Nearly a year after the first negative review for "Albertaco's" and it seems like absolutely nothing has changed..
It was a good day today, it was finally lunch time and I was starving. My co-worker and I decided to clock out for lunch together and take a ride to the other side of Moreno Valley for some good old Mexican food. Alberto's on Alessandro Blvd was our destination and we were sticking to it. Well, it wasn't until after we left this Albertaco's that we realized that this abomination of a so called "restaurant" was in fact not "Alberto's" but "Albertaco's".
Albertaco's front sign looks coincidentally similar to the restaurant "Alberto's", fooling myself and my co-worker. Regardless, we only had 30 minutes left to eat before our lunch was over and we were already there, so why not just eat?
Well, to start off, there was literally one person in there when we arrived and a few customers who looked rather unsatisfied, leaving the building. For the most part, the dining area and from what I could see in the kitchen, looked mostly sanitary. As we looked at the menu above, the pictures that were provided already started to make us question ourselves as to whether or not we wanted to spend our dollars on something that looked so disgusting. Some of these pictures were nearly indistinguishable.
Regrettably, we went ahead and ordered anyways. The cashier at Albertaco's restaurant hardly spoke a word of English. It took the staff member at the register 5 minutes to understand that I was trying to simply order a numbered combo from the main menu. The two beef burrito with beans and rice is what I ordered. Never have I tasted a more disgusting, uncooked, piece of garbage in my life. I would have been better off going home and heating up some cheap frozen food instead, because that's exactly what this was. The beans were gray, mashed up and soupy. The cheese was hardly melted and the rice was clumpy, dry and stale. My beef burrito's were so soggy that it was dripping liquid profusely on to my soupy muck that was my beans and rice intertwined with one another. Even at my starved state, I was only able to sum up the courage to take a couple bites of my beans and rice and force myself to finish off one of my expired beef and vegetable burritos.
I ended up paying around $8.00 for my plate of food and my coworker ended up paying $9.00 for hers. Obviously, we both felt completely ripped off and wanted our money back. Well, there was no point in trying to communicate this to the staff, because they can't even understand what we want from them, so we just left.
When we arrived back to work, minutes in to our shift, we both had stomach aches and felt nauseous. I have never felt the need to give a negative rating for any restaurant, but this was too much. I felt compelled to warn every one else to please not make the same mistake my friend and I made and go to the other Mexican restaurant across the street. Needless to say, we'll never return to this location ever again. read more