Azlya

The staff greeted us and brought out chips and salsa immediately. We got nachos and soup to start, a round of margaritas, and then fajitas. Food was served sizzling hot and with everything you could need right in front of you. Best restaurant in the city hands down we adored this place!

Chandra Bosley

The service was great, the atmosphere family friendly, The parking lot located to the left should open earlier, overall I had a great experience and the food was brought out in a timely fashion.

Larry Dominguez

Loved it. Old historical restaurant. Great service and food & drinks all around. All employees were very attentive. We had a couple of margaritas, guamole made table side. I had the cheese enchiladas & chili relleno. Sauce was excellent. Can't wait to go back soon.

Delicious food, great service & cool ambiance!!! Will definitely be back especially pre show Orpheum theater!! Ivan the bartender was professional,friendly & took great care of me!! Angel the Guacamo…

Delicious food, great service & cool ambiance!!! Will definitely be back especially pre show Orpheum theater!! Ivan the bartender was professional,friendly & took great care of me!! Angel the Guaca…

Delicious food, great service & cool ambiance!!! Will definitely be back especially pre show Orpheum theater!! Ivan the bartender was professional,friendly & took great care of me!! Angel the Guaca…

Delicious food, great service & cool ambiance!!! Will definitely be back especially pre show Orpheum theater!! Ivan the bartender was professional,friendly & took great care of me!! Angel the Guaca…

Great food and absolutely amazing servers!!! They had to attend to a large party and we never noticed a lapse in service. Best service ever!!!

Great food in a perfect location with polite service... nice clean restaurant with reasonable prices and an overall memorable setting to enjoy with family and friends!!

Great food in a perfect location with polite service... nice clean restaurant with reasonable prices and an overall memorable setting to enjoy with family and friends!!

We were there for a concert at crypto and were pleasantly surprised at 1) service quality 5 2) food quality 4 3) they were solely playing the music of the artist we were going to the concert for 10

For unbelievable mexican food you must try this place! This has been my favorite spot for years! I love the nachos and the sizzling shrimp fajita place! Get a margarita as welll! And by the way, th…

This salad was delicious and the service was great! The waiters were so kind and margaritas are delicious. I love the ambiance Spanish feels to the restaurant. Will be back!

Good luck finding cheap street parking\nHuge lot south of restaurant\nSpacious size interior\nLots of tables, cozy vibes & bar area is also cozy \nClean spacious bathrooms\nMedium sized menu, predi…

I had a difficult time choosing what to order but I decided on the Carnitas. They were the best carnitas I’ve had in my life (and I’ve eaten a lot of mexican food). Hidden gem in downtown!!!

I'm very picky about mexican food and when I travel it's hard to find a place that has good, authentic mexican food. I came across this restaurant while in town for the weekend. Their signatu…

I'm very picky about mexican food and when I travel it's hard to find a place that has good, authentic mexican food. I came across this restaurant while in town for the weekend. Their signature m…

The drinks were delicious! Food was great. Had a platter with chimichangas and nachos. I had the coconut margarita and my friends had the zapatas margarita (very strong!). Cute restaurant!

We were looking for an authentic sit-down mexican restaurant close to our downtown hotel and we found El Cholo via Google. It's safe to say that this place deserves a higher rating than it current…

Classic LA restaurant! The quaint original 1923 adobe-tiled restaurant is tucked between large downtown buildings. The food is mild and maybe more gringo-oriented flavor-wise. But a fun experience.

Kurt Wallach

Came in solo mid afternoon prior to Kings game. It's close to Residence Inn and the arena. I thought prices were a bit high. But quality of my margaritas and tacos were high. The salsa that came w the complimentary chips was kinda lame, but the chips came in handy scooping the rice and beans from my taco plate. Service was decent. Recommending the Al Carbon tacos.

Itsjadenhanks

It wasn’t bad to be honest. Food kinda took a minute but the staff was decent. Not really much to say, nothing that really stood out to me.

Peter Bonamici

Middle of the Road Tex-Mex. Food was good, very greasy, exactly what you expect, nothing remarkable from it. Feels like a watered Don Cuco but still hit the spot in a pinch. Definitely suffering from “big chain restaurant” syndrome but waiters were nice and kept my chips and water filled the whole time.

Mar Sol

Wonderful historic restaurant. Love that the plates have the year in which they were introduced. The wait staff was super friendly and accommodating. Their homemade flour tortillas are delicious. The carnitas burritos got thumbs up. The only thing that didn't get a thumbs up were the corn tortillas.

+22

Aadhya Pandya

I loved the atmosphere and the food was delicious as well. Most of their plate size is enough for one person. The service and Ambience were nice very aesthetic.

+1

D MOORE

Seem like a nice place with a rich heritage and history in Downtown LA so hard to give them only 3 stars. Truth is food was marginal and Margaritas was large but lacking flavor. I have had soo many tastier Mexican dishes and drinks at far less attractive locations. But this place has character and history. Overall menu execution needs improvement.

+5

Service was good but the food was atrocious!! It's the worst mexican food I have ever had the chile relleno was sweet for some reason and the tamales were hard and dry. The rice was undercooked the…

I ordered a carne asada combo platter. My payment was around $32. The amount of food I was provided with was much smaller than expected for the price I paid for. There are other restaurants that pr…

Old school, ambience, very authentic style, the food was good. The drinks are excellent and the service reliable. Restrooms are always kept clean and quite frankly, the restaurant itself is clean.

I got food here while attending a meeting at the convention center, which is a short walk away. Although there are indoor tables, I preferred carry out. service was prompt and the burrito that I …

I got food here while attending a meeting at the convention center, which is a short walk away. Although there are indoor tables, I preferred carry out. Service was prompt and the burrito that …

I came here again with a group of people and I had something different since I didn't enjoy the tamale last visit. I had the Sonora Style Enchilada which comes with red and green sauce and topped wit…

Among the oldest in the LA area. What is fun on the menu is that dishes are labeled for the daye they were introduced on the menu. Busy but one can hear. Eat there for the experience.

Jeff H

Had a decent lunch here- not bad, but nothing special. I was hoping for something different from what I could get at pretty much any tex-mex joint on the east coast but it was more or less the same. Good, but nothing stood out.

Efren Ramirez

First time coming by this Sunday, we walked in. There was not a lot of people. It was too quiet,our food was okay. I'm not good enough to come back, did not taste a 100%. Mexican authentic, the presentation was good, but the taste just wasn't there. Too many other, it's great places in the area to even think about coming back to this one.

PJ Leitner

Seated pretty quick despite being told it would be a 45 min wait. The server was busy, but food arrived 10 minutes after ordering. My drink never did. When I asked to just cancel it, she said, "Let me check". My drink came out when I was half finished with my meal. At that point, I really didn't want it. The margarita was ok, the burrito was mostly rice and beans and very little carne asada. The included salad wasn't the freshest lettuce. Overall, it's disappointing. My spouse had the chile relleno, which was not cooked through. In summary, prices have gone way up, service was fair, food was meh. Sorry ElCholo, I've been eating at one or the other outlets for years, this time I. DTLA was a miss.

Food was delicious hands down, love a clean bathroom, but they need to work on clean silverware, dusting the restaurant more often and better parking.

We stopped by on a Sunday since the brunch spot downstairs was a 40 minute wait. I was surprised that there weren't many people eating at the restaurant since it was packed everywhere else. \n\nThe…

The sides are great. Beans, rice, tortillas, guac, chips and salsa, but I have tried multiple main dishes that were just ‘eh’. I can’t seem to find what has kept this place in business all these ye…

It’s been around forever and I have always heard the name....but I didn’t care for it. I asked for a steak recommendation and the waiter immediately said ‘Tacos Al Carbon.’ Being that it’s not even…

I was disappointed with this location. I’ve been to other El Cholo restaurants and had much better experiences. Our server seemed overwhelmed, as he was handling many tables at once, and it affected the service. We experienced slow refills on our drinks and felt some attitude when we asked for things. The food was also not to our liking. We had to return the carne en su jugo because the sauce was extremely thick, more like a tomato paste than a smooth broth. The tortilla soup was very salty as well. Overall, I’m glad I tried this location, but based on this experience, I would not return.

Possibly the worst Mexican food I have ever tasted... \n\nThe service was great, but can't say the same about the food. The seafood enchilada was horrendous... I almost gagged when I took my first bi…

Possibly the worst mexican food I have ever tasted... \n\nThe service was great, but can't say the same about the food. The seafood enchilada was horrendous... I almost gagged when I took my …

Possibly the worst Mexican food I have ever tasted... \n\nThe service was great, but can't say the same about the food. The seafood enchilada was horrendous... I almost gagged when I took my first …

Possibly the worst mexican food I have ever tasted... \n\nThe service was great, but can't say the same about the food. The seafood enchilada was horrendous... I almost gagged when I took my first …

It's a place that I been wanting to try to scratch it from my list.\nFYI this is my personal experience! I encourage you to try it for yourself \nMy food had no flavor, food was cold, and definitely …

It's a place that I been wanting to try to scratch it from my list.\nFYI this is my personal experience! I encourage you to try it for yourself \nMy food had no flavor, food was cold, and definit…

Customer service was okay, they only came to us once and that was to take our order, they also forgot something we ordered and had us waiting for it knowing it wasn't gonna come. \n\nThe place is n…

I dined here last night. There was a hockey game at the Crypto.com Center, so there was a 25 minute wait. Our party of five was seated, but the service was scare. The restaurant was pretty crowded …

Today I excitedly went to El Cholo for the first time and I looked forward to tasting the delicious food and experiencing the excellent service that so many folks write about in their comments. Sad…

The restaurant has a more Americanized take on Mexican food, which may appeal to some, but it wasn’t quite what I was expecting. Many of the dishes seemed to use a similar tomato-based sauce, so the flavors didn’t stand out much. The cocktail drinks were disappointing and lacked balance. The place got very busy, and unfortunately the service didn’t keep up, so customer attention felt limited. Tables are also quite small, which made dining a bit uncomfortable. Overall, it may work for a quick visit if you’re nearby, but it wasn’t a standout experience for me.

Waldin Gonzalez Golden Bear

So sad to see an iconic restaurant go downhill.... we ordered the chichen enchiladas, and the chicken was so dry, the carne asada quesadillas were super greasy, and the steak tasted gamey. The margaritas were overpowered by the mixer, at $16.00 per drink, we were expecting better drinks. The patio area was great and our server was nice even mentioned to give us a different dish but it was already too late. Maybe it was a slow day and the food was just sitting, unfortunately the food is not fresh.