Drive thru restaurant with limited outside seating available…read more Ordered chicken and beef empanadas as well as an order (4) croquettes. The empanadas were awesome. Light, flakey pastry with plenty of meat and peppers inside. The croquettes were just ok. I go to Miami regularly so maybe I'm a little biased. You do have a to wait a bit but you know they're fresh and not been sitting around.

We went for the first time this week and loved it! The portion size was plenty and the sandwiches…read morewere delicious! Great customer service! Super friendly staff and fast drive through. We look forward to the next visit. Thank you!

Unassuming place with really tasty food. Clean. Good service. The salsas were varied and excellentread more

If your looking for authentic Mexican food come here, don't let the location fool you their food it…read moretaste incredible compared to other Mexican places around, service is also great it's a family restaurant and it's very nice inside with Mexican music playing in the background

New place gave it a try. I could tell it's family owned and operated. Gave individual attention to…read morethe guests. Ordered queso birria, gordita, and pupusa's. Very welcoming and nice cashier and cook! Both checked in during the meal to see if it met experience and expectations. YESSSS the food did! You definitely got a BANG for your buck. What I thought was going to be regular portioned...was not! I could not finish my tacos and had to pack my gordita to go! The only thing I will take 1 star is menu is on a monitor screen making it hard to read. Font needs to be bigger. I know they are new, but hopefully they will add physical menus for the tables. Other than that...GO CHECK THEM OUT!

If I could rate this place 0 I would. Ordered two orders of the quesabirras with rice and beans & a…read morebeef soup. I get there and all they have to offer me is cold corn tortillas and a tub of broth. That's it..... What the hell? Couldn't give me a refund or anything else if the menu, she had to use Google Translate to talk to me , very unprofessional and weird place . How are they still in business? Over $30 for broth and cold tortillas . This place will be done for soon

We've been here a few times before and it was really good…read more Stopped in for a late lunch about 2:30 today and got served a bowl of soup and a burrito that were room temperature at best, not even warm. Then we got ignored until I finally went to the cash register to ask for a check. The tortilla chips were good, until we ran out. Probably won't go back.

My family and I were visiting from Arizona where we have true authentic Mexican food. This place…read morewas better than the food I've had in AZ! Wow. This place is authentic and some of the best food I've had. Makes me want to move to the city just to have to enjoy more of their food. Service was spectacular and I felt like family there.

Quesabirria tacos. Absolutely delicious!!! It's my second time here. I will always come anytime I'm…read morein the area. I recommend this restaurant any day.

The food is fantastic at great prices. The outside eating area feels beach like, well to me it…read moredoes. Very friendly and worth the trip if you're out of town.

Ordered pick up, food was fast, affordable and very tasty! I will definitely be coming back hereread more

This restaurant was on our route as we were traveling so we stopped in. It was 5:00 so no wait…read more The restaurant is nice with bright Mexican decor. They brought chips and salsa right away. The salsa was delicious and the chips were warm. Our server came right away and was very friendly. We ordered the Steak and Chicken Fajitas for two. They were delicious but did a little more seasoning. We enjoyed our meal. The service was great!

Excellent food & service!!! This was our first time here and we will be back! 10 out of 10 we…read morerecommend.

Soy Salvadoreña y Queria ver si estaba buena la comida tradicional ya Que los trabajadores…read more(americanos) mios me lo recomendaban. Desafortunadamente ni el sabor, servicio o la hubicacion esta bueno. Pedí sopa de gallina y la verdad me dieron POLLO. El arroz estaba pegajoso y la sopa ni sabor tenia. La verdad no he encontrado un restaurante Salvadoreño Que este bueno en Gainesville.

One of the best Mexican spots I have been to before. The food is amazing, Service nice, and the…read moreinterior is amazing

We don't come here as often as we once did, but El Real is still one of our favorite Mexican…read morerestaurants anywhere. I have been a fan of their carnitas since my very first visit almost 10 years ago and it's still the dish I will order 80% of the time... either as a meal or as a bowl. My wife almost always gets a veggie burrito or chimichanga and we definitely ALWAYS get their chicken taquitos either by themselves or as part of the sampler plate. They've had a few fails over the year, like a few occasions when the taquitos were served cold in the center or when the carnitas over a bed of onions came out waaaay too overcooked and dry. But by and large they have always given us an excellent, clean and consistent dining experience with wonderful servers. To their credit, I don't think we've ever had an issue with any server in all of the years we've been patrons. NOTE: The times they got it wrong were always corrected when I spoke up. The sweet tea here is some of my favorite in all the south (except for this last visit) and also their frozen piña colada is my third favorite ever, with the first being one I had on a random beach in Costa Rica many years ago and the second favorite being at Pepper's Cantina in Panama City, Florida. I don't personally believe their current 3.7 rating is accurate (should be higher), but then again my loyalty might be making my opinion bias. However, any local will tell you this location is packed regularly and is almost impossible to get in on weekends without a significant wait time. Get the carnitas, burrito, sampler, three way cheese dip and a frozen piña colada or sweet tea.