El Dos De Oros - Melrose Park

The Chili Rellenos were disappointing. The cheese filling was strange and unidentifiable, and the salsa lacked flavor.

My wife and I came to this restaurant after a high school tennis tournament. We were seated quickly and our drink orders were taken and delivered promptly. Chips and salsa were brought to our table and refilled when needed. We tried the chicken quesadilla as an appetizer and it was the best quesadilla I have ever tasted. For our main course, I ordered a two burrito meal with one beef and one chicken. The chicken was the same delicious meat as the quesadilla, which made me very happy. The beef was also tasty and the same quality as the beef in my wife's fajitas. Overall, it was the best Mexican food we have had in a long time.

After a negative experience with the manager tipping himself last time, we decided to give this place another try. Unfortunately, the restaurant was still dirty and our table was covered in previous customers' leftovers. The service was lacking, with our waitress disappearing after taking our order and no refills on drinks or chips. Half of our food was brought out by the host, who forgot to bring tortillas for the fajitas and missed two of our children's meals. When flagged down, he joked about forgetting. We will not be returning to this restaurant and would not recommend it to anyone.

As we’re finding about small towns, there aren’t many places to eat. And even fewer that are interesting and quaint. Makes sense. They’re small towns after all. The receptionist at the Hotel recommended El Dos de Oros so we went there. It’s an unadorned building off the main road. Almost hard to see where to enter. Inside it’s a bit dark. The server was a bit curt, but ended being more pleasant. We began with Blue Moons – they were HUGE! (and we ordered medium . They provided a bowl of chips and salsa. Well, the chips were terrible (huge but terrible . They had a bit of a dusty taste (now why do places have salsa that’s good, even great, but awful chips?! . The salsa was fine (it was provided in a small decanter with small bowls to pour it in. Rather interesting feature . My wife and I shared their House Salad. We expected a regular salad. Nope. It was a most interesting salad combination of calabacitas-like hot (like steaming cooked vegetables (squash, broccoli, onion, bell peppers and salad (lettuce and tomato with a new unopened bottle of Wishbone bleu cheese dressing. We also shared their Enchiladas Souisa (three rolled tortillas filled with a lightly spiced shredded chicken, covered with a cream sauce . It came with beans covered with melted cheese and another ‘salad’ (shredded lettuce and sour cream . Not bad. Big servings. We left food on our plates (which is unusual . Next visit might try another place for comparison.

I was briefly in town for a funeral service. I live in California where Mexican restaurants abound. In such a small city I was blown away by finding such amazing food. The staff were welcome and friendly and the food was absolutely delicious. The portions were large and priced very low....I could only eat half of my one item dish I ordered (made for amazing late night hotel leftovers). I am going back to Scott City for a short visit again next month and you better believe this is the first place I'm going to when it's dinner time!