When I was growing up in the 70's, my family and I would eat at our favorite restaurant several times a month. The name of the restaurant was El Toro's and was located in Huntington Beach on Warner Avenue, just west of Bolsa Chica Street. It closed in the early 80's and my family has missed it ever since. One of our favorite menu items was called a Mexita; a crisp corn tortilla with refried beans, chili sauce and cheese melted on top. It was the chili sauce that gave the Mexita its unique flavor, one that I haven't found at any other Mexican restaurant. Does anyone who remembers this restaurant know how they made this chili?This is a tough request, but if you got any info or memories of this restaurant, click on "Post a Comment" and share it with us.
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We also used to eat at El Toros when I was a kid. I cant believe its closed.
I remember eating there as well. We used to love the fish tanks. When it closed we started going to Marios on Springdale and Edinger. Great times there.
Omg it used to be in Sunset and my whole family went there all the time. The best mexican food ever. When it moved to Huntington, I had my baby shower there and my "baby" will be 35 this year! Besides great mexican food, the halibut was to die for...And of course the margaritas were out of this world..totally miss it.
Terry
How about the burritos; beans, cheese, onion, olives wrapped in large flour tortilla grilled in butter till crisp and sprinkled with parmesan cheese. At least that's how I make them....
NT of HB
My parents use to go there when it was on PCH. I didn’t go until after the move to Warner Avenue. Every time we went we would start the meal with a Mexita . . . never had anything like that since. The burrito Nancy described sounds great; now I’m hungry.
and the pineapple, kinda like in a tempura batter.
NT in HB
Let's open our own!
Our family loved this place too. We lived in Seal Beach, so we used to go there when I was VERY young and it was in Sunset Beach. We moved away in 1959, but we would still drive from the San Bernardino mountains to have dinner there. I was so happy when we moved back to Seal Beach for many reasons, but one was it was a much shorter drive! I LOVED the chips, the salsa (even as a 2 year old!), the refried beans, the halibut, the halibut sauce and YES, the deep-fried pineapple. Makes my mouth water still. I've been a vegetarian for nearly 20 years, but I'd eat fish again if it were one more halibut dinner at El Toro!
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