waitress kind of ruined our evening. Tip was small.
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Trenton Lacy
Im not a foodie, and Ive never written a review before. But its just that important to me that people know how awful this restaurant is. The service was good, and we liked our waiter, but my enchilada was literally unseasoned ground beef in a store-bought tortilla covered in *WOLF BRAND CHILI FROM A CAN*. I literally have never paid for a worse meal at a restaurant. Food is inedible, and I, a college student, could make better at home.
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Perla Torres
Nasty frozen food. They do not have any Salsa!!! For an authentic Mexican restaurant to not have any hot sauce is ridiculous! Not worth a penny. Never going back! $50 for 2 people and we didnt even stay for dessert. I guess if you have never had authentic Mexican food in your life it is ok. Or if you have absolutely no taste buds and like to eat crap it would be ok. But judge for yourself. In my personal opinion it is disgusting.
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A Private User
owners are very rude to wait-staff and will yell at them in front of customers and would schedule staff at ridiculous amount of hours and a large number of tables. I have worked here before and had to work one whole side of the restaurant alone and they sat my entire side of the restaurant before really seating the other side - and the owners yelled at me for not being able to keep up with the 20 tables by myself.
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Roxanne Palomarez
My husband had the beef enchiladas and it was nasty.. It tasted like they opened a can of hot dog chili and slapped it on top of it.. Nasty!! Me and my daughter shared the avacado enchiladas.. Not bad but not good either.. Stuffed with very little avacado and too many big slices of jalapenos..will not ever come back
