El Rosal - Patterson

The food and drinks were great. Like many things these days, it was on the pricey side, but it was definitely worth it.

I was driving from the Bay Area to Los Angeles and decided to stop here for a quick meal. I ordered the Camarones de ajo, which was delicious. I was really impressed by the staff; it feels like a family-run establishment with a great atmosphere. Thank you for everything!

Who would have thunk it? Our breakfast stop when we traveled from Walnut Creek to San Diego has a nice Mexican Restaurant called El Rosal. After putting in 10 hours of driving from Oregon we stop in Patterson to spend the night and get some dinner before we complete our trip home to Temecula the next day. We enter El Rosal and it is a nice building with bar and room in the round for dining. We grab a table and chips salsa are brought to us lickety-split. Chips are crunchy and the salsa is bursting with flavor. We order Coors Light and it arrives with the mountains as blue as blue can be. So far, this is a damn good night. For dinner, I order the carnitas and my wife the chili verde. As we order our second Coors Light and request more chips salsa our dinner arrives. The carnitas are plentiful and my wife gets a decent size bowl of chili verde. My carnitas are tasty as is the chili verde. Beans and rice are way above average and the salsa brings everything together. Staff are attentive and we notice the man tending bar goes above and beyond to make sure everyone in the restaurant is enjoying themselves. El Rosal was a nice surprise and we will for sure return. A solid 4 stars, it would have earned 5 stars if my carnitas were crispy. Perhaps next trip.

Great food,great service. I definitely recommend you stop in. Homemade salsa is yummy and most of the menu is Homemade as well. Good stuff. Atmosphere is average. Not great, not bad, just...there.

It was stormy and raining. This was the only sit down place open. Service was very good.