El Caporal Mexican Restaurant - Chester

Horrible service AND food.... even the water (in a plastic glass, with a short straw) was disgusting and lukewarm. Will probably never return there. Started with the waitress (I should have asked for her name!) - who never introduced herself; as we entered the door, she picked the menus and told us (2 of us) to follow her. No greeting whatsoever. We looked behind thinking she was talking to someone else! The restaurant was not even 1/4 full - she took forever to come back to take the order. By that time, we already knew what we wanted and ordered very quickly and simply: an entreé and a combo. She looked impatient - like if we were in her way or something. Really awful: a robot would have been nicer! No joke. Food arrived: O.M.G. - if you have hypertension - make sure to call an ambulance in advance, and let them stand-by. Unbelievably salty. I think they use a ready-made seasoning mixture and double the amount recommended. I could not finish even 1/4 of my rice and beans (equally salted to the extreme.) The fish in the tacos was not bad tasting (but also very salty,) but there was ony a few tiny pieces of fish (squares) in a small soft tortilla, with a couple of lettuce. They might use Sazon (or the alike) to season everything: there was one flavor for all, plus 1/2 pound of salt! With the horrible water, all that seasoning junk (I bet it was loaded with MSG - monosodium glutamate), and not a soda drinker... I had to leave and go home to get something to dilute that salt! After finishing eating 1/4 of the food - we had to grab another gentleman (server) to get the 'flavorless' waitress, to give us the check, which I regret paying for. (My fault: I was not in the 'quarreling mood' and was very hungry arriving there. Waitress 'mad-face' never, once, came back to check on us or see if we needed something. Again, I should have reported to a manager - but at that point, I thought: "They are probably a family or all the same. Why get more upset for nothing!" We just decide to never go there again; that is a bigger loss. Not sure if the positive, 5 stars here, are from reviewers who were paid to give high stars; or they went there at a different time; or if they got free food to give a good review. Unfortunately, there is a lot of that. But, some people had the same bad experience, as we did. Believe us! I usually write lots of reviews, and am brutally honest. If they were great, I would definitely had said so.