El Sabroso Grill — Restaurant in Placentia

Thursday night in Downtown Placentia 8:22pm. Place is a ghost town. Maybe it's because we're close to closing time at 9pm. Owner/cook is just chillin watching Swamp people on the TV. Ok. He greets us and says we can sit anywhere we like.

We're greeted by the waitress, our order was taken and we were given some excellent salsa and chips. My wife and I order carne asada fries, 2 birria tacos, 2 tacos de pollo and one quesadilla.

The portions on carne asada fries were huge! But the fries were dry and somewhat rubbery. Don't know if the fries were cooked long enough. Good flavor though. Quesadilla was a significant size, but lacked flavor. Yes, a quesadilla is just tortilla and cheese but it makes a difference on what type of cheese is used. The tacos, (birria) had good flavor profile and looked carefully manicured. Portions were a bit on the small side for the price. ($1.65 for the basic tortilla and $2.25 for hand made tortilla). I guess I'm just used to the normal overstuffed tacos with the meat, cilantro and onions hanging over the side of the tortilla.

All in all it's fair. Maybe we need to come at a different time instead of 30-40 min before closing time. Wouldn't go out of my way to make it here, but if I'm in the area I might give it...

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Out of town visitor so I went by the comments here when looking for a place to eat and it turned out I wasn't let down by y'all. We had the steak burrito, quesadillas and also split a plate of the supreme nachos. All three items were really good and I especially liked the salsa. Our bill was under $30, which also Includied a huge mug of beer and a bottomless glass of sprite. Service was exactly what you hope for when you go out to eat somewhere.If I'm ever back in this neck of the woods,I'll definitely make a plan to go back...