El Portón Mexican Restaurant

My wife and I had been wanting to try this place and we did so today. Honestly, not the worst food you could eat. However, the meals were lacking and not as tasty as other, similar, restaurants. The meal starts with standard chips and salsa, El Porton adds a bean dip. I ordered the beef fajitas with shrimp and my wife ordered caldo de marisco. The shrimp in both our meals was overcooked. So, too, was my fajita. Our children had the kids combo with the carne asada tacos. The kids ate well enough to let us know it was decent. I will say the corn tortillas were fresh, hot, and one of the better restaurant tortillas. The service, with competent wait staff, was standard. El Porton is decorated in bright pastel colors and is located on a corner suite that let's in a high amount of daylight. As you're paying at the counter, there are kick knacks to purchase. In the display case are a variety of traditional Mexican candies and snacks. I'll update this review as necessary as I do intend to try El Porton at a later time. Overall, a standard restaurant with no distinguishing dish.

We went here for breakfast since it was by the place we were staying while visiting my family. The food was solid. Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of the actual food since I was hungry 😂😫

They served chips and salsa with breakfast which is awesome. The salsa was orange in color and chunky. They served it warm and it had really good flavor. It wasn’t spicy at all though which was a little disappointing.

The menu was all in Spanish. I ordered ‘matchacado con juevos y salsa rojas’. It was served with refried beans and sautéed potatoes. My wife got migas (which looked delicious) and my daughter got barbacoa in 5 mini tacos. They let you choose corn or flour with the mini tacos which was pretty awesome! I don’t think I’ve seen mini flour tacos at any other place I’ve eaten. She got flour and I got corn with my plate. I think they were all homemade. If not, the tortillas were really good regardless.

DONT GET THE WAFFLES! They are eggo waffles and they charged 6.95 for 3! INSANE!

Nothing was fantastic or great, but it was good. They had a special for lunch which was cabrito con salsa, so I’m interested to see how their main lunch and dinner is :)

Nice quiet restaurant. Prices were reasonable. Ordered the Panchos plate, was good but needed to have more cheese on it. The chips and salsa were pretty good and they were a free appetizer. Cant go wrong with that! Go try it, you will like it, just ask for extra cheese on your Panchos. Lol. Great staff and thats important. My glass of sweet tea never hit the bottom, our waiter was on top of it every time, thats important to me. Thumbs up!