El Michoacano Restaurant - Freedom, California

Baban Jit Kaur

Loud music and amazing party vibes. Food is spicy and yum. Came for a quick meal for our drive back to the Bay and were surprised by the scrumptious meal. Enjoyed the vegetarian tacos and tostados combo meals. And also experienced a birthday celebration. It was loud and cheerful. They had smoke machines, loud music, sparkles and fried ice cream dessert and the servers did two rounds and whistled while singing Happy Birthday. It was exciting to watch. Super clean restrooms.

Almendra Garcia

Shootout to Chefs Isaac & Francisco for making delicious food made with quality produce. The waitresses Jackie and Nickole are always super sweet and attentive. I've been coming here for years and I always leave satisfied ?.

Areli Lopez

This restaurant came up on my Instagram. Their PR sure knows how to take pictures because we drove to Watsonville to try their food.

This restaurant is located inside a plaza, so there is plenty of free parking.

We walked in and the lady smiled at us.
She didn’t approach us or say hello. There was no one inside. The restaurant was completely empty.

They had the TV’s playing and the music playing too.

We stood there until I came to the conclusion that we could sit anywhere.
There were menus on most of the tables. Coincidentally, there wasn’t menus on the table we chose to sit at.

Once we were seated, she came with menus. She didn’t say welcome or anything, just dropped them off and left.

I had to tell her we were ready to order.

We really liked that they had a full menu for kids and not just chicken nuggets with fries.

I watched as they cooked the food. It made me excited.

The presentation of the food is great.

However, the beans were below average. The rice looked stiff and it was dry.

The fajitas didn’t have flavor. 3 stars for the fajitas.

1 star for the sushi. It tasted as though they had dipped the entire roll in the oil. The entire roll was so deep fried. As a sushi enthusiast, this was one of the worst sushi rolls. To top it off, it was $22.

How deeply disappointed I was with the Enchiladas.
I immediately noticed they were flat. When I looked inside, they were filled with cheese 🙁 I couldn’t even finish them because there was already enough cheese melted on top with sour cream. It was cheese overload. I am not sure if they offer chicken, but the server didn’t ask what kind I wanted, or even check in on us once she brought out the food.

On instagram, they promote their alcoholic drinks so that may be their specialty because our food was definitely not delicious.

Definitely not worth $89.59.

Improve the customer service, welcome us in, check in on us. The TV and the music are both playing so it’s hard to hear.
When it comes to food, add flavor, add Sazon.

Nereida Avalos

The place was unsanitary. The cashiers/waitresses would use their hands without gloves to garnish drink and take payments at the sametime, they would whipping down tables and then go back to the drinks without washing their hands. Everything had my stomach twisting I wondered how the kitchen staff would be preparing my food. This was hard pass. never again will I be eating there. Now for the food tasteless no flavor and how they were presented was sticky and not pleasant to look.

Franco Zamorano

Holy cow, I was not expecting to eat this amazing food today. The amount of authenticity in this plate is incredible. This hidden gem is located in a strip mall in Watsonville, and it is worth any drive you have to make to get here.

David Langston

Loved the fried fish plate and my wife really enjoyed her chicken fajitas. They are dog friendly on their patio which is enclosed and heaters available. Will return on our next trip to Watsonville.

Loren Morse, REALTOR

?Tonight we pretended we were at a resort in Cabo for Spring Break

The great thing is we can still enjoy AMAZING seafood and cocktails and hit the beach without the expensive flight 😉 #santacruzliving

If you haven’t been to @elmichoacanowatsonville you need to take a break from reality and go with an empty stomach, because you will need a nap later ? lol ?

saul ponce

Good place to eat. Chill environment the food was great.
My wife got the 3 meat fajita (asada, chicken and shrimp) I tried it and it was delicious side note on the shrimp (I know a lot of Mexican restaurant don't clean their shrimp here they DO here) my wife said they were nice and juicy.
My self I got the Wet Chile verde burrito it was delicious and the meat was nice and soft. But before I took a bite at the burrito I tried the rice and beans and I told my wife if the rice n beans were that good e rest of the food has to be good as well.
Sorry about the picture, I should have taken the picture before I dig in. Thanks great service I'm coming back