El Torito Restaurant - Laguna Hills

Update 10/13/2022: 68th anniversary celebration until closing at 10pm tonight!! Free tacos. Okay, so they are probably short staffed. Service was a bit slow but our server was still marvelous! AND… it was Happy Hour!! $4 well drinks and $8 mojitos and$5 margaritas. We also got Elote corn off the cob) for $4. So good! A little over roasted today but the flavor wasdelicious. Not too crowded, surprisingly, but the bar area had more people than usual. Try, try this place! The people arevery nice! TIP your servers! They work hard! Update 10/7/2022: Great service and food was so good. I got the waffles withhoneybutter, maple syrup, fruit and bacon. My guy got the carnitas bacon breakfast fries with a sunny side up egg on top andpico de gallo. Update: 7/23/2022 Went for $8 breakfast. Great service and food was pretty good although my ham was a littlesalty for my taste. We also got free chips and salsa and a side of sour cream $2). Our server was pretty attentive and wasthere when we needed him. I like that! Place is awesome looking since the renovation. Check out pics!

Always ?? coming here. Hostess always greets patrons with a smile. Tableside Guacamole ???? is perfection. Hubby ordered Street Tacos (Carnitas Chicken) with side of Corncake. I had Huevos Rancheros $12 very fair price for portion size. Both delicious!Servers always attentive.

Price was right, but waitress failed miserably by serving the guacamole without chips since they weren't ready and still in the oven. Next time, serve guacamole at the same time with the chips. Waitress also failed miserably when she removed a used saucerfrom another table and placed it on our table. I should have pointed it out to her, but didn't because it was obvious there wasa slight language barrier. We ordered the dish with the four meats that serves 4. The chicken and beef were both overcooked!Kinda hard to screw up tortillas, rice, and beans, so obviously those met our standards.

We got there and the hostess sat us right away. There was no available table so she sat us on a table that's been dirtied by the previous customer. Instead of having us wait in the waiting area. We waited for about 5 mins she came back and wiped thetable . She wiped everything to the floor. And now the floor is dirty with all kinds of food crumbs that wiped off the table. See photos: This place is dirty idk how they passed the health inspection and got an A rating. Just look at the look at thephotos of the floor under the seat and the walls looks like they never clean or wipe it off Service is also horrible. Idk whothis place has 4 stars on Google. They sat us on a dirty table. It took them about 15 mins or so before they took ourorder. No napkins or utensils given. We had to ask. The food tastes mediocre. Who knows how they prepared the food. Just gosomewhere .

Love this place ?? food is superb and service was great tonight. Lucely was so kind and attentive, always checking in to see if I needed anything and service was prompt. She treats you with such kindness and professionalism. Extremely happy with it all???? Ordered Carnitas nachos and they were so yummy as well as the Cheesecake banana chimi ???? and the Cadillac Margaritas arethe best in town!