Reviews for El Tapatio Restaurant & Catering in Santa Ana, CA

My friends celebrated their birthdays Food was delicious, service was good. Had an awesome time

That is not a restaurant it looks just like an event venue of course because it is but it was dark and it felt very lonely

This place is a scam I had placed my deposit of 500.00 and then made another 1000.00 payment prior to covid and then I had to... cancel everything I know you don't get the initial deposit back of 500.00 but I never got my 1000.00 back and the manager didnot return my calls when I was able to finally reach someone was told there was management issues. I will never book anythingwith them again. Read more

DO NOT GO TO THIS PLACE!!! This place is a total scam!! I had my event there and everything that can possibly go wrong did go... wrong! I deeply regret having my event there. The Owner Victor is hardly there, we would have a set time to meet up, he wouldeither be late or wouldn?t show up at all. I would always be speaking to random people when planning for my event which wasdoubtably suspicious. When I signed the contract it said there would be great food and plenty of drinks. The day of the eventthey didn?t have half of the things they promised they would have; such as their variety amount of drinks. They provided withdirty stained table cloths and chairs. The floor was so sticky as if they hadn?t moped it in months. The food was absolutelydisgusting. I went for the tasting and it didn?t taste nearly the same the day of the event. My guest weren?t able to eat thefood because it was to hard and uncooked. Victor, the owner was there the day of my event and I spoke to him about the food andhe said he would resolve the problem. At the end of the night, I got charged $600 for the extra platters that were served to myguest after they were at fault for serving uncooked food. I called Victor multiple times and days after the wedding to have aconversation with him in person about the event but he wouldn?t answer. When he finally did answer he short talked me he said hewould call back but never did. He owns other venue locations and I have a feeling he does the exact same fraud to other people.There is a sign saying they have a buffet on certain days and times, I would go multiple times and not once did they have thebuffet opened. Please be careful and don?t get involve with this place. They will just take your money and lie to you with falsepromises. Read more

Don't waste your time here. They advertise on the outside of their restaurant Lunch Buffet Tues- Fri 11-3, but have been by... there twice this month at around 12pm, and both times, I was turned away saying they were " closed ". Whatever that means??? they should remove that sign above their open door and put " Closed" instead. I won't waste my time anymore. Read more

Bad quality.. and this guy whit a long hair to rud.. dad and I went to ask for a salon rental but we was at the parking lot... talking and he get there whit a bad face asking what are we doing there . Telling us he owns the parking... such a badacctitud... Read more

Good food, cheap lunch. This place is a buffet Tuesday-Friday for lunch. Awesome.

Great food for the price of the buffet. Not too busy either