El Tazumal

14621 San Pablo Ave, San Pablo
(510) 215-7594

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Comic Dude

This place is NASTY! found a hair in my pupusa. When i showed the waitress she didnt give a damn , no apology, not a care in the world. Terrible service , Terrible food.

Charles Ellis

In from out of town for work. Came for breakfast. Really, really good food. Best refried beans I've ever had, hands down. Good coffee.

Great location, clean, nice decor, friendly staff, everyone in here is all smiles and chatter. Stuck around for about and hour, read and did a little laptop work and nobody made me feel like I was overstaying my welcome.

If I lived local I would be here all the time.

Fernando Zuniga

Salvadorian cuisine, delicious authentic dishes from El Salvador, and some central American flavors.

Yemelin Beris Landaverde

We are frequent customers but this situation made us feel disappointed and frustrated.
They give me the machine to pay with credit or debit card without details of what they are charging for, at the same time they ask for tip. So you assume that they didn't charge for tip already, so they make you tip twice. After we pay they printed the receipt so we notice it. When we told them they said they can't give refunds. They didn't want to fix anything for us even though we are frequent costumers, and we were tipping 18% and they just said we cannot give refunds and that's all which I think is so unfair. They have to find a solution if they value their customers.

We are frequent customers, but this situation made us feel disappointed and frustrated. They gave me the machine to pay with a credit or debit card without details of what they were charging, at the same time they asked for a tip. So we assumed they hadn't charged us for the tip, so they made us tip twice. After paying, they printed the receipt for us to notice. When we told them, they said they couldn't give refunds. They didn't want to fix anything for us even though we are repeat customers, and we were tipping 18% and they just said they couldn't give refunds and that's all I think is very unfair, they should look for solutions if they value their customers .

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Angel Flores

love their Salvadorean food

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Corn Pupusas Maiz

Beatriz Rivas

Very disappointed. I came here a couple of weeks ago as I was visiting San Francisco. The main thing that really bothered me was paying. We waited a while at the table for a check, our waiter never came back we had to ask another worker, and then she also never came back after that, so we went up to pay at the register. At the register, they gave us a cash amount and non-cash amount (most places are charging customers the credit card fees that now the owner doesn’t want to pay). Anyways, I had cash. Bill was about $64.xx and the non-cash amount was $68.xx. I have no change so handed over $70 and got back around $1.xx. So they gave me back change for the non-cash amount despite paying cash. And I even questioned it and he was like “no no it’s right” spoke little English, and honestly I was already held up enough with my time waiting to pay, I just left. But they most likely pocketed the difference which is pretty unethical. I had a breakfast plate, the cheese ball was pretty gross. It was fresh cheese squeezed into a ball, and you can see hand marks and everything. The horchata “de morro” was very disappointing, did NOT take like horchata at all, just tasted like watered down sweet milk.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Jhonny Lima

One of my favorite places for breakfast… and the super friendly staff…
Especially miss MELISSA ????

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Jaime Ortega

The service was good. The food wasn't so good nor bad something in between. Although I only try the pupusas. Cheese with loroco and mix.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 4

Mrs. Marisol

(They Rob tips via credit card from customers here. And then blame the customers.)
Came in and ordered at the counter, the waiter who took my order added himself a $4.17 tip after telling me my total was $23.17 my amount was then changed by him to $27.17. He never gave me the option to add the tip myself if I had chosen to give him a tip, he added the amount he wanted on his behalf.... I normally came in all the time and same with my family for over 10 years at this place. It is a shame that when the manager was confronted about this, instead of giving me what was taken, he decided to tell me that it was my fault. I told him his waiter entered the amount himself and the manager still took to blaming me. No accountability for his waiters mistake or an apology. So I asked for a refund of my full amount back. Bad management overall and service. I'm not just sharing the fact that it's bad customer service but also for anyone who normally doesn't check their receipt, be aware of the scam they are doing. And hopefully they don't take more then they took from my card or should I say rob someone else. Nore I or my family will be visiting this place again.

Again please take accountability. I work at a restaurant myself and our pos system also let's us either enter tips ourselves or let's the customer enter the tips. What you guys are doing is illegal and please don't go robbing people this way.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Roberto Rivas

Very good food, atmosphere and above all very good tension, especially the lady who served us, from the moment we arrived very friendly, she treated us in a very professional way, I had to ask her name to thank her for her quality service.
Important note: Her name is Melissa Corpeño⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Alex G.

Be very careful with the payment, they charge more, always check the payment. I do not recommend the place. Very careful and attentive. They serve other tables when there are more people because I went with my son and my wife and I arrived first, then more people arrived, a group of 7 and they attended to them first than to me

Food: 1

Service: 1

Yolanda Mora

Waitress didn't speak English. She kept on getting our order mixed up. Food was ok. Never came back to see if we needed anything.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Steak, Super Mar Y Tierra

Micheline Dara

Very diresperful with other raceThe waiters did not clear my table before I paid my bill. they were disrespected.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 4

Service: 1

Cristian George

All the food is good

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Robert Cortez

The food was excellent, and the service was only ok, very dry, not too attentive, no smiles, no joy.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Salvadorian Breakfast Plate

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