El Rancho Restaurant & Bar — Restaurant in Trinidad

The food here is exceptional. Gina and her staff take pride in every dish and the taste is delicious. Authentic Mexican food is hard to come by and this restaurant nailed it! We travel through Trinidad several times a year and this is one of our must stops. The review listed below from the out of town table is completely inaccurate. My family just so happened to be in here on the same evening ( a very busy night) and this women was flat out rude and demanding. The poor staff had to deal with more than I could have. For the food being so bad in her opinion, they all ate more than half of their plates. She refused to pay and made a huge scene. I believe she was just looking for a free meal. This is a small family owned business who work their tales off and provide this small town with wonderful food. It is hard enough during this time for small business to survive but then to walk into a place of business and cause a disruption to this extent is sad and uncalled for. If you want Gorden Ramsey go to Las Vegas and stay out of Trinidad because you do not belong here. Please keep in mind small business is trying to survive right now and it is extremely hard to find people to work so be a little kinder and patient when eating out. They are all doing the...

I think that this one of the best Mexican restaurants here in Trinidad the only thing keeping them from being the best is the green chili it doesn’t have any taste and there isn’t any pork or beef in it. It’s pretty spicy which is the only thing I like about it.I never tasted the red so can’t tell you anything about that. I worked in Colorado Springs at the el sombrero on Nevada I was the head cook there when I first started there there green chili was like this place no flavor no meat no spice so I asked the owner if I could make him a little pan of green chili and he loved and ever since then. I made the green chili for that place for years until I left so yeah if the el rancho Wants a different green Chile I would love to make them my Chile to sample for...

Never been to Trinidad so we had no idea where to eat. This place was pretty flavorles. Luke warm food which surprised me bc they say "fresh", chips and tea taste like it was from yesterday. The fries at the bottom of the chili fries were cold again crazy for "fresh" cooked. Save your money 💰 I should add that our elderly mother also fell in the dining room. We stayed and ordered food when we all really wanted to leave. It wasn't busy at all we were the second table that was set. My family nor I were ever rude. We paid for our drinks and left a tip for the waitress. I sent my food back after the first flavorless COLD bite. We still joke about this place when we come through on our way to Colorado several...