El Paraiso Mexican Grill Snohomish — Restaurant in Snohomish

Cozy family style restaurant for authentic Mexican food at a good price with great service.

I was hungry after berry picking in Snohomish and craving some Mexican food. I found this place had a decent rating and decided to stop by. Parking is easy to find as it's in a strip mall area. Entering the restaurant, you definitely notice it has a cozy, classic family style restaurant with booths and older furniture. The decor was colorful and seemed to reference cultural elements. They bring you chips and salsa as appetizers and they were good about refilling them. The chips are nicely toasted and pair really nicely with the salsa and bean dips. We ordered the chicken fajitas and the combo #13. The chicken fajitas come in a cast iron plate with the chicken sizzling, as it's cooked fresh off the grill. It comes with a side of rice, beans, guacamole, sour cream, and salad. Overall it was very moist, tender chicken and tasted fresh. The combo #13 came with an enchilada, tostada, and tamale. It was definitely a lot of food and filling overall. The tamale wasn't too dry and had a good amount of stuffing. The tostada and enchilada were also served with plenty of seasoning and sides. The chicken tasted well cooked too. Expect to spend about $15-20 per person. The staff are also very good with making sure you're taken care of and there are plenty of people working. I didn’t have to wait long to get my food, even though it was busy on a Sunday evening. Overall a great place for some comfort food and good value. I will definitely be back if I'm ever...

Tonight was the last time we go there. I don't know why we keep going back there. Maybe hoping the service has improved. It used to be a great place with great food and great service. It is now a complete failure. It's almost like the restaurant is second to something else. 🤔 My wife gets the chicken fajita salad, every time. It's different, EVERY TIME! ZERO consistency. The menu says it comes with a tortilla bowl. Never once has it come with or in a tortilla bowl. I am not even in the business and know consistency is extremely important. Didn't get chips, salsa, and beans for 10 minutes after being seated tonight. Waitress took our order tonight, didn't see her again for about 35 minutes. Someone else brought our food out. After waiting and waiting and waiting for ANYONE to get us refills on our sodas, chips, and beans, I finally got up and went to refill them myself. I ran into the manager as I was making my way to the soda machine. Asked him to please refill those three items. Instead of just taking care of us and the situation at hand, he must have tracked down our waitress and told her to do it. 5 minutes later, she showed up with sodas, chips, and beans. I got a #23. My tacos were pretty much hollow. Nice crispy shell with some lettuce, a couple pieces of tomato, and a few crumbs of ground beef. Epic fail tonight and if I am being honest, about the last 2 or 3 years....

Worst food ever. I am not a picky or snobby eater. How can you go wrong with Mexican food, especially in a nice, sit down establishment....this is how you can go wrong with Mexican food. My dinner date compared the food to a school lunch burrito or a raccoon trash can burrito, minus the bottle caps and coffee grounds...which may have improved the flavor some. We ordered the Macho burrito with steak. The sauce was the first thing we noticed...way too sweet. Much like a can of generic enchilada sauce with sugar added and the rest of the burrito was super bland. $75 for 3 of us to eat. All having ordered the same thing and all of us left not even finishing the burrito but we took the leftovers to give to a dog. And we all agreed on something..next time we are really hungry, stuck in town and are craving Mexican food...we will go to Taco Bell...I never thought I would actually say that but it would have saved us $40 and there would have at least been a decent enough flavor to it. However, I dislike being so negative so I will say, other than the crappy food and community style seating at the tables, the restaurant was clean, service was quick and the waitstaff was super friendly. Usually I would give a restaurant a second chance but this is one of those times where next time, I will actually make the drive out of town to go to other restaurants where I know I won't be...