El Toro

3 Reviews on “El Toro”

• Projectlondon2010

  SURE TO BE SHUT DOWN ANY DAY NOW!. As a 45 year old massive steak fan this place is (sadly) the worst ‘restaurant’ I’ve ever been to in my life. The manager is rude and when my partner and I asked about the pungent smell of the place(which makes me sick just thinking about it now) he said he didn’t know what we were talking about and then hid in the back and refused to speak to us further. Do yourself a favour and avoid at all costs (even if the groupon voucher deal looks to good to be true! – that’s cos it is!)

  December 13, 2014, 11:02 pm

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• Carly

  Ive never left a review of a restaurant but I felt compelled to after visiting this place!! We purchased a group-on voucher which at the time looked like a good deal – what a mistake. I ordered the garlic mushrooms for starters but when they arrived they were covered in big bits of wooden twigs making the dish inedible(im assuming these were from the herbs). I spoke to the waiter, explained very nicely that I couldn’t eat it and asked to get a replacement (same dish but without the twigs) but after speaking to his manager I was told they would not replace the dish and if I didn’t like it I didn’t have to eat it!! I asked to speak to the manager but she refused to speak to me (!!) when I finally persuaded the waiter to change my food he took it to the kitchen and then brought back exactly the same plate of food 10 mins later – the only difference was that it was now freezing cold. Needless to say I didn’t eat it.The steak main-course was very fatty and the chips were the cheapest possible kind and deep-fried to within an inch of their life. I WOULD AVOID THIS RESTAURANT AT ALL COSTS…

  August 11, 2012, 9:13 am

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• H4YTH4M

  Words can’t describe how bad this restaurant is, so I’m gonna use loads of them! I challenge anyone to find a worse piece of meat than what they serve at El Toro. I could go on for hours about how WRONG this place is, but I guess I’ll concentrate on the most relevant point which is their steak (since they claim to be a steakhouse). Unfortunately, I fell for one of Groupon’s dodgy deals and ended up with 60% off at El Toro, which might sound OK even for a mediocre meal, but it isn’t in this case! Even though the place is new, you get the feel that furniture and cutlery are secondhand. Despite being rather hungry none of the starters seemed appealing or even worth paying restaurant prices for, so we went for their biggest sirloin steak, chips and salad. The chips were ultra tasteless and the salad must have been on our plates ages before a suspiciously overcooked and abused steak was added to the horrible equation. I say abused because I was served a 14.1oz medium rare steak that had didn’t have a drop of blood in it or anywhere near it, and to make it even more disgusting the chef – more like a child with an asbo – made several long cuts all the way through the steak (to cook it faster maybe!) which made it look like it was stabbed to death. I sent mine back and got a replacement that was probably even worse and just as knackered. We only finished a quarter of our food and ended having another meal elsewhere. I’m glad we didn’t hit dessert like the reviewer below. This place serves grey old meat badly cooked by probably the worst cooks ever and It lacks any atmosphere whatsoever. It’s like having dinner at a morgue with locally supplied meat.Disliked: Food, Service, Atmosphere, Value

  October 27, 2011, 8:36 pm

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