El Ok Corral Mexican Restaurant

Our dinner group regularly returns to El Ok Corral Mexican Restaurant in Old Hickory for a Mexican fix.Enjoyed entrées of Enchiladas Chicken Suizas in green sauce (Salsa Verde), and Carne Asada Burrito with sliced avocado and sides of Mexican rice and beans. Tortilla Soup still missing from the menu. Washed down with draught of Heineken-owned Dos Equis.Service is warm and attentive.My gripe is the décor and upkeep are in need of maintenance and repair...takes away from the dining experience (see pics). Draught beer selection is limited to Dos Equis and Bud Light.Open daily, lunch and dinner. Private parking off Lebanon Road.

This is a great little Mexican restaurant! The salsa is obviously homemade and flavorful. The margaritas are good. The food is good and the service is good. Worth it!

This name seems to sum it up - it is just ok, though barely. The atmosphere is very colorful, and massively overlit, like every light has a 100 watt bulb in it which is annoying and uncomfortable. The food does not seem fresh. Salsa seemed to be out of food service/premade, though might be just that they over prep everything; again food doesn't taste freshly made; Just cold like it's been sitting on a fridge for days. My chili relleno had no cheese in it, and tasted soggy and old, tho temperature wise it was cooked. The breading was weird which again, seemed to be from where it had been sitting awhile so that it didn't cook right. My food came out super fast - like 3 mins from order to boot - plate and heat.What leads me to this is also how their bar is. It isn't a bar, though it looks like it. It's really just a drink station for the servers. All drinks pre-mixed, no bartender. Servers come back and pull the premade margs (supposedly with alcohol too) though they are very weak and watered down. Food was not great. And for price, not worth it. Service was nice. Their cucumber jalepeno marg had good flavor though weak. Sadly this place is skippable. Two other places in close proximity have WAY better food than here.

Food was good, we got free salsa and chips. Our server was very nice. The restaurant was very loud.

Arrived at 5 pm on a weekday. The restaurant was not very busy. It was our first time visit as we just moved to the area from Dallas. The young hostess was at the host stand , no smile, no warm welcome. Took us to table and dropped menus on table and said enjoy. No smile. She did stay busy keeping track of seating guests on a large dry erase board that usually is not in view of the customers. Tacky. Server walked up " what do you want to drink". My husband ordered a cocktail and I got a Diet Coke. Drinks came and I got a Dr Pepper. No big deal. No apology. Server did not make any recommendations or suggestions. I ordered the flauntas and my husband ordered what was called rice and chicken entree and he added shrimp. My food came by itself and his arrived a few min later. Mine was so bland. There was no taste to it at all. Disgusting. I ate maybe one piece of the four. My husband had two bites and his was tasteless. I tried a Shrimp. Again no flavor at all. No manager table visit. The server did not check back with us. We barely ate. Any server would notice how much food was left on our plates and asked. I usually speak up but was disgusted. We spent 43.00 for two of us and went home hungry still and made dinner at home. Ok, we may know what great Mexican tastes like as we lived in Dallas but this was not even close to Mexican. Finally the table and chairs felt sticky and dirty. I have no clue why the parking lot is usually full. If your a Mexican Restaurant you shouldast least have a good salsa. Nope. Save your money and cook some great fajitas or tacos at home. Or.... Taco Bell is close too ! Sorry y'all. Just disgusting and I'm leaving this three days after the visit and wanted time to not be emotional

This is by far the best mexican around. It is always gm crowded! I get the shrimp quesadilla and it is full of huge, grilled shrimp! It is enough for two meals. The service is always great. They always have happy hour with very cheap margaritas! I always come out of my way to come here!!

I've been going to the El OK Corral since I moved back to Nashville (Hermitage) in 2016. The food is always fresh and good. Legitimate Mexican food. I lived in Southern California for a lot of years and had some true Mexican places to eat. This rivals them. The service is always fast and friendly and I love the ambiance with all of the art on the walls and in the furniture. Give it a try if you're hungry.

Really awful experience at this place.We decided to celebrate Father's Day by going out, and gave this place a try on a whim. We walked in and were greeted (term used loosely here) by a young woman who I wasn't sure was an employee initially because of her disheveled appearance. She wasn't welcoming or friendly. We asked to sit outside and she said it was smoking...I only saw one person out there so I thought it would be okay. It wasn't and was too smoky for us so we went back to the original table. I apologized several times for the inconvenience of having to re-seat us.After we were led to our table, my behind hadn't even hit the booth before a server approached and said "what do you want to drink?". No hello or how are you, unsmiling. I asked for a virgin margarita. He said "we don't do that". I was incredulous because it's so easy to make, and we were literally sitting feet away from a fully stocked bar! He informed me again that they don't do that. I ordered a virgin daiquiri instead, which was so terrible that I drank a sip or two and didn't finish it. My husband, thinking maybe I was exaggerating tried it and said "Yeah, that's bad". Our table was in a back area where there was a door leading to a smoking area. It reeked like smoke every time the door opened which was frequently. I'm not sure why they sat us back there since the entire front dining room was practically empty. There was no music, so nothing to help buffer the loud chatter from the large party next to us the whole time sitting in very close proximity. We ordered our food after a few minutes, and it came super quickly. Unfortunately the food wasn't good. The beans had a metallic taste to them...My husband agreed that they tasted off, like soap he said. My 2 year old wouldn't touch them, and she loves refried beans. I ate one taco and couldn't touch the rest. We waited for the check, I tried to make eye contact with our server who was leaning against a wall, conversing with other employees. My husband eventually had to go track him down. You pay up at front at check out window that feels like a convenience store. There are signs EVERYWHERE stating that alcohol cannot leave the premises, in red lettering. The same woman from before checked us out. Again no smile, no thank you. We went home and both my spouse and I had stomach trouble all night. I mean, beyond the food being bad...I was struck by the lack of customer service and complete lack of ambience. I felt rushed and unwelcome. I felt like our night was ruined and we wasted money on a terrible dinner. I would not recommend this place to anyone.

My parents eat there every week and I love getting takeout from there. Fajitas are wonderful

Still looking for a great Mexican restaurant and was hoping El Ok Corral would be the one. Most of what we ordered was good, not great, but like all the other Mexican restaurants we've tried in our area, the tacos are made with pre-made taco shells. Just like the kind you get at Taco Bell. Where are the REAL tacos found in Nashville? We miss our wonderful Mexican food in So Cal so maybe we'll open a franchise of our favorite restaurant.