El Chilito

Reviews

• Henry S.

  star star star star star_border 31 May 2026

  Came to el Chilito looking to satisfy my mariscos and michelada craving after a long day at work. I gotta say , craving satisfied. My co-workers workers were excited as they had been to the Bakersfield and Ontario locations before. We started off with the marischelada , a michelada topped with shrimp , pulpo and cucumber so delicious . It had the right ratio of  beer to Clamato and spices that made it a thirst quencher. Our waitress brought us our mini tostadas to snack on while we decided on our entree.
     The salsa served with the tostadas was meh, nothing special but I asked for a spicer salsa and what was given to us was delicious. It was full of flavor and had a heat that snuck up on you not to hot ( to me ) but I would image would possibly be for others beware. What followed for the entree was camarones en salsa verde topped with jack cheese and onions with poblano peppers. The salsa was full of good flavor served with a small salad and white rice. The presentation wasn't all that great but the food overall pretty good. The homemade corn tortillas served with our food were good but I've had better.
    Overall the experience was great , the service was excellent and I'll be definitely trying the one in Bakersfield.

• Lourdes R.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 27 May 2026

  One star is too much of a good rating for this place!!!
  
  When we had arrived to the restaurant we noticed that it was almost empty so we didn't expect to be waiting too long. An employee proceeded to ask how many of us were there, we responded with the number 10 and they said okay it'll be a 2 to 5 minute wait to get the tables ready. We agreed and waited outside. About 10 minutes pass by and another employee comes to ask us what we were waiting for and we let her know that we were waiting for our table to be set up for our party of 10. Then we glanced behind her and see that they had barely started fixing everything.
  
  After that first mishap, we went ahead and got seated. Our waitress came and brought us tostadas and salsa which was complementary. Then proceeded to take our drink orders. An unfortunate tidbit was that we asked for water cups for the kids and the water was a light purple color, tasted off and they said that that was because they get the water from the same machine as the jamaica agua which was weird because the guests behind us had a glass of water with lemon and there water had no tint.
  
  After a few minutes we went ahead and ordered our food, we ordered 2 aguachile tostadas, kids chicken nuggets with fries, tacos de birria de chivo, chicken tacos, a wet burrito, a tostada de ceviche de pescado, and a bowl of pozole. The food took a little while to come out but we just figured that it was because they were making everything fresh to order... something along those lines. Well when we got our food and started to eat it well it just wasn't very good. Flavorless, mushy, stringy seafood. As for the fish ceviche (which I added photos) it tasted like bologna lunch meat. Disgusting. The aguachiles tasted nothing like what aguachiles are supposed to taste. As for the tacos de birria they had an odd after taste. The wet burrito was edible, as was the pozole and chicken tacos.
  
  When the person who had ordered the tostada de ceviche de pescado was asked by the waitress if he was doing alright, he let her know that the ceviche was not good. She was very friendly about it and asked if he'd like to replace it with something else but he said no thank you.
  
  We will definitely not be back to this restaurant!
  
  And if you do please avoid the seafood- something is off in that department! I think this spot is just overly hyped up as far as the micheladas go. In the past we have gone there just for that and it was an okay experience. People must get pretty tipsy to think that the food there is good.
  
  P.S. the kids "chicken" nuggets taste like fish

• Jennifer N.

  star star star star_border star_border 22 May 2026

  I came here with my coworkers on our way back from LA. The food at this Mexican restaurant was really good. I got the fish and shrimp fajitas plate and it came out sizzling and smoking. The plate came with rice and beans and overall the whole entree was delicious. I also ordered a michelada, which was ok. I thought it would've been a lot better from what I saw from pictures though.
  
  The only thing that had upset us was the poor customer service. My friend ordered the menudo, which looked ok but when she got it, she realized she ordered the wrong thing. She thought she was ordering posole, so We asked the waitress if they could switch the menudo for posole, which most places would do it no problem. Of course, they came back and told us they would box up the menudo for her to go and bring out a bowl of posole for 1/2 price. It was ridiculous! For how much they charge, they should've just replaced the menudo for posole.
  
  Other Than that, the food was good. Just make sure you know exactly what your ordering before u come here.

• N E.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 21 May 2026

  F this place! It took over 1 hour to get seated  and there was seats available also. The service is the same! Horrible! Rice and beans are disgusting, seafood is fresh but over rated. I will
  Never return to this place again

• Crystal L.

  star star star star star 20 May 2026

  This place is great to hang out and have some fun beers! I don't know if they actually, have a food menuI was too excited to try the concoctions! Please, remember to come here with enough time on the weekends... it does get very busy.