El Pastor Soho in City of London, Westminster

Came here for lunch. Service was very quick, food was delivered within 10 minutes of entering. I had the el pastor tacos. I felt that although the flavours were good the meat was quite dry and not as great as similar tacos I have had elsewhere. It was an ok lunch with no major issues, but I’m not enthused to come again

The food was ok - some interesting flavours but almost every dish was dry. Overpriced and surprised El Pastor (as a whole) is on the guide. Service was not good - a lot of downtime between dishes in a quiet restaurant and confusion about what we had ordered. You can get much better tacos elsewhere.

This place provides great serve and quality! The menu offers plenty of choices. Well worth a visit if you like Mexican food!

Food is great. But they really do sneakily rip you off with a subtle “do you want some guacamole, chips and salsa dips?”. In any Mexican restaurants, these items are either free or very cheap. But they come to almost £20 pounds here. Shame on you El Pastor.

Food and cocktails were enjoyable. However, service was poor. The waiter seemed to have no real understanding of the menu and did not engage with us and made our experience super awkward.

We were looking for somewhere for a pre theatre meal, gong to see Moulin Rouge, came across this lovely Mexican. Great atmosphere, lovely decor. I chose steak quesadillas, my daughter chose the tacos, we also ordered the guacamole and nachos. The meal was lovely and we really enjoyed it, we had a drink as well. Not too expensive considering your in London, cost £57 for the two of us including tip. Would highly recommend, the staff were brilliant, very attentive.

We had a great Saturday lunch with friends. Service was excellent. Food was very special and would go again.. it’s pricy but worth it.

Really disappointed by our experience. Expensive, small portions and most of food was tepid and a couple of dishes were just plain boring. Waiting staff were impossible to hear as music too loud for their voices. Venue is aesthetically pleasing and great location but in our opinion not worth the £££z

Came here for an early tea with friends on a Thursday evening, was pretty full early on so nice atmosphere although the ground floor room has high ceilings so felt a bit cavernous. Enjoyed the food, I took the quesadilla which was good and guacamole excellent. Margarita’s nice but at over £10 each and not that big, 6 later added to the bill quickly! Wine was nice too.

Booked online and restaurant were accommodating about request for highchair and space for buggy. Warm friendly reception at the door and general atmosphere of the place has a good vibe. The food itself was tasty enough but all felt the portion sizes felt a bit small for the price, so didn’t feel like we were getting good value for money. But we were in Soho so is to be expected I guess!

Nice venue, outstanding service. Food and drink was good but could have been served hotter. Gringo enchiladas and chicken tacos.

Buena comida y muy cercana a la mexicana, las salsas están bien hechas, los tacos de pastor y el guacamole de buen sabor nos sentimos en México, la michelada un poco picosa pero rica, las margaritas muy ricas, el lugar es agradable aunque está a media luz, la atención y servicio fue excelente, lo recomiendo

Excellent! We were lucky to be seated from a walk in, eat, drink and pay while still having 10 minutes to walk around the corner to the theatre - delicious Mexican food and an amazing virgin pina colada! Will definitely return.

I had a very good and fun time. I love the mexican food, knowing i live next door to a mexican restaurant at home. :) A very swift and efficient service and very friendly. I'm going back in september! greetings, Yves, Belgium

We’ve been twice, once at this soho venue and the food was excellent and once couple of months ago at coals drop yard. This will be our last time though. Had a nice table upstairs and told we had the table for 1.5hrs. Service was quick and order was taken immediately, although would have preferred a drink first we just ordered at the same time thinking drinks would come out first. We ordered the guacamole and chips for starters and then the carnitas sharing plate (having had the short ribs sharing plate twice before). The main course came out before the drinks and starter. We questioned this (and drinks then arrived ) but told the guacamole (which is under starters on the menu) comes out at the same time as the main meal ?? So bearing in mind tortillas don’t stay warm too long (even in the pack ) and the guacamole is cold anyway we just accepted it. However it wasn’t really the point. We had been walking around London 10 hrs and this was first time we had eaten since a crossaint earlier in the day. We wanted to sit have a drink with the corn chips and guacamole and then have the mains. We honestly didn’t think we had to make that clear. Anyway we continued so as not to make a fuss. Have to say the pork sharring ‘platter’was a very small portion to share for £30! The small corn tortillas must cost pence to make, and then we had a very small thimble sized pot of salsa (we think) a small dish of chopped onion and herbs and another thimble sized portion of what just looked like one piece of a sliced carrot (the slice of carrot just about fitted flat in the pot so you get an idea of how big the pots were) no explanation of what was in the pots. We had to ask and it was called pickle. Anyway no one came around to ask if we wanted more chips for the guacamole or tortillas and when we asked they took a while to come out bearing in mind again they must have a stack in the kitchen as this is all the menu consists of. (Menu says they are made fresh by them in another London venue if theirs) so they aren’t made at the actual restaurant. It was underwhelming and very overpriced, more of a fast food with the frills of a restaurant. Sad as the previous sharing platter was plentiful. Cost cutting not sure but burnt a hole in our pocket and wouldn’t go back. Better Mexican restaurants serving a wider variety of food in London

It's nice Mexican place, I think it might be the only one in soho, so it is precious. Fantastic beast downstairs with original tequila cocktails 😎 good fun

quality of salsa was very good and certainly food tasted authentic . Good gesture of serving nachos on the house and for sure Michelada was amazing and did not expected similar Mexican taste back in London . concept is set around sharing and pork carnitas as main course , along with tacos as starters made this Mexican experience overwhelmingly joyful . Anyone looking to have this kind good experience without going to Mexico must come to this place .

On Saturday the 3rd to El Pastor localized in Soho!! I came with 3 friends. It was my friend Avinash b-day and so we decided to celebrate in Pastor Soho! The food was amazing!!! Really good highly recommend!! But what really made our night was the service!!! We were received by two lovely girls in the entrance that one of them took us to the basement of the restaurant, where we were welcomed by 2 amazing gentleman's!! This w waiters were amazing 👏 never had such good service in London!! Our main waiter was just amazing with all jokes that made us cry of laughing, with his kindness of singing happy birthday to my friend!! Me and my friends and I, when we were leaving, just wanted to hug those two boys! Pastor team, a a big thank you for everything that you thought to this, boys!! They are going to be great in this restaurant!!!

I love Mexican food and this experience definitely did not disappoint! The pork tacos were especially delicious and it was a very well balanced menu. The staff were lovely.

The food was okay, the drinks were fine, and the service was lackluster. Our waiter was very uninterested. We waited a long time to place our order while watching other tables order and receive their drinks and food from servers who seemed interested and engaged....

This happened a few weeks ago but i still must do this for my own good. Before I start to say what I must say about the restaurant El Pastor in Soho, I must say, what an amazing and super fun night we had!!! We...

Went for dinner here got the pork tacos which were very dry…also me and my friend both got food poisoning from eating here. Both very sick afterwards.

Pork belly and octopus taco -- all that needs to be said. On of the best tasting food bites I've had for a very long time.

£50 for 1 Largerita, 2 tostados and 2 tacos with a small side of potatoes. The service was super quick and it was all over in 30 minutes. It's a really smart venue for a dinner, but to be serving street food in this environment...

I went to El Pastor in soho with 2 friends on the 15th for dinner and let me tell you about my experience in this restaurant. We went for a late dinner around 21.30 ish. The host was a super kind and very polite young...

Came here for dinner with 2 of my friends. One of my friends is even from the states and wanted to show her a fun time in London. We simply asked the waiter to switch the fried chicken to grilled and he laughed in our...

Genuinely the worst service in london thus far on my trip. Between the chef refusing to make one simple substitution on the menu to the waiter cursing our table out, I would never recommend this place. The food was bland and overpriced not to mention...

I have been to this place twice now and will keep going back and back. Everything is great. Fantastic cocktails - I would recommend the diablito margarita, and I would highly recommend a Michelada (with pacific rim beer)- it’s like a beer Bloody Mary and...

Wow I'm shocked to read poor reviews as our experience was the total opposite. Excellent service with a lovely friendly chap serving us. Food was prompt and delicious. Corn cake and the chocolate dessert finished the meal off very well, highly recommend both. Food was...

Dreadful place. The tacos were ok, the dark chocolate dessert was good, BUT, this was over shadowed by the unpleasant service and poor management. I could write a long negative narrative to describe our awful experience in this place but its not worth it.

We came here for cocktails in downstairs bar, which is one of few places around that actually open till late. Fantastic selection of unique, Mexican themed and tequila based cocktail 😎 it's really rare gem in Soho as I don't even know is there any...

Average food, friendly service. There is such a choice in London and it’s always a little disappointing when you spend money and leave having had ok food. It wasn’t bad, just not great.drinks were good and service was very friendly. Expensive for what it was....

Food was OK, not best tacos, not worst. Very good guacamole. Service was terrible. We’ve waited 30 min, and there was not that many guests. They say totopos are unlimited- guess not.

A big fan of El Pastor at London Bridge but my first time in soho. We were told they needed the table back in an hour, which is ironic as the service was SO slow. Drinks never arrived, guac as a started also forgotten about...

Overall this restaurant was not good at all. I went there a couple of days ago. The food was bland at best, the atmosphere was not nice and the restaurant is overpriced. The only reason why I had an okay experience was because of a...

Drinks were ok, quite expensive but we’re in central London after all. Food was very average, nothing to write home about. Service was ok, I wouldn’t complain. Overall I would recommend going for a drink perhaps, and eat elsewhere.

I’m really disappointed with the service we had at El Pastor. Our waitress who served us our food was lovely but another senior waiter reminded us 3-4 times that they needed the table back. We were booked for at 6.15 and by 7.15 he gave...

We would not recommend this restaurant. Overall, bad drinks, bland/basic food, okay staff, and not a good atmosphere. Drinks were terrible - not a good mix of flavours/palatable. Food is bland, and pretty standard/uninspired. The servers are not very nice, and they do not make...

Please do avoid this place. Genuinely for the goodness of your health. Visited here with the mrs for a date night super excited after seeing it on tiktok, went for the El Pastor tasting menu. Now to be fair the guac and chips with salsa...

Service was inattentive, not slick at all, food came flying out so it was a very quick dining experience, in and out in an hour!! Got too noisy so left and went to Park Row opposite for dessert and more cocktails

Nice margaritas and food, however while still eating our food we were told the table would be needed by the next guests at which point we had been there less than an hour. No time for dessert, and before fnishing our drinks we were told...

The staff was friendly and the ambiance was nice. However, the food was horribly bad. It was tasteless and it made my stomach so bad that I vomited afterwards. This was the worst mexican food I’ve ever had in my entire life. The nachos were...

I used to really enjoy this restaurant in borough market so decided to visit the soho branch with friends. It wasn’t a great experience - the tacos were greasy and bland. I won’t return and would advise you to go somewhere else.

Great service with special attention given as it was our wedding anniversary - new manager Stevie introduced himself, offered a complimentary drink and reserved a table in the bar after we had eaten. All the food was beautifully fresh and full of flavour, we particularly...

Really fancied some margheritas and tacos and looked up Mexican places in London. Saw this place has a table and rocked up. The frozen mango margheritas are excellent so tasty with a little chilli kick. We ordered all the salsas so we could try them...

We wanted to try a big range of food as we were hungry, and initially the waiter suggested we were ordering too much, however I think we got it just right for 4 of us in the end. After some guacamole to start, we shared...

We booked a table for downstairs and on arrival staff were friendly and showed us to our table. The music was so loud we couldn’t even have a conversation so we left.

Loved going back to Pastor in Soho for a quick bite when out in town with friends. Great vibe and the food and cocktails were amazing. Good recommendations from Dyane, she was professional and friendly at the same time. Huge thanks to the hosting team...

Today was my first time at El Pastor Soho. I was amazed how friendly and accomodating the staff were. From the entrance the host (a male with tattoos) was super nice and even though I did not have any reservation on a Friday night, he...