El Coyote Charro — Restaurant in Saint George

This restaurant is an example of what happens when owners give up. Everything from the windows to the walls are dirty. Everything is falling apart inside such as tables, chairs, etc.

But the real review is on the food and the food was horrible. I got 4 types of meat.

Carne asada Chiken AL pastor Lengua (Cow tongue)

Carne asada tasted like it was cheap meat and cooked multiple times. It was dry and had a bad burnt flavor. So much fat like none of the meat was not properly trimmed before cooking, a little fat is good but whole chunks is not. None of the tacos come with anything on it, so you have to dress it with toppings which helped the flavor

Chiken, flavor was okay and cooked well. Plain chiken taco, not much to go wrong.

Al Pastor was horrible. Once again, it seemed like it was cooked multiple times and over cooked. Very dry and burnt so when you took a bite your mouth is overwhelmed with a burnt meat and onion flavor. I could not take more than one bit.

Lengua is one of those items that not many people eat or know how to cook properly. This restaurant should not be offering it as the meat tasted bad, bitter, metallic like flavor. After biting into the taco I spit out the food because it tasted like the meat was bad and really old.

My wife and I barely ate and walked out of the restaurant. This place needs some serious help. Beware of eating here as shortly after leaving my stomach felt queezy and like I ate bad old food.

Good luck El Coyote Charro. I hope this comment finds you well and that you can fix the critical issues with...

This isn't really a review, as much as it is a critique for the owner. When Coyote first opened, it was popping. Always full of people, with a line of people waiting. You used to need to call in advance to beat the lunch rush. Now every time I go here, it's empty, and doesn't have the spark it used to. I suspect that it was sold from the original owner, and the new owner doesn't have the same love for it. Back in the day, everything was basically 5 bucks, except for the taco salad or fries. Now, it's 10 bucks a burrito. Here's the deal... I'm sure you jacked up the prices to boost profits, but I'm willing to bet you would be more successful if you dropped the price, and kept the quality. Seriously, consider it. You probably lost 80% of your customers with the price hikes. Me and my coworkers went there EVERY DAY for months. That's 25 bucks/per person, per week. And there were like 6 of us. Now, you're lucky if you catch me here twice a year.

Not dogging on you guys, I actually love the food, but I am always shocked at how...

Food was really quite tasty. I tried five tacos with various meats: chorizo, cabeza, carne asada, al pastor, and carnitas. All were quite good, and the salsa bar was a nice touch. Their horchata was great.

What really got me was the cleanliness, though. There wasn't a clean table in the place (they weren't even busy), the salsa bar was a mess and borderline unsanitary, and after a couple tacos I realized that everything had the same black "charred food" crust that you commonly get when cooking on a dirty griddle. Now, I've had tacos at some pretty grimy curb-side taco stands and in some total dives, but cleanliness has never been an issue like it was here.

The cleanliness deserves a 2 star rating, but the food was good, and I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and hope that this was a fluke and they were just slacking a bit the night I visited. If it's the same the next time I go there, I'd have to...