Not too many choices in Socorro on this particular evening. I was surprised by the quality of the eats at this diner. I chose to go with the chili rellenos which were very good. Food portions are generous and the service was quick and friendly.
Not too many choices in Socorro on this particular evening. I was surprised by the quality of the eats at this diner. I chose to go with the chili rellenos which were very good. Food portions are generous and the service was quick and friendly.
A simple, diner kinda place with good service and great food. We both had the carne adovado and it was excellent! Be aware: don't order corn tortillas; they're dry and stale. They have a full service bar; Phil had a beer and I had a...(just ok) generously sized margarita. I took half my meal home and enjoyed the wonderful flavors the next day.More
We are New Mexico locals, and this place used to be a very good place to eat, but now has gone way down. Our food was lukewarm, everything that was supposed to come with our meal was never brought, the waitress never once came back...to check on us and we had to flag her down to get a “to go” container and they mispriced our meal on our check. They just don’t have it together anymore! What a shame!More
We ate a El Camino since it was close to our room at the Econo Lodge (Clean & nice ). Two different meals (Burrito and Omelet meals). By 10pm we were both very sick (try using one bathroom for two people), up all night but...the sickness lasted for the next 3 days and we are still feeling the after-affects. While the staff was very pleasant and food up in a timely manner for being busy, one meal ruined a long-planned trip and 650 miles to Bosque Del Apache. The fact 2 separate people became sick from 2 separate meals tells me it may have been the food or something else is going on at the restaurant to cause our illness. We obviously don't know if anyone else became sick but we found it strange the restaurant was closed the next day and rest of the time we were in Socorro when advertised as open (almost like they hadn't planned on closing)?More
Well when in Socorro and NOTHING is open on a Sunday evening El Camino it was. It is like a 1980's restaurant inside and out but it is open 24/7 and had a great menu. The food did not take long to arrive and was...very good. Service was fast and attentive. Prices were very reasonable and the place is busy. An added bonus is the attached bar so dinner and drinks are paired at a very awesome cost. I highly recommend this place and would return again. The steak, liver & onions and green chili potato soup are all excellent choices.More
Good service and plenty of food. If you get pancakes or waffles the fruit is from a jar and runny and not fresh. Get the scrambled eggs. The lounge is nice and you can get food there too. The front of the restaurant can get...croweded.More
Ate there May 20, 2023. I ate in the matador lounge next-door to El Camino restaurant kitchen. The lounge was friendly . I ordered three hard taco shell tacos with the usual, refried beans and rice. After halfway through my dinner, I realized there was...a bad taste to the beans and rice. I stopped eating. The next morning in my hotel, I spent the next six hours with explosive diarrhea. Yup you guessed it food poisoning.More
Good Mexican Food. Slow service. Waitress kept checking back. Would repeat. Hint: No recording & they don’t answer phone.
I have been here a few times only because all the better restaurants happened to be closed. The wait times are long, the food is often cold. The servers don’t follow basic food handlers practices and dip their fingers in the customer’s food when handling...it and eat while behind the counter. I have to sit at the counter to watch the wait staff and cook to make sure no foreign objects end up in my dinner. The food tastes like reheated frozen trash. The health inspector ought to perform a surprise inspection on this pig sty. I have had food poisoning here from the fajita plate. The bathroom is disgusting. And you know what the saying about that is. “The condition of the bathroom is often the same condition as the kitchen”. Food isn’t that cost effective either. Go literally anywhere else maybe except chartwells.More
We went here for dinner after going to two restaurants in town higher ranked on TripAdvisor which were both closed on a Saturday night for some reason. The food was fine, but neither better nor worse than many other Mexican restaurants. The staff was friendly...(and busy) and the prices were reasonable. Given the options in town for open restaurants, I would go there again.More
This is probably the worst food I have had in a long time. It was sloppy, undercooked and slow. The price was way too high for the quality of food. The waitress was nice but it wasn’t enough to make up for the bad food....The ground beef in the burrito tasted like it had hash browns mixed it, the rice tasted like it had been frozen and thawed, the spaghetti sauce was terrible, and the fajitas were really bad and undercooked. My son ordered ranch with his fries and the ranch was warm. There were four of us eating and we all ordered something different. The food was equally bad for each of us.More
El Camino is like an island oasis in a town that has been in decay for a decade. With Socorro being the only significant town within a 50 mile radius when traveling south from Albuquerque on I25, it is a place you can rely on...for a great lunch. Besides all the Southwest favorites, they also offer traditional American dishes like Meat loaf and hot roast beef sandwiches. Great selections for those that find the New Mexico dishes too spicy.More
we stop for breakfast every time we go to elephant butte and have for at least 30 years,we even go for quick trips for breakfast from albuquerque often consider this restraunt best in whole usa and for mexican food
Breakfast was very good with large portions and reasonable prices. The staff was professional, friendly, and attentive. I really like the vintage aspect of the place. I wish more places like it were still around. It very much reminded me of a place in Missouri...I frequently ate at with my Mom and Grandmother.More
To be honest, I'm disappointed in Socorro's array of eateries. We used to like Socorro Springs when it was a brewery. It's changed. And the owner's defensive response to reviews is a turn-off. So, it's Thanksgiving weekend and we want to eat out. We like...pubs and bar/grills. Tonight most are closed. We accidently saw that El Camino Restaurant had an attached lounge. Yippee. Let's try it. The lounge is accessed via a door at the entrance to the restaurant. It's rather a dark affair with a bar at one end and lots of booths around the room. Very few people in the place. We took a booth. The first neat thing was how personable and friendly our server was. She was just delightful. Next, the prices. This place is downright cheap for the food you get. The menu is rather extensive. We shared chicken-fried steak which came with a salad (split in half for us, nice touch), mashed potatoes/gravy, vegetable (canned, but OK) and rolls. It was a very good dinner. Both of us were full. I hadn't expected to be impressed. But I was. On a return visit to Socorro, we hope to come back.More