El Paso Restaurante Mexicano
“Not the most romantic or safe setting in Spanish Harlem but the food will quickly make you forget the gritty and slightly depressing neighborhood.”
“I love the jalapeño margaritas ..def get the guacamole & try the octopus tacos!!!”
“I'm addicted to their mole enchiladas, their tilapia tacos are out of this world, and they do things with desserts that make me moan.”
El Paso Restaurante Mexicano
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Outdoor Seating: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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Great service from start to finish. Water and sangria poured frequently. Guacamole was good. Fresh, hot chips replenished.
Veggie burrito was delicious and more than enough for either lunch or dinner. Egg dishes beautifully prepared an seasoned well.
$32 one entree 2 hour open drinks brunch!
If uptown please stop in. Lovely surroundings and ambiance.
I'm a fan of the burrito and chicken tacos here. It pains me to knock a star off because of the service but El Paso knows they aren't the speediest around. They used to have an express taqueria across the street (damn eminent domain- it's a 7-Eleven now). The silver lining is they have a taco truck that I bet is better on their overhead than the taqueria was (I hear it's a great truck but haven't gotten to try it yet- if it's like the taqueria I believe it though)
Anyway, the restaurant is great when it comes to the full menu and quality food (which is what we should focus on when it comes to a restaurant). I like to treat myself to El Paso when I need a lingering lunch break during the work day. The thing is, it will be a long lunch break because the service is never quick (that was the express taqueria's job- it hasn't translated back over). However, sitting and lingering over a good burrito or tacos and chips and guac isn't the worst thing that could happen to me. And the service is generally friendly and delivered with a smile. No it's not the royal treatment, but it's hardly rude or inappropriate either. It gets the job done, and the job is bringing me a really good burrito, guac, and tacos that keeps me coming back for more. East Harlem wouldn't be the same without El Paso!
Get you a happy hour, yo. Great deal on drinks in NYC. I don't know about the food here, but the happy hour does the body good. Or bad, depending on how you close read those surgeon's general warnings. DID I DO MY GRAMMAR RIGHT?
El Paso is one of the few bar and restaurants close to the Museum of the City of New York. I have been there after visiting the museum and I had a really nice time.
Me and my two friends shared an order of guacamole with fresh warm chips. Afterwords we had fish tacos, shrimp quesadillas and salmon crevice. Everything was highly curated and tasty. I had the quesadillas and I rarely eat them with much delicious shrimps and filling.
Service was fast and super nice. The environment could be consider romantic and intimate, but the place is good for small group of friends too.
Definitely a to go place spot in the Spanish Harlem neighborhood!
Place is your regular Mexican joint. The staff was very kind and agreeable, the place clean and welcoming.
I ordered the chuleta with the tamarind sauce and the collard greens. It was quite the fail but okay. There was so much sauce on the plate, it looked a bit like vomit, and there weren't collard greens hiding under my chuleta but spinach. I didn't mind, I love spinach but I wasn't informed. You can't assume I am cool with spinach for substitution, could I have had something else?
Desert was great, we had a chocolate molten cake and delicious sesame ice cream. I loved that.
Overall good experience, just not a fan of my entree, it looked ugly, I wasn't told about my substitution and it was submerge in tamarind sauce that didn't even taste like tamarind.
OK food. Awful service.
Positives: Good mole sauce, they have an enchilada dish that completely drowned in mole. I was loving it.
Negatives:
Server forgot about our drinks. In fact, one person in our party of 3 got her dish awkwardly 5 minutes before either my friend or I did and before anybody got our drinks. Then we got our respective dishes. Then our drinks came out (presumably because I had to mention something).
Server was then too busy working on the party of 20 to bring us our check. It was 15 minutes of waiting with the last 5 minutes trying to flag him down until we ultimately decided to head straight to the register.
I would have liked a more substantial dish. I contemplated getting some tacos, but ultimately decided not to. I was hungry an hour afterwards.
Never even got to first base with them. My non-profit wanted to order $400 worth of tacos from their food truck on Governor's Island and prearranged and wanted to pay for it before our event which was going to be in 3 days. We've been trying to confirm our order for more than 2 weeks. Enrique said he was going to email the invoice within the hour. This didn't happened after several calls and emails. The most frustrating thing was not only the non-responsiveness of the owner but was also the person who picked up the phone. She said several times that she was only the cashier and not Enrique's personal assistant. Nothing like someone who takes pride in not being helpful! She asked my name again when earlier she supposedly took my name down to give him the message. How can you not know my name when the message you took should still be in hand?! I was perplexed why they seem to avoid my calls when all I wanted was an invoice to pay them. Eventually Enrique called me back but I told him I couldn't wait any longer and went with a different vendor. He seemed to not be perturbed. Hope this doesn't represent their customer service because if it does it deserves no star whatsoever!
The kind of place you call your home away from home.
Chill, professional staff. Bartenders make great margaritas. Tacos were only thing I had and they were the tits but I was twisted so…
If I lived near here I'd be here a lot.