Real good looking food with absolutely no flavor. The food here makes for good pictures but that's as far as it goes. We ordered a few different dishes and not even the chicken mole had flavor. The ribs were also no good. From my opinion the food is much to expensive for having little to no flavor. Worst of all was the customer service.
I regret trying this place out.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
$30–50
Food: 1
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 1
Late post but I need to share this experience and warn future potential customers. Ordered, Mole w/ chicken breast, tamale w/ mole, chiles rellenos all came with rice & beans and we ordered Tlayuda real de Oaxaca. This place does not have authentic food. Flavor is bland, chicken is chewy, the only good dish was the chiles rellenos cheese only. The tamale was mushy and disintegrated Horchata is watery, Jamaica they say is fresh but it comes in a plastic container, but it’s good. Service was good up until we asked for the bill. Waitress has attitude. Place is overpriced and not worth it. Avoid this place I messed up and told my family it was good based on reviews. They hate me now 😖 On top of that. My sister was double charged. Managers Jerry and Jerónimo tried telling us she wasn’t but her bank confirmed she was. Jerry promised me he would resign since he approached me with a disrespectful attitude and acted like a parent scolding his children, not the attitude of a manager. He stated he had lots of options and didn’t need this place. They argued with us telling us we they didn’t double charge. We waited an hour for Jerónimo to get off the phone with the bank. We had family waiting in the car and these people kept us waiting. Jerry offered to refund us the food out of his pocket then he said oh no I can’t this place is not my business. Jerry was childish and unprofessional rushing us out the door. I should have recorded them. This all started because Bertha the waitress wanted a $97 dollar tip. Check your bank account as soon as you pay with a Credit Card, this place is robbing people. Oh my brother got a tour of the kitchen Jerry wanted to prove something to him, he proved that the kitchen has frozen food and back of house staff don’t follow cleanliness guidelines. Avoid this place.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
$20–30
Food: 1
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 1
I had a great experience here with my parents they really enjoyed the food and the service will be back soon
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Lunch
Price per person
$50–100
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Recommended dishes
Tlayuda Choriqueso
This is by far one of the best Mexican restaurants I have ever eaten. The food is typical Oaxacan, and is the best. Hand made tortillas, different mole styles, Cafe de la olla, we had the huitlacoche empanadas, and enchiladas, very authentic, and also pan de azucena, delicioso 😋. I recently had a very bad experience at el Torito in Redondo Beach, you can read my review. But from now on El areal de Oaxaca is my favorite and my wife's as well. By the way our server Jeremías was superb.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Lunch
Price per person
$20–30
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Recommended dishes
Tlayuda Choriqueso
