El Amigo Mexican Grill — Restaurant in Erie

We decided to try El Amigo out tonight for a "get out of the house" family night. This establishment did not disappoint. As per usual mexican restaurants they bring you out fresh chips and salsa to your table. Delicious. For an appetizer since we brought our two younger boys we opted for the dip trio which consists of queso blanco, queso with chorizo and fresh guacamole (with more chips😁😁😁) the dip trio was so good my 10 year old was inhaling the guacamole. He's NEVER liked quac so this came to a shock for his father and myself. We got our drinks. A basic cherry Pepsi for my 10 year old, a pineapple jarritos for our 9 year old, mango lemonade for myself and a delightful horchata for my husband. For our main courses our youngest opted for the very basic nuggets and fries..... our 10 year old got the kids beef burrito and hard shell taco combo. I opted for my usual of 2 deep fried chicken chimichangas with extra beans, no rice with lettuce, tomato, sour cream and guacamole. Chimichangas are my absolute FAVORITE so I had to try them here to compare them to El Canelo and Torerros.... these were by far superior in flavor and bang for you buck! My husband got the Molcajete and a el pastor street taco. He raved about his as well. They offer Togo margaritas so when we left we treated ourselves to a blue hawaiian and traditional margarita to enjoy when we got home. Our waitress was an absolute sweetheart and very quick considering the covid guidelines and how many people were dining in. Overall, A+. We cannot wait to go back to enjoy a date night just the two of us....

We brought my granddaughter here for her 5th birthday lunch... So 3 adults 2 kids under 5. The adults ordered off the main menu and kid menu for the kids ,chicken and rice.

I had horchatta which was not horchatta it was milk with vanilla in it. We also had Margaritas and sodas. Thank God for the margarita, it was this restaurants only saving grace.

The food took forever, and it was pretty much thrown on the table at us when it finally arrived.

My granddaughters " kid meal" was 3 times the amount of food compared to our adult meals.

We had informed our waitress when we ordered that it was a birthday meal and would like them to sing happy birthday and fried ice cream dessert.

Grand child was getting excited for her dessert as we all finished our mediocre over priced meal.

And we waited,and waited annnd waited some more. The waitress had not been back to our table since she threw our food at us a good hour ago. The little one is now fussing and ready to go and the 5 yr old is bummed out their dad went outside before he lost it and had to holler for a different waitress to even bring our bill and slap a brownie in a to go box for my granddaughter.

The entire meal left a lot to be desired. The food was mediocre at best the service was atrocious and the bill was ridiculous because she charged a 5 yr for a 21.00 adult meal so loaded with onions the kids wouldn't even eat it.

Do your yourself a huge favored and skip...

We first visited this restaurant a couple of years ago and had a terrible experience, but decided to try again and see if they could redeem themselves. We were sorely disappointed again. As soon as the host reached us, we were told they were busy but the bar and outside was available. We said we wanted a sit inside and she insisted they were busy and that we be seated elsewhere. We finally asked how long the wait would be for a table inside and she finally agreed and told us 15 minutes. Ok fine. We got to our table and the menus we were given were dirty and had food splattered on them. Ordered our food, and proceeded to wait about 45 minutes for the food to arrive. Granted, they were busy, but when we finally got our food one entree was cold and the other was not what was ordered at all. We received a replacement dish with some attitude and no apology. At the end of the meal, our waitress asked how everything was and we answered honestly and told her about the mistakes. Once again there was no apology, she basically told us “that’s how it is” and was pretty rude about the whole thing, so we just got our check and left. I’d also like to mention that we are an LGBT couple and did not feel welcome during either visit to this restaurant. If you want GOOD Mexican food and kind staff, make the trip up peach st to Torero’s.

Ps. Server to server,...