Las Palapas

A casual local San Antonio Tex-​Mex chain of restaurants. This location unfortunately is not ooen 24 hours. Closed Sundays and the drive thru is open 24 hours on Friday and Saturday.
The food is pretty decent and cheap, but the service is a hit or miss. The happy hour is pretty decent as well. Mon-​Fri, 3 to 6, $ 2.50 draft Shiner, DosXX and house margaritas. Also, half off all appetizers during happy hour.
Definitely give Las Palapas a try if you’re looking for decent cheap mexican food in a family friendly atmosphere. There’s pretty much a location near every side of San Antonio.

This location is very busy, cuisine is Tex-​Mex. This is a large chain but every location is different in its service and quality of food, cleanliness. The menu is cookie cutter Tex-​Mex no south of border goodies so don’t come here with high hopes of stuff you ate in Messico. If you are a picky eater and like to al la carte your order you will never be happy set the bar a little low and it will be ok. I come here for 3 eggs sunny side up, Barbacoa, retried beans, no tortillas. They serve me eggs over easy, Barbacoa, and always ask me or bring me tortillas, never bring me my beans (I eat lots of protein). Quality of food good tasty service is good and friendly; staff young so they have a problem with people skills and remembering (millennials).

Horrible service in the drive through, they almost always get my order wrong or its incomplete plus the wait takes too long and the cashiers are rude. We tried dining inside once and the waiter kept disappearing and finally we were waiting 20 minutes just for the check alone. The food was also way too salty, we ordered cheese enchiladas, how hard is that to make? I was excited when they opened this location but they can’t seem to get the food or service right so I’m done.

Great tex-​mex style food! Their huevos rancheros, chilaquilles & tacos al carbon plates are awesome! The bean and cheese burrito is huge and the childs pmate chicken nuggets with curky fries are actual homemade nuggets. Their complimentary chips and salsa are tasty as well. Not the nasty thick «pace style» salsa that I’ve had at other places. Delicious food and super cheap. The place is always clean and the service is great. Well worth your money. Family of 4 ate for under $ 25.

Great customer service! We had a late breakfast about 1pm & it was amazing.
The plates were big and our server was the best.

Very similar to taco cabana but way fancier. I like the atmosphere and customer service was very nice. Manager checked on us which is always a plus for every place that services food (in my opinion).
Oh and if you are planning to order burrito just wait and think if you are ready to eat like 4 pounds of meat. Mine was enormous!

The drive-​thru line takes too long. They need to get people on the window that know how to move a line. Food quality is decent, but service is definitely lackluster. On top of that, God forbid you ask for some salsa and they give might as well give you an eye dropper filled with salsa. THIS IS SAN ANTONIO! You can’t be stingy with the salsa!
Things to try here: bacon, egg and cheese breakfast tacos are good (although they charge extra for cheese –_​– and make a point to ask for about 6 salsas); mixed (beef and chicken) fajita nachos and/​or burrito (with queso on top) and extra salsa — don’t forget that part!

Drive through service is very friendly and food is great. Their breakfast tacos are very good and coffee is «outstanding» according to my coffee-​snob husband. I really like their chicken tortilla soup (crave worthy).

Phenomenal bartender. Really great drinks and fun to watch him work!!! Good was good too :)

I was happy when it opened close to my home! Out of 8 times I’ve visited twice have they gotten my order correct! It’s not complicated just to listen to the customer! Forgetting hot sauce is unacceptable with tacos! Among other things they are really slow! Clean is he only thing going for them!

I have been wanting to try this place for a while. They are all over San Antonio. I stopped in to try some of their food. I ordered a fish taco to go. I got home and was pleasantly surprised by the taco. The taco was tasty and the salsa provided complemented it well.
This visit was just me testing the waters of a place I have never been to. I would return. I don’t know if I would dine in though. It is loud and kind of crowded. I will order to go the next time as well.

I been going to Las palapas since it open and employees very friendly I had no complaints about this place it’s been a good experience today I went in and I got 2 burritos and 2 sweet tea and they amazing very good and while I was leaving one of the employees was very nice and he told me come back and see us again and I told him I will definitely come back

Went through the drive through on 3−23−16 at around 2:30 pm and the lady running the drive through was not polite at all. You pull up to the speaker and hear «can I help you?» At the end when I got my food she handed me my bag not saying a word and then closed her little window. She needs to take a few lessons in customer service. Food is as always — ehhh. It’s fast and edible but by no means would I take anyone to brag about this place.

Went for lunch with friends and was bragging about this chain. Now I feel stupid. We got waited on in a decent amount of time, but food was not great. Also, one order was wrong — twice. We kept looking for our waiter, but he kept disappearing into the kitchen (apparently having a better time in there than in the dining area). Also, ladies at the front counter were not very friendly. Won’t be back.

Ate there last night with family. I have been eating LP since 1990’S and was excited that one opened up closer to home. Well, this location is having some issues. Seated quick and order taken, food took forever even though the place was almost empty, which is a red flag. I ordered dozen flour tortillas to go with meal, and for some reason they delivers the tortillas about 15 min prior to food coming. Food finally came and it was slightly above average (I always order chicken taco salads), but waiter kept disappearing and I rand out of chips and tea. I was going to give 3 stars till this am, yeah, you get the point,

Food sucked, it’s the McDonalds of Mexican food, the food must be shipped in and heated up. irs not good at all. Used to be ok 5 years ago, gone down hill bigtime.

Really? Just spent $ 15 at drive thru Get home. Only 1 teeny tiny salsa. Ate there last week. Chicken and avocado taco listed on the menu but the taco had only a very small sliver of avocado. But the people were super friendly!

I’m excited that Las Palapas is down the street from me. Every time we come we always have great service & great food. We mostly come for breakfast and had their Churros for the first time and they were amazing!!!
Also love the bar great bartenders they’re very attentive. They make an awesome Mexican Martini

Horrible Service!!! Waiter brought wrong order twice!!! The place is very cold too. Very very cold.
I decide to leave after second plate was wrong, same happen to other tables so for sure they need to hire experience servers.

I was so pleased to see a Las Palapas built so near my house. The boyfriend and I decided to pick up a bite. I went through the drive thru just before noon and ordered a carne guisada taco, Barbacoa taco, and a chicken fajita taco. The service was quick and my total was about $ 10.00
This is where the experience crumbles… The carne guisada taco was not very meaty. It had a lot of gravy and small rubbery cubes of meat. The Barbacoa taco tastes ok, but IS NOT true Barbacoa. It tasted like roast meat with some spices. The chicken fajita taco was the biggest disappointment. This was the greasiest taco of the three. The tortilla was soaked through, the outside glimering in grease. The chicken inside was not uniformly cut or cooked. Some pieces were completely dry, others were over spiced and rubberry how do you get old chicken fajitas at lunch time?
Waste of money. I abandoned the fajita taco after the second bite, instead choosing not to eat until dinner time. I’m so disappointed with the experience, I’d rather eat at Taco Bell. (Yea, this places is that gross!)