El Potro Mexican Bar & Grill

The best. The food is fantastic and authentic. I have been coming here every year when in Chelsea since 2021 for either lunch or dinner. I have never been disappointed!! If in Chelsea, MA -- give it a try!!

Decent Mexican restaurant with fine pricing.

Watery horshata... admittedly how I like it but certainly a turn off for some. Honestly everything was just fine... not amazing nor bad. This would be probably just considered a safe option.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 3

Parking: Food is really good

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Steak Sandwich, Steak, Chips and Salsa, Carne Asada

Lovely place, friendly people. The way the dinner was prepared was delightful. I loved the choices in the combo plate

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: El Potro Sampler

Food was great wish I lived nearby

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Everything was delicious, staff was so friendly, great atmosphere

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Went yesterday for the first time and we love it food, drinks, music everything was so perfect ?

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Guacamole, Queso

Nice looking place, friendly service, delicious food.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Picada Mixta

Food was hot, plentiful, but not much flavor.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 4

The same excellent burritos I discovered nearly 20 years ago. I had a delicious lunch on the sidewalk during the Folk Music Festival. Highly recommended Mexican restaurant.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

My girlfriend who was black didn’t get the same treatment as me. They ruined our date??

Food was ok but service was trash if you’re black please take your business elsewhere. They trying so hard to be racist but yet so ugly . Me & my Hispanic boyfriend went there for lunch & his plates & mine were totally off . Meanwhile we ordered the same thing, his was a lot while mine was like it’s from the kids menu .

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Very good excellent food and service.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

El Potro Mexican Bar & Grill is an authentic Mexican restaurant with great food and service. We were in Boston recently for a concert and wanted to grab a quick bite before catching the 5:22 train into the city. El Porto was one of the few places that was open and we figured we had time to eat and catch the train. Unfortunately, their computers were down that night and service was really, really slow. We chose a couple of appetizers - a sampler plate and nachos. It took over 30 minutes to get our food and we had to rush to eat in order to catch the train.

The food was very good, but we were somewhat taken aback when we looked at the bill and saw we were charged $10 for guacamole as an accompaniment to the free nachos and salsa we had prior to getting our meal. We should have been told there was an extra charge.

All in all, the food was great and the restaurant has a really cool décor. I would give this place another try if I were in the area. It's unfair to judge an establishment too harshly when there are computer issues!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The beautiful restaurant inside the customer service was great and had music
Food was awesome and the steak was delicious The rice was cooked nice and the tortillas came in a basket nice and warm the beer was ice cold

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Guacamole, Steak, Carne Asada