El Corral Restaurant to open 2nd location while unveiling its latest menu with new dishes and ‘fancy’ cocktails.
- Sara Vanden Berge
- Apr 8
- 2 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
If you like good Mexican food as much as I do, you are going to love what I’m about to say next.
El Corral Restaurant is planning to open its second location in the next few weeks.
El Corral 2 will be located at 2847 W. Washington Street in Stephenville, where Shooterz used to be located.
“We have gotten to the point where we have long wait times, so when this building became available on the other side of town, we didn’t hesitate to sign the lease,” Carolina Medrano told Beneath the Surface News.
Carolina, her husband Santos Medrano and the couple’s business partner Juan Flores, opened El Corral as a supermarket in 2021 before transitioning a portion of the building into a small restaurant and bar.
Now, the trio is expanding again.
The new location will offer the same authentic Mexican food its fan base loves with a few new dishes like grilled nachos, Mexican steak, Hawaiian fajitas and chiles rellenos.
Of course, it’s impossible to enjoy Mexican food without a margarita and El Corral specializes in great cocktails as well.
“Our customers love fancy drinks with the good stuff, so we will also expand our cocktail menu,” Carolina said.
A couple of El Corral’s most famous margs include The Siesta, a two-tiered creation that includes a delicious (and very large) strawberry margarita with a second layer of mangonada.
The cocktail is topped with a Coronarita, tamarindo straw and small bottle of Jose Cuervo.
The bar also serves other specialty cocktails like whisky sour, Mexican martinis, Micheladas with shrimp, sangria, wine and beer (you can even get a bucket).
El Corral is open seven days a week.
Its weekend menu includes dishes you won’t find anywhere else like menudo and lamb and beef barbacoa.
Catering is also available.
Carolina said they hope to have the new restaurant up and running in time for Cinco de Mayo.
Oh, and they are hiring 15 new servers, so don’t hesitate to apply if you’re interested.
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