El Toro Mexican Restaurant - Bayway — Restaurant in Baytown

El Toro has multiple restaurants in the Baytown area and they each seem to have their own feel. I am a regular at two of them and the difference between the atmosphere and decor are like the difference between night and day.

The Garth Rd. location is my favorite as our family has shared so many happy memories there. This location is HUGE, decorated very nicely, has a bar area separate from the main dining room(s - yest there are multiple rooms!) Regardless of where you are in the restaurant, the music that is piped throughout is very loud which can make it hard to have a quiet conversation and is hard on people with hearing aids as they may have difficulty filtering out the background noise while trying to keep enough volume to hear someone speaking to them.

The Bayway location is much smaller, more laid back and the noise level isn't nearly as deafening - a plus if you are hard of hearing or wear a hearing aid.

One thing that both locations share in common though is delicious food! Things I have had and loved there include quesadillas, enchiladas, chalupas, tacos and fajitas! They have a nice variety to their menu offerings so pretty much anyone should be able to find...

Don't go to this location if you have 5 or more people in your group!!! I was excited to go to this location and have dinner with family from out of the country that so wanted El Toro's mexican food but it was a terrible expericence. From what we experienced I don't think this location operates the same as the other 2 locations. The wait staff are either not trained on how to deal with a table of 10 or they just don't care about customer service. The one young man just stood there watching us clean our table from empty glasses and plates to make room for our food that was arriving while our waitress acted like she didn't know what to do. We received our hot food before the cold food. We ordered 2 beer ritas and they were terrible. We didn't not receive an itemized ticket at the table we each had to go to the register to pay without knowing if we were charged correctly or not. Oh and no ice cream for us at 8:45 the machine had been done. But the food was good better than the Decker and Garth...

It was a day that I ask my wife, "Don't cook, let's go to El Toro and get some flautas. I want the crunchy of the corn tortillas of the flautas." What a disappointment. The quality of the rice (dried & chewy), refried beans (smelled old) and the flautas were horrible. The flautas, instead of them being cooked with corn tortillas, they used the flour they make "southwest egg rolls", out of, nasty! They tasted more like southwest egg rolls. Who in their right mind would cook flautas in that? Then I figured out why they did that, but I will not dessicated here. You go and find out yourself. That was the last time, I entered and exited El Toro. No more.. I rather cook my own flautas or let my...