The food at El Tango is excellent; many flavors and the owner prepares them with many different ingredients. No complaints there.
However, the service and policies are some of the worst in the city. They had a teenage girl working there on Friday night who clearly had no clue what she was doing. You have to come in, wait in line (took 20 minutes JUST TO ORDER) with only three couples in front of us. After you order you can choose to sit at one of the five tables. If there are a couple of people already sitting in there, and the people who order in front of you then sit down to eat, there will be no tables open to sit at!!!
After waiting forever to order, we finally sit down at a dirty table. The person who we ordered with came out with half of our food (forgot my beer and my girlfriends salad) and finally cleaned up the table. I asked, "is this busy for you tonight?" and she said, "nah this aint nothing" clueless to my motive regarding the slow service time.
Oh yeah, bring your own water; it costs $2.50 a bottle for some Nestle garbabe bottled water. Beers are like $4.50. Yikes.
Here's a novel idea; hire a server; a compotent one.
Also, heard a lot about unsanitary conditions; the kitchen actually looks neat and clean but it wouldn't suprsise me if they kept certain things around longer then they should. I guess we got lucky.
The food is a 5 but the service is a 0. I'll give it three stars total. I'd suggest calling your order in and taking it to go.