El Palenque

Great food and great prices! Service is always great and friendly. Nice family place!

Really good authentic Mexican food. The service is really fast even though the place is busy. The dining room is also clean

Excellent food at a great price point! The food comes quickly, they all work together as a team and make the evening a pleasure.

My favorite Mexican restaurant in the area! The food always tastes great, unlimited chips and salsa, the margaritas are also delicious. The service has always been good and the employees are a lot of fun on Cinco de Mayo and on birthdays! Went here for my 21^st bday! Also, you can’t beat the prices.

I’ve been here a handful of times and I’m usually with my toddler. Which usually makes for a hectic dining experience. This place is amazing to take kids for lunch or dinner. They’re super accommodating and the food comes out very quickly. Great food and great prices. They have fun drinks for children and adults, we’ll definitely be back! Best Mexican food on this side of town!

I’ll keep this short and simple: mediocre Mexican food at best but HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE service. Randomly charge for stuff and give you a printed bill with no explanation. We came here on a Monday night and the restaurant only had maybe 10 other people in it. It took our rude waiter over 30 minutes to take our order, and that was after we asked him to come take it, wtf. I would not recommend this restaurant to anyone.

My wife and I found this place tonight. It is definitely the best Mexican food I’ve ever had in the state of Ohio! We had the seafood fajitas and the tamales. They were both excellent. The service was great and the food came out fast. We highly recommend this place to anyone.

Good authentic food as far the places I’ve been, servers are nice and portions are ample.
Please take note that if you eat light, one dish is more than enough for most people to share.
Over all, good food at a good cost for what you receive. I like coming back again.

OMG!!! This food is delicious! I got the burrito with rice n beans and OMG!!! I ordered some tamales also. The margaritas are strong and great too!!!
This place has exactly what I need for my Mexican food fix!

Awesome atmosphere. They greet you with a warm bowl of tortilla chips that are crispy and fresh and salsa that tastes like they made it just for you. The wait staff is friendly and the food comes out quick, hot and yummy. One of my favorite places to relax and enjoy the cheerful atmosphere

Serviceable Mexican at best. East side of Cleveland is full of Mexican joints and this place doesn’t do much to stand out. Check out a handful of the other places. Salsa was runny and the fajitas just seemed to be missing something. Not terrible, but nothing that draws me back.

This restaurant and «sports bar» doesn’t serve liquor (margaritas or sangria) on Sundays but they don’t bother to tell you that until after you’ve been seated and eaten some chips and salsa. We were tricked into eating here and lured under false pretenses :(Great service from a very nice and apologetic waitress and okay food. Bathrooms were very dirty.

Use to be very good when it was in Mentor-​on-​the-​lake. When it first moved to Eastlake it was pretty good, but has been going down hill since. Last time we went there it was horrible, service was poor and the food was inconsistent. Do not plan to go there. Have been to Coco Locos and the food and service is MUCH better.

This is a nice little place. When we got in we were greeted nicely and seated. I ordered a seafood enchilada which was really good the chips also are really good the salsa was tasty but wasn’t my favorite it could’ve been a little more chunkier but the margarita was delicious and the service was friendly and prompt. I would definitely go back.

I picked up my daughter in Mentor for dinner because I’m an awesome dad! When she said she wanted Mexican I looked pensively out my car window. Awesome dad needed awesome Mexican for awesome daughter. So what did I do??? I Unilocal’d. Not out loud, but digitally. Bing, bong, Boom and I had a four star Mexican restaurant programmed into Imaps.
The parking in front was packed so we were «pensive» about how crowded it might be. What the what!?! Inside was pretty big and they had stools at the bar, cool I know. Awesome daughter and I sat at the bar because that’s the awesome section. We started with Queso Fundido and yummy it was. Cheese dip with nothing but delicious inside. My untrained pallet would pour it over my socks and they would smell and taste delicious. Worth breaking bad on the diet. Lobster Chimichang’s were very awelicious. Lobster, Spinach, Cheese wrapped in a pillow of tasty love.
Yes I was super awesome for UnilocalING and wise for taking all the credit for it. I will return to sit in the awesome section. Feel free to wave or hi-​five me.

Good food! However, the service was terribly S-​L-​O-​W! We were there on a Saturday night. I expect restaurants to be marginally slower on a weekend night, but we sat over 15 min before we got drinks and ordered. It took well over 45 additional minutes for our food to arrive. I had the Enchiladas Hawaiian and my husband had a huge Pork Fried Burrito. Both were very good.

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Alright, for those of you that follow my reviews, you already know that I’m brutally honest. Luckily this isn’t a bad review. This is my second time visiting this restaurant within two weeks so I have a lot to say about.
Walking in, this place is really dark and it also has a full bar which looks really cool upon walking in. My friend and I waited to be seated and we where greet promptly my first visit but on my second visit my boyfriend and I waited a bit before the bar tender had to flag our waitress/​hostess down. (No big deal) On my first and second visit I had huge tortilla chips and salsa that was brought out to us as soon as we were seated and we also ordered $ 5 guacamole. The salsa is a little too thin for my taste as well as too salty but I like that fact that it’s fresh, at least it tastes like it. The GUACAMOLE is soooo good! Omg, it’s the kind of food that makes you want to smear it all over your body because it’s so good. It’s so creamy, so chunky and so flavorful. And the lime in it is delightful it really gives it charater and that attitude like, «Bitch you know I was just made fresh», it’s really that good.
The menu is overwhelming to look at I personally like to have a lot of choices to choose from but if you don’t they do section the dishes off into sea food, chicken, steak and vegetarian. I ended up getting the Cazulada ($ 13.99) (I think that’s how you spell it I’m not sure) and my friend got the lobster enchilada. The Cazulada, was amazing!!! I was so happy I made the right choice. It’s a good choice if your not sure what to get and you want to be on the safe side and have a combination of meats (chorizo, chicken and steak) onions and poblano peppers and oh yeah, it’s spicy! When it comes out it’s sizzling; makes for a good presentation and comes with orange colored rice and pinto beans topped with cheese. The beans and rice was really good too. ** also I thought it was just me but but I was right my Cazulada was sooo salty. (I’ll get back to that)
For drinks I ordered the Tecate beer that’s served with a lime and that was really good and really had a craving for a piña colada. The piña colada was gross!!! It tasted like creamy alcohol flavored wtf in a glass. So disappointed. I should have sent it back when I saw it because there is not mention on the menu about it having strawberries in it. I figured that it wouldn’t be too bad of a combination but I was wrong, it wasn’t what I wanted and it was too sweet and there was nothing coconut about it. Maybe loose the strawberry and add coconut cream.
My friend got the Lobster enchilada ($ 12.99) and I got a chance to have a bite of hers. The best way to describe the taste is a big plate of lobster and cream cheese stuffed wonton. It’s tasty but entirely too rich for my taste, too creamy. It was served with rice, lettuce topped with sour cream, tomato and guacamole. My friend loved it and was surprised that the lobster was fresh and «real». She also said that she wanted to spread it over her body.
My boyfriend had enchilada with mole sauce, unfortunately I did it take a picture of it nor does he remember the name of it. Two where chicken and two where beef. Here’s why: The enchiladas were horrible! It was upsetting to look at and even horrible to eat. We had never has mole sauce before and my boyfriend asked the waitress what to expect. She described the sauce as smokey and BBQ sauce like but not BBQ sauce. Ew, it had a sweet chalky taste to it and very dry and it did have a hint of sweetness to it. He had it sent back and went with the safest choice, the Cazulada. I hear it coming before I saw it and he was all smiles and the smell was still amazing. Again, my boyfriend was put off by the salt just like I was, so it wasn’t just me. He was truly offended by the level of salt. With his experience and background dealing with a verity foods and chefs, I trust his opinion and someone needs to put down the salt and taste what they are serving. Your going to have to wash the salt down with a couple of drinks. No need for salt with your tequila.
I really wanted to eat the Cazulada again but I wanted to try something new, so I got the seafood chimichanga, so I thought… I don’t know if mine was really a chimichanga seeing how it was supposed to be fried and it didn’t seem fried to me but rather soggy. I think they confused it with the seafood enchilada. The shrimp was huge and the scallops were huge but I would have liked them to be sautéed just so they aren’t too soft with the sogginess of the flour tortilla. The lobster was fake!!! It tasted real when I had a bite of my friends lobster enchilada but (gag) it was fake lobster and I do not like the taste of fish and artificial coloring that’s labeled imitation crab meat. Gross! I should have known better, it’s very rare that restaurants serve real crab anymore in their dishes. Huge disappointment!
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The east side version of el jalapenos on west 117. Food was fresh and delicious. Loved the thin crispy chips and salsa. The service could of been friendlier. Overall, a fun place in an unexpected area of town.

My husband and I stopped in to give this place a try. Clean and neat restaurant. Staff was super friendly.
Chips and salsa immediately arrived at the table. Both were good! I ordered chicken enchiladas. They were amazing and had great flavor. My husband ordered some special (of course I can’t remember the name) the waiter asked him if he was hungry. Four plates came out!!! Tacos, enchiladas, poblano and other stuff that I can’t remember. I tasted his shredded beef taco and it was really good!
We will be back! I think we found our new favorite Mexican restaurant!!!

This is one of the few Mexican restaurants that has really good food and a few unique menu items. I ordered carnitas but did not want the rice or tortillas – high glycemic. The carnitas were salty but the rest of the plate was perfect for me. Garnish was spicy, pork was soooo tender, and the beans are the right consistency.
The wait staff is friendly enough. Never had an incident. They were Johnny on the spot.