El Potro Mexican Restaurant — Restaurant in Savannah

El Potro is located at 13051 Abercorn St #A9 in Savannah, GA, operating Sunday–Thursday from 11 AM to 10 PM, and extending until 10:30 PM on Fridays and Saturdays . The restaurant occupies a strip-mall space with ample parking and dated décor, offering a muted, functional experience. The ambience is neither lively nor uncomfortable—just adequate seating and low-effort lighting, reflecting a brand-standard chain environment  .

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🥘 Menu & Food Quality

El Potro features a comprehensive Mexican comfort food menu, including tacos, burritos, enchiladas, chalupas, fajitas, quesadillas, and house specials like rib‑eye steaks, pollo rico, and carne asada. Vegetarian and dessert options are also available .

The buffet, when offered, is described by patrons as “well-stocked” with a variety of made‑from‑scratch dishes, though availability varies by day . Signature items repeatedly mentioned include the cheese dip, taquitos, taco salad, tamales, and tacos—all receiving high praise for flavor and authenticity .

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🧾 Consistency & Signature Dishes

Many reviews highlight the tacos al pastor, “cheese enchiladas,” and chile relleno as consistently flavorful and reliable choices  . The staff’s salsa is often singled out: “excellent,” with balanced heat and freshness .

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🍽️ Service & value

El Potro is praised for friendly, attentive service. Waitstaff are described as helpful without being intrusive, especially notable during buffet or combo-dinner service . Prices are generally affordable: lunch specials run under $8, combos around $11–12, and entrees like fajitas and steak plates are under $18 .

Despite consistent food quality and reasonable pricing, some reviews note occasional cold food or mislabeling at the buffet bar, such as chorizo mixed with chicken without clear signage, which caused dietary concern .

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📉 Reputation & Ratings • Tripadvisor: 4.3/5 from around 26 reviews, ranking around #330 out of 671 Savannah restaurants . • Yelp: Approximately 3.4/5 from 57 reviews in Savannah, lower than Pooler and Rincon locations (~3.6 avg) . • Google/Wanderlog aggregate: around 4.4/5 from over a thousand reviewers, highlighting it as a consistent local favorite .

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🌟 Highlights • Wide array of authentic Mexican dishes • Famous cheese dip and salsa • Reliable tacos al pastor, enchiladas, and tamales • Buffet option offers variety at fair price • Friendly, attentive staff,...

10/11/2021 - 2 Stars - Went back tonight at her request cause tomorrow is seafood for me. Frustrated this time. She still loved hers. I got Tacos al Carbòn. Bland and hard to eat. The tortillas were rolled and covered in cheese. Hard to eat with a fork, messy to pick up. Menu description says it comes with "pico de gallo, lime, and jalapenos". No pico originally, and at first waitress argued it didn't come with it. Made her bring me the menu. Then it was that the lime and jalapeños are part of the pico. Which makes no sense. They sure didn't list it as part of the guac, or list out the seasonings in the steak. But they list them for the pico, and skip the onion and cilantro? (/sarcasm)

Meanwhile, I'm getting frustrated and begging for flavor in this bland meal. I don't want to go back here ever again, but I know she loves it.

10/9/2021 - 4 Stars - Not bad. We were pretty late getting here. Enjoyed how private the booths felt. The salsa was a little spicy for her taste, and a little thin for mine. But okay. Had some queso dip, which was nice and thickened up.

I had 2 chili rellenos and sides of sour cream, guacamole, and pico de gallo. She had chicken and cheese nachos and a soft taco. She enjoyed hers a lot. Mine was good, but not amazing. The chili rellenos were stuffed generously with ground beef, but i wanted more cheese in them. They didn't charge for the sides, which was good cause they...

Terrible service. No one was at the front to seat us, we waited almost 10 minutes before someone came to seat us. We asked for queso as soon as we sat down. We ordered our drinks and meals. Still no queso. We get our meals and ask if the queso will be coming and the waitress just looks confused. She brings us what was supposed to be queso. It was just milky water. The beans tasted burnt and kids meal had meat in it when we specifically ordered bean and cheese burrito. We asked for the check and waited about 20 minutes. Then our waitress passed by and asked us if she could help us with something... THE CHECK!! She looked at us like we were stupid and then said she could check us out at the front. Then walked away. We went to the front and stood there for another 10 minutes and then the waitress passed by and asked us if we needed anything else..... We didn't even pay. We asked her if she wanted her money or not and she just stood there. We dropped 20 bucks on the counter because we had no clue how much it costed and we walked out. Ridiculous service. Do they even want their money here? Wasn't even busy in there. There were probably a total of 5 people in the restaurant at the time...