I am a regular at El Torito for over 25 years now. I'd like to point out the hospitality and amazing customer service of some of the best employees: Wendy, Ari & Erika are great! They are always so sweet and provide the best service! They go above & beyond to make sure I am always taken care of. I appreciate Wendy & Ari so much! El Torito is lucky to have them, what a great asset! Today our server was Jose. He was great... very attentive and kind! I love coming here because this team makes it great every time... and the food is yummy :) thank you! read more

The food was yum yum yum I enjoyed. Service was awesome constant refills and our server Salvador was very nice and honestly a real cool polite guy. The feeling was very chill the sunlight built a nice ambiance and the big bull thing was cool. read more

Been coming here for years, always great food, great service. When you come make sure to ask the host to sit you in Sherry's section.

Our server Sherie Z, was amazing. She greeted us with a smile and even gave us extra soda. The foods were great, the ambiance was nice and highly recommended. We will come back for sure. Love this place! read more

We had a great time. Cherie was a fabulous server. She was kind and very attentive to us. She went above and beyond her role by taking picture for us when needed and constantly making sure we had everything we needed for a great dining experience. read more

We had Sherry as our waitress and she was incredible it felt like we were a guest in her home. She really cared about our order and giving us an incredible experience. I will definitely come here again and when I do will request to sit in sherry's section. She is wonderful, fantastic hiring choice!!! read more

We hadn't been there in a few years but decided to go there for dinner. The place was packed. We were happy to wait. Our waitress was very nice. The salsa was delicious and the chips were fresh and crispy. Perfect. Then our margaritas arrived. Not very good, not great tasting. Could not taste any alcohol, and a sour aftertaste. Dinner arrived. It was ok. Not great, but the chicken enchiladas with sour cream were just blah, Americanized, no sour cream in sight. I put some of the delicious salsa on them. The beans and rice were good. It was a pleasant dining experience but for a few issues. I would make a few suggestions to management: lower the music and lower the bright lights. And taste your margaritas! There are so many Mexican restaurants to choose from. I think my favorite is El Abuelo in San Fernando. read more

Came into el Torito this evening and my servers name is Maria. Had a wet burrito de asada. She was really attentive, had such good service as well as the food quality. She had my drink and chips/sauce always ready before I could even ask she already had it. Overall good experience. I'd definitely go back!!! read more

We came for lunch today - I love the food but the service is horrible! Our waiter was Roberto, for a server, he is not a polished person - very rough, not polite and terrible service all together. He kept forgetting our drinks, spoke very fast and rushing us to order food! Customer service training highly recommended for this restaurant. read more

They call this crap veggie fajitas. It's a Chile relleno with a very small amount of steamed, unseasoned veggies next to it. Since when are steamed veggie sticks and spinach considered fajitas? Definitely not ordering delivery from this restaurant ever again since they lie on their menu to the extreme. read more

El Torito - "Veggie Fajitas" - yeah right - Mexican Near Me - Northridge, California

My girlfriend and I ate here this evening. We waited an extremely long time for them to take our order. I asked for water with lemon and the bartender literally brought me lemons with his bare hands! Disgusting! The restaurant feels very unclean in general. I don't think I will come back again... it's too bad. I used to love El Torito. read more

We came here at about 5pm on a Saturday at the last minute with about 21 people and I have to say our waitress, Sherie, not only gave us great and fast service but made the experience an amazing one! Sincerely, give this woman a raise or promotion because to deal with all of us (most of us were our teenagers) and did it all the time with a great big smile!! read more

Sherry is absolutely amazing! Great food and service. Sunday buffet is definitely the way to go!

Celebrated my 21st birthday here with some friends. Service was excellent loved our sever, Cruz. He made sure we got our drinks and food. Highly recommend! read more

El Torito - Mexican Near Me - Northridge, California

Great service, great food and great beer. I stopped into el torito with the wife and we were sat down right away. Our server Roberto introduced himself and our drink and appetizer order. I appreciated that he brought out my beer right away. I had the Mexican wings and for the entree I had the Carne asada plate. The Mrs had the sizzling enchiladas. I appreciate that he kept bringing drinks and refilling my wife's Shirley temple. The place was busy but service was up to expectations. Will definitely come back. read more

This El Torito was recently remodeled and the food I want to say got much better, I was there with friends. I had chicken tacos, and my friends ordered before we got there this Queso for the chips . My friends had chicken fajitas and my wife had a Chile Riano witch she enjoyed. They enjoyed their margaritas and that makes for a nice night. read more

The food was over all fine, but the options were horrible. For some reason, on the kids menu, once you pick a entree you can choose a side, that's not the bad part, the bad part was how the rice and beans were not one single option. You could either pick rice or beans and a bunch of other options. Also, for the combo, you could not pick carnitas as your meat for the tacos. Horrible and would never come back. read more

We had the best experience at El Torito Northridge. Maddie was a great waitress and made the best table side guac. Margaritas were amazing as well. Will definitely be back with friends! read more

Good place for a family meal. They can easily handle groups. Fast service; we didn't have to wait to be seated. Endless bowls of hot fresh chips. The fried ice cream was good too. Lol! We enjoyed a sampler appetizer, most of our group had tamales or enchiladas. Our local family comes here often. There is a Sunday Brunch that is also a good meeting place before or after the nearby movies. read more

El Torito - Fun family meal - Mexican Near Me - Northridge, California

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The remodeling in this place is great but the service, the food and the positive energy in this place will definitely have me coming back more often! Our waiter Cruz was phenomenal and made the experience that much better. Great food! Great vibes! read more

I would like to take my time to appreciate how attentive and nice service Cruz always gives us.. bartender (Mario always on point) super awesome . read more

Had family in from Arkansas. Our party size was 13 including two young kids and an infant. Sherie was our waitress and I can't say enough good things about her. She was incredibly attentive to everyone's needs, making sure everybody's food was good and the way they wanted it. She made fresh guacamole for the table in front of us and stayed on top of everything with a smile always on her face. She even suggested and brought a different style enchilada for someone in our group in an effort to make his meal perfect. The food is always pretty good here, but the service Sherie provided was superior and deserved recognition.. read more

Went in for brunch, everything was amazing, our server Jose went above and beyond, made our experience extra special!

The Sunday brunch is soo delicious I didn't take pictures this time. I had to sit and be served due to my limitations in walking. My family brought me all different foods. I loved the pancakes they were fluffy. I also had chicken taco with rice and beans. The flan and sweets were also delicious I was stuffed. Highly recommend the brunch here. read more

First off, this is my second time at this location and both times have been disappointing with the lack of service and urgency this location tends to their customers. My first time I waited 20min standing in the front where you are not greeted by anyone. What amazed me was that near the entrance is a bar area where servers clearly saw me and my party, made eye contact and did nothing. Why can't you let someone know customers are waiting to be seated or at the very least say welcome. After finally being seated, the bar tender took so long to make my order, my party was already almost done eating. Tended to everything else but making the complete orders. Why would I want my orders given to me all separately? The point is to have drinks with my party at the same time. Now coming back on my second visit. I called ahead to make sure they had patio seating because I have a service animal with me, when I spoke to the women in the front she said I was able to order and sit outside for the happy hour. I get there and again no surprise that I find myself waiting with no welcome, no one is literally in front, and same staff in the bar area is just staring. A women comes and finally I told her I called ahead to make sure I can bring my service animal for patio seating she said "yes you can make your way to the outdoor seating area and just order at the bar" I make my way to the bar to let them know I was ordering to sit outside and the girl at the bar asked me if I have a service animal and I answered yes. Then proceeded to ask if he was emotional support or service, I let her know service again. But then tells me they recently changed their rules on service animals and that they can't serve me to eat there. Even if it was in the patio. This was just mind blowing as 2 people I spoke to prior said it was okay and still let me in with service companion. I let her know there is no sign anywhere on their establishment where it says anything about no service animals or anything relating to animals posted. And she said she knew, she didn't know why there was anything there. She thinks someone took it off. What kind of an answer if that?! Not very professional at all. Mind you, how embarrassing it is to have to make your way through a restaurant after being given two green light only to be denied ordering. read more

Best all you can drink special for Saturday break $14.00 loved the bartender and server super friendly workers, we loved everything, the cleanness to the food!!!! read more

El Torito - Best all you can drink special for Saturday break $14.00 - Mexican Near Me - Northridge, California

We always come to el torito (Northridge) and the past few times we have been very happy with their food, drinks and service. But I want to talk about tonight's visit..... I came in with my husband and 3 kids (1,4,6) my sister in law and great grandma. My baby was playing with my keys and when it was time to leave WE COULNT FIND THEM. We searched every where and the first amazing act of kindness came from our waiter Denise she offered to let me borrow her car to go get spares from my home I said thank you but we would have my father go get keys and drop them off for us. When walking out I told the 2 men in the counter if they could take my number down just in case they find them. I told them we search every where and I had a feeling they went on a plate when they were picked up. The general manager Joseph started pulling up his sleeves and said "I'll go check the trash". Sometimes people say things to say them, but when they act on what they say, they show their true character and when I saw him walking out with my keys I totally felt like he acted out of his heart and the *real want *to try to help. I appreciate their hearts and how both Denise and Joseph when out of their way to be human and kind to me and my family. Happy holidays and I wish them the best .... And because of them I will be coming here more often and inviting friends and family when possible. Thank you again! read more

Cruz was a wonderful waiter. The tacos were delicious, and the Margarita Flight was very refreshing.

Juan Reyes, buen servicio, muy amable. Me ayudó con los waffles. Food was good and fresh.

Best place for happy hour! Coworkers love to hang out here on after work. They have a late happy hour that last until 7pm. Drink selection and food is the best. We just tried the shrimp tacos and love it so much we ordered too much- had to take some home. Mango margaritas is my go to on the happy hour menu. They remodeled recently and the ambiance is on point. Cruz was the fastest server and took care of us well. We love this location, parking lot is plentiful. Until next time! read more

El Torito - Cheers!! - Mexican Near Me - Northridge, California

Celebrated my anniversary here last night. I had the best time the food and drinks were great but the service was greater. Our waitress made our night so special, and the restaurant was so clean. Will definitely be coming back here. read more

El Torito - FAJITAS DUO - Mexican Near Me - Northridge, California

I came here recently for a friend's birthday dinner. We were a party of 10 and had a reservation. We were seated quickly and in an area that was relatively quiet, which was nice. The restaurant had been remodeled, which was a refreshing change from the last time I had visited several years prior. It was a hot July day in the valley, but the A/C in the restaurant was barely adequate and I noticed that there were not any ceiling fans. The lighting was excessively dim, making it difficult to read the menu. They were extremely short-staffed, so the service was slow and spotty (not the server's fault, they were spread very thin). Our server did a nice job, but seemed overwhelmed with the size of our party and the fact that they were taking care of so many tables. Now, let's talk chow....the complimentary chips were stale and chewy. Most of us ordered drinks, I chose the watermelon margarita, as the description sounded refreshing. It was awful. It basically tasted like slushy water, no flavor from the watermelon at all. So, that was hugely disappointing. Friends ordered the flight of mojitos, took one sip and said they were terrible, way too much booze, in their opinion. My meal was spinach enchiladas...they were ok, but nothing to write home about. The rice was rice and the frijoles de la olla were over-salted. As an overview, the restaurant was clean and updated, but lacked sufficient A/C and fans. The staff was friendly and did a nice job, although they were spread thin. The food was mediocre, at best. read more

Worst service ever!! I just came here for a drink, it was very slow so I don't understand why service was so slow and unfriendly. The queso dip was even worse, the cheese was more like water and no flavor, the flour tortillas were cold and the chips were stale. We ordered a couple of draft beers but those were just sitting on the counter for a while so we decided to leave. I complained to the manager but he was no help, he was like whatever not even an apology for the bad service. Oh and the margarita was more like a slurpee. read more

El Torito - More like a Mango slurpee no tequila - Mexican Near Me - Northridge, California

We came for the lunch buffet. Price is fair, and the tacos are good overall, except for the carne asada tacos that are hard and had inedible parts. The selection of food options is small. Service isn't great, and they only had one dessert. It was a cake that looked like it was made from a cake mix box. read more

Our Server Juan R. was phenomenal! We attended for Easter Sunday Brunch and our experience and service was great! Very attentive and fast. Came to check on table often and made sure we were taken care of! Will definitely come back for this experience! Great Job Juan! read more

Did not have the best experience. We were a group of seven. We seated near windows when the sun was just in your face. The windows have no blinds or covers and the sun made it difficult to read the menu. The waitress forgot one of the orders. It made everyone uncomfortable because one person didn't have food. The waitress didn't offer anything for the error. Overall it was disappointing. read more

We always love coming to this El Torito. Food and service is always great. We have to especially mention that Sherry is exceptionally awesome. She's so attentive and amazing!!! We'll be back!!! : ) read more

I love my neighborhood el torito i've been coming here for years and won't stop and have gotten all my friends to enjoy it here as well. attentive and friendly staff and well made food for good prices and their long happy hour is the best. i come here at least 1-2 times a month. read more

El señor Juan is the perfect server! He's very attentive and has good customer service. The food was good and the drinks kept coming. Defiantly going to come again! read more

El Torito - Mexican Near Me - Northridge, California

Best service from Juan Reyes! He truly took care of us and was attentive to our requests. I would highly recommend coming to this location. Great experience! read more