El Patron II — Restaurant in Town of Ballston

We had dinner here with friends a few weeks ago and really enjoyed our experience. This is a truly fun and beautiful place with lots to look at (including artwork on the tables and backs of the booths). It is definitely lively, but the noise level was reasonable and we were able to hear one another easily.

Staff were very pleasant and service was fast. The food arrived pretty quickly. They stopped by to refill beverages, but mostly left us to enjoy our food and conversation.

The food was very good - my favorite was the mini chimichanga appetizer. We also ordered the Fried Chicken Burrito and Carne Asada. These were good, but i am curious to try other dishes next time. The menu is huge and there are many other things to try. One in our party is a vegetarian and she loves how many options there are for her to pick from.

Overall, this was a really good experience and I recommend stopping by yo try it...

Food was ok however, almost all of the staff we dealt could speak extremely limited English. They did not understand our order as well as omitted things that we ordered. We received one glass of water when we sat down and then nothing further. Our waiter was absolutely miserable and never came back to check on us at all. We entered at 4:45 and did not get out of the restaurant until 7:45 and the only reason we got out by then was because we keep hunting our server down. When we ordered dessert, he only brought out 2 of them (there were four of us). When we finally got them to bring the rest out, the Lava cake was a microwaved cake with no fudge like center at all. They skewered a cherry on top before they microwaved it so the plastic toothpick was melted. The restaurant was smoldering hot with no air conditioning on the side we were sat at. Needless to say we will not...

Finally a good Mexican restaurant close to home! Food was delivered to us in a timely manner everything was warm to hot and delicious! We all got chips and salsa on the tables. I got the egg battered poblano pepper meal, every time I get this out it's usually made beforehand and microwaved and it tastes like refrigerator, I don't think it was freshly made today but at least it was warm and tasted good it could of been hotter. The rice was flavorful and so was the beans on the side. We had eight people in our party so it was hard to keep us all happy with beverages. We did go without drinks for a while. We got pitchers of Margarita and they were delicious! All the staff was very nice and accommodating. We will definitely go back! In my opinion it is way better than the two other places in...