Tacos El Asador — Restaurant in Toronto

Some of the worst service that I have ever received in a restaurant. This place should be shut down based on the way the person in there treats people. I went there on Saturday night around 6:00pm with my wife and son. When we walked in, the guy who waits tables was in the front cleaning a table. He didn’t even acknowledge that we were standing there until I asked him if we seat ourselves or order at the counter and then grab a seat. He then rudely said, you can grab a table and I will bring over menus. When he brought us our menus he asked us if we wanted to order when we didn't even got a chance to look at the menu. I asked him for a couple of minutes and it looked like that upset him. He came back and I asked for the nachos and guacamole as a starter with drinks and then told him that we were still deciding on our main course. He brought us the nachos and guacamole in a bowl and placed it on the table, without any plates or napkins or even our drinks. He then rudely asked us if we were ready to order yet! I then ordered two tacos and a pupusa. My wife orders a chicken tamales to which he rudely says, we are out of chicken tamales. She then says she wants to look over the menu a bit more now to order something else. He then grabs the menu and walks away. When I said to him, leave the menu here so she can look it over and decide on something, he said, “when she is ready to order I will bring it back.” At that point we got up and left, leaving our nachos on the table. I will never return to this place and I can’t imagine how someone with that attitude can work...

Among an entire street of Korean restaurants on Bloor Street, my partner and I visited this taco store, which was listed as a Salvadoran restaurant upon my research, so we had to give the tacos and the pupusa a try, and honestly, we enjoyed the tacos and tostadas a lot more.

I believe we ordered the squash pupusa or the cheese & beans pupusa, but it ended up not being very memorable because it wasn't as savory as tostadas or tacos, and part of me was wondering if I was eating it correctly, because I didn't quite see the appeal of pupusas in general. I think I need to learn more about it first.

Every tostada and taco we have gotten are amazing, from the camaron tostadas to the birria tacos to the lengua tacos, everuthing was juicy and flavorful. I have never had lengua tacos with guacamole in them, and it turned out very well! The lengua meat bits were huge, so of course I was very satisfied. The birria meat was cooked very well as well, so after getting birria tacos, I got birria tostadas during Round 2.

The only reason I wouldn't give this place a 5 was because the price for one taco, especially with the amount given on the camaron (shrimp) taco as displayed in my attached photo, was a bit too much, as $6.5 didn't get me much at all. The tostadas were totally worth it, but seeing the amount in the tacos I would expect the price overall to be more balanced and reasonable.

Overall it was definitely a good joint, and if you are a basketball fan, you'd be in luck because the place has Toronto 2019 championship stuff all...

I remember going to this restaurant when it was across the street 20 years ago and it wasn't anything special back then. There was just too many tastier/fresher/cost effective options back then to even consider this place and it still holds true today.

My most recent trip was with a work friend who chose this for our work meal. I have to mention that he's Qanon/conservative/an incel/thinks COVID isn't real/angry all the time/against everything mainstream.

We ordered a bunch of tacos, some sides and some beers. The waiter didn't inform us of the special on the menu that we were eligible for so my friend ended up paying more for less. He was fine with it because he couldn't admit he was wrong.

My friend consistently reminded us that this place didn't believe in science or germs before, during and after our meal. Like really I don't that image in my mind of them not washing their hands or coughing on the food while I'm eating. It's like that episode of Seinfeld where Kramer washes food in the shower and the guests find out. It's absolutely disgusting. Why would you even bring that up?

It really seemed like him taking us here was just to prove a point and not because it was a good place to eat. It was an odd...