El Matador in Raton

Green chili burgers evertime we come into town, the best! Only topped by mom's. We love it!

Delicious green chile hamburgers... And huge!

Food is usually good. Too many flies flying around. Could not eat in peace.

Fantastic try both the green and red chili

Very delicious recommend it to anyone the only drawback is they close at 1pm on Sunday and closed Monday and Tuesday

Stopped on our way through and had the best Green chili burgers! Friendly service and great food at reasonable prices. We made sure we timed our return trip to have lunch here to enjoy this gem a second time!

Hooray for there fabulous green chili burger. A must go place.

I was able to get a two egg breakfast with four stips of bacon (nicely fried btw!), four pieces of toast, hasbrowns and a cup of coffee w/ a large glass of water for less than $10.00! The ladies that were working are super nice! It's not a very large restraunt, just a small and homie little mom and pop place but it was a wonderful experience and I will most definitely be stopping there again the next time I travel to New Mexico!

Don’t waste your time. Beef is bland and white color, they don’t have quaso, chips are store bought nacho chips and they serve Store bought salsa. Facility is filthy and needs a health inspection. Waitress was very nice tho.people that are leaving good reviews have to family or work there.

Nasty soup. Salsa, chips, and sopipillas were good. Posole was terrible. Tasted like a heated can of corn with pork and green chilies sprinkeled on it.

Not Sysco-ized so give the home cooking a try. House made chili, red and green, tortillas, beans, rice, sopapillas, everything. Remember what fresh cooking, instead of re-warming, is like. Only 3 minutes extra driving to pass by the fast food joints to and from the highway. Well worth a try.

I like the El Matadors food however, it is quite expensive. The service is good. It is the only good Mexican restaurant in Raton.

The food excellant along with the service. My favorite place to eat in raton el matador. No complaints the food is freshly made and the atmosphere is great.

Warm welcome and delicious food. Had the mushroom burger with green chile. The chile could be a little hotter but, awesome food and service.

Staff was friendly. The green chile burger was delicious. I wouldn't recommend the posole. It is not at all the traditional stew. It is quite literally white hominy topped with their chile sauce. Quite a surprise when we were served the dish. $7 for a can of white corn. The chips were definitely store bought.

Food absolutely great! Awesome service. Prices reasonable. Highly recommend El Matador in Raton, New Mexico!

Good authentic Mexican cuisine.

Best food in town!!!

Food is tasty but fatty. Great service and it's local!

The food was amazing and our waitress was SO kind and nice.

This place is OK. I was hoping to find some really good Mexican food in Raton. The restaurant with the best reviews in Raton was in a gas station and I didn't feel up to doing that, so that's how I found El Matador. The green chile is good and the sopapillas were delicious. I was disappointed in the salsa because while they claimed everything is homemade, the salsa was clearly just Pace Picante sauce.

Excellent service, good food,good prices

Raton doesn't have many options but El Matador has been a consistently good spot for food for a looong time

This place was recommended to me bye a young lady from sugarite canyon State Park. The food was delicious I would definitely eat there again.

I love the food and the working atmosphere is amazing!!

Ate here today. Cheese enchiladas were good. Beans had no flavor and wasn't a fan of the red Spanish rice. Staff was friendly. Won't eat here again though.

A great local diner in Raton. Both the red and green chilli's are delicious.

If you have a chance to stop... Please do... The food is homemade deliciousness.... If you have to chose between Trinidad food and Raton food, I highly suggest you chose Raton El Matador.... Best service and food in northern n.m. and southern Colorado area....

Service sucked. Waited forever to get someone to come and take out order. And then had to wait even longer just to get our food. Which wasn't all that great. I've had better quesadillas from a fast food restaurant before. Asked for some to go boxes which we never got the lady decided to bring stuff to everyone else but us. I had to basically yell just to get our check. And when the waiters decides to bring it to us. She asked if we wanted some to go boxes. Told her not now and she decided to laugh like it was funny. Staff was rude. I will not be going back again.

Amazing food... just as I remember it.

Such good food. Try the chili cheese fries with red and green chili

Stopped here for lunch. The place I would normally eat at was not open. Ordered the beef enchilada plate. The food had no taste, like nothing was seasoned. Could not eat the rice and beans, no taste and no texture. The beef in the enchiladas was cooked with no sauce or seasoning. The red chili has no flavor or heat. Same with the salsa. I will not eat here again, nor can I recommend it. The local people seem to eat here, mainly older clientele.

Worst Food we've had in a long time. I was able to take two or three bites of the posole and my husband choked down two Tacos with no seasoning before we gave up and went to McDonald's.

OK. Among the best we've tried in Raton.

Large portions excellent food

Delicious. Love the green chili and cheese enchiladas. Yum

Really mediocre.

Not the best chili in the world but it's pretty ok. The wait staff is nice but slow. The com can only cook 1 ticket at a time. So don't be in a hurry to eat! Really slow!!

We visited this restaurant while on vacation. Typical cafe style, nothing fancy but the dinner was decent. Pies, not so good. Salsa was probably store bought, not fresh made, but worked well with the entrées. Our waitress was helpful and friendly.

Stop by, thinking I was getting Mexican food, so wrong!!! It was the most horrible food I have ever tried in my life!!! I think it is the closest you can get to jail food, and what sucks, it is that I had to pay for it!! Avoid it!!

I hadn't ate there in a while and an OLDIE but GOODY waitress Rosa brought back memories it was great eats but I was unable to get a dozen tortillas but I survived

Great green chilli and tortillas, the enchiladas are amazing

Awesome! food great service.

The green chilli burger here is amazing.

Visiting from Las Cruces. Just happened to see it on the main road and didn't want fast food. Never heard of or seen it before. Loved the French toast. My friend loved his open face Mexican burger.. I'd eat here again. Only reason it's a 4 out of 5 is the main dishes are a little too expensive .Friendly wait staff

Great food & polite staff.

I try to be fair and give everyone a chance. My son and I like to experience the local cuisine when we pass through any town. So, we gave El Matador a shot. We left very disappointed. The food was horrible. Restaurant was disheveled and bathrooms dirty. Customer service was adequate, though not overly friendly. My taco fell apart as I picked it up from the plate the first time. Like, literally crumbled. The rice looked and tasted awful. The enchiladas were decent, but lacked taste. I'm sorry, but I would not eat here again. Just awful. Not recommended.

Great family new Mexican restaurant. Delicious red chile.

Not impressed, though the place was packed. The "service" was substandard. (one server working the entire place... really? We felt very sorry for her) Was really looking forward to a nice bowl of pisoli but it was was horrible (the hominy was raw as if it had just been opened from a can and dumped into the runny broth!) Their green chili stew was watery with only a hint of flavor that might have been good if they'd have let it reduce to the thickness it should have been before serving it. We will not be returning here because there are so many other places in Ratón, NM that do it SO much better than here.

What!! You Do not carry real lemons for my water! Wow! Service was ok, food was ok, but it was better than another Mexican restaurant I ate at in Raton, rice and beans, dont get me started!!! But still lacked better service, better food taste, better umph from inside, Try the burgers, pretty good