El Desperado Mexican Grill & Cantina - (Near Sutton, london)

4 /5 A J: Nice little place for close enough Mexican food in the area. Limited menu and drinks options but service is good. They do live music sometime and it does get busy every now and then. Recommended for a light meal.

3 /5 Malyan Karolina (Caroll): Really nicely decorated place, good drinks and super lovely waiting staff! However apart from nachos and mega plain quesadilla my taco place and my husbands fajita were really bad. It really felt we got quantity over quality. I rarely write negative reviews but especially my tacos were tasting super bland despite being super juicy. It kinda felt like the chef just thrown mini conserved, store bought vegetables on a pan and then into another store bought taco shell. I think waiting staff is very well aware of how bad food is cause they were attending my table quite often asking: “how’s the food”. Neither me nor my husband had guts to be rude but genuinely we both made better Mexican at home. Really a shame, cause they could be very unique in South London where there is little of good Mexican food.

3 /5 Dinesh Iyer: The Sutton-Cheam area generally doesnt have a great Mexican scene (though I have reviewed a Mexican restaurant next to Sutton station) and to the extent that El Desperado addresses that gap, it is good. The food menu itself isnt unique and the dishes are average. However, the service is very good and the atmosphere is very Mexican, if theres such a thing. All in all, its a good place for some comfort/familiar food and drink at a reasonable price.

2 /5 Robert Colyer: No atmosphere, while other local restaurants were fully booked on a Saturday night at 7.30pm this place was mostly empty. After eating here I understand why. The food was all very generic with RTU sauces and tacos straight from the pack. The portions are not generous and the drinks are expensive. The chicken wings were embarrassing £8.95 for 6 wings that were tiny with no meat on them. When I spoke to the waitress and complained she told me thats how they came from the supplier, what are we supposed to do about it. Without rambling on about everything wrong with this place Ill just say I wont be going back. Lesson learned