El Vaquero LLC — Restaurant in Virginia

The food! No doubt this place prefers Hispanic people over non Hispanic, The waitress who didn't speak English wouldn't even make eye contact with me as she brought the check. The other waitress spoke excellent English, and was warm and polite. Normally this would ding at least three stars. Add flickering florescent lights, no music, a shabby bar room, slow service, you got a recipe for disaster. The recipe for the chicharrone tacos and salsa verde TOTALLY ( well, mostly, hence 4 star) redeemed El Vaquero. The salsa was great, not typical standard Midlothian Mexican style, rather authentic, like the workers used to make at my aunts farm in SC. The rice was also different, but great! This isn't the typical steam table Mexican joint, after tasting the food, soaking up the total Mexican market vibe, you almost feel like outside are horses and a dirt street, not a parking lot and Bojangles. I may not go here again due to the clear preference for non whites, I've had that experience before on Southside. They basically ignore you until you leave. I get it too, it's awkward when you can't communicate with a customer. It would take a afternoon to learn "hello, this way, what would you like", etc. I wish the non English speaking waitresses would at the very least address me in Spanish if that's all they know, I've fumbled through enough foreign restaurant menus to understand a...

As a black guy...I went in to face SO MANY STARES! From the time I walked in it was obvious that I was not welcome there. The waitresses made that known by the looks on their faces...they seemed very apprehensive while speaking to me. I asked the 1st 2 waitresses at the door if they made SHRIMP burritos. They told me no but did have beef and chicken. Moments later another woman appeared and asked me what I wanted then told me that they DID have shrimp! She then told the 1st one to make my order as I asked (both shrimp and steak) burrito. When It came the bag was light.....so I had the feeling there wasn't much in it. The meat was VERY SALTY! Not much flavorful VERY few shrimp.....(I finally found some toward the last half of the burrito). Just a lot of salty ground beef! Shrimp WAYYY to over cooked! (and a bad taste) The cheese used was off....(might have been American....sliced!🙄) They give you very little condiments (picture) very shallow tubs of condiments. The decorum was nice. The place was loud and lively but..... I would definitely not recommend this place to anyone.....(especially if...

Me.and my mother have waited 10 mins to be attended by the waitress and we had our drinks ordered tooked her 20 mins to get mine she should be fired bad service and not coming back here she should be keeping an eye...