El Taquito — Restaurant in Miami

I never write reviews, but I dont want anyone to experience what I did tonight. Food poisoning. Worst service ever. Outrageous. This place is terrible. Avoid at all costs. We were told to sit wherever we want. We got menus and ordered drinks. After about 15 minutes with no drinks and no one stopping by to tell us our drink were on the way, I wondered if they had forgotten about us. Then, 30 minutes went by, and I was not happy. 30 minutes for 2 cocktails and 2 shots and still nothing. After 45 min when we finally got our drinks, I tried to pay so we could just leave. The waiter who only brought the cocktails, not the shots, said he thought we didn't want them at the same time. It had been 45 minutes. So we asked if he could bring shots and we could pay. He left and went to get shots. We got the shots fairly quick, but when we took them, we noticed they did not taste like tequila at all. My wife and I drink tequila all the time. She works at a Mexican restaurant that specializes in tequila, and we were convinced this tequila was watered down. So we asked the waiter what tequila he brought us and he said tequila. We then told him it was not tequila and if it was it was watered down. He apologized and offered 2 free tequila shots. We took those 2 shots and still tasted watered down. Worst of all, we drove for maybe 15 minutes, and my wife asked me to pull over because she had to throw up. She 100 percent has food poisoning from her drink. She got a michelada. It must have been bad, and now she's sick. So not only was that the worst experience we have ever had. Now she is throwing up and dry heaving on our vacation. Terrible service is one thing but getting people...

If I can give this place a zero starts I would. I don’t usually rate places like this but one thing I can say this has been by far the worst restaurant I’ve ever been and trust me when I say so I review a lot of places.

We went here while we were touring Little Havana we should’ve thought better a Mexican restaurant in a Cuban area stating it’s “authentic” let’s start with the cocktails horrendous! Really watered down I asked for a passion fruit margarita and it didn’t taste a bit of it my partner had a Paloma and it was technically club soda a cheap tequila no grapefruit. We didn’t even touch them after our first sips just nasty.

The food: Presentation is great looks very well. I ordered the grilled chicken and it came with rice and salad overall the chicken tasted fine but the rice tasted so gross like if it was spoiled and even the dressing of the salad was bad they shouldn’t put any dressing to it.

My partner had the chicken tostadas and when we left not even 20 minutes we had to pull over since he had to vomit! This ruined our anniversary dinner for the night since he had to keep going to the restroom and even myself. So please AVOID AT ALL COST!!!

Also a 20% service charge is included even though they don’t even bother to come...

Very disappointed with El Taquito tonight. We had been there many times during past years, and enjoyed the atmosphere, service and food. But tonight, according the the waitress under NEW ownership, everything changed. The service was poor, the food dismal and the experience really negative. To start, none of the new changes were explained, I asked for the usual chip basket and none was brought, only a tiny bowl of chips with one sauce, I was later told the basket I wanted would cost extra, which was never explained when I asked for it. No utensils were provided and the waitress said at the end of our meal, that "in Mexico, they are eaten with your hands" I told her, that we were not in Mexico, and that if my taco disintegrated like it did, I didn't want to pick the chicken bits up with my fingers. At no time were we asked if we needed anything else, during out meal and as I was slowing chewing the last mouthful, the waitress asked if I wanted my plate removed. So with all the food in my mouth, I had to utter, that I was not done. Needless to say, we will not eat at any of El...