El Chilito Oxnard — Restaurant in Oxnard

I so badly want to give a five star review due to the friendly and fast service, ambience of the whole restaurant and the delicious drinks we ordered.

The chelada menu is very creative but most importantly, DELICIOUS with the added ingredients they use to make them unique (vegetables and protein-ours had shrimp).

The reason for the three stars is the food, although very fresh, was not seasoned enough during the process of “cooking” the shrimp with lemon. The shrimp were also large and whole. There was plenty of protein, a big plus on that. But the size of them, and of the cucumbers, as well as the seasoning (particularly pepper) would have made a big difference in the ceviche botana. For raw shrimp aguachiles, whole shrimp and and chunky veggies go well, but for traditional shrimp ceviche cooked in lemon juice, it’s different as there is no spicy liquid to offset the taste of the raw shrimp and if there’s not enough time to cook the raw shrimp in lemon juice or not enough juice, the dish’s taste is compromised.

Now I’m wondering, had I chosen a “tostada” of shrimp ceviche, would the protein and cucumbers been cut smaller?

The dish my friend ordered, similar situation with the seasoning.

But also, the restroom was not kept up at all.

In writing this review, I did consider location, but I also considered comparison to several other places with same cuisine and also considered the dishes as comes-as-is, without having to add anything myself.

But guess what? I’m going back! The drinks were bomb. And I’ll ask if they could accommodate ceviche to my liking perhaps, if I feel like it.

Excellent customer service. Great vibes (beautiful lights, dj music and I think live too). Clean inside restaurant (tables, booths).

And I ordered a bean and cheese burrito to take home to my son, he said...

Umm...So when I walked in and waited for a table the server working thought I was homeless and ask for some water. That's just the start of it, so after telling him and showing him that I had money that I wanted a table to eat and have a drink. So after getting seated my server didn't greet me for over 5 mins, came brought me a water so I ordered a Chelada Beer (very dissatisfing), I ordered my food Carne Mini Tacos (The meat was so greasy tasting it actually tasted old). I came to this place because I seen it on Google. Very...

Well let's just say it has it good and bad days....was here about 2 weeks ago, service off the hook, manager checking up on us, even other waiters/waitresses came to check on us. Well today is a different story...I guess we came on a wrong night..our waitress hasn't even looked our way for the past 20 minutes, knowing we have no drinks, jus keeps passingus by, not even checkingif everythingis ok....hello we are thirsty.. I guess there ...