El Bruno's

We stopped by El Bruno's and had a delicious meal of carne adovada enchiladas with red chili! Service, food and the Christmas atmosphere was exceptional!

I don't know where to start. Authentic, amazing, New Mexican food! The chips and salsa were perfection. The chips were nice and warm, and that salsa! Yum! The only food I didn't care for that I ordered was the appetizer of Chicharrones. It was definitely reheated multiple times. My order of the Carnitas Ala Mex Plate was out of this world. The skirt steak was the most flavorful and tender bites of steak I've had. Now normally, I'm a green chile fan, but I wanted to try both and got Christmas on my enchiladas. Red all day! So much flavor! (And it's the spicier option fyi). Also stole a Sopapilla from my Dad's order of the green chile stew. Perfect sopapillas. All in all, I am in LOVE with the flavors here. But I will be skipping the chicharrones next time. The server was great. And if you can see the decor pictures- there's a huge room in the back for meetings that would be semi-private! Definitely try the skirt steak!!!!!

We went in on a Friday Night. It was a bit busy but not crazy, and we had reservations so we weren't worried about a wait anyway. Luckily our service was good or this would be a 1 star review..... Our waitress was young, but super attentive and was on top of everything our table needed timely. The Rellenos are absolute TRASH. Without a doubt the worst Rellenos I've ever had and I've had a lot! The frozen ones costco used to sell were better than this sad excuse of a relleno, and it isn't close....... I ordered the green chilli on the side so they wouldn't get all soggy right away. Even with the chilli on the side they showed up soggy as a wet sock stuck in a huntin boot all day! Tasted about like a wet sock to! Very Bland and unseasoned. I had to look for the cheese because there was so little of it! Rellenos have 2 ingredients inside...chilli and cheese, and this was basically just soggy breaded chilli. The beans were decent and the rice was pleasantly good. I usually don't expect much for Spanish rice, but this was better than most I'll say. 20 bucks for 2 rellenos that were abysmal and a small bit of beans and rice is wild though. I can go a few miles south and get a relleno for 3 or 4 bucks and it's 10x better than this soggy, bland insult of a relleno. I also tried some bites of a chicken taco and a shredded beef taco(both were also bland and flavorless). My bro was gave me one bite of the stuffed sopa with carne adovada that he got. That was by far the best thing i tried, and if I ever get forced to return here that's what I'll be getting, but I will never choose to return on my own. The salsa at the start was also good. The chips however had more salt than the Atlantic ocean..... Some of them were fine, other's seemed to have been wet first then a pound of salt poured on them so it stuck to them. Odd, but I've never seen so much salt just stuck on a chip before! And it wasn't just one. It was like every 3 or 4 had it. Overall this place won't see my money unless someone else chooses it and we can't get out of going. If you do go here DO NOT be fooled into ordering their rellenos. I'd recommend the Carne adovada stuffed sopa, or just stick to some beer and get food after......

Hearty New Mexican style food. Service is always good. Restaurant is clean and well kept in traditional south western style. Big fan of the shrimp tacos. The chile can be pretty hot but good. The rice could be better. Tonight the sopapillas were a little old and hard. Eaten here many times and this is a first this has happened.

My son and I went Saturday 11/18 around noon. We were seated promptly and given drinks along with chips and salsa. That's where the service stopped. They weren't that busy but a bowl of stew and enchiladas took 45 min to receive. We got drink refills about 30 min into it. Overall the food was adequate but stew was meager at best. I had the added bonus of a large bone in my bowl and not much pork. I won't go back due to the poor service.

Delicious, and authentic New Mexican food! We stopped here for a late lunch, and were greeted to an attentive waiter who brought delicious salsa and fresh chips. The ambience has an old western type of vibe. Somewhere that Ansel Adam's would have definitely stopped at. I got the tamale, enchilada, and taco combination plate! The best red and green chile flavor I've had in years! The red is very smoky and just spicy enough to get your nose sweating. The green is very flavorful with a good balance of heat. Then we were on to the sopapilla! Hot, fresh, and flaky with a sweet finish brought the meal to a dank dank close.

The one STAR is for NO SALSA and CHIPS. NOW there is a charge.Not enough staff help. Waited awhile for service at the bar. One waitress?Happy hour the cost has gone up. Portions are small. Amount not on menu. Will not return.

The one star is for the salsa. We had lunch there today after staying away for a few years. I was hopeful there would be improvements with the food quality but nope! We definitely won't be going back. Their ground beef tastes weird and everything was so salty. Their green chile looks like mush.

From the beautiful building, to the fresh, delicious food, we had a wonderful experience at lunch today. I had the carne adovada stuffed sopapilla. The meat was tender, the red chile hot and flavorful. My sister-in-law had skirt steak wrapped in a flour tortilla. She raved about the meat. The Christmas decorations were so tasteful and beautiful, it really made our lunch feel special. The service was friendly and attentive. A big thumbs up to El Brunos!

This is an end of a era of eating out. New Mexico is completely disappointing. First time I have eaten at this establishment and the last. Not because the staff was horrible. It is not their fault. The food cost are ridiculous and the portion sizes even more so. I order cheese and onion enchiladas with red sauce, no rice, with a side of guacamole. First off, this was not enchiladas, it was two flat corn tortillas with cheese with purple onions sprinkled on top. Very few onions at that which I prefer. I got an extremely small amount of guacamole and well, to say the least, the enchilada sauce was tasteless. I am so tired of tasteless food.Unsatisfied with the meal, the bill comes. I ended up paying $19 and tip for a small plate. What? I had no meet. Only cheep corn tortillas, a quarter cup of beans with maybe an 8th of a cup of cheese and a small spoonful of guacamole. And literally a dash of onions. A $1.25 was added for the dash of onions. Really, who does this? I expected a charge for the guacamole, but $1.50 for a spoonful? Really? Y'all need to figure out how to stop screwing people over for a small plate of food that cost maybe 5 bucks. All I did was pay for the staff, the electric, water, waste.. to sit there and be completely in utterance of disbelief of how Americans have let go of quality and expect a return. And I stand here saying, what if this was take out? I would have the same experience, but without the use of the wait staff, seating, ect. Ridiculous The lighting was horrendous as well. Everything LED it hurt my eyes. Not ever going back and do not support another boring New Mexican food establishment, that some ancestor is turning in their grave for how pitiful the new generation is clearly damaged goods.