EL Mexicano Kitchen & Bar — Restaurant in Adelaide

Very rarely do I bother with negative reviews. It is usually a mind blowing positive experience that compels me to leave a review. Not this time. We ordered a loaded patatas bravas with guacamole and chorizo - generally the potato for the dish uses chunky pieces of potato, not costco chips and the chorizo is generally pan fried sausage meat, however they used the sausage slices you typically only see on a domino's pizza, finally it did not come with guacamole and until complaining multiple times were they willing to remove the guacamole charge. I felt a bit sick after a few of those chips. We ordered fish and prawn tacos. The menu clearly says you get 2x with your order. Instead we received a single fish and prawn taco that was served on the same plate, was identical and only told when we asked when our other plate of tacos was arriving that the plate we had on our table was it. One bite of whether it was the fish or the prawn taco and I could tell it was not only expired seafood but similar in quality to the frozen fish fingers you get from woolies. I can tolerate some pretty questionable food, but that night I threw up twice, had diarrhoea and slept with stabbing...

My partner and I had travelled from Victoria to Adelaide for the AFL’s Gather Round, and were excited to experience the cuisine Adelaide has to offer.

This restaurant advertised authentic Mexican food, yet what we recieved couldn’t have been further from this.

We ordered two pan fried veggie burritos, listed on the menu as “rice, beans, cheese, Pico de Gallo, sour cream, lettuce, house aioli and salsa, plus a serve of “Mexican” fries. Not only was the food cold, the burritos were filled with what we assume was cubed potato, puree pumpkin, tofu, carrots, peas and yellow rice. Nothing like the original description on the menu.

We contacted the restaurant, and were told they would ring us back. An hour and multiple unanswered phone calls from us later, and our call was eventually returned with the promise of a full refund, and they would contact us if they required further information to process said refund.

That was the 3rd of April, I have not heard from the restaurant since, nor recieved a...

THAT IS NOT Mexican food. I’m sorry but I have to be honest.

If you want to experience something that is AUTHENTIC Mexican from Mexicans… there are better places like La Popular, Que onda güey, and El Cabo Taco.

Give you the chance to try real Mexican food 👍

I ordered enchiladas, quesadillas and fajita, and they weren’t what I expected.

Salsas, not real salsa, it’s just blended tomato purée. It tasted more like Indian food ( which is good but not for a Mexican restaurant) I lived in Mexico for 10 years and there is nothing similar. The Jalapeño poppers, I’m sorry to tell you guys, but some of their food is just frozen food from Coles. There’s nothing Mexican there, they just picked the Mexican food because of marketing purposes, but the owners are from India and have never experience Mexican food. They don’t even care about Mexican culture

PS. They make their staff to obtain good reviews from customers and they make their employees write good reviews for...