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| - I adore El Bravo!
I admit that I may be biased because I've been going here since the early 90's when I was just a wee child and thus this place is quite nostalgic for me, but no matter. It was literally 5 minutes away from the house I grew up in, so my family would come here at least once a month.
The food is great-and relatively cheap-no, it's not Filly B's (eww!) cheap, but it's certainly affordable, even for a broke college student like me. I almost always order the same thing--a bean and cheese burro with an extra flour tortilla--since I don't eat red meat or chicken (and because I'm a creature of habit). Their cheese crisp is also amazing-basic, but delicious. Good chips and salsa (chips are pretty good-thin, but good- but the salsa is GREAT!) Yes, they do charge for them, but I suspect they would be inundated with homeless people looking for free chips and salsa otherwise, since it's not exactly in the greatest neighborhood (Sunnyslope, represent!). I've heard their navajo tacos and green corn tamales are top-notch, as are their machaca burros, according to my (non-veggie) friends and family.
Their flour tortillas rock. I'm very picky about my tortillas, and these are the best I've tried here. They're leaps and bounds above the famous Carolina's tortillas, far superior to Via Delosantos (which is just a mediocre restaurant overall, IMO), and not even in the same category as tortillas from the chain restaurants like Manuel's or Macayo's. Their desserts are great, too, and the free cinnamon crisp-y things they give you with your bill are very tasty.
Now, what I DON'T like about El Bravo:
1) Hours: I'm a night owl. Please stay open later, EB! They close at 8 on weekdays and 8:30 on Fridays and Saturdays (I believe), and are closed on Sundays. I would really prefer if they stayed open until at least 9 on weekdays and 9:30 on weekends-I often don't get off work until 7:30, and I work 30 minutes away, so I can never come here on days that I work, which is unfortunate. I'm not asking them to turn into delux, but really-8 is waaaayyy too early to close.
2) Small parking lot. Not really their fault, but if you go on a weekend, you may have to park across the street.
3) Service. It can either be friendly and speedy (on a slow weekday night), or friendly yet slow as molasses (on a busy weekend night). I've gone there so much that the servers (there's only a couple of them that work there) usually remember me. Wish they had more staff so the service was better on weekends. Alas.
Overall, though, I love El Bravo-simple, no-frills, and utterly delicious.
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