El Chico Mexican Restaurant

El Chico is a great place to eat. They have amazing Mexican food and the staff there was friendly. The restaurant was very nice and clean and our food was out in a timely manner. The food was also hot when it came out and our waitress was on top of things. She kept the drinks filled and made sure everything was right. I will be going back to this place again. more

For Mother's day I took my wife it El Chico's since that where she wanted to go and we had great service. For a holiday it wasn't too crowded we didn't have to wait which was nice cause on most holidays around here the wait time is at least 15 minutes. (Of course we went later on in the afternoon after the church crowd left.) We had great service. Our server was on top of things and was even great with my daughter, cause she always wants to order on her own whether it be her drink or her food. She was patient with her. We never had to ask her to fill our drinks up as a matter of fact my wife had to tell her not to worry about that last refill cause we were about to leave. The tables were a little close and I am not sure if they are always like that or if they added a few extra tables because it was a holiday. They serve free chips and salsa and you can get tortillas if you ask for them and we ate so much that we had to take half our meal home but I think that happens at any Mexican restaurant, fill up on chips and salsa and can't eat your main meal. When we have good service like that we like to tip good too cause we know how hard it is to work on a holiday and have all those people to serve and trying to keep up. The way I tip depends on the service. Two thumbs up for this restaurant. more

We haven't been to El Chico in years, but when we used to go the food was ok. I wasn't crazy about the chili sauce they used on their enchiladas and thought their prices were a tad high for the quality of food they served, but the food was ok and service was good. I wouldn't say don't go there, but there are definitely better mexican food places in lufkin to eat at. more