Il Camino — Restaurant in Leominster

Sadly I didn't catch the name of our server but I think it was Beth, she was excellent there when we needed her but out of the way when we didn't. I met my brother here for lunch neither had been here before I found it by a Google maps search. It was further away from Massachusetts Rt.2 than I expected but the goal was to find a locally owned restaurant. This place is family owned and operated and that by itself created a much better atmosphere than we would have found at they popular chain Italian restaurant in the same town closer to the highway. My brother and I were pleased with our lunch choices I had rigatoni with sausage and my brother had the special eggplant parm it was served with a salad I had to order a side salad separately. The sauce was simple marinara and vegetarian. A bonus for my brother. It was not packed but had a comfortable sized crowd for lunch on a Tuesday. It was quiet enough for pleasant conversation without having to increase our volume. The food came out salads first then the entrées that were plenty hot. The accompanying bread was cold but very fresh a good tradional match for the type of dishes we ordered. We only had coffee which was strong and hot. The two meals where $34 without thee tip you can figure that part for yourselves. I will return next time I want to meet my brother for lunch we live 85 miles apart so this was a good spot halfway ish between, there was no pressure from the server to turn the table over so I made sure to tip well. Till the next time I'll try to remember pictures I'm terrible...

Visited El Camino Friday, Oct. 19th with my boyfriend, as we drove by saw the place a friend had said it was good, unfortunately the only thing good was our waitress which deserves to work in a better restaurant, 1st we waited for bread for more then 10 min and cold bread at that, by the time our order came maybe a good 45 min after the cold bread, my pasta which I ordered fettuccine alfredo was brought in a deep bowl and when I started eating it was gooey which explanation from our waitress was the chef (which I say with reservation) had added mozzarella on top. I have eaten fettuccine many times one of my favorites NEVER like this.. my boyfriend ordered red meat sauce over wheat noodles ....and his other came with regular noodles and cold at that, waitress was nice díd come back with the correct order, yet noodles were cold and sauce, well lets just say RAGU sauce is better .. ..when my boyfriend tried to speak to the manager ......which by the way she should look and act like she knows what she is doing she decided to disrespectfully talked over my boyfriend when he tried to explain what happened with our orders.. this place received 2 stars by us because of the waitress she was very nice and embarrassed for us.. whom ever asks to recommend a place I will definitely say DO NOT go to El Camino, which translates to The Path, which believe me when I say don't want to take that path...

We had a reservation for 6:30 on 8/3/21. We were surprised for a Tuesday, there was a line out the door. Drinks took forever and we were told there was no bartender tonight. While our waitress was VERY nice, she was overwhelmed with how busy. Every time she came to the table she had to apologize for somthing. Not a huge deal, but long story short it took nearly 2 hours to get our food order I and then were informed when food was being brought out (about an hour after they closed) that they were out of ingredients like the veal for the veal parm. Was also very taken back thar that a table that was seated an hour after us (they were waiting for a table when we walked in) was served their appetizers, food and drinks and even ate and left before our food was ready? How?! Where were the managers? Our waitress shared her frustration with the wait staff being "done" yet we hadn't eaten yet. The while meal was hectic, and not relaxing. We spent about 3 hours there and we all wanted to just leave. When the bills came back wrong we basically juat agreed to pay it so we could just leave. Again no managers to help fix issues, I fully expected someone from management to come apologize but I think they were too embarrassed. Our waitress should find a more supportive crew to get through dinner service with and not deal with all that stress...bad...