El Cazador Mexican
Grill and Cantina
A Restaurant in Oak Harbor
on Whidbey Island

El Cazador Restaurant
32195 State Route 20 (in the Jack In The Box/Subway/Kmart parking lot)
Oak Harbor, WA 98277
360-675-6114

We have dined at El Cazador Restaurant many, many times since we've been here on the island. We've also dined at several other mexican restaurants on the island but we keep coming back to El Cazador Mexican Restaurant.

Our favorites:

I like a combo with one shredded pork tamale and two shredded beef tacos, with refried beans (no rice on my plate!). Unfortunately that particular combo isn't on the menu but they put it together for me anyway. :)

Curtis likes to get the ground beef deep-fried chimichanga and he gives me the sour cream and guacamole that comes with it (he's so sweet... ;). He also gets rice (no beans on his plate!)

Our daughter Shelby throughly enjoys the tamales and tacos as I do but she doesn't like the fact that the tacos get soggy from the juice in the shredded beef. It does make it difficult to eat but I'm of an age where I've learned - the messier the food the MUCH better the flavor. :) She also gets it with both rice AND beans!

She's still wet behind the ears and hasn't learned that "rule of good food" yet, the messier it is the better it tastes. :)

Our son Cameron enjoys their cheeseburgers (HOLD the mayo and pickles) and their enchiladas, but with french fries NOT beans and rice. They say "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" and I have to say that I ALWAYS ordered hamburgers (no cheese) at mexican restaurants when I was growing up (much to the chagrin of my parents, but, oh well).

I don't do that now though as I have become a major lover of mexican food, I could eat it every day. And we haven't even touched on the margaritas yet! ;)

About the sodas, every time we've been there the soda that has come from the kitchen has been flat so we request soda from the bar and then it's fine. So beware of that, when you order your soda if you like carbonation you might ask right off the bat for the soda to come from the bar.

The servers are very friendly and they keep the yummy chips and salsa flowing.

The price is what you'd expect for a family of four that eats well, in a nice restaurant - approximately $50 without alcohol drinks. I haven't yet tried the margaritas yet; the kids get scandalized when I have a drink because I drink so little but soon I'll be trying out the margaritas. :)

When you're done with dinner they'll take your payment at the table and they have these yummy little green starmints that they bring to you.

They also have Karaoke on specific nights but it's not something we can take our kids to, so I'll leave that to you to discover. :)

El Cazador Mexican Restaurant can also host your meeting or party, as they have the main dining room, and two adjoining areas as well.

And if you can't get your group to the El Cazador Mexican Restaurant, they also offer catering as well.