El Corral Lozano #2

Food and service good. Smells bad in there to me like it’s in the building. Fabreeze might help. A little warm and stuffy too.

I come here for the breakfast tacos, and horchata. The tacos are always great, sometimes can be a bit greasy. The horchata is dead on. It’s not fine dinning, but could be a lot worse.
They have a drive through window, however it’s not like that have certain food, you order anything but you will have a few minutes to wait.

We went for dinner a few months back and I liked the tortilla soup. Recently we went for breakfast because word around town has it that it’s fantastic for breakfast. The parking lot only had a couple of cars when we arrived fairly early, but by the time we left it was almost full.
I was full and really enjoyed my Huevos con chorizo. It came with two hot flour tortillas, home fries, and refried beans, which were exceptionally good!
While my wife didn’t care for the sauce on her omlette, the rest of it seemed to be ok. It even came with avacado slices. Her hash browns were exceptional. I tasted them and loved them.
A friend had bacon and eggs. He was happy.
To make up for my wife not eating much, they took her meal off the bill. They bent over backwards to please us.
The service was good and I had my coffee filled multiple times without me asking.
True, it may not be the best atmoshpere, but it’s a typical «hole in the wall» with good food and good people.

We passed by this place on Saturday morning and the parking lot was packed, so we decided to come by for breakfast on Monday, making the assumption that a lot of cars meant good food. Upon arrival, we were pleased to see that half the clientele was of Mexican heritage and that’s usually a good thing at Mex joints. I went with my usual litmus test huevos rancheros and my wife had a couple of breakfast tacos. The huevos rancheros were mediocre. The chef overcooked the eggs, the sauce had one little piece of onion and one little piece of bell pepper and was otherwise no more interesting than a can of tomato sauce. The potatoes were, at best, lukewarm. The beans were excellent. I tried both the red and green salsas on the side. The red was bland and tasted like it had a dash of floor cleaning solvent in it.
While the green was hot (as in spicy hot), it lacked flavor. I’m not much of a fan of Jalisco in Bastrop, but it’s a lot better than this place. Guess I’ll have to continue to make the long drive to Las Jaliscienses at ²⁹⁰⁄₃₅ if I want good Mex.

Atmosphere and Cleanliness: Looked mid construction… not very clean.
Service: Service was good.
Food: Queso was awful… watery…Salsa was average… Rest of the food was average… ground beef had some flavor.
Worth the Adventure: Others to try in Bastrop still to come.
Queso was the killer for this Review…

Ah, back to my roots for my 100^th review (as in, back to reviewing a restaurant in the town where I actually live)!
So last night I decided to let my husband pick where/​what we should eat. This was one of the options he mentioned, and it sounded good to me too, so it was on. We stopped by my mom’s place beforehand, and she said she wanted to go with us.
We all headed to Corral Lozano. When we got there we were happy to see credit card decals in the window, and even happier to see that they had a special of 3 beef or cheese enchiladas with tea for around $ 6. The restaurant was bigger than I thought. When we got there there were only a couple of other customers, who seemed to have positioned themselves in a way conducive to watching the program playing on the TV (Sanford and Son, awesome!), but as we ate, 2 other couples showed up to eat.
My husband ordered the special (with beef) and a small caldo de res, my mom ordered a combo plate with 2 beef enchiladas and a tamale, and I ordered chicken ranchero enchiladas. Mom and I had a bit of a hard time deciding because the menu is so big. This place reminded me of what the Jalisco restaurant in Bastrop used to be like when I started going, since the menu was so extensive and prices were so cheap.
Food was good for the most part. Salsa was good, kinda peppery, included cilantro (which we like). Chips were decent, very yellow, given in sparse quantities (but waitstaff were happy to refill). My enchiladas were very good but I did find a big chicken bone (like, bigger than a dime) in them, so watch out. Mom liked her food … when I tried her enchiladas I noticed that the beef seemed to have been cooked with a lot of cumin … I probably would’ve gotten tired of that had I had a whole plate. My husband must have liked his enchilada plate because it was cleaned within 5 minutes. He liked his soup as well (as expected it had a huge chunk of meat, and some huge chunks of vegetables, some familiar and some unfamiliar)… it came with a plate of cantaloupe, rice, and pico, so it was a light meal in itself. Speaking of, the rice and beans were very good, though my husband thought the beans were at a bit too smooth of a texture. Flour tortillas were homemade, corn were not. Meals were listed as coming with tortillas, but we ended up having to ask for them. No big deal though.
We were all really, really full at the end of our meal.
The best part was, again, our meal totals. My mom paid 8.65 for her meal and coffee. My meal, and my husbands meal and a half came out to slightly over $ 18. For the amount and quality of food we got, that’s really great. We’ll probably be back in a few weeks, after we’ve rotated through the usual roster of Mexican food in Bastrop.