Peter El Norteño — Restaurant in San Antonio

I have lived in the neighborhood for over 10 years. With an abundance of taquerias in the area, I have incorrectly assumed it wasn’t necessary to venture out. Boy was k wrong! Thankfully, someone from my neighborhood Facebook group posted about Peter El Norteno’s lunch specials. The price point and raves of deliciousness forced me to place an order last Wednesday for a Chicken Fried Steak. That’s right, ordering CFS at a taqueria and expecting greatness is not something you’d think would happen. Holy Gravy on the side! Seasoned to perfection. Crispy, Crunchy, tasty! Hands down my favorite CFS I have ever tried. The sides require a little table seasoning and maybe some “soul food” spices from your purse stash of seasonings. But that’s forgotten when you bite into that crunch. On Monday’s you have the opportunity to have the CFS or the CFC for $6.99 including a tea!

I’ve tried both, the fried pollock, chicken and beef fajitas (sautéed not flame grilled or broiled), and some of my bf’s green chicken enchiladas, which he said were the best he has ever had. He ordered them a week later for the lunch special and said he never order enchilada form the same place twice in a row.

Everything’s is delish. My preference is CFS, Fried Fish, Green Chicken Enchiladas, CFC, beef fajitas, chicken fajitas. Next up cheese enchiladas, chopped steak and what?!? Liver and onions? Not since the grandest days of Luby’s have I enjoyed liver and onions. (A more recent visits to Luby’s found the dish lackluster and sans anything resembling the award winning Luby’s dish). Mao happy to finally try this place. The food is incredible and the people who work there are even more so. Much love to the owners, cook (apparently the former cook from Lulus!!), servers, and even the customer thag keep this place alive and thriving.

Oh! Parking is terrible during lunch. Make sure you allot some time to find parking and please be mindful of the residents and the construction workers...

Do you shy away from asking any more about where to get a really good chicken fried steak locally? First you have to dodge the slings and arrows of outraged readers that are disgusted to see that question posted one more time in addition to the past 236 posts asking the same thing. Secondly you have to decipher 57 differing opinions of who has the best in town based on folks with palates similar to yours but also those who think you are talking about chicken that is fried like a steak. If you end up conquering both these obstacles give yourself a pat on the back.

I had been seeing recommendations for a while now about a location that seemed just another roll-up-the-carpet at 2pm mom & pop tex-mex cocina. Well they are that, but I read where they also had an $8.50 CFS plate on Monday. Yeah. OK Probably a frozen filet of breaded chewbone with pasty gravy. I was intrigued enough, however, to see what this Mexican kitchen could do to engender the numerous bragging entries I had seen posted.

The CFS plate came with a choice of 2 sides including kernel corn, over-cooked green beans, skins on mashed potatoes and seasoned cream gravy or roaring hot french fries and a roll. When the waitress rounded the bend from the kitchen she was deftly balancing two loaded platters on one arm and drinks in another. And let me tell you, the hub cap sized fried meat beauty resting there was nearly shoving the sides off the plate.

Now, I think I will stop at this point in incomplete summation to inject a modicum of mystery into a story where you have not been led by the nose to a particular conclusion in your own cfs vetting. Instead you are urged to perform due diligence in making your own decision as to whether or not to visit the place. One last word . . . the couple that accompanied us for lunch ordered 2 more CFS dinners to go. Enough said. P.S. the Chicken Fried Chicken is the reverse side of this golden fried, good as a...

They are rude and stingy. No refunds if you accidentally misorder. I am not mexican and the menu did not say the plate came with onions and I am extremely allergic to onions. I just wanted some food after work before I went home and they blamed me for not knowing what el norteno was or asking about what it was before ordering. They told me if they made it again they would charge me for an additional plate. They held out on my refund for an hour arguing about it over 7 dollars. If they would have just immediately refunded me or made my plate again without onions I might have come back to eat again but they are rude and stingy with their customers money. Do not go here unless you want to be robbed. Since I do not speak Spanish or am Mexican they spoke about me in a language I do not understand and are racist towards you if you are not mexican. They openly mocked me and laughed in my face when I wanted a simple refund or my plate made without onions. Onions are poisonous to me and I would die if I consumed them. Overall they are rude, stingy, disrespectful people. Do not waste your time going here. I even tipped and they did not appreciate...