El Diablo Mexican Food — Restaurant in Los Angeles

TL;DR - tacos de cueritos were tougher than rubber; blasphemy

As a daughter of a Mexican restauranteur, one of the things he taught me was that if a restaurant tries to do too much/do it all, the quality of the food will not be that great. I knew this when I decided to purchase some tacos de cueritos/carnitas earlier today at El Diablo, but decided to forgo his wisdom.

Firstly, they display the food in lots of appetizing ways and that is also another red flag because you shouldn't have to put that much energy into selling your food. So yes, the cueritos looked good and I decided to give it a try because how f@%#ing hard can it be to make cueritos. I didn't even expect much in the taste because cueritos are just good and I was already prepared to not have an AMAZING food experience, just mediocre, but dang. They suckerpunched me because instead of screwing up the taste, they gave me the toughest, unchewable, inedible pieces of, I guess, meat that had me seriously considering how it could have been produced in a lab and be synthetic polymer. I wanna know how much MSG their cueritos have, how many times it's been frozen and recooked... a month maybe?

Come on. Do better. No la cagen...

with how much we pay for the agua frescas and them being advertise as "unlimited refills" some of the workers sure love to catch an attitude if you ask for one. if you don't want people asking for refills, maybe don't...advertise it? just a suggestion. also noticed a worker adding back in a customer's drink back in to the mix, kinda gross if you ask me, when it came to the food, i noticed while getting in line a worker was taking off the green onions that were laid up on the meats, without gloves, which meant their bare hands were also touching the food. I've had issues with this place before, such as refusing to give us the right amount of change, I'm just kind of tired of leaving this place disrespected, dissatisfied and short on cash, but that...

First and last time eating here, came in with my husband and sons. I ordered the Chile relleno combination plate, let me tell you the Chile relleno tasted awful. The Chile was not cooked well it almost tasted raw, the mozzarella cheese (no fresco cheese) tasted sour the egg on the Chile was tasteless and tasted from days ago, my sons chicken nuggets did not tasted like they had chicken inside the fries had no salt, I told the owner that the fries had no salt. He told me that as the customer I was suppose to add salt. Now that has never happened to me ever in none of the restaurants nor fast foods I had been to. My sons did not eat their chicken nuggets I send them back, I don’t understand how people like to eat at El Diablo( funny name) it...