We stopped by 2 weeks ago to pick up breakfast on a Saturday morning around 9:00. There were 4…read morecustomers dining inside. We chose to get breakfast to go, Dave ordered special number 2 which is 2 eggs, shredded hash browns, biscuit, and 2 slices of bacon for the discount price of $8.99. He added a side of grits this day. He loves coming to El Vaquero for breakfast because all his foods are cooked the way he likes them. 5/5 I like omelettes and I mostly do not eat breakfast foods all the time. I ordered chicken fajitas for breakfast. I am fortunate this restaurant will prepare lunch/dinner foods for breakfast. My foods were excellent. 5/5 If you are on the south side of town, please stop by El Vaquero and try their foods. This locally owned restaurant opened just before Covid and they have been working hard to build their business. 5/5

We've been to El Vaquero twice now to play trivia. While we enjoy the clean amenities and our…read moretrivia caller, both times, we've all been incredibly unhappy with our food. The restaurant is spacious and gets loud when there's a crowd. Thankfully, there's usually a place for our larger group (6 people) to be seated comfortably. Service is very nice but slow. Trivia runs for a little over an hour and both times our food has taken about 45 minutes to come out, despite our comparatively small orders. My friend who comes to trivia does like the food here (he always gets a beef chimichanga FWIW), but everyone else has now tried several different dishes and not once been satisfied or even just not unhappy. The one shining star has been the cheese dip. It really is pretty good cheese dip, lol. The first time I ordered the chipotle chicken, which is supposed to be chicken in a chipotle sauce. I was firstly surprised and disappointed to see these were small strips of chicken rather than a chicken breast. But that would've been okay...had the chipotle sauce been decent. It had no chipotle flavor and honestly mostly just tasted like sour cream. It was very weird. My parents have tried a beef burrito, beef taco, and chicken taco. They said the beef has an unpleasant metallic taste and the shredded chicken was, according to my dad, inedible. Most recently, my husband got a carne asada burrito and said it tasted so unpleasant he was concerned about whether he should even eat it. Fortunately, no ill effects came about as a result of it; he determined it was ultimately just very low quality meat with an unpleasant texture and taste. My father in law just doesn't order anything except a beer after coming for breakfast once and having a bad time there, too. On my most recent visit, I got a side of rice and beans to eat with chips and cheese dip. The rice had been cooked into sticky, mushy lumps and had no flavor. At this point, I have no idea what to order that might even come close to satisfying my palate. It's disappointing. We may be forced back due to circumstances like our availability in order for us to play our favorite game and have time together. If so, I'll continue to try different things until I can maybe someday find something that works. I want to like this place and wish I had the experience so many other reviewers have had.

Greetings Huntsville!!!! This is my first stop every time I come to town!!! The veggie meat…read moresandwiches are excellent including the fried mushrooms!!!!!

Terrific sandwich, very friendly service. They make everyone feel like a friend. Relaxed homey…read moreatmosphere. Will be back

I am never disappointed by Valentina's Kitchen. The BEST TACO TRUCK! I literally dream about her…read moretacos, her tortas, her burritos. Honestly her food is all top tier. I haven't had a bad thing from there. And I try to go as often as I am allowed. The chicken fajita tacos are my favorite and I love that you can choose between flour and corn tortillas and even ask for a mix if you order multiple (you will) For tortas my number one would be the cochinita! The flavors just hit and it's an absolute delight for your tastebuds. I have no bad things to say. And the customer service is always to the nines. If you have your fur baby with you, you can even ask for a dog friendly quesadilla/taco to give!

I grew up in SoCal and spent lots of time in Mexico, so I take my tacos seriously…read more That being said, Valentina's makes some of best tacos I've had in the United States! Their pastor and lengua are phenomenal (asada is hit or miss) and the flour tortillas are soooo chewy and delicious. Their cheese sauce and salsa are mid. And the only reason why I took off a star is because their hours can be super unpredictable. Make sure to give them a call OR check their instagram page BEFORE driving over! Even though their hours said they'd be open, they're not always open... Eating tacos at Valentina's is one of the reasons why I look forward to coming to HSV. So make sure to give them a call before eating some of the best tacos ever~

I've been eating Chef Chris's food for years now, and I'm thrilled that he's been able to open his…read moreown restaurant. If you want gourmet food at chain-restaurant prices, this is the place you've been waiting for. I've never had a bad experience with Chris's cooking. Everything he makes is crafted with the best ingredients and classic culinary technique--and made with love. Love of cooking, and love of his customers. Give yourself a treat and try Salt and Light. You won't regret it.

Did you know that it is now a restaurant? Located on S. Memorial parkway (close to the Weatherly…read moreRd. exit ramp-east side), visit today from 4-7pm! Give the owners your feedback in person, post an outstanding review AND tell your friends. My favorite this week is the catfish, grilled vegees, polenta and cookies

Oh man, this place makes me so happy. Since moving to Alabama from CA I have not been actively…read moregoing to search for tacos. I just didn't want to be disappointed. I went to Taco Mama once with a friend, tried El Cazador because the stand on Hwy 72 looked too cute, and went to Cantina Laredo with the hubby for a lunch date. Don't get me wrong, the tacos weren't terrible, but they weren't something I'd crave necessarily. I read about this taco truck during a google search and thought omg this is too good to be true, but it wasn't! I tried it for the 1st time last week with the hubby and was so thrilled. We both got 4 carne asada tacos for $6. So cheap! (I've found that food is not necessarily cheaper here than in CA even with the high wages in CA just saying...) And man was it good. The meat was so well seasoned and they gave plenty of meat per street taco. The only thing missing is some darn Carne Asada fries! I wish that was a thing here! Oh and orange bang. Where can a girl get some orange bang around here? I need my whipped orange creamsicle drink stat! Or whipped pina colada drink! They do have horchata that is a plus! I'm so glad I found this place. Makes this Cali girl so happy!

The tacos were great and the service was fast. I definitely need to go back to try more.read more

The food was actually great drinks was good. Service was cool they were nice. Pretty place too 9/10…read moredo recommend

The food was amazing! I had the berria tacos and they were phenomenal. I will definitely be back…read morefor more. The area was clean and we had no wait. Everything was fresh and flavorful

If you love liver and gravy, this is your place! It's all you can eat homemade cooked bar. There's…read morea lot to choose from, my favorite was the liver!

I don't like leaving low ratings; I understand that it is someones livelihood. That being said,…read morethe food here is not good. Me and two coworkers went here for lunch to mix it up and try something new. When we walked in, the hostess rang us up as a party even though the first guy said he just wanted to pay for himself; whatever, we sorted it out among ourselves later. There is a buffet that serves southern food. Fried chicken, fried catfish, baked chicken, spaghetti, liver, dressing, mashed potatoes etc. Also offer a salad bar. The food was criminally underseasoned. Everything needed salt - I'm not sure if they keep it saltless to cater to the older people who make up the majority of their customers or what. Tried a lot of stuff looking for good food and I didn't find much. Fried chicken had too much breading, the breading tasted unseasoned. Dressing was very dry and had a consistency of cornmeal, you touched dit and it broke apart. Mashed potatoes were definitely instant mashed potatoes and not a good brand. Spaghetti sauce had a little meat in it, but tasted like stewed tomatoes. Cornbread was dry and unsweetened. Roll was OK. Green beans casserole was good. Coworker said liver and boiled cabbage was good, said catfish was bad and "none of it was great". Salad bar looked fresh. Another coworker had asked us to bring her back some dessert: when I sent her a picture of the desert bar, she changed her mind. They serve Pepsi products and offer sweet tea. Waitress was nice and we had pretty decent service. Buffet area was kept clean and stocked at all times. Would not return.

I'm a Huntsville native and people here will swear by Phil's. Sunday after church hour long waits…read morefor a margarita and chicken, cheese, and rice after a long church sermon are somewhat of a ritualistic, ironic part of a typical southern weekend. However, I can swear by the fact that this proves my theory on Mexican food, in North Alabama at least, being worshipped only if it tastes like cardboard and has no seasoning. This is not my first time at Phil's, either location, and every time it is always unremarkable. But this time, it was inexcusably bad. My fiancée's margarita tasted like water with lime in it. There was no triple sec or tequila taste, though she did say she felt a little buzz from it. So clearly was there but, to what cost? $9 for a tasteless marg is a little high. The queso had legitimately no flavor. Not even cheese. Just like table cream. It even had peppers in it but you could not taste them. This was the time where we questioned if we had caught COVID in the 10 minutes we had been in there and lost our sense of taste. I quickly learned this wasn't the case when I tasted the salsa which had the flavor of body odor and canned tomatoes. The chips, however, nice and crispy. So a plus there. Get the chips. Don't dip them. We split the chicken fajitas and the 3 minutes it took to come out after we ordered it, should be taken as a sign that it's not going to be great. The grill marks felt laughable as the chicken had no texture or flavor of something that was grilled. It, along with the peppers and onions, had a slimy texture and, again, absolutely no flavor. It seemed to me that this was a classic case of either Sysco's Finest or Sous Vide cooking. The rice on the side also had no flavor but the beans actually had a great taste, but a few felt under cooked and slightly crunchy. The stand out was the home made tortillas which we thick and fluffy. This made me question why, if you're going to the effort of making tortillas and chips in house, why cut corners on your MAIN part of the meal? As for the service, it wasn't bad but the waiter had to be asked multiple times for refills and was very inattentive to our table while favoring who seemed to be regulars behind us. Phil's has the essence of "what a Mexican restaurant tastes like in Norway if opened by a British person who had Mexican food once on a work trip to Idaho." Decor that's trying too hard, food that has no seasoning, and service that is lacking.

I have always liked eating at Phil's. Eat in/carry out. Doesn't matter. The food is always good…read more The experience as a whole has always been good. I'd never been to the Madison Phil's but why would I expect anything different? I wouldn't. I didn't. I should have. Everything was different. Our friends arrived before us. They finished the chips and salsa. Since nothing was refreshed, we never got to enjoy this staple. I ordered the daily drink special, a mango margarita. Salt or sugar? Sugar, of course. Except it came with salt. I ordered shrimp fajitas, no peppers, pico on a separate plate - I absolutely cannot tolerate even one tidbit of raw onion. (I know, I know, as hard as I try not to be, I'm one of "those"). My food arrived, big scoop of pico between the sour cream and guac, rendering half of each off limits. No peppers? The order must have said "extra" peppers. There was actually a half of a pepper on the griddle sitting on top of a bed of mixed peppers. I picked around the peppers, so disappointed in my meal. While the fresh tortillas did rock, the rest of the meal wasn't even worthy of the energy it took to eat it. If the food wasn't bad enough, our server was awful. We got our food but then she disappeared. She never came back to ask if we wanted something else. She never refilled drinks. She didn't even give us our checks. It took a few an attempts to get her attention so we could pay and head out. It's a little hard to fathom how sister restaurants, owned by the same people, run by the same people, could be such complete opposites. There's no way that I'm giving up on Phil's. I'm just giving up on the Madison location.