Gorditas El Bonzai
Mexican · Pasaje Sur
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About Gorditas El Bonzai
At Gorditas El Bonzai, we're passionate about serving authentic Mexican cuisine in a warm and inviting atmosphere. Our restaurant offers a unique blend of comfort food and traditional dishes, made with fresh ingredients and cooked to perfection. From our signature menudo and chicharon tacos to our f...
At Gorditas El Bonzai, we're passionate about serving authentic Mexican cuisine in a warm and inviting atmosphere. Our restaurant offers a unique blend of comfort food and traditional dishes, made with fresh ingredients and cooked to perfection. From our signature menudo and chicharon tacos to our flavorful quesadillas, every bite is a taste of Mexico. Our friendly staff provides exceptional service, ensuring that you feel welcome and cared for throughout your visit. With a variety of options to suit every need, including takeout, delivery, and dine-in, we're the perfect choice for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Come experience the warm hospitality and delicious food that's made us a favorite among locals and visitors alike.
What Customers Say About Gorditas El Bonzai
Gorditas El Bonzai is praised for its authentic Mexican food, especially the daily soups, cheesy asada quesadillas, and menudo. The friendly cashier and quick service are also frequently mentioned. Some customers have reported issues with portion sizes, prices, and food quality consistency.
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Gorditas El Bonzai Pasaje Sur Reviews
The waitress that works here is the most beautiful woman I ever seen. I eat here now because of her. Great good too.
I have been really enjoying this restaurant's food I only been ordering on Uber but I can't wait to stop by and try there food and sit down to eat very soon. Keep making delicious and fresh food
Perfect place for lunch hour and the lady who works the cashier is delightful and very friendly.
This restaurant was highly recommended by Fernando Balderas. We were in town from El Paso TX for a family emergency. This restaurant was clean, food was excellent and our young lady server was very curious and with a happy attitude. Highly recommend. 5 🌟
The young lady that took my order was amazing. The tacos were great.. We shared stories and the food was made fresh and the wait wasn't long. I will definitely be coming back. The chicharon tacos were amazon.
Great place to eat , enjoy the service and the food is so good.10 out of 10 recommend!!
Honestly the food was delicious if you want to have a taste of real Mexican food this is your place We got a Menudo and it was delicious it really tasted like Mexican menudo from durango I know because my wife is from there and we have eaten there multiple times I got an caldo de res ih was so delicious the meat was perfectly cooked it was amazing. The chilaquiles are a big spicy buh so good. Honestly all the food I have tried here is delicious and not expensive at all. I love this place
I love their daily soups they really good !!!I definitely recommend 😋
Great home made Mexican food, flavourful, cheesy asada quesadillas are some of my favorite
The cashier is terrible barely audible and doesn’t answer basic questions about price directly which is how I ended up paying $11 for an orange juice (Hablo español, así que no fue un malentendido). Also, the google menu is outdated about 50-75% the current price. The food has always been good but clarify price because some items have gone up 11% - 40% from the menu posted online on their site.
Decided to stop in here for the first time ordered a pastor burrito the meat was awful. Mostly big chunks of hard fat. I basically spit out a quarter of this burrito due to the big chunks of hard fat meat if it even was meat.
Not only are the tortillas handmade but you get a scoop of hash browns freshly made with your breakfast dish. Great cafe de olla and the portions are fantastic.
Quality decreased, portions decreased. I miss the old placita de Durango. This "new" restaurant is the same as the previous just under new name and maybe new management, foods decent, it was better before.
The food portions are really small, and pricey we had 3 breakfast '"specials" and 2 can sodas for 48$ turns out even though it says special it's regular price, so they are false advertising I wouldn't recommended it you're better off going down the block to la haciendita they have better food bigger portions for half the price
Came in during the week for lunch and there was only one other table being waited. the wait time for the food was approximately 35 minutes for 3 gorditas & burrito. Burrito (Durango style) I give it an 8/10. Gordita Discada-5/10, it has bacon,spicy pepper,wiener, & veggies. Chicharrón en salsa verde-0/10. The refried beans tasted like they were canned beans and the chicharrón was from the one you get at grocery stores that are already bagged, the lard flavor just numbed my mouth. One bite and couldn’t even eat it. Gordita de Chile pasado 7/10. This one was pretty good and tasted like the authentic Durango style gorditas de Chile pasado. The waitress was extremely nice and attentive.
The food is good but the thing that made mad about this place is I order a Gordita de pollo idk correct me if I’m wrong but I’m thinking all gorditas come with at least a spoon of beans with the meat and noo it was just the meat like and they are almost 5$ a Gordita and u can’t be bothered to put a small amount of beans ? I’m a person where I like the food I will come back more times but Sandy if they don’t change this bc is somewhat expensive I will Have to go somewhere else
I found a SCREW in my food!! They said sorry and nothing else was done 🤦🏽♀️
The drinks are horrible. They have one cashier and one cook. The cashier does not know how to work the front of the house alone. She’s been there for some years now and still acts as if she doesn’t understand a person who is placing an order who speaks English, off of a Spanish menu. The Jamaica (juice) was watered down. I never tasted hibiscus so water down in my life. The lemonade was water down, and it tasted like soapy water, with little sugar, like the container that it was in wasn’t cleaned all the way. The cashier needed the cook to come to the front to explain to her what I was saying, and when I told them about my dissatisfaction of the juice, they ignored me, laughed and walked away, and I had to really speak up for myself in order to get some clarity and attention to my issue, which was never resolved. They need more help, someone with business skills and another cashier who speaks English.
Me and my son both got sick . I had chilaquiles with carne asada . And my son tacos de asada. The Chile was expired tasted sour. And the meat me and my son ate was no good . As soon as we left we both started having pains in our stomach and we got home throwing up.
Call before going to the restaurant to check hours of operation. Google has that they close a 8 but at our arrival the server informsd us they are now closing at 4 pm. (Gave 1 star because I didn't eat at the restaurant, I will but date once we eat here. Heard the gorditas were 👌🏾)
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2423 W 51st St, Chicago, IL 60632
Pasaje Sur, IL 60632
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