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| - I was all excited about El Toro moving closer to my house...and then I went there. For lunch. At 1pm on a Sunday. And there was absolutely ZERO parking. One of the nice things about the old El Toro was the humongous parking lot--even when it was packed with people inside, there was always a place to park. Irritating, but I was willing to look past it.
The new El Toro is, in a word, cavernous. Where the old one was cavernous-but-packed-like-sardines sort of way, this one is just full of space. It's nice that you're not all up on the table next to you. When paired with the shellacked, corporate decor of the new location, however, the ambiance is sorely lacking. I felt like I was eating at a big, faceless Mexican restaurant that you would find in a suburb of Madison or some other larger city. It was just...personality-less.
This is not to mention that they have changed up the menu. I loved their salsa for the garlicky flavor, but what I was served did not taste the same anymore. One of my friends always gets some sort of chicken nachos, and he said that this, too, was different. Sad.
That said, El Toro still has ginormous portions on the cheap, and I'm sure the booze still works. The service is still uber-efficient and attentive (you'll get new baskets of chips so fast your head will spin). I think I'll give another location a try next time, though.
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