El Compadre Mexican Restaurant & Seafood — Restaurant in Shreveport

All I can say is No Mas! Thought we’d give it one more try, but tonight after a long hard day, my wife and I really needed a nice relaxing dinner, and we may have experienced about the worst service in recent memory! Upon arrival we were quickly greeted and seated right away, as there was very few people there. But that was the highlight, as we were never waited on. And I mean not even approached for a drink order. Literally had to flag someone down, and it was still like pulling teeth to get any kind of service the entire evening.

And after watching multiple tables that were seated after us, get their food before we even got service, our food eventually arrived. But after tasting it, I wished it hadn’t arrived at all. Once again for my wife, her food was so disappointing. The first time we ate here, her entree literally had no seasoning at all. She had to add salt to her taco meat just to have any taste to it! And tonight, her fish tacos were barely edible and drowning in the weirdest flavored sauce that she said didn’t match a fish or taco dish in any way. My dish had charred bits of steak like bits that were barely chewable, and a very small portion for a $20 entree with no sides. Just very disappointing all the way around, and we won’t...

After waiting 6 months for el compadre to open back up after renovations, we were so excited to get dinner tonight. Wow what a let down. The place looks fine but our waitress sat on her phone chewing gum for about 10 mins before we even spoke to her. Another 10 after our drinks before she took our order. (We were drinking sodas so not giving us a minute for margaritas or anything like that). The salsa was practically water. We got our queso quickly but no saucers for appetizers which was fine because the entrees came really fast. I can see now why they did. I ordered chicken nachos. I didn’t know you could screw up nachos until today. The chips were burnt to absolute hell in what tasted like week old oil and the chicken had absolutely utely zero seasoning on it. The guacamole tasted like the avocado was bad. My wife’s chicken was also unseasoned and when I told the waitress and showed her my oily brown chips she just stared at me. It was very disappointing. Every thing that could’ve fallen short, did. Hopefully just growing pains but beware if you’re going to try the new spot, it lacked ALL of the old soul that once drew me in....

I got catfished hard, y'all. Let me explain. The "Tacos De Pescado (3) Fish Tacos" is described as being Red Snapper, a delicious gulf fish that can sometimes be hard to acquire, especially as a regular menu item. Because of this, I asked our waitress (older hispanic woman who may have been owner?) what type of fish they use for the tacos. Without hesitation, she immediately said "catfish." So I opened the menu and showed her the menu item description (this is the only Fish Taco item on the menu) where it says Red Snapper. She then reassured me that the fish was, in fact, Red Snapper. I asked her again if she was positive, because if it was catfish, I'd like to order something else...again, she reassured me that it was Red Snapper. Sure enough, the tacos she brought me were filled with baked catfish (with slimy catfish skin left on) so I confronted her about it (did not get any refund, etc). It is one thing to have catfish tacos on the menu, but to falsely advertise like that and blatantly lie to someone's face is just wrong. Great...