El corral — Restaurant in Manhattan

El Corral is in the building that contained the Quick Shop, and former Wichwich. They have a great decor with a lot of style. It felt like it might be the most well decorated Mexican restaurant in town. The staff was very busy, we came in at 6:30 in the rush. After 15 minutes we were seated. The suggestion I have would be for the staff to recognize and at least check in those standing at the door.

Beyond that, a very friendly and helpful staff that knew the menu well. I am picky about Guacamole, it should be avocado and a pinch of salt, no sour cream or anything else in it. The dip version was not to my liking, but I see a larger possibly better version that I'll try next time.

Now for the best part - fantastic food! I ordered the combo fajitas Jalisco, shrimp, beef, and chicken. There were some peppers and onions but the dish was mostly proteins, and very delicious ones! The tortillas were soft and fresh, maybe home made?

We enjoyed the food, the atmosphere was pleasant. All this packed into a small restaurant! I'll be back and I recommend you give this a try.

Ask for the spicy tomatillo salsa, you get the plain gringo red sauce with chips, this has some good flavor!

Let me add a few more items as we sample through the menu. Our third visit here and tried the Special Corral fajitas - the carnitas were fantastic, just melt in your mouth. My wife had the Pollo Corral. The Guacamole was great, I can pass on the guac dip, not a fan of sour cream in it or guac that is soupy. It should be mostly chunks of avocado, some onion, pico...

If you are on the east side of Manhattan, do yourself a favor and stop in for a meal. The food is amazing, the portions large and price is very reasonable! I've eaten there twice this week! :) I have no earthly idea why someone would go to Chipotles, when this place has far superior food at less cost!

Seriously, this place is really good. They have done an amazing job of turning the old Whichwhch into an actual restaurant. The young man working last night told me they have another location I think he said in Alma, I'll try to get by there...

The food is really good but the menu showed deep fried tacos (shells) and was really looking forward to that but they were regular taco shells but other than that the food was really good and priced affordably. If you like LaFiesta but cant afford to go there then try El Corral you get the taste of LaFiesta at an affordable price.. One more thing I want to mention is my sister is handicapped and we were able to sit comfortably on their higher than normal chairs. It was easy to sit and easy to get back up. Overall it was a nice...