El Comal — Restaurant in Chula Vista

Came in to eat tonight and was expecting good things. I'm sorry to say that wasn't what I got. Service wasn't good the older woman seemed to be in a bad mood (maybe because of the parade going on outside). The guy who attended us was ok with his service nothing really to complain about him. Now down to the food. We ordered a queso fundido, pozole, machaca plate, and chicken nuggets with fries. The queso fundido was ordered while ordering the drinks at the beginning, and it was the last item to arrive to the table. It's suppose to be an appetizer not a dessert. The machaca plate; I wasn't asked which kind of tortillas I wanted if maíz or harina. But at least they brought some when receiving the plate. It lacked taste and seemed to not have any salt on it. It was mainly egg and hardly any meat. Very bland plate. Rice and frijoles were not the best not the worst. The pozole plate was bad from just looking at it. It looked like they used food coloring instead of using the correct sauces. Upon tasting the pozole it was confirmed the taste wasn't there. Overall I would much rather go to the taco shop across the street which has really good food. I had heard advertisement about this place so that's why I wanted to try it. I'll never return here and if they keep using food coloring and expecting people to believe they actually use sauces I'm sure they won't last much longer. I don't tend to complain about places but the food coloring thing is just horrible. I might of not said anything if they were at least being really polite and friendly but that didn't...

I'm rating two stars because overall my experience was ok. Definitely nothing spectacular for me to wow about. Food was flavorful, which is what's expected when eating out. A few hiccups: My wife ordered one taco and they brought her the whole meal, menu stated tacos came with guacamole, but they served a single avocado slice & rice was room temperature, not warm at all. As for my meal, same issue with the rice & my Azteca Guarache was supposed to come with a house made tomato sauce that wasn't served. As for drinks, I ordered a Corona but immediately corrected myself to Pacifico & my wife a XX. They served us a Corona & Pacifico.

I asked for a menu just to make sure I hadn't missed something myself & was later approached & asked if I had a menu concern. I said, "Yes, I was curious about the tomato sauce that was supposed to come with my Guarache." She proceeded to inform me it was on there, that it was the diced tomatoes with onion & cilantro. I said, "That's Pico de Gallo. The menu says there's a tomato salsa that comes with it." She tells me, "Oh yes, the salsa. It use to come on it, but people didn't like it so we stopped adding it, but we just didn't take it off the menu." I didn't bother with pursuing any further conversation thereafter.

Check was $43.11 on what was supposed to be two beers, one meal & one taco. We didn't mention the taco meal situation as we don't believe in throwing away food, so we just paid instead.

We will not...

Waitress was more at the bar side trying to serve a guy his beers and flirting than helping us out with our table. What's described on the menu is not what you actually get. We asked for guacamole dip they say they didn't have it. We ask for green salsa they supposably didn't have it. So We ate the chips with the red watery salsa they serve. We ordered omelet plate only came with rice and beans they ran out of the potatoes. We wanted single tacos they couldn't do it you had to get the combo plate with 3 tacos on it. Like I said I asked for green salsa and they supposably didn't have any for the chips but had some for my food. We where done we wanted desserts and asked for flan They ran out because they've been super busy the passed 2 days but the place was empty and it was Wednesdays how is a Monday or Tuesday going to be busier than Friday or the weekend. I told her I didn't have any money to pay the bill joking around but told me they have a lot of dishes to clean. Never going back again went there about a year ago and it was different server was awesome and food was on point and at that time they had everything we had asked for the way we asked for it. I don't know what happened but you guys...