El Patio Mexican Restaurant - Fresno (CA)

3 /5 Guillermo Santillan: Overall, it’s a good place to eat, and the food was okay. We tried a little bit of everything. The molcajete wasn’t what we expected; the chicken was dry and overcooked. Our server took our drinks and never returned, so we had to flag down another waitress to bring them back (lol). The appetizers we chose the sliders and the bean dip were good. The fried fish, however, was overcooked, making it really hard to get the meat off the bones.

1 /5 Cassie L: I do not understand how this restaurant has so many good reviews. First of all- the vibe was off and terrible. There was a girl singing that sounded good, but the speaker was up so loud I could not hear myself think (1pm in afternoon). Then, we waited for 20 minutes before someone came by and took our order. If you like margaritas, I hope you don’t like good ones because they don’t have anything other than ‘well’ tequila. Also, I ordered a skinny margarita and the waiter did not know what that was. How do you serve margaritas and not know what a skinny margarita is???? My husband got a michelada that was the size of his head. He said it tasted terrible and hardly had any beer in it. Was filled with tomato juice. He barely drank it at all. Now we get to the food… we got chicken nachos and 2 chicken tacos.. gross. Chicken was barely edible and the nachos were luke warm. The tacos also had like nothing on them but raw onion and old looking cilantro. The saving grace was the corn tortillas that seemed homemade but hard to tell? It just wasn’t good. Like not at all. We did not finish any of it. Now to top it all off, I’ve been having aggressive diarrhea for the last 4 hours that I’m going to attribute to this restaurant because I haven’t eaten anything else. Do not go here.

5 /5 Tina G: Amazing service from start to finish! Our waiter Gilbert was attentive, friendly, and made the entire experience feel special. Truly top-notch service—can’t wait to come back!

5 /5 Jennifer Branscumb: had a great dinner tonight at El patio! Gilbert is amazing, super funny. Hes Definitely one of a kind and he took excellent care of us! And the food was delicious. We ordered an asada quesadilla, la diabla shrimp, and fish and shrimp tacos with a bucket of beers and a sexy Mexican coke for me A good time with top-notch customer service and yummy food! And super cute and comfortable place. All around, everything was great! Thank you, Gilbert!

4 /5 Angela Her: We got chips and salsa upon our arrival. Food took a long time considering we were the first party of 4 for lunch. They werent busy but it took over 30 mins to get our food. The server was friendly.