El Corral Mexican Grill and Bar opens second location.
- Sara Vanden Berge
- Jul 10, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Sep 15, 2025
El Corral Mexican Grill and Bar will celebrate the grand opening of its second location on Saturday, July 12, with all-day specials and a mariachi band beginning at 6 p.m.
Carolina Medrano who owns the restaurant with her husband Santos Medrano and the couple’s business partner Juan Flores, told Beneath the Surface News that the fun will include free queso, $4 house margaritas and $10 taco plates.
Oh, and they have homemade flour tortillas as well.
So if enjoying a plate of delicious Mexican food, queso and fabulous margaritas is on your weekend to-do list, make plans to stop by and help them celebrate.
El Corral 2 is located at 2847 W. Washington Street in Stephenville.
The new restaurant offers the same authentic Mexican food its fan base loves with a few additional 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.
Think whisky sour, Mexican martinis, Micheladas with shrimp, sangria, wine and beer (you can even get a bucket).
“Our customers love fancy cocktails with the good stuff, so we have expanded 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 (in a separate glass) of mangonada.
The cocktail is topped with a Coronarita, tamarindo straw and small bottle of Jose Cuervo.
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.
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