El Jardin Fine Mexican Food at 1119 South Main Street, Manteca, California.

Vegetarians - go somewhere else.

This is a review for vegetarians, if you're not a vegetarian or vegan or otherwise watching your fat intake, then you can probably ignore this!
Good things:
Their red salsa is good and their green salsa as well (which you have to ask for, if you don't want meat in it, then ask for the meatless one).
They have clean restrooms
The employees are friendly

If you are vegetarian/vegan/watching your fat content, know that they use lard in almost everything unless otherwise specified (you need to say "no lard") including but not limited to their rice, beans, tortillas when used for tacos and other dishes, and chips. This isn't posted anywhere or talked about in their menu, and not all employees are aware of the cooking practices (which is normal) - you have to talk to the right person to get accurate info, or someone willing to ask the kitchen a lot of questions.

The oil that they use also has meat in it, so that might matter for some people and for veggie people if part of your meal is sautéed.

One of the employees who was very knowledgeable helped us with our order (we were on a long drive home otherwise we would have probably gone somewhere else). She was very very helpful. Apparently you can ask for corn and flour tortillas to eat their salsa with as a substitute for their lard chips.

Our friend got a very plain vegetarian burrito (no sautéed veggies or anything), my partner man and I split 5 tacos (4 would have been plenty). We did not order any drinks, there was no dairy in her vegetarian burrito, our tacos did not have avocado or guacamole or (it was beans, lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, onions, cilantro - they were not very flavorful and kind of dry). Our bill was $37, which is a lot.

I think about 5 or 6 people in all helped us (between water fills and clearing the table and helping us order food - the knowledgeable woman helped us who was working the bar) and not one of them was our server (we never met our server), so that was worth noting.

If you have a very flexible diet then you'll probably be fine, it looked like people were enjoying themselves. Otherwise, though accommodating, it was tiresome and expensive.