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    El Rey

    3.7 (59 reviews)
    Open 10:00 am - 10:00 pm

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    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Outdoor seating
    Good for groups

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    Caldo de Res
    Emilia O.

    Not our first time eating at El Rey. We had lunch on Friday, February 14, 2024 at approximately 1300 hrs. Restaurant was not super busy. Empty tables were clean and ready for the next customer. Floors were swept, no food on the floors. Women's restroom was clean and fully stocked. When seated, the waitress serves a small bowl of salsa and warm tortilla chips. It was a rainy, windy and cold day so I ordered caldo de res to warm me up. I immediately noticed the caldo was lacking cabbage and green beans, which are standard ingredients in traditional caldo. Nonetheless, the caldo served at El Rey was served piping hot and it had good flavor. I added a squeeze of fresh lemon juice and a big drizzle of the chile oil and it was perfect for my liking. The meat was beef shank, which needed a bit more cooking time but nothing that would change my rating. The bowl was a generous portion and served with a cup of Mexican rice and choice of corn (homemade) or flour tortillas. I chose the homemade corn tortillas. I would order the caldo again. My dad ordered the Milanesa de Res. Best description, kinda like chicken fried steak, sans gravy. Meat was tender and breading crispy. Everything was cooked to perfection. Customer service was on point and final bill was accurate. I highly recommend El Rey for a nice meal out or an alcoholic beverage. They have a really nice bar in the back and a nice clean outdoor patio.

    14% credit card fee

    Food was ok. Drinks were ok. But the receipt at end of day included a 14% credit card fee. This is not ok on top of the gratuity.

    Caldo De Res
    Valerie A.

    My friend and I made plans to have dinner and she suggested this cute place in Delano. It was very clean and had a modern feel to it. The waitresses we very friendly and attentive. The food came out fresh and everything was delicious. The only reason I gave it a 4 was because I ordered a Piña agua Fresca and our waitress forgot. Maybe it was better I drank water anyway. Would come back!

    Molcajete Carne
    Charm R.

    Molcajete Carne for dinner tonight our fave go to place for a Mexican restaurant in Delano

    El Rey Fajita plate

    First visit was a phone order for pickup to go. They took our CC info over the phone and gave us a 15-20min pickup time. We ordered the garlic shrimp plate, an El Rey taco and the El Rey fajitas. All were got and delicious. The homemade refried beans and corn tortillas were amazing. My favorite item was the El Rey taco. It's not cheap but was LOADED with shrimp and asada, and the chipotle sauce it came with put it over the top.

    The menu
    Pranay S.

    Authentic Mexican restaurant, very friendly staff that gave us great recommendation on what to eat. Right from the Salsa to Moleajetes ( Combination), just outstanding food. Highly recommended.

    Enchiladas Suisas
    Monica M.

    Excellent food. Okay service. Cheap Napkins, cheap toilet paper. Nice building! Big bar in back.

    Chicken, asada, and shrimp molcajete.
    Trish M.

    Excellent service and delicious food! For the appetizer we ordered the chicken wings. They were freshly made and seasoned well. We ordered the chicken, asada, and shrimp molcajete for our meal. Very generous portions and really delicious too. Beans, rice and a salad are served on the side. The owner has invested considerably in this restaurant and it definitely shows. The restaurant also features a full service bar and a large patio for outdoor dining. Great addition to the local dining options! We will definitely be back.

    Pina loca de Camarones- super delicious  highly recommend
    Keni R.

    We are fairly new to Delano. We are still finding good places to eat and hang out. Delano is slim pickings in that regards. But we found El Rey today. Food was awesome. I ordered Molcajete de Camarones, my husband ordered Piña de Camarones and my son ordered Quesobirria tacos. He said they were bomb. Lol All dinner dishes were amazing. Ambience is nice. They had music playing in back of the restaurant- bar area. Cleanliness- it was clean and the waitresses stay on top of taking your dishes and cleaning up as soon as dinning parties leave. Service - our waitress was nice a bit disorganized and slightly forgetful. They forgot to bring us our appetizer and they forgot to bring out my sons dinner and my side dish of rice and beans and tortillas. That's all! Once we informed her she credited us for the appetizer and brought everything out that was pending. Arrival of food- when we placed our order I asked how long it would take and she advised about 30-35min. I felt it was too long. But what can we do. Our food arrived in 21 min. So happy we were starving. Glad. All worked and we will be adding El Rey to our Monthly rotations.

    Tvs. Liquor options
    Chris J.

    If you're looking for a spot to hangout and have a few drinks in Delano this is it. Bar is straight to the back and self seating. Our party of four ordered beers/mixed drinks and food at the bar counter. Food was okay. If you want to play music use the machine on the wall to queue your favorite song or download the touch tunes app. Docked a few stars for not serving fruit with beers without request (limes,oranges,etc). Food being average and the music being pretty loud. Come here if you're not willing to drive the 30 minutes to bakersfield.

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    18 days ago

    Great food and Wonderful people!! Building has lots of history.. We highly recommend a visit!

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    Ik i've done reviews on here but service in the bar is great manager made sure we where taken care of an drinks where really good

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    Always get the carne asada all the time and it's always good . The service is great as well

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    Lr's Pizza

    Lr's Pizza

    2.5(116 reviews)
    0.4 mi
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    LR's has been part of Delano for as long as I can remember. I remember celebrating my oldest son's…read more1st birthday here and he's now 26, so you can only imagine it's been here longer than that. I have not visited in such a long time now that I live in Bakersfield, but growing up in Delano I visited frequently. I recently visited and the place looks the same for the past 30yrs. There has been some updates for sure like the electronic menus and their fancy cc machines, but other than that it definitely looks the same. They have the bar still setup the same on the other side and it doesn't look too different either. I did notice that they have a lot more stuff on their menu from whenever the last time it was that I visited. Pizza is super cheesy and I can definitely appreciate that. I read a lot of other reviews and saw a lot of negative reviews for the chili verde pizza crust and I think they purposely make it thick like that to hold up the sauce. I also want readers to know that LR's is the ORIGINAL for the chili verde pizza. Our "other" local favorite pizza place is super good too, but is NOT the original! ;-)

    LR Pizza is pretty much the best chili verde pizza in Kern county I'm been going to this spot for…read morethe last 20 plus years and I can't complain one bit but this time I actually had to give them a four stars for some reason the pizza was a little salty why I don't know It just was salty this time and it's usually not but it was nice and hot and spicy and it had a little kick to it like always got the mozzarella sticks for the first time and they were real good but maybe it was just a batch of chile verde this time maybe next time it won't be as salty other than that I'll definitely be without a doubt

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    Cali Brews Mexican Grill - Meet our favorites!

    Cali Brews Mexican Grill

    4.6(17 reviews)
    1.8 mi
    $$
    Family-owned & operated
    Established in 2025

    I've been here a few times since the new opening of Cali Brews Mexican Grill with both my husband…read moreand also with a group of lady friends. We totally love this place. We're always greeted with friendly service. The restaurant is spacious, updated, and modern. The vibe is set with good music and a relaxing atmosphere. The server brings your menus to your table and will come back to take your order when you're ready. ( I mention this because another reviewer said they ordered at the entrance and then sat down, which has never been our experience. This is a full service, sit down restaurant.) Since it was breakfast, the server brought over an extra large warm flour tortilla in a basket along with some butter. Yummy!! We munched on that and sipped on our beverage until our orders came. I had the Huevo Ranchero with a side of chile verde and beans. My friends opted for lunch, and ordered the carne asada with rice and beans, which came with a side of roasted nopales. Everything was delicious! I could tell the carne asada was fresh and tender. It was easily cut with a butter knife. My friends also commented that it was very good. That says a lot because they are picky eaters. There's also a cool bar and nice patio with streaming lights for those wanting to hang out outside or have a drink with friends. Overall it's clean, has nice decor, good service...and most importantly delicious food. It's a win!

    Came in today after work since one of my coworker was talking about it mentioning the flour…read moretortillas with butter as an appetizer hadn't been here in a long time since the place was sold and then it was closed down so I guess they have new owners so I'd figure I'd give them a try. The place is really nice. It's clean. It has like same set up but just a little bit different I believe they have different tables, but anyways we were greeted promptly and we were sat down really quick. It was just a table for two. So we sat down. They brought us one flower tortilla with butter and that was gone real quick so we ended up ordering the chicken taquitos or flautas which I really wasn't impressed. They looked really delicious when they brought them out, but the chicken was not shredded. It was like cut into pieces and then fried in the tortilla which I felt was weird. The flavor was bland. They offer a lot of salsa, but none of them had a kick to it like spice, but other than that, you know, they had sour cream, fresco lettuce. You know the presentation was good but the chicken inside was cut into chunks and it wasn't shredded chicken or shredded. You know that's what surprise me. Then we ordered the queso which had a sliced jalapeño and then sliced onions which was delicious. That was probably the best. I was not impressed with the chips I felt like they didn't have enough salt. They were too hard but the chorizo guess so dip was delicious. We couldn't decide on what to eat since they do offer a variety of breakfast lunch and dinner and she said it was all day so we decided on the Molcajete. It came with chicken Carne shrimp and a headlight not a piece of chorizo head like I don't know how to call it. I had chorizo on it, but it wasn't like chunks so I was too impressed because it was just different from what I've had in the past again. The salsa were not spicy, but it was good. It was really good. You know it's just the tortilla chips. I wasn't impressed with the beans that's another issue. Beans are the easiest thing that a person can make and I felt like they were canned Rosarito beans I could be wrong but I love beans what brought me there was the flour tortillas and beans and the tea was good but the beans I feel they could've done something better but other than that, I will be back you know to try it again you know sometimes they get a different cook, but I was it was good but I feel it could've been a lot better being that they're not that busy being that they're new and they just opened I definitely will give them another chance and hopefully it will be different.

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    The Placery - At The Hyatt - 80 dollar meal. Terrible drinks and food

    The Placery - At The Hyatt

    2.7(6 reviews)
    2.0 mi

    No food as the kitchen was closed my whole visit. Had a nice drink at the bar but was really…read morelooking forward to food.

    First and foremost, this has probably been the worst service at the hotel bar I've ever had at a…read morehotel and that's coming from a guy that travels 48 weeks out of the year for work. The rooms themselves were great, my issue was with the bar. I'm supposed to be here for a few weeks for work but I will be going to the Marriott from here on while I'm in the area. My wife joined me this week for the travel, we decided to check the bar and restaurant out since we were both wanting to try it out. Our first order was their chocolate old fashion (regular od fashion with only chocolate bitters) and know creek. Bartender informed me they didn't have know creek and I made it 2 of the chocolate old fashions. When we got the drinks, it was basically makers mark with a splash of chocolate bitters over ice. I'm a bourbon fan and she made both those "old fashion drinks" in under a minute and they tasted like whiskey on the rocks. Wife hated it and I took her drink. I then ordered for her Titos and cranberry. Bartender said they were out of titos and she settled for Grey goose and cranberry. It was measured properly and very red, so can't complain but come on, you're going to charge us for Grey goose since you're out of titos but can't give it an extra splash? We looked at the menu and ordered the chicken Ceasars with NO chicken (there's a reason I'm making it clear that I said "no chicken") for the wife since shes vegetarian and I ordered their sampler platter. Bartender informed me that their fryer was broken and said I can order burgers and sandwiches, so I settled for chicken and bacon sandwich. A few minutes go by and the Bartender then said that they were out of lettuce and only had arugula salad. My wife then asked for the tomato soup since shes vegetarian and we were then told that the soup is no longer available and that it hasn't been removed from menus. So my wife settles for the arugula salad without chicken and a side cheese pizza. After bringing our food out, it was served in to go plates. I had chips for my side since the fries couldn't be made do to the fryer not working and my wife git her pizza and her chicken Ceasar arugula only salad....with chicken in it. So luckily she could pick the chicken out and we tried topnotch let it ruin our night. While eating, the Bartender was talking with a coworker who was off work and they were talking about how they hate customers who do this and who do that, very unprofessional since we weren't the only ones at the bar that night. During this time I asked for 2 waters and she brought out the 2 waters but didn't take my first empty old fashion glass or my wife's empty cranberry and vodka glass. She didn't even ask if we wanted another one. So we get the bill, $77.94 for the microwaved food, wrong order, bad drinks, etc. Terrible and has now made me cancel my booking for the remaining 2 weeks I'm here.

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    Wild Wings N Things - Buffalo Ranch Fries

    Wild Wings N Things

    2.9(95 reviews)
    1.8 mi
    $$

    Glad we stopped by to try some wings!!! This place is very spacious with 6 flat screen tvs. Today…read morethey had a special for 10 wing meal with a drink, and we got a choice of two flavors but only got one, sweet Thai chilli and I was happy with that sauce. Thanks to Alina for the recommendation on sauce for my wings, her service was perfect, and hats off to her for working solo and ensuring all our meals got out In a timely manner. The food is good, the ambiance is perfect, and the service from the employee working here was perfect, great job for a local wing spot. I highly recommend this wing spot and don't let the rating fool ya, this place is on point.

    Came in tonight after the movies since we were hungry. We looked on yelp and it states it closes at…read more11:00 pm, we placed our order She told us we could order but not eat in the restaurant. Mind you we have to drive 50 minutes so now we have to drive home in the rain and try to enjoy our soggy wings. We come here once a week since we work in Delano. Not happy with the customer service they could have waited for us to eat. Maybe you need to hire some people with better customer service. Mind you we only ordered 15 piece wings and a soda since we had already drank so much soda at the movie theater. The girl that took our order looked tired and was yawning maybe she was tired. Don't know we will not be coming back here

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