El Ranchero

The food is excellent and the staff is superb. It's best Mexican food I've had in a while, and the pure can't be beat, I recommend the Macho Burrito and Margarita. Yummm

If this place is at all related to the restaurant by the same name on North Santa Fe avenue in Vista - know this:  After waiting almost an hour for our lunch I walked out.  My daughter and 3 grandchildren were starving so they waited longer.  EVERYONE around us saw this and after waiting another 10 minutes my daughter was told "WE lost your check."  The owner had told us "5 more minutes for OVER AN HOUR and then told us he would give us 20% off.  REALLY?  I encourage anyone and everyone to boycott this place!  20% off is an insult and we will NEVER go to your restaurant EVER again.

Ok, finally found some Mexican food that tastes like what I was used to in LA.

This little place is right across the street from the Avo Theater, where I was going to a dress rehearsal of "The Mousetrap" with Darcy and Robert.  The restaurant is definitely bare bones, tile floor, plain walls but then that's often what you get with good, traditional Mexican food.

Robert had the fish tacos and said they were really good.  Darc and I had the fajitas:  she had the steak fajitas, and I had the steak, chicken and shrimp fajitas, with an eye to taking home a nice little plate of steak to Joey.

The fajitas were quite good.  Not the best I've ever had, but served with pride and topped with lots of well cooked yellow and red peppers, and lots of onion (love that onion).

The side dish was a meal in itself:  Darc had pinto beans, I had the black beans.  Then there was a nice glob of both sour cream and guacamole, a little salsa, and rice.  With a tortilla, really, someone could have had that for their meal.  But instead, we ate it all!  And lived to tell of it.

This is a definite I'll-be-back kinda place, amigos.