El Fandango Restaurant is in a building which was built on the spot of the burned ruins of one of the Machado family's three mansions, which burned to the ground in 1858. It is a two story, brownish cream-colored building. Upstairs are used for office space and a banquet room while downstairs there is a very nice dining area, dining and event area and an outside patio area also used for dining.

In November of 2018, We visited Old Town San Diego and stopped by this location in order to document and collect some more information; however, we found that the location was closed to the public. We did get a chance to take some photographs of the building, see more photos under the photo page.

A ghostly lady in white has been seen multiple times and a newspaper story was even written about her back in 1987. She has been sighted sitting at tables, moving around the restaurant, and even passing through walls. She always has a sad or angry expression on her face which has drawn parallels to the legend of La Llorona, however, there is no evidence that she is anything like the malevolent Mexican spirit.

The white lady seems unaware of her surroundings and even of her spectators. She seems in a world of her own, possibly re-enacting things from the past. One possible suspect for the white lady is Senora Maria Antonia Machado de Silva who in 1846 while the United States forces captured San Diego ran from her adobe to the center of the plaza and saved the Mexican Flag that was waving from the flag pole.