El Torito                   

600 Cannery Row

Monterey, CA  93940

831-373-0611                Map

Beth and I visited this restaurant with our friends Sherri & Lee while on our trip to participate in the Big Sur Marathon.

This restaurant is a part of a large chain of 69 throughout California.

The chips seemed to be stale and we requested a different batch. Same results.

Margaritas were OK.  I ordered the chicken tamale but think the chicken only walked through the cornmeal.

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Beth and I visited this restaurant with our friends Sherri & Lee while on our trip to participate in the Big Sur Marathon.

Lee found this restaurant and we decided to go to it after we completed the Big Sur Marathon. As a precaution we took a cab because we knew that we would be drinking many margarita's to celebrate. This place is somewhat out of the way and the cab driver needed help from his iPhone and Lee to find it.

Chips and salsa were good (much better than El Torito). Margaritas were very good and we drank many!

As I recall the food was very good. Sorry I don't have a clear memory of the food due to the margarita's!

5/14/2012

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Beth and I visited this restaurant with our friends Sherri & Lee while on our trip to participate in the Big Sur Marathon.

This restaurant was just down the street from our motel (San Luis Creek Lodge). We enjoyed the chips and salsa. As I recall they were multi-colored.

I had crab enchiladas that I thought were very good. Again we had many margaritas to celebrate the weekend and this time we did not need to use an iPhone to get to our destination.

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Beth and I visited this restaurant while on our trip to participate in the Big Sur Marathon. This was our last night before heading to San Francisco then home.

This restaurant was just down the street from our motel (Ocean Echo Inn & Beach Cottages). Though advertised as Mexican it was more a mixture.

In place of a Margarita (only beer & wine) I had a Sangria that proved to be good.

Food was good and they get great reviews on Yelp.

5/14/2012

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