El Gallo — Restaurant in San Francisco

This is one of the healthiest places to eat in San Pancho - perhaps the very healthiest!

Just check out the menu: "We cook only with natural ingredients that we buy from Mexican farmers, taking preference for local producers. We don't use any canned products, either industrially or processed ones."

Or their website: "We cook only with natural ingredients that we buy from Mexican fields, taking preference for local producers. Now our cuisine and bar have 90% no industrially processed products, and still working for get 100%."

Their specialty is blue corn tortillas. It is special, too. Especially delicious, and especially notable. The menu, again: "NIxtamal is an Aztec word used to describe corn that has been partially cooked and soaked with calcium, hydroxide, or cal to make dough. We use this pre-Hispanic process to make our blue corn tortilla."

According to my daughter-in-law, who knows these thing, El Gallo is run ethically, and supports the general welfare of community. But beyond these interesting details and helpful notes, there is other important evidence.

Just look at the photos I've taken of their wonderful breakfast dishes! Now......

We came here for dinner upon arrival in San Pancho.

The space is large, open and welcoming. We were greeted and seated quickly. It was relatively early and not busy. A live band was setting up and there were some salsa dance lessons going on the dance floor. Fun!

A server came and took our drink order and then our food order. The drinks came quickly and then we waited and waited for the food.

After 45mins I asked the server if food was coming. He asked what we ordered then said he would check. He came back 10mins later and said it was coming. He came back again a short time later and apologized and said the food order was in their order system but did not get made in the kitchen for some reason.

At this point, we decided to eat elsewhere. We paid our drink tab and left. Unfortunate as the reviews for the food...

They had a totally different menu than the one shown here. They only had a menu in Spanish supposedly. The food was so awful we couldn’t even eat it. The waiter said we didn’t have to pay for the food, since we didn’t eat it. So, I left a big tip on the table, even though the service wasn’t great either, since we asked for things that we never received. Basic things like salt and a fork. Then, as we were leaving they called us back in to pay for the drinks. That was fine, but it ended up being expensive for a couple of drinks, and including the tip we left. San Pancho is getting way overpriced, but we’re not getting the quality one would expect...