El Abuelo Restaurant

452 N Maclay Ave, San Fernando
(818) 365-8283

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jennifer tamayo

I love the quality of the food, the environment is so welcoming and the customer service is always great. The employees are always smiling and have such good energy.

uomo in nero

Over all 5 stars

Johnny Cee

Food is authentic Mexican very good with flavor, staff is very nice and friendly and very reasonable prices and nice atmosphere..

Victor t

Came early 9ish had chile verde....just as good as my wifes. If she ever leaves me I know where imma come to eat (shh dont tell her). Food was Hot Hot Hot...just how I like it generous portions. Look at 5he pic!

D'Jinn Daisy

Delicious empanadas and margaritas. The mole is very good and the chips, guacamole, rice and beans are made fresh 😁

Elsa Talavera

An order was placed for taquitos, 160 pieces, I paid in advance to pick up 1pm, I arrived at 1:20pm and they were not ready yet, they were not ready until 1:55pm, they covered them with plastic when I got home, all the taquitos were moist and soft, very bad service and with horrible attitude. Need to be better trained.

Food: 2

Service: 1

CARRISSA

We ate at el abuelo today horrible experience and we regret even going. We both ordered burrito mojados. We waited very long for them to come out and when they did they were cold the meat was luke warm but the sauce was cold and the rice was hard! we were very hungry and very tired from our long work day the day before so we decided to wait All over again would make us very unhappy . The waiter never asked how our food was never came to give us a refill she also did not offer me any water as my boyfriend had only ordered a menu drink but I was also thirsty. Any time she came to the table it was because I went out of my way to ask which was once to ask for more water chips and pico de gallo which she never said costed extra I had to ask. Eventually by the end of our meal another server comes by and asks how we are doing and offered to refill our drink at this point we thought it only best to complain to our server or manager only to find out that our server who never checked on us was the manager ! We let her know about our burritos and she said why didn’t we tell her sooner and I replied you never checked to see how we were doing and explained that we were very hungry and tired and didn’t want to wait all over again. She said she would take off the one drink and add a small discount but she only took off the drink and never added a discount . I suggest she sits down eats a cold burrito with hard rice and then be asked to pay for it. We were very unhappy and after all of that that manager still returned to say she spoke with the kitchen manager and the kitchen manager said the rice was fine . What a joke!!!! A rude joke I let her know that it was indeed hard , burned , or old . She also said next time tell us sooner so they could fix it next time. I’m sorry but we never return to places that we don’t like. We never complain when we go out to eat but we usually also are able to pay 30$ and at the very least receive hot fresh food. Bad experience will never return. The place seems like it is outdated not that that usually bothers me it’s just I would say don’t bother and don’t waste your money

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Ellie

It’s a cute lil restaurant with great people and great food! We had the huevos rancheros and the chilaquiles 10/10 thanks to Eva our waiter ā˜ŗļø they even have games on the

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Keyla Sierra

Been here twice and the food is homemade and delicious food.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Rice and Beans, Chips and Salsa, Tortillas

richard frias

This place has changed not like it was before

Carol Hernandez

When we enter the waitress faces had attitude all over them. Long wait to order, long wait to get food and long wait for the bill. My husband told the lady to bring my daughter food in a to go container because we know she will not eat it all. Of course she didn’t listen. She assumed that we were taking it to go. Then when my husband ask about my daughter food. She start to argue with him. That is when waiting of the bill timer began. Then when we asked for more cabbage for the pozole. They right away said they ran out. I didn’t believe it. How do you run out of cabbage when u service pozole. Then the rice was SUPER raw. The nachos are made with boiled chicken and jack cheese. Yuck!!! Totally not worth the money. We will never go there again. Don’t waste ur money at this restaurant. You are better get off spending it on street tacos!!!!

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

sandra alvarado

Chicken with mole. Before covid they would usually give a thigh plus leg with this dish, fresh and tasty. Now you get pieces of chicken with the mole. Many chicken pieces were old,dry up like leather COULDN'T chew them. But you can't tell because mole covers everything. Tortillas only thing that wasn't disappointing, homemade ?

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 5

Elsa Ramirez

This is my second time returning, I love the handmade tortillas, red chili, different and delicious chilaquiles and the delicious ribs!! The girl who helped me is super friendly, talkative and cheerful.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Seven Perera

I got a raised from work today. thought I should take my family out to celebrate at a family owed local restaurant Abuelito. Worst MISTAKE ever. Waitress was very argumentative with strong negative vibes. Went home looked at my receipt .They over charged me. I called number on receipt ask for manager. I was transferred to a manger a woman. I told her my situation guess what she did. Manager put argumentative waitress on the phone with me. Waitress started going off on me. I was then transferred back to manager. She ask for my name, I gave it to her and then manager jus hanged up on me. Wow rude. I called back ask to speak to her supervisor she denied me and would not give me her name or waitress name. Guys this is the first time I ever take the time to write a review specially a bad one. I just feel mistreated. I need to do something about it. Waitress I get she's tired, but manager very unprofessional and doesn't listen to customer. ALL THIS FOR $ 6 DISCREPANCY. Not to mention chicken was pink, rice under cooked.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Margarita Rivera

Good place to eat..simple but good Mexican food, the waiters/waitresses are kind, one can get a chilled beer to drink with their food. The corn tortillas which are freshly made with a hand press for your meal, are delicious. At my age, I'm 68, I'm fascinated with small simple things; the Abuelo logo which was stamped onto the warm tortillas really left an impression on me. Sincerely, M. Rivera

Kid-friendliness: The restaurant is very kid friendly- it reminded me of eating at your grandmas house, everyone was happy and relaxed, customers were different races, the servers spoke English and Spanish.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Carne En Su Jugo

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