El Canelo Restaurant

I’ve been to El Canelo a number of times and I have not been disappointed at all. The servers have been real nice and always attentive to my needs. The only problem I’ve had is that it does take a while for the food to come out. Other than that, the food is great and the employees are great also. Make sure to get a preparada, they are really good.

Came here earlier today hoping I would get some good seafood. I had a light breakfast so I was starving when we got here. On a Sunday afternoon there were 2 other groups so there was a lot to choose from for seating. When we sat in a booth the whole area smelled like it was cleaned with a dirty rag.
They took our drink orders and brought them out quick. We ordered a shrimp cocktail and a shrimp taco. I will agree with other reviewers the they have very slow service, those 2 items took about 25 minutes to come out on a day they weren’t even busy. The shrimp taco was cold made up of 3 shrimps a whole bunch of vegetables. The cocktail was flavorless I had to add salt and limon to add flavor. After ordering a beer, agua de horchata, coke bottle, a taco, and a cocktail it came to 30 bucks.
It was pretty bad… bad enough that I’ve been feeling sick I don’t think I’ll be back.

The food was really good. My only problem was the service we wait more then 40 min to be serve. One of the worst service I had experienced.

I went to this place to eat and the food was amazing but the staff is by far the worst taking for ever to bring food I order ceviche for me and my wife took about 40 minutes to be served then I order a potato with cheese and steak it was epic so good but they did not bring me any tortillas like the menu said I asked the server the hand made tortillas he totally ignored me and they never got to my table. This place needs to get it together with the service. Cause it sucks.

I got so sick after eating here vomit was comig out if my nose for two days be careful

I was craving Mariscos for a while && a Michelada obviously. But I Honestly thought there was no place that was good here in Vegas until a cousin recommended «El Canelo.» M first time going, I was pretty scared to order, the owner came greeted us and also told us their specialties. I love spicy food so when he told me about the Molcajete Diablo I was sold. This place is freaking amazing!!! Best Micheladas ever! The Food is great, prices are even better. The service is this restaurant is great, super attentive makes you feel like your home. SINALOENSE style seafood, yes exactly just like my hometown. Just to think of all that food makes my mouth water! Seriously recommend it to everyone.

This place is not what we saw on tv. Came from Laughlin to try this place out and we were not impressed. The flavor of all 4 of our dishes were not anything to write home about. The only dish that I enjoyed was the kids carne asada w/​mashed potatoes and cheese. Good luck and hope that helps.

Very delicious! The cook came out and greeted us as well as made sure we were taken care of. Mind you I’m a very picky person when it comes to Mexican/​Seafood restaurants, I will sure be back when I’m in town. Happy Californian here!
La comida esta muy deliciosa! Yo soy muy especial cundo se trata de restaurantes de Mariscos y comida Mexicana pero si que me quede sorprendida. Los trabajadores muy atentos a sus clientes. Por supuesto que regresaré cuando venga a las Vegas otra vez. Saludos desde California !

My wife and I decided to try El Conelo we were very pleased, she had garlic shrimp and I had butter flyed shrimp with a very good cheese sauce. both were extremely good. We will be returning soon. The wait staff seamed kinda like they had tunnel vision, but the food out waighed this problem. I think I will try the 7 mares soup.

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Amazing seafood! I recommend the mariscoco!
By far this is the best mariscos restaurant in Las Vegas. I been coming back time after time. Excellent service small cosy spot. I had the mariscoco is amazing! All fresh seafood!

I go to this place for the molcajetes omg they are so delicious. I get the seafood one with tilapia and shrimp cooked in various ways. Recently I began ordering the marlin taco as well and that’s delicious too. They have the fanta drinks in the glass bottle which adds to the experience. Every time I have come from there was only 1 or 2 waitresses which seemed to be more than enough. I always feel well taken care of. I’m sure this restaurant has a lot to offer but the molcajetes are so good I don’t think I’ll be able to explore more of the menu

Round by round, el Canelo is the best Mariscos restaurant in Las vegas!
We started with the oyster shots, fresh oysters with tasty sauce and tequila, they definitely delivered their intended punch! We also had the marlin tacos quesadilla style and they were excellent! pure goodnes in a tortilla! They also serve mantaray tacos for those looking for something more on the exotic and out of the ordinary, and like 99.9% of all the other other exotic meats they don’t taste like chicken. The seviche tostadas needs more fish/​shrimp and less cucumber salad but other than that they’re delicious.
Place is small but comfortable and clean (with an A rating from the health department.) Theres a couple of TVs playing corrido videos adding to the classic marisqueria atmosphere and our waitress and manager/(owner?) were very friendly and attentive they really made us feel like home.
The only little problem was that they couldn’t serve beer yet, they had the beer and the permit is been approved but they hadn’t recived the actual certificate but once they do I’ll be paying them child support. There’s nothing better than mariscos, beer and corridos. Can’t wait to go back and try the Malverde ostiones that the manager recommended she said those and the seafood molcajetes were their most popular dishes.
El Canelo, nothing to do with the famous Mexican boxer (I asked) with more seafood variety and the freshest flavors than the competition, wins by a culinary knockout.