El Caporal

Went here with my husband for dinner. plus side we were seated right away. negative was Guacamole not fresh. Tamales were ok. Service so so

I grew up in So. Cal. and this is not the Mexican food I am use to, my husband is from Tx. and this sure isn’t Tex-​Mex, nor is New Mex. style. But we have lived in Canon City for 13 years and trying to find a restaurant you will even go back to is saying something, Having said that we like El Caporal a lot. Have not had anything bad in there and have been going there for the 13 years we have lived here.

Amazing food great service. Will defiantly be back back. Also very clean. Love Love love

Marg & food Mediocre at best. Food was fast but never saw waitress until she dropped off the check.

Stopped in for lunch. Wife ordered a chicken chimichanga. She received beef. Ok, no problem.
The problem was we just saw a chimichanga sent back from another table. Ours was returned within 15 seconds of it being sent back. I questioned the waiter. He said there was a mixup with the other table but «they didn’t touch it so it is ok.» We immediately got up and left after said my piece of how wrong and inappropriate that practice is. Will never go back.

Ordered a vegetarian. Best vegetarian I have eaten in restaurant for a long time. Service was not exceptional but I recommend this place.

Coming from Texas to here it’s been hard to find a decent Mexican restaurant. We’ve tried them all here and only two places are worth even going to. But this plus nope, not in my book. The first time we went my meat had no seasoning at all and was dry. My husbands isn’t like his plate either. Then we decided to give it a second chance. You never know maybe they were just having an off day. It happens. I ordered the fajita burrito it was all onions mainly and little bit of peppers and almost no meat. In top of that I ordered steak and got chicken. Never going back. And the service wasn’t pleasant at all.

Average at best. I’ve definitely had better, but I am from Texas so my standards are a little high. Chips and salsa were good and so were the sopapillas! My meal was the chicken burrito, and there was chicken bone in one of my bites. My boyfriend found hair in his dish, which wasn’t pleasant. The staff were pleasant, quick, and polite.

Excellent food and very reasonably priced. The salsa is sassy and the chimichanga was excellent. All of our food was fresh and hot. I will come back again.

Always good service and the food is consistently good. Love going there with my Hometown Girls. There are usually 20 of us but no problem for the servers.

Colorado is not at a loss for good Mexican food. But when you travel to a small town, you usually don’t expect too much in the way of authentic types of food. I was pleasantly surprised by El Caporal. I ordered the Chile Colorado, which in my opinion is one good test of a true Mexican restaurant. El Caporal did not disappoint.
The Chile Colorado had all the right ingredients with a little lime juice in it to boot. My son had a tostada with ground beef that he thought was good. My wife ordered the New York Steak Ranchero, which she was not overly impressed with, and that’s the only reason why El Caporal didn’t get five stars. But service was speedy, and the place was jumping, which is always a good sign. Overall, you can do worse in Canon City for Mexican food than El Caporal.

Quite good! I’m from the NE so I’ve had lots of variety in Mexican foods and my fiancé from southeast Texas would both consider this more of a tex-​mex restaurant. Food and service was fast and delightful! Strawberry margarita was good just smaller than most other places but no big deal. I had the chicken and shrimp fajitas and he had the crab enchiladas and both were yummy! Their guacamole is to die for! We will certainly go back!

Food was certainly editable but not great. Chips were warm and fresh, but salsa tasted jarred. Lunch specials made the meal affordable. PS I added green chili to my burrito (wet style) but it wasn’t good chili at all :(
Service was great though!

Vegetarians beware! Even the rice is made with chicken broth, so there is very little you can eat. The waiter unapologetically suggested that I have the veggie burrito, but with no rice or burrito sauce. I had it, because that was the only reasonable option, but at least some sort of accommodation would have been nice (salsa, guacamole, anything). The other food seemed to be pretty good, according to the rest of the table.

The service here was great, I had a kiwi margarita which was great I also had their chicken chimichanga which had really great flavor! They are a family friendly restaurant, no coloring menus though which was fine because the food came out super fast!

The service was fast and the food was great. We went there around lunch time, and 4 adult meals was ~$ 29 and we were all stuffed. I would come again :)

I had the enchiladas suizas and my husband had a burrito. The food came out fast, hot and certainly good enough. I’ve had better and I’ve definitely had worse. The beans were fair and the rice was just ok.
The service was great.
If I’m in the area again, I will return to El Caporal. While the food didn’t blow my mind, it was definitely tasty enough, and I’d like to try the other things they have to offer. Curiously, our local friends also said that it was the only good place to eat in town — so keep that in mind.

If you’re in Canon City and have a taste for Mexican you can’t go wrong with El Caporal. Don’t let the outside fool you. Place is clean and food is very good.
Joe J. said the chips tasted like they came out of a bag and he is spot on. I can go through two baskets of chips myself with some good salsa but not here. GET BETTER CHIPS and I’ll add a star.

I was down in Canon City this past weekend for a rafting trip. Our guide was a townie and said we should go here for the best Mexican in town. He even said they had the best bus boy in town. he wasn’t kidding. That dude had our glasses filled with water the entire meal.
Their green chile is amazing!!! And a little spicy, just the way I like it. I had chicken enchiladas with green chile on top. Their chips and salsa are also delicious. The chips are on the thin side (my favorite) and salsa a tad spicy and more pureed, which is good since I hate tomato chunks. They don’t skrimp on portions and it’s fairly decent priced. Definitely a go– to mexijoint in Canon City for sure.

During the holidays Sir Nicholas and I spent a couple of days in his hometown of Canon. I thought we had perhaps explored all the hidden gems this rather small place had to offer but I was quite incorrect. Turns out there are a plethora of places still waiting to be a FTR (first to review) and El Caporal is just but one.
Nick’s parents and the two of us ate Christmas Eve lunch here and I really enjoyed it. We started with chips and salsa and the salsa was actually fairly spicy. It was also the way I like salsa, which is not full of onions, tomatoes and other things. I like it to be more of a sauce and less of a stew. I also had a margarita that went down excellently.
For dinner I chose something safe and went for fajitas. This could easily be one of my guilty pleasures for as much as I love straight tacos I find a lot of happiness in building my own anything. And what else are fajitas if not build your own tacos? The coolest thing about this place is that they had pork fajitas served with corn tortillas. So, that’s what I ordered. It was actually really delicious.
Normally I make Nick take me to the Owl when I’m in Canon because it’s my favorite, but El Caporal just may end up giving them a run for their money, or for our money I guess.