El primo birrieria — Restaurant in Chula Vista

This place is a solid indoor birria joint in Chula Vista. I'm from Sydro so I'd only ever ordered Birrieria el Primo from the foodtruck next to Grocery Outlet, but I was with a friend in the area and we decided to try their in store location. When we walked in, there was waitresses and they sat us and took our orders. I just went for the classic tacos, meanwhile my friend opted for a regular taco and a quesataco. They brought us out chips and salsa to start munching while we waited for the food, and the sauces were very tasty and seemed fresh. The food came out shortly, although the tortilla wasn't very "dorada" despite us both asking for our tacos that way, but this birria never makes me sick "nunca cae pesada" and I like that it isn't as greasy as some others that I've had in SD. It's a solid place, and I love their use of repollo in their tacos, that's so Tijuana birrieria Si, La Libertad, if u know u know realness and it adds such a nice pop of color and complexity to the taco. For drinks, we didn't do too much and just stuck to some sodas but they do have cafe de olla which definitely warrants a try. The tacos weren't as hot as I would've loved them to be which was a bummer since they usually come out piping at the food trucks, but for being indoors and having ac, i can't complain too much. The inside is a bit weird, because they have scenery painted on the windows as they're blacked out on both sides, and the decor is flashy and intense, but it's a nice eating experience and I enjoyed having my meal indoors. Also thank god they accept apple pay, I saw so many reviews talking about them making you pay in cash, and honestly it's true there is an ATM inside the building, but we were able to use tap to pay with no problem and the bill wasn't ridiculous, but definitely not the cheapest birria place in SD. God knows if they made me pay in cash I'd be livid. But, OVERALL DAYGOEATS CERTIFIED✅✅ only because this is the mother store to the food truck and it's good, but ima still be hitting up the food...

I am very disappointed in this place. Me and my husband went a couple months back (during the week) it was empty and the food was GREAT! It did take a little while to come out but it was great. We returned today (Saturday) needless to say there was more people. Waitress was not as friendly but we understand it was busy kinda. Their fb page said they served carne asada fries at all locations so I ordered that for my daughter and they told us they don’t serve that here. So we opted for something diff in hopes my daughter would eat it. I ordered what i ordered last time but this time it came with cabbage. I let the waiter know it didn’t come with it last time and she started to go back and forth with me even asking other waiters if it always comes with it until one waiter said it was fine to take it back and remake it. By this time my husband and daughter are done eating and I’m waiting for my food. It comes out and it’s wrong again. I ultimately just asked her to take it off the check as I didn’t eat it. She did not apologize or offer to remake it so we paid and left. If the owner can see these reviews you need to spend some time in there. Because I was still in the mood for Birria we went down the street to birrieria y menuderia Guadalajara and had a table before we even stepped inside. Food was great and much cheaper and the...

I think now that it is 2023, they should accept card, I wouldn’t recommend my friends or family to visit this restaurant, because if they really cared about there customers they would let the customer know that the place only takes cash, I was a new customer and this was not said to me at any time not from when I was greeted or from the waiter. At the end they looked at me and said they don’t take card only cash and they showed me the little sign that is no where in a persons view sight. It is literally at the bottom corner when you walk in, nobody can see that. I had came in only with my credit card and I was not about to take out cash so it was lucky that my friend had there debit card with them and was able to take out cash, they charge a $2 fee to take out cash. What if I was by myself, then what would’ve happened, would they let me go and come back? One of the employees kept apologizing to me but I don’t think it was sincere at all, if they cared about new customers they should at least give some type of warning when you walk in or put a sign that says CASH ONLY where people can actually see it. That ATM is just there for there...