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El Chorro has been since the early 1900's, but became a restaurant fairly recent. The place is charming and has a historical past with some nostalgic story behind the scene. It definitely has some history and an Arizonian feel giving you a homey feel.
For our food were treated with their famous sticky buns while we ordered a bottle of wine along with it. The sticky buns was to me just warm cinnamon roll. I wasn't too particularly too sure what the rave was but okay. For starters my date went for the Dungeness Crab salad and I ordered their Potato Leek Veloute. The crab salad was nothing all too inspiring, it was difficult to find some crab or avocado among the other ingredients of mango, arugula, fennel, and edible flowers; I think if it was larger in size the ingredients would shine, but would have been more of an entree salad by then. My potato leek soup was probably my favorite of the night. Nice creamy texture of the potato soup and whipped beets and mild hint of sweetness. For our entree my date ordered the filet steak and I shot for the sea bass. The filet was cooked to perfection and came with a peppercorn demi-glace; overall nothing too spectacular, but good. My sea bass was well seasoned and came with a fun olive citrus sauce, and whole olives that gave it some texture. Again, well cooked and the olive citrus was cool. To finish I ordered the Strawberry Scone Shortcake and my partner went for the Oreo Chocolate Cream Tart.
To end, service was on top of things and attentive. The place is lovely and I can see why it would make a great wedding venue, which it is. Overall, the food was well seasoned and well cooked, but I guess I wanted more whimsical and fun especially during Valentines Day -- Enjoy!
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