Two locally owned famous restaurants in Sedalia, Missouri, El Espolon and El Tapatio, are both recognized as quality, authentic Mexican restaurants that serve Sedalia with outstanding service and great food. After paying each establishment a visit this past weekend, I have discovered some differences and similarities in the two. Although many of my relatives have chosen El Espolon as their favorite, I found El Tapatio to provide a more ethnic experience with their excellent food, sharp service, and clean venue.
I reviewed both restaurants on the same criterion: service, food, and venue. The service at El Tapatio ranked five stars compared to the rude service that I received for the light English speaking server at El Espolon. Juan, our El Tapatio waiter, was kind and always approached with a smile. He was accompanied by his coworkers who brought other things to our table, but he wanted to make sure that we were always alright. He always came to check on us and made sure that we were doing just fine. Marco, our El Espolon waiter, was rude and could not understand anything that i was saying. I give ten points for being an authentic Mexican but here in Missouri, we do prefer our servers to understand us. Marco was slow at taking our order and always got our drinks confused as well as our food. I asked for a sprite to drink due to my preference of not drinking caffeine, and was brought a Coca-Cola four times before I spoke to a manager about my mishaps and finally receiving my rightful order.
Everyone wants their food to taste superb when going out to eat. Both restaurants served excellent homemade chips and salsas as well as queso dip. Reading the menu to order was no problem and both places had a wide variety of options to choose...
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... composition class at school and was needing to take notes to compare his restaurant to another Mexican eatery in town. He let it go but watched me closely throughout the rest of my meal. I found this distracting and quite odd.
I came to the conclusion after comparing notes that my relatives had been deceived by their hunger when they decided that El Espolon was their favorite Mexican restaurant. After reviewing the venues, service that was provided, and food that I tasted, I reached the decision that El Tapatio was the number one Mexican restaurant in my book. Their excellent service, clean and bright venue, and tasty food made it hard to turn up a nose. I would suggest the restaurant to anyone with many occasions. From a family dinner after a long day, to a family lunch on Sunday after church, this restaurant is suitable for all occasions in little town Missouri.
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