Elote mexican cuisine — Restaurant in Bayamón

Visited "El Elote" after seeing Chef Burgos' excellent advertising online. His locale, is a quaint well appointed comfortable restaurant. Male and female bathrooms, while clean, lack hand soap, or paper towels.

We started with the ,"The Mexican Trio", an appetizer of chips with sides of pico de gallo, refried beans and guacamole dips. The Pico de Gallo was the very best we have had in Puerto Rico! The rest of the dips were extremely over salted.

I ordered, three carne asada tacos made with churrasco. The carne asada was cooked perfectly and the presentation was good, unfortunately it was also over salted.

My wife ordered chicken fajitas. They were served with plenty of corn tortillas, but lacked seasoning and were missing the sides of pico de gallo, refried beans and guacamole advertised on the menu for the dish.

The kitchen staff was unconcerned by our complaints about the saltiness of the food, the bathroom, and that they had not served the meal as advertised in the menu.

Our server, was very good, even offering to pack the missing sides for us to take home. We declined, paid full price for the meal and left. Sad to say, but you would do better...

My review is based on 2 to go orders. I'm happy to say I just found my favorite Mexican food joint in bayamon.

I have had Tacos birria, al pastor and carne asada.. and they do not disappoint... they are really good specially the birria one. Atleast the tacos I have tasted seem to have a home made corn tortilla that is really tasty. Also had refrito that was good too.

The service via phone and when I pick up is great as well. Both time I have called they say it takes about 15min.. when I get there in 15.. the food is already waiting for me.

Also.. for the to go plates they use special plates for tacos.. this preserves the presentation of the platter. this is a plus plus.

I want to taste the lengua tacos.. hopefully next time they are available.

Fyi.. I did not post pictures because we devour them and forget to take the Pic.

I definietely recommend this place. Hopefully I'll have time to sit down...

Visite este restaurante muy emocionado luego de ver sus post en redes sociales. El sabor de la comida estuvo excelente. Lamentablemente, nada más lo es. Restaurante mexicano sin cervecitas mexicanas. La música es corrido tras corrido nada autóctono o clásico. Empleados que están fuera de turno janguiando en la barra en el celular sin ayudar. La comida aunque muy linda, es una estafa, entiendo que las cosas estén cara pero la cantidad de carne era mínima, no había 3 onzas en el plato completo Servicio es decente pero si no tuviera el teléfono en la mano todo el tiempo sería mucho mejor con menos distracciones.

En fin, si no vas, no te pierdes de nada. Muy decepcionado

Edit para responder a la respuesta muy amable /s de los dueños:

Ahi están las fotos, hablan por si solas. Lo que dicen sus amigos en los reviews es irrelevante cuando una persona externa visita el local y no tiene la misma experiencia. Muy bonita presentacion pero el interior se ve claramente que no tiene proteina. Busquen las camaras, en la barra había una menor sentada, y casi llorando y abrazando a las otras 2 personas luego salir y gritar hablando por telefono, tambien la que aparentaba ser "jefa" estaba sentada en el celular en la barra dejando a la chica atender sola y despreocupada de la operación. En la cocina no había algunos ingredientes listos y nos dijeron que habría que esperar o sustituirlos, solicitamos sustituirlos por guacamole y como quiera no nos dieron guacamole adicional. No hay peor ciego que el que no quiere ver. El restaurante tiene tremendo potencial debido al excelente sabor de la comida, pero no si no lo administran correctamente y mejoran el servicio no pueden...