Los Cocos

I’ve been coming here with my family almost every week for years and it’s been consistently fantastic. The women who work here are a little brusque at first, but once you get to know them, they’re incredibly sweet, friendly, and even know our usual (very long) order. Space is huge, open and great for parties.
Everything on the menu is great, but their fish tacos and mole are on another level. Amazing. It’s the first place I stop when I come back to town to visit my parents, and I’ve even been known to get frozen packages of mole sent to me in NY.

The fish tacos are amazing… sauteed rather than fried fish, & with onions, cilantro, & just the right amount of jalapenos. The barbacoa de chivo (goat) tacos are also highly recommended.

Customer service not the best but the food is really good. I got the chicken fajitas and they were great and

Went There for dinner with my wife and mother in law to celebrate her 90 birthday waited 45 minutes for our food never got it. They were busy with a party we finally left and we were changed for our drinks.

Look I’m here all the time since 2009
Ceviche is fresh the tripa tacos are just a must try also the best Micholadas in town
The shrimp aguachille is amazing
Really a must try also I had menudo here is great !!!
Enjoy !!!

Disgusting food! Awful service!

The Saturday nite was fun with the live entertainment. The Ceviche was good. and the pescado empanizado also solid.

What a great place. My daughters and I went for my Birthday celebration and had a wonderful time. The service was excellent and the food amazing. We all had different pork dishes and each was wonderful. Kathy our server was amazing and Paula and Carl where friendly and stopped to talk.
This was our first visit but not our last.
The wine was good and the Limoncello was chilled to perfection

I went there about three times and all three times, the servers were terrible! The first time I went I ordered the enchiladas de mole and I liked them. But the last time they didn’t taste so good. I also didn’t like my piña colada and I thought maybe I was being picky and I asked my husband to taste it… He also said it wasn’t good. I asked the server right away if I could get another drink because I didn’t like it, and she said I would have to pay for the other drink! What kind of restaurant is this? I paid to get something good and they give me something bad… And then expect me to pay again for something else??? I never went back and will never go back or recommend it to anyone

I’m from Forest Park, IL and I’ve been looking for a decent (I choose my words carefully when I say «decent», because at the rate I’ve gone through so called «good» Mexican restaurants in the Oak Park, Berwyn, Forest Park, North Riverside areas, at this point I’ve come to expect at best mediocrity) Mexican restaurant for AGES.
I’m first generation Mexican-​American and I am use to GOOD, AUTHENTIC Mexican food cooked by family or close relatives, and can I attest that Los Cocos does the best job of offering authentic and GOOD Mexican food. I don’t want to be all hype, nor do I want to throw every other Mexi-​place under the bus, but this is probably one of the best Mexican restaurants, if not the best, I have eaten at in the West Chicago suburbs (and yes, I’ve tried Zacas-​tacos, Lalos, La Majada, El Rebozo, blah, blah, blah, sorry, but either over priced, poorly cooked/​prepared, or not worth the drive through back-​to-​back stoplight traffic down Harlem Ave.)
Prices are more than reasonable; the only minor hitch, which could also be viewed as a positive depending on your funkiness, on Friday & Saturday evenings (starting !after 7pm) they have Spanish-​only karaōke that is VERY loud, and usually not very good or, at least not entertaining; but, if you’re into trying something new, maybe the Spanish canciones will be up your alley.

Fish tacos and a michelada for lunch and I’m hooked…
Try it and you will be too!

Loved the pork tacos.

Went to this gem with 2 others after watching the latest Twilight series movie.
Most notable is the ambiance at this restaurant. During the Saturday night when we were there a rather large children’s party was being held. They had a pretty large buffet going on, wish I would have had a chance to closely examine it. In addition to the large kids party, there was a disco ball flashing lights all around the dining room to the delight of everyone. Just below one of the spinning disco lights sat an enormous television set playing the greatest Mexican-​gangster video hits when the karaōke sing-​along was not in use. By the way, the music was really loud. We felt like we were yelling at each other during our visit. The décor and table arrangements were interesting, in the, ‘I wonder what/​why the hell that is’ vein.
Now the food and drinks. My beer was good and it came with 5 limes. Thanks, I’ll use all 5 limes! My company ordered Margaritas and they both commented that they tasted like mix from the bottle. Fish tacos were flipping awesome, I slathered mine in green sauce and they were great. One of the company ordered a burrito which was also eaten with delight.
All in all it was a great meal.
Protip: brush up on your Espanol as this is a Spanish 1^st place!

Very spacious. Huge menu. Great Micheladas. Decent food. One recommendation is to syncronize the menu and specialize in a smaller variety of foods. However, the drinks are very good and make up for the food. Live music is also in display on the weekends. Will return for the drinks!

This is easily one of my favorite taco places. I go there a few times per month for lunch or dinner. I’ve been meaning to try other things on the menu because it all looks pretty good, but I can’t get passed the tacos. This place is pretty simple. I hear they have live music weekend nights. It’s always pretty clean and the staff is helpful.
Why do I go here so often? I’m hooked on the fish tacos. To me, they set the bar high for fish tacos. I think it’s a grilled tilapia or maybe some other white fish. It’s always perfectly cooked, tender and juicy. They serve it with onion, cilantro and slices of jalapeño for a little kick. The pork tacos are great too. The pork is cooked well and it’s never too chewy. This is served with a red sauce and slices of pineapple giving it a great combination of flavors.

A perfect lunch place if you work or live nearby. I guess dinner would be great too as they have an area for dancing.
My regular dish is the fish taco dinner. They dice up the fish fillet and grill it and put it nicely with cilantro and little bit jalapeño. I asked them to leave the onions out for me. It’s just perfect comparing to what you usually get a piece of breaded fried fish fillet in the taco at other places.
You have to try the ceviche as well if you likes fish. I highly recommend Jamaica drink which is made from jamaica flowers. Sweet tea type drink is perfect for the spicy food.
Another my favorite is their spicy steak dish which is as hot as you could imagine. I am crazy about spicy food. So try this out as your risk. This is probably my first time to feel I was burning other than eating authentic Sichuan food.

This is a really cute place, the sight of many o’ after work get togethers for some good Mexican food. They specialize in seafood and it’s really good here. Kind of a regular Mexican take out place, but pretty big and a lot nicer. A lot of my Mexican friends give big props to this place so if Mexicans like it, it’s gotta be good. They have always been really cool about me ordering my plates with no meat and the service is pretty fast.

This is a hard one because my food has varied. The first time the hubby & I tried it, I got the goat and he got a very spicy beef dish. Loved it so much! Beef was just as spicy as we liked it, not toned down for American palates as in so often done. Great flavor. My goat dish was tender and succulent and so good… not overly salty as is so frequently the case. Have been back for both dishes and both were consistent. However have tried other items and didn’t enjoy them at all… so thus far I can only get behind the two mentioned items but they are superior to these items from anwhere else in the area.
It’s spacious and if I recall correctly has a full bar… definitely beer.
Go get your goat!

This was a first time visit after passing it for months. It was as much a cultural experience as a food one! On Friday and Saturday nights there’s a DJ and dancing, on Sundays there’s Karaōke. It was nine at night on a Saturday when we stopped in and the music was pumping –and the tv had a soccer game going too. Not ideal for conversation, but fine for eating! They start you off with the standard small basket of chips and some really good (tastes homemade) pico de gallo.
I had a fish taco (corn), a tamale (de rajas y queso), and a chicken sope. My son had a chicken taco (wheat) and my husband had the taco dinner –three tacos w/​rice and beans (he had 2 chicken and 1 ground beef –he said chicken was the best). I tried the red hot-​sauce they brought to the table with the food –a nice addition to my sope! We each had a drink –cans of soda. It came to just under $ 17 w/​out tip. We were all stuffed for under $ 20!
The fish taco was out of this world! Amazingly good and at $ 1.50 each they’re a real bargain! I gave my husband a bite and he was surprised at how good it was. The chicken tacos were excellent too –they come American style: w/​lettuce, tomato & cheese, sour cream by request. The sope was pretty tasty, as were my husband’s refried beans (though a little liquidy for my liking), the tamale was on the dry side.
The fish tacos are reason enough to go back! Next time I’m going to order 3 fish tacos and get an aguita! I can’t give it more than three stars because I haven’t tried enough of the offerings –the seafood portion of the menu is hefty, and I have a feeling that their best dishes are off of that page.

Check your phone book because even though Unilocal lists Los Cocos at 3200 W North Ave it should be listed at 2225 W North Ave, Melrose Park.
This used to be my fave lunch spot when I worked in Melrose Park. Good salsa, good menu, good service, good prices. The chile relleno burrito was my favorite. Come on, they put a chile relleno inside a burrito! Genius! It looks like they have a great drink menu, if only I had a chance to drink during work hours!