El Paso Mexican And Spanish Restaurant Coral Springs

Cozy Mexican-Spanish restaurant with a varied menu. We visited El Paso Restaurant on Saturday, February 14, 2015 for lunch. The first thing you'll notice is that El Paso seems narrow, but there is nonetheless room for two rows of tables and one row of booths.

The second thing you'll notice is the varied menu. At lunchtime there was a lunch menu and a regular menu with a small menu of "special items" attached in the center. You'll find a great variety of Mexican and Spanish items within.

While most or all of the clientele was non-Hispanic while we were there, El Paso does offer horchata and several flavors of Jarritos Mexican soda. This places El Paso right at the boundary between what I call "Mexican-American" and "real Mexican". I love horchata, so that's one point in their favor. My friend was able to get cafe con leche.

My friend favors pork over beef, so she was pleased to find pork fajitas, which she enjoyed (if you like fajitas you'll have plenty of choices).

I wanted to eat light and take some home, so I ordered a combination that consisted of one crunchy taco, one tostada and one enchilada, with rice and beans. Nothing was too salty (I don't add salt to food so I'm pretty sensitive to it), and the lettuce in the taco and on the tostada was all fresh. The food was tasty and the presentation was pretty much as you would expect, in other words, nothing fancy. As I usually do, I ordered a side order of jalopeños, which were nice and crunchy and "pickly", and not the really hot kind.

Mr. Predictable, my 10-year-old son, had his usual chicken fingers and French Fries in a suitably small serving and an economy price ($3.95). Given that he often doesn't finish his lunch this was really appreciated.

The service was friendly and attentive; when the waitress wasn't with us the other gentleman present (the owner?) came by our table.

With horchata for me and pork fajitas for my friend we're likely to return to El Paso. Next time I'll probably revert to form and get one of their "taco salad" type entrees, or maybe enchiladas suizas. Maybe we'll try one of the "Spanish" (they seemed more Cuban to me) dishes.

The price was very reasonable, too.

A real dining pleasure. We dropped in for lunch at the El Paso Restaurant on the recommendation of a family member while we were in Coral Springs visiting from Tennessee. The specials at lunch include soup, a soft drink, chips and salsas. Service was fast and friendly, the restaurant very clean and pleasant inside, and the food phenomenal.

That first visit last week I ordered from the regular menu, the chicken flautas were generously stuffed with what tasted like rotisserie chicken breast meat, not the shredded stew meat that many restaurants use. A real surprise was the sauce the flautas were topped with, that was more of a chicken gravy like mom would pour over your mashed potatoes on a Sunday dinner with the family. Excellent!

My husband and I returned two more times while we were in the area. A lunch special of the Baby Tampiqueña which I requested be grilled rare was very delicately done, not over-cooked. And our last lunch at the end of the week was a repeat of the chicken flautas with their haunting chicken gravy. Don't even ask me what my husband ordered on these three visits...I was too busy enjoying the platters that were placed in front of me!