El Tapatio Restaurant — Restaurant in Porterville

UPDATE My first review was 6 years ago. My opinion has changed dramatically since then. My child and I use to eat here regularly. We loved it. Unfortunately, the food has been so dry, not enough sauce. I ask for extra because the food is dry I have to pay for it. We could eat here for $10-$15. Now we order the same items and we pay over $30.00. Really not worth it. Which saddens me because it was our little get away. Now we never go. The prices for the food makes it hard to take your family out for dinner. If it's over $30.00 for two people think about a family trying to feed everyone. I can't imagine. The hours they have now makes it hard. I'm sure there are couples that would like to get away for a quiet dinner or out with friends. Plus I keep hearing about an 18% charge. I've never heard of that charge. I certainly hope I haven't been charged for it the few times we've ordered out. I have only gotten take out not dine in. Very sad. It's to bad it's changed so drastically. Looking at the other reviews they might want to pay attention. I saw more bad than good. Instead of being the favorite in town they may end up the worst. It really sucks. What happened to the place everyone loved and couldn't wait to go????

Review 6 years ago

Always great!!!! Love the...

By far has been the worst experience ever.

We waited 2.5 hours to get our food. But that wasn't the worst part, our food tasted disgusting. Our crunchy tacos were soggy, our sope crust wasn't toasty or cooked all the way and the chicken was super hard and overly salty. I went to the front to speak with a manager but waited over 6 minutes before someone finally addressed me. Once I explained that we were not happy with our food, the manager pretty much was short with me and said that it was because they were swamped and couldn't keep up with the orders. But I explained that we never had this problem at this restaurant before and we've came on other holidays. He just told us food was comped, so we were preparing to leave a tip for the waitress since it wasn't her fault the food wasn't up to par, but THEN the owner came out and rudely said, if we didn't like the service to never come back again. Which wasn't what we were complaining about. We said it wasn't the waitress fault, it was the cook who messed up our food. We were willing to pay for part of food since it wasn't all bad, but once the owner came out and made super rude comments, we just left AND WILL NEVER GO BACK FOR...

Absolutely Horrible – Never Again

My coworkers and I decided to try this place for dinner, and it was a complete disaster from start to finish. The staff was incredibly rude and acted like we were an inconvenience just for showing up. I ordered the tostadas mixta, and what I got was a sad, sloppy mess of what tasted like imitation crab and some questionable shrimp thrown together with zero care. It was nearly inedible — I couldn't even finish it and just left the plate there.

What really blew my mind was the price. For what I got, it was insanely overpriced. I could’ve had a better meal at a gas station taco stand for half the cost. I honestly don’t understand how this place has such high ratings — maybe the old reviews are from a different era, because what we experienced was nothing short of awful.

This was our first and definitely our last time here. DO NOT waste your time or money. You’ve been warned.

Una estafa total. Atención pésima, comida asquerosa y carísima. Pedí la tostada mixta y era un plato desordenado de jaiba falsa y camarones malos. No lo terminé. No entiendo las buenas reseñas, ¡seguro son viejas! Primera y última...