El Torito in Santa Monica

Servers are always pleasant and efficient. Food is tasty! Sunday Brunch is great.

One of the healthily & cleanest restaurant I enter in the area... well deserved with delicious food you can try the owner as well as staff are super friendly with great manners, love this place & thank you jack.

Waaaaay better than the one in the Marina Particularly, because they take reservations. Tons of outdoor seating, plenty of 2hr free validated parking, great HH and service. Super impressed , since I haven't been in 25yrs. Needed to check out the new brand. Oh man and the grilled mahe TACOS KILLER

Highly recomend the happy hour! Great food and drinks!

It's good for happy hour, a quick bite, family get together, birthday celebration to watch sports and they have one of the best Sunday brunches. How can you go wrong?

Great place for breakfast and lunch. One of my very favorite dishes is the Tuna Melt typically served with a side salad. You can also sub fries... even better you can make them garlic fries. So delicious!!! I do wish they had a few more kid specific dishes/menu. We would dine here more frequently if they had a kids menu.

This place is amazing! The food is delicious and the prices are just right. The service is also friendly! I'm from the bay area and I wish we had a place this good. I'm talking about all the meats I ordered were cooked perfectly and not dry. The worst is when you order kebabs and they are overcooked. The next time I'm back in the area, I definitely want to go back :D

Atmosphere and the service were wonderful the food was to die for and their drinks were marvelous in made my date night a wonderful one thank you El Torito

Happy they are back open. Brunch is still excellent and very safe.

They have really great food 👌 delicious they got the best costumer service may be a little pricey but it is worth it my favriot was.mashed 🌽 and I would recommend it to u when u see the food it is like bon appetit

The ambience is chill. Very quiet place to enjoy good food. Was able to carry a convo in peace.

Great food and service!!! All you can eat shrimp tacos were awesomly delicious. Nice area close to our hotel and very clean. Can't wait to go back!!!!

Nice and helpfull service and good food for a reasonable price. The soup was delicious!

After we got seated to our table (note the lady just went to a table and placed menus and said here) we waited about 15-20 min and the server still did not come to great us nor ask about our drinks. They just kept walking by looking at our table so we had to get up and leave to go to another restaurant.

I absolutely loved this location. So spacious and gorgeous, OMG! The staff was very friendly, George helped us, he was great! People make any business, it always makes a difference to me! The food was 5✨👌 they made the guacamole in front of us, then the presentation was great on the steaming skillets with fajitas also. Exhilarating food experience, the taste was all you expected, just healing food, fresh, hot, made by dedicated ppl 🙏👌 This is a new favorite spot now!!!

5 stars for a Mexican joint. Not gourmet. Prices are high but the portions are massive. One of the first places that doesn't dry out Mexican rice. Great presentation. They paid for pay per view fight night. Great servers. Good atmosphere. Quick service. I lived everything and I am usually hard on Mexican restaurants.

Good margaritas but I can’t eat that food! Is everything but Mexican!

Service was insanely slowWe ordered and 45 minutes later sitting there with nothing. Keep being told 5 minutes. How many 5 minutes does it take?One stop to the manager and POOF food there 30 seconds later.Water never filledRequested items never filledOn top of it all they charge a service charge no matter size of the partyFollow up Response: Please advise on how to get in touch via "direct message" and I will gladly give you a full report.

Last night in Santa Monica.. decided to eat here... omg so beautiful and the servers are so delightful and courteous.... thank you makes the last night awesome!

My second visit in California, and we came back for this place! Today was my second time eating here, and it's just so good with very great prices! Our waiter was really nice and we had gotten our food pretty quick for 4 plates. I love it. Probably going to be tradition to eat here every time we come to visit in Santa Monica. The salsa is great too!!

The food is always really good and the service is very fast and super friendly! The specials are worth checking out, they change pretty often and everything I've tried has been great!

Great authentic Mexican food, great Margaritas, great service. Would definitely recommend

I attended El Torito on 1/20/2020 . I have a very good experience. Our waitress Cathy was pleasant and very welcoming. I ordered the Salmon tacos at first they were kind of warm . And the Manager Nic was very attentive to what was going on and offered me a fresh order. He took care of things right away with a Smile😀 very great service.

Really good!! And had patio seating!! Server was amazing!

The food was good but it was super slow we wait 2 hour to get all of the food. One of my family members order was forgotten.

Went and had a wonderful birthday dinner with friends! The staff came and gave him flan and sang him Happy Birthday! The food, margarita and service was excellent! 💖

Service at this location is quick and friendly. The carne asada burrito doesn't disappoint.

My Husband and I met our friends from out of town at this location. My Husband and Inever have any issues with this location. However this location charges for parking (no problem) When we arrived at 4 p.m. on Sunday July 5th ,2020 we did not receive a ticket to park neither did our friends. We went to let the manager know we did not get a ticket upon arriving because the arm to the ticket machine was up and not down .The female manager I do not know her name informed us to Push the call button and to let the operator know we did not get a ticket when we did so we were told to push lost ticket on the machine and was charged $25 I am out raged and would like a refund for having to pay for parking when we did not get a ticket .. Why were we charged ????

Friendly, delicious , personable, good price, good service

Best brunch in the universe. Bottomless Mimosas. Need I say more?

Went for brunch with my family and the food was delicious. Definitely going back there again.Highly recommend going there.

Horrible experience on May 5 delivery. Heard the food was great so ordered DoorDash at 4. Poor lady arrived at 5:40 after multiple texts. Our food was awful at best. Enchiladas with nothing inside the tortillas, refried bean that were not. The wrong and missing orders, and no margaritas! HUGE amounts of salt on what was left. The $100 spent was credited back entirely, and left us with cereal for dinner!

The food was good, but the system for getting orders out was awful. Took us an hour to get our phoned in order. I guess give them a covid pass? See how it is when quarantine is lifted.

Tasty chips and freshly made Guacamole made at your table started off the evening well. Then had fresh and tasty Mahi Mahi Tacos, yum! Good portions, fresh and tasty ingredients and a festive atmosphere made this a nice weekend feast.

This is an Old Reliable Neighborhood Place. Not authentic Mexican food by any means but it's passable. The drinks in the bar are very good and the appetizers are tasty. I like the bacon wrapped shrimp and I also like the happy hour sliders.

Great food and buffet. Fajitas here are great. I enjoy the Enchiladas Rancheras. I like the complimentary chips and salsa. They serve decent sized sodas.

Good gathering place for larger groups. Its the business park go to for after work gatherings. Drinks are good and the food is good but overall average for Mexican in LA.

El Torino’s is the bomb still after all of these years the foo is still consistently on point and the value is still there. I’ve been a customer at the Santa Monica location for over 25yrs. Please support these guys there still showing up everyday and they really need your support. Please leave them a big tip. The waiters are nearly making it. Peace and Love 🌏❤️

The wait for our food was way too long and the children's food was served last. Almost seemed as if their food was forgotten.

Great food and place. Love it....

Make sure you check to go orders... Ordered a Macho Combo and Fajita Duo extra salsa and chips... Taco rice and beans instead of Macho Combo and no chips!!!

Food is great, service is bad. My waiter had stained clothes and I think he was drunk. We had a good laugh but I also did feel a little uncomfortable with him being my waiter. On the other hand, the food was great. If you go, make sure to get the nachos.

Food was terribly cold. Everything I asked for never made it to the table. Waiter was completely uninterested in serving. With so many other options in the neighborhood I definitely won’t be returning.

I can only recommend this place on their Sunday brunch due to the fact that most of their menu is an all you can eat buffet choice on Sundays. If you go during the week I feel like their entree's are overpriced for what they are. The staff is a hit or miss but most of the time they are good. The cleanliness is always good and my family enjoys coming to eat here. Definitely recommend.

They made me a spicy mango Tequila margarita with no spicy tequila or zero mango juice. They did make me a new one. The tortilla soup did not taste Mexican at all it had Italian string cheese in it with no taste. The flat has we're good but the best of all was the pork sliders they were not named correctly because it did say Harbeson (chile) pork sliders. But they were the tastiest of the dishes that I had. The desert was absolutely brand the flan is the bomb it was so delicious I can still taste it. The waitress that took care of us was extremely nice and attentive and the bartender was very observant and served us water when everything got very busy.

Awesome Mexican food. They serve great food at great prices. The quantity is also more than sufficient for a normal person. The staff shows an excellent attitude. Altogether, nice experience 👍👍..loved the food❤️

I love seasoning alley so much. Seriously the best service, best food! I love the staff here they are so friendly and they cook the food so amazingly. If you want authentic Armenian food, definitely come here!! Alen was so helpful with helping us decide on a package.

Food was not bad...but service is slow here...(Cheesecake factory slow) place was empty more employees then customers, which is nice but shouldn't have to Flag them down for a straw and again for napkin and again for refills and again for chips and again for salsa. Then all over again..

I like this El Torito better than the one on Fiji Way. It's got the same great food but is a much more relaxed atmosphere! The service is fantastic and the margaritas are amazing! You will love it!

I'm so glad that they're open. always great to have a margarita and my favorite spinach enchiladas there. Social distancing is very much observed. Staff is so happy to be back too.