El Tiburón Seafood & Grill — Restaurant in Dallas

If I could give negative stars I would !! If you’re not Hispanic you will not get treated with respect at all! I’m a server for one and have over a decade in customer service . I never experienced being treated differently by another ethnic social group so this was very disheartening to experience. Up on coming into the place we were met with stares vs a greeting ; we were sat at a dirty table with dishes still on it even though there were 8-10 clean tables. We got sat and wasn’t asked for drinks … 5 mins later she brought chips and salsa have yet to introduce herself or ask for drinks & walked away . I looked at my friend and said I think we may be getting mistreated because of our skin color. After 10 minutes she finally comes to table but doesn’t ask what we want to order she just smacks her lips and tap her hand on the table . I ask for a bebidas ( a drink) and an appetizer . I spoke in Spanish just in case she didn’t understand English and that’s why she was being so rude but I honestly feel it was just prejudice. She walked away and 5 minutes passed by again and we still didn’t receive our drinks so at that point I’m so sad and upset that we leave. Obviously they don’t care because their people will patronize them but basic human respect is so important to me and I hate this establishment allows their workers to be so rude and disrespectful and I really hate I had to experience this treatment but it woke me up to how the...

9/18/2020 Just like taking a trip to boarder town Mexico, very real and authentic. Very blue-collar workers' dive with mostly Mexican workers enjoying the end of the hard work week. There is even a lighted stage for Spanish Karaoke; and YES these men can sing beautifully ! (The bar-flies women wearing sizes way too small for their voluptuousness and true age at the bar coaxing for drinks the hard working Mexican laborers since they just got paid was amazing and entertaining to me. A slice of real life.) Excellent food, atmosphere, staff, professional manager, cook, waiter service. Very clean restaurant. Old fashioned 20th-century customer service like it used to be back in the day. (No fake artificial food with sodium, oils, nitrates, chemicals, preservatives, etc. Many restaurants use cheap fake cheese made from oils -- yuck.) Rejoice, Yes, El Tiburón Seafood & Grill uses quality REAL food; e.g., they cook with real cheese that is made from a cow's cream or milk - Awesome! Very good FRESH salsa and chips too. The shrimp cocktails were gigantic. The chile con queso dip was da bomb. The enchiladas had some ZING to them. The margaritas were light on alcohol but good taste. I loved the pina colada (just needed a fresh slice of pineapple.) This was my first venture to try something out of the ordinary and happily surprised. Thank...

I was super impressed by this place. Just driving by, feeling kind of hungry, we stop in for a quick bite.

The house made tortilla chips were excellent. Well made, not too salty. The salsa was vibrant and on the hot side. But there was a complementary side of beans if the salsa was too much, which is what my girlfriend had.

We ordered a pulpo tostada, a cameron tostada, and a mocajete tiburon. The octopus was not great, I'll say that now. Not the worst I've had by far, but kind of bland and rubbery. The sides carried that dish. The shrimp tostada was fine, but not inspired.

The mocajete tiburon, THAT was inspired. Served in a burning hot stone bowl, it consisted of fajita meat layered with grilled onion and shrimp. And grilled jalapenos, which were frankly too much for my gringo palette, but lent an amazing flavor indirectly.

You definitely need a spice heat tolerance to fully enjoy the foods served here. If you have that tolerance, though, you are in for a real treat. One of the best Mexican food places I've been to in a...