Valentine’s Kitchen And - El Paso

Best carnitas in El Paso, hands down. Which would be awesome if this place was ever open. 6:20pm on a Friday and you're closed? Must be nice to run a restaurant and just show up whenever you want!Food: 5/5

We had the fish tacos and blue crab tacos that were in season, and they were absolutely delish. Cocktails are great as well!

Really good food, service is kinda weird, but don’t be afraid to ask for prices and how things cooked. My mom ordered the lobster, it was deep fried, over cooked, and overall just not good and it ended up being 100$ dollars just for that one lobster. I don’t know how you can ruin lobster that bad. But again everything else was really good and around 10$ per item.

So we wanted to try it for the first time. Wegot there on Saturday at 8 pm and it took them a moment to even acknowledge us. It was 6 of us and they told max is 4 people.The restaurant was literally empty, only one table with 2 adults and 3 children. I asked him if they could make and exception since it was pretty much empty and they said no, and to check their IG page. I asked if kids didn’t count and he said no. Well his page does say no parties of 5 but it should say no parties of more than 4, their IG page also says NO CHILDREN, and there was 3 at the only table occupied. So if you have more than 3 friends or a family with children, please go somewhere else and save your self a bad moment and terrible service.

The food and service are usually good here but on Saturday the food was waaayyy over salted! The cook and everyone in the kitchen must have salted the food over and over again. We ordered calabacitas, tacos al pastor, ribeye tacos all OVERSALTED! I love salt so this says a lot. Then when we asked for water we didn’t get it they were too busy paying attention to a table of “foodies”. We also had beverages which were ok but I ordered Tito’s club soda with lime not “Ranchwater” which is just super sour. With a 97$ tab and we always tip over 20% this was pretty disappointing.(Hey chef taste your food).