El Sombrero - ¡Muy Bueno! What an incredible find! We're big fans of carnitas, and for years our favorite was Mercado Juarez in Arlington, Texas--we hadn't found anything that even came close after moving to East Texas five years ago. That changed tonight. We decided to try El Sombrero, and the carnitas were absolutely outstanding--honestly, even better than Mercado Juarez! The flavor, tenderness, and overall quality were just amazing. We can't say enough good things about this place. It's safe to say we've officially found our go-to Mexican restaurant in East Texas! read more

First, I want to talk about the horrible experience we had tonight. We got seated at 7:20 PM, which seemed great at first because we only waited about 10 minutes for a table... or so I thought. It took 50 minutes just to get our appetizers and the margaritas we ordered. After that, the wait only got worse. At 9:10 PM, we finally received 3 out of the 4 dishes we ordered. We didn't want our food to get cold, so we went ahead and started eating. We actually finished our meals before the last dish even came out -- and then it suddenly showed up after we were already done. Waiting that long for food, getting meals at completely different times, and having such slow service made this a really frustrating experience. I'm beyond disappointed. The only good part of the night was thinking the short wait for a table meant we'd have a good evening... but that definitely wasn't the case. Really hoping this was just a bad night, but this experience makes it hard to want to come back. read more

I thought the waitress was very good, the vibe was good, and the food tasted good -- except for the fact that there was a piece of metal in it. I was kind of surprised (1) by the fact that there was metal in the tacos and (2) that they didn't offer to comp the meal or anything. I'd still probably go back and just carefully check my food to make sure there were no pieces of loose metal read more

Food very good. Service really sad. Our waiter was unfriendly. I asked for a Cadillac Margarita, and he didn't know what one was, which was fine. However, he acted like it was something foreigh and never heard of a Cadillac. "Cat-lac, I hope I am pronouncing that right?" For real.....? read more

I would definitely try this restaurant again, but actually go inside and sit down. This was the first time I ever saw a drive thru Mexican restaurant which is a great idea...but you need to make sure that you check your order before leaving out. And I think that is the issue with most drive there's because 80% of the times something either will be missing or messed up. And once you leave out most of us including myself will not go back to the restaurant to get what was missing or messed up. So my order was a few different tacos and what I really loved was that you could order margaritas to go. When I got home unfortunately there was no cheeses that's was suppose to have been included. I know traditionally cheese really is not put on tacos...but this is Tex-Mex and I wanted that cheese. Especially since I am a cheese lover. They get a solid 3.5 stars and maybe when I go inside to sit they can redeem themselves for me and I'll up the stars. read more

Our server Kaydence was amazing . She was so friendly and attentive . The food was excellent . I had chicken enchiladas with sour cream sauce and my husband had Carne Asada and we also ordered the white queso . The portions were very generous . We will definitely be back . read more

Good beef fajitas. Services were good and friendly. Ambiance was clean and enjoyable. read more

El Sombrero - Good beef fajitas - Mexican Near Me - Longview, Texas

We walked in, asked for a table for 4, and was told there was a 5-10 minute wait. I was like, uhhh, the parking lot is empty. Lol . This very young host worked my the front said oh ok well then I can seat you. What?! He and another very small young man were busy visiting. Then we waited 10 minutes for chips, another 10 minutes for a server to take our drink order. Food finally arrived cold and a burrito so dry and hard you couldn't cut bites off without using a knife. Almost $30 for cold tough burnt looking fajitas. Asked 7 times for my 9 year old to get a Dr Pepper refill. Never got it in an hours time after asking 7 times and 2 different people. Asked 3 times for a glass of water that took 30 minutes. So no, wouldn't recommend or go back. Nothing like we were used to when they were in Kilgore. And the prices are stupid crazy for the quality and amount of food you get. $98 for 4 people. One enchilada dinner, on order or fajitas, and one choose 3 dinner with 4 drinks. Yup $98 wasted. read more

El Sombrero - Empty parking lot but was told there was a 5-10 minute wait to get a table?! - Mexican Near Me - Longview, Texas

The food is great! The server we had was phenomenal! The atmosphere was amazing! Definitely recommend this place. read more

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Inappropriate Behavior from your Manger that would not identify his self....he gave me a restaurant business card without his information....very cute...4/9/2026 at around 6pm...very disrespectful...i did not want to make a big to do out of everything...tough meat small serving-so on...i ordered $30 Plate and it sucked....the worst ever. They asked me if i wanted anything else....drinks NO not interested in getting drunk so i enjoy my food...the cook need to be fired along with the manager and the two servers they both had bad attitudes each of them....they were both very disrespectful and rude. read more

The food, the drinks, the quesooo. It's all so good. The staff is so friendly. The margaritas are the best in town. I love the wait staff. They have always been so amazing. The food is fantastic too read more

Great drinks and Tex-Mex. There's always a wait during peak hours. If you don't want wait go for late lunch or close to closing time. You still get good service and food comes out quickly. We like sitting in the bar area. read more

El Sombrero - Chicken Quesadilla - Mexican Near Me - Longview, Texas

This to me was not a chili relleno, chalupa or burrito. There was one tiny one inch piece of pepper and the rest ground beef and cheese sauce that's supposed to be a relleno.? Burrito was a flour enchilada all ground beef and nothing else and the enchilada had dry tough chicken and nothing else. Chalupa was a tostada with beans lettuce and avocado only..For $17 I was definitely expecting something different and edible. Way overpriced in my opinion. So disappointed read more

El Sombrero - Beef burrito and enchilada - Mexican Near Me - Longview, Texas

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This is a very nice looking restaurant with reasonably good service and food. BUT it is very very expensive for what you get. My father ordered 3 beef enchiladas with rice - $19. Wow. That is like $0.30 of rice and about $1.50 of materials for the enchilada. I had a "taco salad" - $18. This is Mexican food, and this is not like Papacitos where you can order quail or ribs and something exotic. Just standard Mexican food, which honestly about 10 ingredients arranged into different forms. My recommendation, save your money and go to another location. One exception... they have a very nice bar area and if you wanted to get drinks, watch sports, and can get past the crazy high prices, this might be a good place. Surprisingly, this place gets very busy in the evening. Probably due to the lack of options in the area. read more

Rude staff, got the 9$ half order of chicken cheese nachos with beans and bill was 30$, tried to add a fee of 14$ for the nachos and when I asked server about it she was very rude and I ended up paying 20$ still somehow. Has some good staff but some servers are very unhappy. Wouldn't go again. read more

As we pulled into the parking lot it was packed. Decided to go in and see how long of a wait for a table of 5. We could sit your right away. We felt guilty because we got a table immediately even though there were people sitting and waiting. As we went to the table, I noticed that the whole area was full of tables with lots of people. Tabletops of six to eight people. We were seated and within minutes our server came to out table to take drink orders and if we were ready to order our food we could do that to. Drinks were ordered, water, water, coke, and frozen margarita and margarita on the rocks. Water and coke were delivered pretty promptly. The drinks took a bit longer. When they did arrive, they were in these small plastic cups about 10 ounces. FIL wanted to know if that was a sample. Chips and salsa came, each of us got our own salsa bowl. FIL said his was spicy and he added honey to it but did not like it! Salsa was ok nothing special about it. I love it when the salsa is hot and the chips are also hot. Food orders were taken, one taco salad, taco carnitas, kids chicken strips with rice, fajita salad with steak, and a steak quesadilla. Food arrived pretty quickly and looked delicious. no complaints about the carnitas, steak quesadilla, or the chicken strips with rice. Taco salad was supposed to come with steak but came with ground beef. Hubby got thru half and he said he could not eat anymore. My salad came with ranch dressing, (don't like ranch) but ok I'll try it. Fajita steak was fatty, and I had to spit out most of it. (Sorry) Hubby said the piece he tried was good. So I gave him the rest of the meat and had lettuce, and tomato for dinner with ranch dressing. I stopped and did not finish it. All in all, I have to give it to the server because he was handling lots of large tabletops and wasn't writing anything down. He remembered everything and it was impressive. So, if he made a mistake or two, I gave him some slack. I would have written everything down. Ending, don't know what all the fuss is about this place. It is always crowded even when it was off of Judson. I understand this new place is bigger to handle the crowds. But we won't be in that crowd. It's loud can't hear the music except in the restrooms. Food is mediocre. read more

First time here. Won't be going back. Took 25 min then to get our food and the place was empty. I had to send my chiliquiles back because they were cold. Not warm but cold. Then they charged us for rice and beans with the meal? Never mentioned an up charge. Using your credit card, well that will be a 4% charge. Average cold food so yea we won't be going back. Update: when I got home 15 min later I got violently ill. Sick as a damn dog from eating there. Warning. DON'T EAT HERE! read more

Used to love this place AT THEIR OLD LOCATION! It was ok when they moved into the new place. So sad, this could have been such a great thing for them, but after giving it many chances, I won't be back. Service awful! There is one guy that works days that is great, but if you don't get him, it's horrible!! The wait staff this past weekend was the worst! Rude, inattentive to say the least. Slow, wait staff seem angry to have customers around. No wonder it was practically empty at peek hours! I love Longviews "mom and pop" places, but this place has become like a chain, subpar food, high prices, poor service, nah I'm done! Sadly, this bldg will be vacant before we know it. read more

The doordasher just left the food outside on the porch . I was gonna tip $10 too but I'm glad it went that way. Didn't even know the food was ready it said the food was running late on the yelp app. read more

Always my wife's favorite margaritas, my favorite salsa. Wish Kilgore would be reopened, it's been like 3 years, and we don't come as much as we would like because it's almost an hour drive one way. read more

We live in Las Vegas, and traveled to Texas and decided to eat here due to glowing reviews and word of mouth from the locals here in Longview. The restaurant was NOT busy by any means. We arrived around 2PM. When we sat down, we weren't greeted. We were met with "what can I get y'all to drink." We ordered two margaritas, however was not offered water or brought water. We had to ask for silverware, plates, and napkins. We ran out of tortilla chips and were never offered a refill. The server hovered over us while we were trying to pay with cash, to see how much we were going to tip her. The food and ambiance in this restaurant were great and we have no complaints. The service was sub par at this restaurant. Very disappointed. read more

The food was good, not great, but LOUD noisey music sucks and makes it hard to relax and visit with the people at your table. I met the owner lady at the old location she was nice. I've been to the old location twice, never to the new location, but I did call on the phone to ask about the loud music and heard it on the phone for myself, so I said wrong number and hung up read more

It may be more expensive but it's worth it. Better quality food. I love this restaurant

I always eat Mexican food while in Texas. It's my experience that Texas has the most consistently good Mexican food as anywhere with Santa Fe NM but that's another story. Based upon recommendations from the locals, I chose El Sombrero. It was good. But not great. Chips & salsa were fresh, white queso was fine. I ordered the Burrito Locos and it was huge!! Overall the food was decent. Service was a bit lacking. Attitude was fine they were just not very attentive. Overall pretty good. Nothing special in my opinion. I want some good TexMex & this is not the place for it. read more

El Sombrero - Mexican Near Me - Longview, Texas

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Poor service, high prices and management who does not respond. Used to be good, but guess their paradigm has changed. After years of enjoying them I won't be back. read more

Great food. Attentive staff. The food is always fresh, as are the chips. It is like a Texas version of CHEERS at the bar when the tables are full. Attention to culinary detail and service makes this a "must try" stop. read more

Delicious food and great new location. Everything on the menu is good! No complaints whatsoever.

We went here on a recommendation from a friend. We shared an order of poppas nachos that had waffle fries and white queso. It was delicious and the service was outstanding. read more

Service was good but we were disappointed with the food. This place was highly recommended for its food. My husband's burrito was extremely dry. He ordered shredded beef and it was more like beef jerky. The tortilla was very dry and cracked. My burrito was supposed to have their queso sauce but instead they put red sauce. They brought me a side of queso but the meat was so salty plus with the 2 sauces I couldn't eat even half of it. Not worth it. read more

I'm rating this a 2 because of the food only. Chips and salsa were good. Carnitas tacos and Acapulco burrito were tasty. Their so called famous cheese dip is straight up watery cheese with little flavor. Margaritas aren't anything to boast on. Service was crap. Waiter didn't know the menu. Food took forever! My husband's meal wasn't delivered. Waiter thought he just ordered rice and beans. Then he remembered he ordered a burrito but came out ten minutes later with steak tacos. Not sure what was going on but we won't be back. read more

I am only giving it a one because there isn't a zero!!! Service is horrible, mid you they are a little busy and I have overlooked that and not judging our waiter for that...but...we waited an hour for our food, it just came out and was so cold that their "famous" white queso had turned into a solid sheet of rubber shit!! Now to the waiter...he did immediately offer to get me another dinner and I have waited another 15 minutes for that. He brought me back the same plate of food - when I looked at it I couldn't believe my eyes!! He said that the cook blamed him for it being cold and instead of making another plate of food, he placed my plate under the salamander to heat it up!! After not paying for this meal, the manager tried to make it right and the waiter brought me a to go dinner...if you think it made it home you are out of your mind...I kindly left it on the counter!! I'm pretty sure the cook was pissed at this point and I wasn't about to eat that shitty food anyway!! read more

Service was very slow and food was not up to par with their old location. New facility is nice. read more

The name carried me in. I've had some pretty nice experiences with this particular restaurant in other locations. We were immediately seated when we arrived. That was awesome. We ordered quickly and received our dishes in a timely manner. We experienced a few delays. We didn't receive silverware and the proper condiments to accompany our dishes. We made contact with our server several times requesting these items. We weren't successful. Our server's attention was focused on a nearby table. The restaurant was extremely empty, so the staff to customer ratio wasn't an issue. When we finally received attention from another employee walking by we were able to get those items. Since we had someone's attention we also requested refills and additional napkins. The server noticed we were being assisted by someone else and didn't return until it was time for the bill to be settled. We ended up taking the majority of it home, so that we could eat it at the proper temperature. The food was definitely yummy. The service could have definitely been better. read more

El Sombrero - Chicken and Beef Nachos - Mexican Near Me - Longview, Texas

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El Sombrero is Awesome! We love all the fabulous people there! We recommend the Tejano, and the stuffed avocado, but it's really all good there. If you haven't already been there you should definitely give them a try! read more

Huge restaurant. Very unique. Unusual shaped tables and a few couple seating. Service was bad. The waiter seems confused. I was disappointed that I did not get my birthday dessert. The speedy gonzalez (lunch meal) was typical. read more

El Sombrero - Speedy Gonzalez - Mexican Near Me - Longview, Texas

Love this place. Food is delicious, staff is spot on, very attentive. This is now one of my favorite restaurants in Longview!

It's so loud that you can't even hear the server or the people at the table with you. The food isn't as good as it used to be, and the location is not convenient anymore. read more

I had a wonderful experience from the moment I was greeted at the door. Made me feel right at home. Waited was very friendly and provided excellent service. All of the staff was friendly and I did talk to almost everyone as my friend and I tried to become the first people to ever finish their 10 lb El Gigante burrito. That was stuffed with delicious, seasoned meat and was incredible. Then we decided to have a big, Texas sized dessert . I can't wait to give them another try, unfortunately they are in TX and I live in PA, but next time through there is no way I am not stopping in. You should too. You can see my video of how good the food was. https://youtu.be/qz1qZ6yRNJ4 read more

El Sombrero - El Gigante - Mexican Near Me - Longview, Texas

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Good:Everything was really good!!!! Services was great! Salsa and chips were really good. Prices are ok. Recommend!!! read more

The food is usually really good but mostly when we dine in. Went through the drive-thru today, ordered a chile poblano with beef, which is supposed to come with guac salad and rice. Got home and there was NO CHILE POBLANO and no guac salad (which usually comes in its own separate container!! Only rice, refried beans, and maybe 2 tablespoons of ground beef! Dug around in the beans a bit looking for it but nope, it wasn't there! I was shocked! Tried to call them a few times but couldn't get through before leaving for work. Should have learned my lesson from previous times of them frequently forgetting something in our take-out orders and giving smaller portions. Dine-in is best. read more

El Sombrero - 75% beans, 25% rice - Mexican Near Me - Longview, Texas