ESTRADA'S MEXICAN GRILL

12582 Valley View St, Garden Grove
(714) 799-0977

Recent Reviews

Tomas Snider

Great family style. Mexican restaurant. Felt like I was at home! Very welcoming and great hospitality. Great chips and salsa and the sopes were amazing.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chips and Salsa, El Trio Street Taco Plate, Pastor

Yesenia Melchor

My fiance, daughter & I decided to try this place out for the first time. The restaurant is beautiful. The Mexican artesanias are lovely & really colorful. The music playing in the background was wonderful. A mix of old boleros & religious songs. A great place to go with loved ones. We ordered coffee, which was nice & strong. The horchata ,however, was not authentic. It was the powder flavored mix, it was sweet. We ordered three of the breakfast specials. My daughter ordered the chorizo con huevo plate with rice, refried beans & corn tortillas (but they brought her flour). My fiancé ordered the Papas con chorizo plate with rice, refried beans & flour tortillas. And I ordered the French toast special with fresh berries but only got blueberries (I guess there were no strawberries), bacon & eggs (over medium). The food was delicious. Over all we really enjoyed our meal & the price was well worth it. Can't wait to come again.Parking: This restaurant is located in a shopping center & has more than enough parking.Kid-friendliness: Kid friendly.Wheelchair accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 4

Reagan Russell

$5 Breakfast Burrito dine in or to goMonday to Friday 7-11amIf you don't make the breakfast hourThey have $14.99 specials all day everydayMenudo on the weekends Saturday and Sunday

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Estrada's Breakfast Burrito

Donna Hernandez

Food is good, great French fries. Nice local coffee shop, nothing spectacular, a little expensive, but generous portions. Staff was very friendly.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Ali Hajiahmad

Healthy Mexican food. Recommend fajita steak. Reasonable price.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Chips and Salsa

Lynne Barbas-Pearson

We waited forever, the food was COLD..I asked for green sauce, got red...no chips and salsa, when bill came, I was charged 16.99 for the $9.99 lunch, finally after 3 times, they took off the correct amount off the bill. NEVER GO BACK...!!!

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 1

Joel Hobbs

First time there, got a chili Verde plate. Absolutely the worst green chili I've ever tasted! The chili was so sour it was inedible. The few tiny cubes of pork were old and dry. Barely enough beans to fill a tablespoon. Much more of the rice though that is a lot cheaper than beans. YUCK!

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 3

Kim Hales

Hardly anyone in the restaurant. Wet Chili Verde burrito huge very spicy good tho. Hardly any meat. Overall it was good. $$$

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chips and Salsa, Chile Verde

sherri C

The restaurant was very clean. They served heart-shaped chips, so cute. The waiter was nice, but the order came out wrong twice.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Chips and Salsa

Jo Ellen

My husband had eaten here a few months ago & enjoyed it, so he wanted to try them again.Visited on a Sunday at noon. Not too many customers. The place was less than 1/3 full. Terrible service! Seated right away & chips were delivered. Then nothing. About 5 minutes in, I heard the waitress mumble, "I'll be right with you folks as she walked past (not entirely sure who she was mumbling to), but that was it. No drink order, no visit to our table, nothing. We waited 15 minutes for a waiter, then I finally got up to ask if anybody had been assigned to our table. She showed up & took drink orders while I was away from the table & informed me of such when we passed each other, but never indicated in any way via apology or excuse, that this wait was not the norm. The next time she showed up to drop off the incorrect drink orders (water with no ice, but all delivered with ice), I requested decaf coffee, which was burnt & tasted terrible. Our waitress was unfriendly, brusk & a very poor server. She dropped of my coffee as she was walking past, just sticking it on the edge of the table as she walked past. All meals were served by handing the plates to the person who ordered them, even across the table & in front of/across other people, necessitating the recipient to reach across to receive the plate. Most of usthought our meals were OK/good, but I ordered bacon, soft & my daughter ordered bacon, crispy. Both were cooked medium. My son ordered an omelet with vegetables (onions, bell peppers, mushrooms, etc). The vegetables were not cooked, which meant that the water vegetables release while the omelet was cooked released inside his omelet, making it soggy & watery. That's bad enough, but they also put lettuce in it, which was not listed as an ingredient & added to the soggyness. Worst of all, the inside of his omelet was RAW. The front 1/2 was soggy & from the middle to the back was actually raw. You could see raw egg leaking out & it had an actual puddle of raw egg that had seeped out. My son didn't want to be a bother & was going to eat it anyway, even though he didn't like it, but once he got to the raw half - no way. I requested a new one from a server walking by & the server looked at & said that he could see that it was raw. I sent it back & who I assume was the manager, came by to apologize after a new one was brought to the table. Our waitress did stop by several times during our visit for a very brief second as she walked past to ask if we were OK.While we waited for our food to be delivered, someone from the table across from us actually got up to ask how much longer it was going to be for their food because they had been waiting a long time. When their food was delivered a few moments later, the same waitress served their food the same way she served ours, by handing it to the recipient across other diners. This group was in a booth which makes serving a little more difficult, but still you don't serve someone's food right across someone else's face.Despite my complaints, we are not a demanding group. We were with our 3 grown children who were raised to respect others & treat wait staff with the same manners. We are polite, have manners, usually don't require much. We are not loud, we don't make a mess & we usually tip well. We we visit a restaurant a 2nd or later time we are remembered & the wait staff is glad to have us as their customer again.We will not be returning to this restaurant & I do not recommend it to anybody else, which is unfortunate, as it's a new restaurant in the area & had the opportunity to do it right, but.... I don't see them lasting past their lease if this is the was they operate.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 1

nina jimenez

Had to give this place a try and support the community. Iordered the chile verde and eggs, my daughter had the breakfast skillet and oatmeal for my granddaughter. The waitress was just straightening out the server area and took quite some time to take our order. My food was microwaved, the rice and beans were dry and crusty. The skillet was decent but everything was so ridiculously overpriced, especially for the quantity AND quality. It's apparent the owner isn't responding to these chief complaints as nothing is changing. It's also sad to see the standard two replies from the owner. I don't feel a need to support a business that doesn't care about the community it serves.

madisson harkey

Hold on, because this is going to be a long one, Estradas cafe has been my family and I’s go to restaurant. There are many varieties on the menu and the service is very good!I saw a review that was complaining the food was over $40 but I’m sorry, have you eaten ANYWHERE lately, a greasy little breakfast meal for the family at Denny’s cost 70 bucks so I wouldn’t be complaining about a delicious and well-made Mexican food meal. If you don’t like the prices maybe you shouldn’t have voted for your beloved Biden.I also saw a review that was a one star because the salsa was too spicy, my family and I are Mexican and we all love the salsa, it’s not the company’s fault that a bunch of white people come here to claim they “love eating Mexican food” but in reality they can’t even handle a little flavor or spice.It’s like fancy white people who claim,”omg I just LOVE Chinese food!!” Then they go to eat at Panda Express… stop complaining the salsa is too spicy for your white tastebuds, us real Mexicans know what flavor and spice is.One review was from a man who said him and his spouse were seated next to another couple and they were bothered that they had to hear the couples conversations, well sorry dude if THATS your biggest problem, it’s your own fault you didn’t stand up and walk your own butt to the front counter and ask for a new table. OR I don’t know..maybe just stay home and cook yourself a meal so you can eat in peace.I saw ANOTHER review stating they ARE Mexican and were disappointed half the menu was American food…. HMMMM I WONDER WHY?? Maybe because they are located in the middle of a neighborhood with a bunch of bougie WHITE AMERICANS living in it!The establishment is family owned and it’s very cozy inside, sometimes they have a live Mariachi band for entertainment! Everyone is so nice and the owner Jose always waves hi and welcomes us in even if he’s cooking in the kitchen. Running a business is hard and I understand that, so it hurts me to see people leaving such crude reviews instead of encouraging the business to keep upgrading and to keep up the hard work!If you were offended about anything I said in this review, you further prove my point…no one likes a diva. ?

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Dog Mama

We ordered to go & while waiting were greeted by each employee who walked by us. The restaurant was very clean, too. We got Chips & Guacamole, the Cocido, Taquitos & Chile Relleno meal. Everything was so delicious. I wish I'd taken pics of the food!Wheelchair accessibility: Very easy access for those using a wheelchair or walker.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Alex DeMartino

We ordered the breakfast sandwich and the marchada breakfast plate. Both did the job of filling us up but neither were worth the price. The meal came with chips and salsa, which were easy to pass on, the chips were bland and the salsa was very spicy.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 2

Geri C.

The "$5 Breakfast Burrito" banner outside this restaurant, née Coco's, caught our attention, and we decided to check it out. The decor felt familiar and comfy. My hem & cheese BB was well-made, soft, and deliciously fresh tasting. The coffee, served in a big cup, was surprisingly aromatic and flavorful. Andrew provided great, attentive service. All that made for a simple, enjoyable breakfast that deserved a shout-out!

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