El Caporal - Mexican Bar & Grill — Restaurant in Mason

We ate her on Sun. 8/14/22. We are from UT and were visiting our daughter and her family. I have Celiac so we of course had to look up and call many restaurants that could accommodate Gluten Free food. This restaurant does not as of yet, have a “Gluten Free” or “ Gluten Friendly” menu but the manager (I assume he was the manager, server 0006) was extremely accommodating and made sure the kitchen took precautions to make me a plate without gluten products. The food was Delicious and I had zero issues! The one thing I was disappointed with is I could not eat the chips and salsa as the chips are deep fried in a vat with other products that contain gluten so I ordered a side salad to start. Thank your efforts and for a great meal.

My daughter’s family has lived in OH for 5 months and said not only was it the best Mexican food they have ever had but that it was by far the best meal they had had since they moved there, and they have sampled a lot of restaurants. They actually live 40 miles from the El Caporal but said they will definitely make more trips to eat here. Kudos to the cooks!

Note to manager: If you could get a few bags of Gluten Free corn chips from the store and keep them on hand for the people that have Celiac that would put the meal over the top! (Assuming the Salsa doesn’t contain gluten). Also, your hostess that night was very friendly and accommodating. The bathrooms were clean as was the restaurant and had a...

Stopped in today for late lunch. I had Las Yolandas (chicken enchiladas) and spouse had carne asada. Also ordered two cokes and queso. Food came out quickly. Queso was delish. Could have used a check in from the server for drink refills. Instead he asked if we needed more soda when he cleared the table. Carne asada was quite good - cooked well and seasoned even better. Enchiladas were bland. Enchilada sauce was a bit sweet. The tortillas had not been cooked in the sauce, the dish wasn’t even really heated thru. The chicken was bland. As we left, we opted to pay with a credit card. They have four different machines on the counter to swipe a card, but apparently none of them work properly. Had the same issue when we came a few months ago and ended up paying in cash. The young man at the front counter took my card and was going to write down my credit card information so he could run it later…?!? Lol. We paid in cash and left. We will not...

We got seated right away at a small two person table. Received chips and salsa right away. Server came got drink order cane back with drinks. I asked for sweetener for ice tea as none on table. After a few minutes server dropped off sweetener and left. We were actually ready to order. We watched as he cleared another table. He looked over a couple of times at us but failed to come back. We decided to leave. We talked to the manager as we left. He said he would comp our meal and get it right out. We decided not to eat there. Gave a 2 star only because the manager offered to help. Frustrating when servers are not attentive to their customers. And to be honest the table we sat at was too small for two people. Not sure if we will try again as there are numerous other Mexican restaurants that we like and get served promptly.

• Decided to change to one star after ownership remark. We now will NOT go back. Very...