Do not give itemized receipts! So you do not even know what you bought and didn’t buy! Great old school atmosphere…but staff is poorly undereducated when it comes to the menu. And they were out of everything!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 1
Clay Palmer
Best green chile in Socorro County. A really cool lounge that harkens back to the 60s with 60s prices. Liver and onions with two sides and soup of the day was $10.99!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
S Adams
Years ago the bartender made shots and offered it to our group without anyone asking for it and then billed it to us. It still pisses me off to even think about and it caused issues in our friend group. There wasn't really anyone in the bar she could have made those for other then to get more money from out of towners.
Forgot to mention the bartender charged HER shot she made for herself to us.
Ion Cherdivara
Real lounge. Had a wonderful t-bone and draft IPA. Highly recommend!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Christopher D
Go. Eat. You'll move there.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Christa Valdez
Atmosphere is out of this world. Walk into the coolest lounge/bar you can find in the state and enjoy the positively unique, effortlessly nostalgic vibe. Staff is fantastic - no nonsense, and friendly. Walking in, go right for an epic retro diner feel, go left and step in time. If you liked Paul's Monterey, back in the day, you will love El Matador!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
FREPLUG
Well when in Socorro and NOTHING is open on a Sunday evening El Camino it was. It is like a 1980's restaurant inside and out but it is open 24/7 and had a great menu. The food did not take long to arrive and was very good. Service was fast and attentive. Prices were very reasonable and the place is busy. An added bonus is the attached bar so dinner and drinks are paired at a very awesome cost. I highly recommend this place and would return again. The steak, liver & onions and green chili potato soup are all excellent choices.
Y G
Good service and plenty of food. If you get pancakes or waffles the fruit is from a jar and runny and not fresh. Get the scrambled eggs. The lounge is nice and you can get food there too. The front of the restaurant can get croweded.
Gary B
Ate there May 20, 2023. I ate in the matador lounge next-door to El Camino restaurant kitchen. The lounge was friendly . I ordered three hard taco shell tacos with the usual, refried beans and rice. After halfway through my dinner, I realized there was a bad taste to the beans and rice. I stopped eating. The next morning in my hotel, I spent the next six hours with explosive diarrhea. Yup you guessed it food poisoning.
Good Mexican Food. Slow service. Waitress kept checking back. Would repeat. Hint: No recording & they don’t answer phone.
immabanananana
I have been here a few times only because all the better restaurants happened to be closed. The wait times are long, the food is often cold. The servers don’t follow basic food handlers practices and dip their fingers in the customer’s food when handling it and eat while behind the counter. I have to sit at the counter to watch the wait staff and cook to make sure no foreign objects end up in my dinner. The food tastes like reheated frozen trash. The health inspector ought to perform a surprise inspection on this pig sty. I have had food poisoning here from the fajita plate. The bathroom is disgusting. And you know what the saying about that is. “The condition of the bathroom is often the same condition as the kitchen”. Food isn’t that cost effective either. Go literally anywhere else maybe except chartwells.
ari405
We went here for dinner after going to two restaurants in town higher ranked on TripAdvisor which were both closed on a Saturday night for some reason. The food was fine, but neither better nor worse than many other Mexican restaurants. The staff was friendly (and busy) and the prices were reasonable. Given the options in town for open restaurants, I would go there again.
M8724AKemilys
This is probably the worst food I have had in a long time. It was sloppy, undercooked and slow. The price was way too high for the quality of food. The waitress was nice but it wasn’t enough to make up for the bad food. The ground beef in the burrito tasted like it had hash browns mixed it, the rice tasted like it had been frozen and thawed, the spaghetti sauce was terrible, and the fajitas were really bad and undercooked. My son ordered ranch with his fries and the ranch was warm. There were four of us eating and we all ordered something different. The food was equally bad for each of us.
Timothy H
El Camino is like an island oasis in a town that has been in decay for a decade. With Socorro being the only significant town within a 50 mile radius when traveling south from Albuquerque on I25, it is a place you can rely on for a great lunch. Besides all the Southwest favorites, they also offer traditional American dishes like Meat loaf and hot roast beef sandwiches. Great selections for those that find the New Mexico dishes too spicy.
Nice place with 70’s vibe bar.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Do not give itemized receipts! So you do not even know what you bought and didn’t buy! Great old school atmosphere…but staff is poorly undereducated when it comes to the menu. And they were out of everything!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 1
Best green chile in Socorro County. A really cool lounge that harkens back to the 60s with 60s prices. Liver and onions with two sides and soup of the day was $10.99!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Years ago the bartender made shots and offered it to our group without anyone asking for it and then billed it to us. It still pisses me off to even think about and it caused issues in our friend group. There wasn't really anyone in the bar she could have made those for other then to get more money from out of towners.
Forgot to mention the bartender charged HER shot she made for herself to us.
Real lounge. Had a wonderful t-bone and draft IPA. Highly recommend!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Go. Eat. You'll move there.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere is out of this world. Walk into the coolest lounge/bar you can find in the state and enjoy the positively unique, effortlessly nostalgic vibe. Staff is fantastic - no nonsense, and friendly. Walking in, go right for an epic retro diner feel, go left and step in time. If you liked Paul's Monterey, back in the day, you will love El Matador!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Well when in Socorro and NOTHING is open on a Sunday evening El Camino it was. It is like a 1980's restaurant inside and out but it is open 24/7 and had a great menu. The food did not take long to arrive and was very good. Service was fast and attentive. Prices were very reasonable and the place is busy. An added bonus is the attached bar so dinner and drinks are paired at a very awesome cost. I highly recommend this place and would return again. The steak, liver & onions and green chili potato soup are all excellent choices.
Good service and plenty of food. If you get pancakes or waffles the fruit is from a jar and runny and not fresh. Get the scrambled eggs. The lounge is nice and you can get food there too. The front of the restaurant can get croweded.
Ate there May 20, 2023. I ate in the matador lounge next-door to El Camino restaurant kitchen. The lounge was friendly . I ordered three hard taco shell tacos with the usual, refried beans and rice. After halfway through my dinner, I realized there was a bad taste to the beans and rice. I stopped eating. The next morning in my hotel, I spent the next six hours with explosive diarrhea. Yup you guessed it food poisoning.
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Good Mexican Food. Slow service. Waitress kept checking back. Would repeat. Hint: No recording & they don’t answer phone.
I have been here a few times only because all the better restaurants happened to be closed. The wait times are long, the food is often cold. The servers don’t follow basic food handlers practices and dip their fingers in the customer’s food when handling it and eat while behind the counter. I have to sit at the counter to watch the wait staff and cook to make sure no foreign objects end up in my dinner. The food tastes like reheated frozen trash. The health inspector ought to perform a surprise inspection on this pig sty. I have had food poisoning here from the fajita plate. The bathroom is disgusting. And you know what the saying about that is. “The condition of the bathroom is often the same condition as the kitchen”. Food isn’t that cost effective either. Go literally anywhere else maybe except chartwells.
We went here for dinner after going to two restaurants in town higher ranked on TripAdvisor which were both closed on a Saturday night for some reason. The food was fine, but neither better nor worse than many other Mexican restaurants. The staff was friendly (and busy) and the prices were reasonable. Given the options in town for open restaurants, I would go there again.
This is probably the worst food I have had in a long time. It was sloppy, undercooked and slow. The price was way too high for the quality of food. The waitress was nice but it wasn’t enough to make up for the bad food. The ground beef in the burrito tasted like it had hash browns mixed it, the rice tasted like it had been frozen and thawed, the spaghetti sauce was terrible, and the fajitas were really bad and undercooked. My son ordered ranch with his fries and the ranch was warm. There were four of us eating and we all ordered something different. The food was equally bad for each of us.
El Camino is like an island oasis in a town that has been in decay for a decade. With Socorro being the only significant town within a 50 mile radius when traveling south from Albuquerque on I25, it is a place you can rely on for a great lunch. Besides all the Southwest favorites, they also offer traditional American dishes like Meat loaf and hot roast beef sandwiches. Great selections for those that find the New Mexico dishes too spicy.
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