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El Cazador Méxican Grill — Mexican Restaurants in Leeds

El Cazador Méxican Grill

Mexican RestaurantsLeeds, AL

4.3 out of 5 stars4.3(1,207 reviews)

Quick info

+1 205-699-1655
1846 Ashville Rd, Leeds, AL 35094, United States
inexpensive

About El Cazador Méxican Grill

On Ashville Rd in Leeds, El Cazador Méxican Grill is a Mexican restaurant making its chorizo in house. Meals arrive with fresh chips and salsa, and the nachos are a recurring order alongside the house-made chorizo. A lunch special appears on the menu, and the sweet chimichanga rounds things out as a dessert option. Servers seat guests, manage a waitlist at busy times, and handle drink refills through the meal. The restaurant takes walk-ins rather than reservations and opens daily.

Reviews

4.3/5
1,207 reviews

What reviewers say

Reviewers most often mention fresh guacamole, mexican nachos, chicken quesadilla supreme and chorizo made in house.

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Customer Review Summary

Mexican nachos draw the most praise, with the in house chorizo singled out as especially good, and reviewers also highlight the fresh guacamole and generously portioned dinner specials with plentiful leftovers. Margaritas come up as a favorite for girls' nights out, and the lunch specials and sweet chimichanga dessert get called out as good value. Complaints recur around inconsistency: several describe cold or soggy food, a chicken quesadilla Supreme arriving plain instead, mismatched food timing between diners, and a to go order that had no flavor after tasting fine dine in. Service is described as inattentive at times, with one visit noting no drink refills or check ins, and one reviewer reports rude treatment from staff seating waitlisted guests, though the register staff was described as kind. Most seriously, one diner reports being served an undercooked, meatless burrito and encountering raw sewage in the parking lot along with a staff member vomiting near the kitchen entrance. Another reviewer notes the waiters have improved over time despite occasional off days.

Featured reviews

  • Papa Floyd
    “I've dined in there several times didn't have time to tonight so I ordered it to go and stop by there on the way home and pick it up it was most definitely not near as good as it was dying in it was more like it was quickly thrown in a go box and call it good to go no flavor what so ever threw it away didn't bother eating it after the first few bites”
  • Kristy Champagne
    “Raw sewage leaking from building into parking lot. Literal toilet paper oozing out of the drain into car park. This was what we came out to after being served a “burrito” that was literally a flour tortilla wrapped around 10 pieces of over cooked pork. No beans, no rice, and when asked the waitress is this the burrito, she replied yes a tortilla and some meat. When I cut open the chilli relleno it was filled with a meat like substance she called ground beef. It literally looked like cat food and the taco was the only thing I tried. It too was filled with the “ground beef” and the taste was that I can not totally describe. Needles to say I couldnt eat any of it. My partner had the shrimp fajita which he enjoyed and we had to share. When we went to leave there was an individual vomiting at the kitchen entrance. You can’t make this up, it was so surreal an experience we had to share. The over all vibe was so weird and beyond bazaar, if we had seen and smelled the parking lot at the start we would have avoided this place ten fold! I would say go experience it yourself but we are still hoping we don’t end up like the kitchen staff!!!!!”
  • Bryan Hancock
    “This place has some good mexican food! I dont know if this is the same restaurant that is on Montevallo Rd that I used to eat at all the time but it has the same name. I got the dinner special- something like that- it had so much food I couldnt eat it all. Took leftovers home and I couldnt finish it for lunch the next day either. Definitely will be going back.”
  • Tracy Farley
    “El Caz is an absolute staple for our girls' nights! You honestly can't beat it when you're looking for great margaritas, delicious food, and the perfect atmosphere to just sit back, catch up, and talk for hours. It never misses for a fun night out with the girls!”
  • Laura Mann
    “Very rude and disrespectful. I understand being busy. But to just completely have no respect for the customers you are serving. If you don’t want to work with the public then you shouldn’t have a job in customer service. It was the two young ladies that were sitting people and putting people on a waitlist tonight. The girl at the register was super kind and actually tried to help me.”

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Good to know

  • Reservations
    Walk-in only

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