So so food and cheap. If you need a burrito fix and want to skip Taco Bell...this place will do.

Ordered nachos and super burrito yesterday just to satisfy my crave. Nachos was good, the burrito was dissapointing. There was no guacamole, hardly there was a sour cream. I could have gone somewhere else but since I haven't been to this place in a while I thought food had improved read more

I go here for Mexican food when I'm too lazy to drive to Richmond. Not bad, I haven't had a nasty meal. I don't like their enchilada sauce, it begs for salt. But the price is right and they make pretty good burritos, chile verde is my favorite! read more

Food is mediocre. I like the ambiance. Staff is average. But this restaurant is definitely involved in the community which is great.

Might be the best tacos I've ever had and they're reasonably priced. Great service. Warm and authentic experience.

This place has always been good, since I was a kid. We used to get enchiladas after every baseball game at Lefty Gomez field. The mole sauce and bean dip are delicious. Definately my favorite place in Rodeo. read more

Food is excellent for the price, and I like Americanised Mexican so that's ok! I've been twice for lunch, the first time having just a taco and guac which wasn't quite enough but was $5, and the second having a full carnitas plate at $10 - $12 and being overfaced. The menu is a little overwhelming, being on a chalk board that's packed with information. I've just seen what I've wanted and asked, although they have had a specials board and there are some printed menus. You have to order up front before going to sit down, and then the food is brought to the table, however, it's not fast - we've had 10 - 15 minute waits in both visits. The restaurant is definitely on the shabby side with no real thought to to lay out of the tables or waiting chairs and the inside lighting has not been switched on, meaning you are relying on light from the large windows for visibility and atmosphere. The temperature I'm sure is colder inside than outside so take a coat. For some reason they also have a key to unlock the toilet that you have to ask for, which is strange as I didn't see any passing people either visit. read more

This place is great. The atmosphere is awesome and the staff is friendly. I love there burritos.

always great people and great food been going here since i was young and will continue to

El Sol is a family run restaurant that has complimented our community for over 20 years. There food is authentic Mexican and they welcome their customers like they are family and friends. They are very accomdating when you have the need for the use of their banquit room or for catering for parties large or small! I have always been completly satisfied with the quality of their food! My favorite is the Erica quesadilla, with steak, covered with their delious mole sauce and topped with cheese and chopped onions. My husband likes their Steak and potato burritos with mole sauce inside the burrito. I can't wait to try our their new Restaurant in Pt.Richmond. Just to check out the location. I already know how great the food is! read more

we chose this place for the first time last night. The employees seemed very unorganized. we waited twenty five mins for our food. All there food seems to be prepared before and they are very MICROWAVE HAPPY! I will not return it wasn't worth the ten minute drive. Cassandra T. read more

I've tried this place a handful of times becasue its in a convenient location, I really wanted to like its just not good food or service. They have gotten the order wrong nearly every time I order, which is really annoying when your kids are expecting carnitas but they get asada. I always order to go so its not until I get all the way home and serve the family that I realize the order is wrong. The rice is dry and has no flavor, the beans are bland, the asada is dry. I will say the carnitas are good...when you can get it. But they aren't good enough for this whole place to stand on. And they are skimpy with the meat, the burritos have more rice than meat. On top of all this, the service is really poor as well. I'd be willing to accept bad service for good food, but you can't have both and still expect me to spend money there! I'm done with this place. Don't waste your time or money here. read more

Wow this is one of the places in the bay to get good food, my family loves it I love it and you will love it !

Zero stars. Ordered chicken enchiladas comes w/ rice & beans. So disgusting. Chicken tasted old and weird. Rice and beans tasted like two days, so dry and nasty. They probably heated in microwave. read more

No good! Messed up on my order for the third time in a row. Food ok but alil over priced.

A lot of the local folks have been fans of this place for as long as i can remember. To this day i don't understand why. Simply put ...... the food here is terrible. the workers are nice but i wont eat here, (unless someone else is paying) read more

Support small, family-owned local businesses (even when the food is mediocre). So-so food, depressing atmosphere, but I'll keep going back. The owners are very nice and great community syupporters. read more

Family owned and operated. The best thing on the menu is Chili Relleno. The Beef Enchilada Plate is also good. The beans are little bland, just add a little salt. The potatoes are usually good. The Chicken Burrito is pretty good with extra sour cream. I have been comingnhere for a long time. The owners are wonderful community people. read more

Love El Sol! I've been coming here for years, always great food and friendly service! Thank you El Sol!

I recently moved to Rodeo, and was very keen on finding a good spot for burritos! I ate at El Sol exactly twice. The first time, I took my burritos to go, I got carnitas and he got carne asada. We both noticed that the beans in the burrito were not salted, and had a very bad taste because of this. The meat was very sweet, as if they'd added sugar to both the carnitas and steak, which totally ruined the taste. The salsa also had a strange flavor and smell, as if it had gone bad, we didn't use it at all. There was way too much rice and not enough meat, and they were so poorly folded that they were practically falling apart. I gave it a second chance, because Rodeo is small and I was hoping that the last time, maybe it was just an off night. I always order my burritos without lettuce, because iceberg lettuce is a gross, tasteless, nutrition-free filler that gets wilted inside a hot burrito (gross!!!). I sat down to a burrito that had lettuce in it, I thought I'd return it to the counter and get a fresh one. No big deal, right? THE WAITRESS BEGAN TO ARGUE WITH ME. Um, I'm spending $15 on lunch, and have already tipped her 20%, I'm ordering a full lunch of beer, burrito, and chips, and she's going to argue with me about the order she messed up? No thanks. I left El Sol very displeased, no new burrito, and no money returned, and went down the street to their competitors, D's Giant Burgers, where they were more than happy to serve me exactly what I ordered, didn't argue with me once, and gave me great service. I'll never eat at El Sol again, and wouldn't recommend it to anyone. read more

The food is actually pretty good, no thrills like other restaurants, but annoying when they screw up my order.

The food is good for the pice and if I choice. Fipples. The el soil I choices el sola every time then flipples becuse El. Sola is better sevice and nice people work there and the cook the food right read more

Armando is the owner and he's a great guy. I've been going here the past few years. I love their chalupas and burritos. The wet veggie is amazing! read more

El Sol was quite an experience. After we heard from KRON 4 News raving about their food and their specialty Tacos Al Pastor, we decided to try it. A restaurant definitely has to get workers that know the menu inside and out. I ordered Tacos al pastor and got pork tacos. My family ordered grilled chicken and got boiled chicken. And when we ordered Carne asada taco, we got ground beef taco! These mistakes were pointed out and not corrected. Instead we were told they did not have Al pastor. How can a restaurant not have Al Pastor. The chicken we were told that they had been making the same chicken for over 30 years! I am sorry KRON 4, definitely not going there again. read more

El Sol has been catering our luncheons for years. The food never fails to delight our employees. They always ask for more. Thanks Josephine you're the best. read more

The food is always good and out in a timely manner, I love the salsa they have.

Very Welcoming and the Best Food ever as growing up. Every chance I get. Family Owned. Amazing place.

Food is bland and Salsa is boring. They need to spice up their recipes. The El Sol in Pt. Richmond is a little better!

I don't understand the low review average of this place. It's got a great feel and ambience and the food has been very good. The service is basic and friendly, appropriate for the type of restaurant it is. The wet burrito is the best I've had and it's been good whether it's steak, shrimp, chicken or carnitas. read more

I've been to a place with good food but bad services (take outs). And I've been to a place with good services but bad food (only once to try). Then...there is a place with both-bad food with bad services. This is El Sol. Let's start with the place. The atmosphere in the dining room was dark with the over-head fan that kept re-circulating the smell of sweat over and over again. The air outside was 1000xs better. Even at a stones throw from the refinery. The dark and sweaty theme continued in the kitchen; the vantage view from the counter of the kitchen reminded me of a scene from a bad B rated movie- a dimly lighted bowel of a submarine that can only afford one fluorescent light, which had to be shared by three cooks at three different stations-each vying for a ray to illuminate the working surfaces. Where was the Sol? The extreme of the condition matched perfectly with the attitude of the servers/cashiers/cooks and the taste of the food. TERRIBLE! They acted like they were doing you a favor? Ordering was like playing roulette because one never knows what one will get. And when a patron gets a wrong order, there is no chance to correct that. Their attitudes were that you are going to get what they decided to give you. At this point, there was still a hope of good food making up for the above mentioned. But...no. Not even that. What happened to the flavors? Cheese cannot be the only flavor. IT CAN'T! In order to rescue my chicken enchilada, I had to drown it, which already was covered with cheese and re-fried beans, with the warm salsa sauce that they had. The taste finally reminded me of a Mexican meal; something I usually get from Taco Bell. Folks go here if you want bad services with bad food, served by people that think they can do no wrong, in a dark submarine that shares a circulating air with the men's locker room. read more

Great little family-owned (is there any other kind?!) taqueria in downtown Rodeo. I've been coming here since I was a kid growing-up in nearby Viewpointe and the burritos haven't changed since then - that's a good thing! The meat is always tender and full of flavor, the veggies and beans fresh. The two essentials that's set apart a good taqueria from a great one, IMO, are on-point here and that's the chips and salsas. The chips are thick and kinda greasy just like I want 'em and the salsa verde kicks but not too much. Perfect afternoon meal if your looking for something that's filling but doesn't leave your stomach feeling like you dropped a junk-food atom bomb in it. And the workers are always extra nice as well. If your looking for simple, down-to-earth and nourishing Mexican cuisine that isn't too "out there" and experimental then El Sol's got you covered. read more

i'm a very picky eater but mexican food is always good! the service was good and fast! i tried their enchiladas and quesadillas with a strawberry sunkist. the enchiladas were so bomb!!! would come back to this place for sure, very good mexican food. read more

i love el sol!! i have been going there for years. the food is authentic and the salsa and chips are the best! i have ordered almost everything from their menu and loved it, the wet burrito is big enough to feed a few people. i usually call in my order for pick up and it is always ready when i get down there. the family is great and very friendly. read more

This place sucks sucks sucks! And then it sucked some more. They advertise plates, at the counter no less, that they do not even make. They advertise the weekly specials on a white board with diablo sauce and when you ask where is the diablo sauce is they tell you we dont that sir. I, in my entire life, have never went to a worse mexican restaurant, ever! And I've been to alot of bad of ones; but this place takes the cake. The whole cake! I ordered fajitas and payed somewhere around $12.50 and got about seven very small strips of steak that by the way were not fresh at all. I had to literally grind the steak down between my teeth for some time before being able to swallow it. Very very tough meat. I had an extremely hard time finding any onions on the plate to boot! And what the heck is up with their cheddar chesse topped anythings? This the only authentic Mexican place I've ever been to that does not use mexican queso. Their nachos suck badly. There are not enough bad things I could say about this place. Im calling "it" a place because it sure in the hell is not a restaurant. I will never go back EVER! read more

Doesn't deserve 1 star. traveled out of the way thinking i'd find authentic Mexican food . Place is filthy dirty, dusty ,spider webs, dirty carpet. Ordered 2 enchilada plates/drinks, $20 something dollars. Heard the microwave on for a long time (already a bad sign), wanted to give it a chance , eat the food and it was so bad I was shocked. Cheese was super SOUR . Beans were a joke , and messy dry. At least the soda was ok, but then I saw cup was dirty! Finally after eating 2 bites I had to get my money back . Thought the worst was over. Then the workers got defensive , they wouldn't give me back my money, said I already eat it .What! One bite and you cant return it? What if I didn't eat one bite , would they just give it to someone else after it was at my table? GROSS , the people are mean and have an obvious bad attitude , they did all that in front of 4 other customers. They only gave me my money back for the sodas. I guess the only reason people come here is because its the only food around this tiny tiny town. Not to mention the inside gave me the creeps, looks like a witch doctors house with all that skull decor , it wasn't even near "the day of the dead" And come on ....Lumpia? Lumpia originates from China, don't sell food thats not latin american. read more

this place is disgusting we went in on a thursday, no one was there except an older guy ordering take out, two tables were not cleaned up,plates and all. the chips were burnt and the salsa tasted like water. the place looks like it hasn't been cleaned in a long time. sit by the window and you'll see or just glance at the kitchen.... as we were waiting for our food we heard the microwave going........................then arrives our food...oh..my..gosh.......did this place say it was mexican? i think they know they can get away with serving mainly non mexican customers or people who just don't know what food in general should taste like...this goes beyond tasteless food. the health department should be called over to el sol...the cheese was obviously sour, right away i asked(nicely) for a refund for my food (and stated why)and the disheveled punk started getting smart with me, and didnt think i deserved a refund because he thought there was nothing wrong with the food..wow ever heard of running a business 'el sol'???? if you want to get ripped off and treated badly if the food is bad visit el sol. they acted like they had never had a bad complaint , and i dont complain much and have rarely asked for a refund..,i think people need to start sticking up for themselves, don't let these small town restaurants get away with this behavior. read more