Poblanos

This was probably one of the worst Mexican Restaurants I have been to. Not authentic at all. Food was very bland, and tasted bad. Ordered fried ice cream, they gave us ice cream rolled in corn flakes! Just horrible!

Appearance /​ambiance
Pablanos has the look and feel of most any Mexican franchise. Evenly lit dining areas add to to dining experience and the restaurant appeared very clean.
Staff
Heavily weighted with Latin employees, this only adds to the overall experience. Staff are pleasant, uniformly dressed, and well groomed.
With that, there was a lot of distracting side conversations throughout the dining room, and maybe lacking management.
Food
Unfortunately, the food (taco plate) was overwhelmingly bland. The freshness of the ingredients is reassuring, however, the flavor was bland and not distinctly Mexican. The most significant flavor in the salsa was lime.
If you are looking for a modestly priced meal, in a clean atmosphere, Pablanos will surely do. If you are looking for authentic mexican cuisine, you may need to keep looking.

We love coming here as s family. Two of us are vegetarian, and one is a carnivore still. We can all find something here that appeals to us. Our current favorite is veggie fajitas. Best fajitas in town! They have broccoli, carrots, and cauliflower in addition to peppers, unions, and mushrooms. Wait staff are very friendly and attentive. Nice atmosphere. We highly recommend.

Vegetarians beware. Look out for surprise meat in your food.
I ordered veggie fajitas and my friend got the veg chimichangas. Well as it turned out, mine had beef and hers had chicken. I get that you cook all the food on one grill, but come on, that’s just sloppy cooking.
The rest of the food was alright, nothing special. If you want decent Mexican food, skip this place and go to Mi Cabanita instead.

I would eat here again and would recommend it! Though the salsa wasn’t very thick the meals were very good. We were a group of six and everyone ordered something different — all were pleased with their dinners. They came out in no time too! Very nice servers/​staff. We shared a pitcher of house margaritas and will say that they were good but that I’ve had better. Next time I’ll try the Texas margaritas — a couple dollars more per pitcher but probably better. Pleasantly surprised to find this little place.

This place is disgusting. It’s basically a health code violation just waiting to happen.
I visited with some friends on Tuesday (cinco de mayo), and it was a mess. We waited over 30 minutes for a table, and when the hostess walked us to our table there were only two chairs there for our group of 6. After waiting for about 5 minutes for someone to finally drag some chairs over, it took another 5+ minutes to get menus. They also had a live DJ who was pretty awful and played random techno music way too loudly. This was a BAD atmosphere for a mexican restaurant.
I ordered a frozen margarita and a wet burrito.
The margarita was RIDICULOUSLY strong! I had to stop drinking it ¾ths of the way through or I wouldn’t have been able to drive home. It really wasn’t that good tasting either, and pretty much just tasted like tequila and ice.
The wet burrito was giant. Like imagine rolling two Chipotle burritos together into one giant log and then pouring some sauce over it. For $ 9 I guess it would be a good deal. However, it was the most bland tasting mexican food I have ever tasted in my life. I gave up eating it about ¾ths of the way through too.
Now let’s talk about what I would refer to as Montezuma’s revenge. This place will give you the most awful stomach ache and diarrhea if you eat the food. My friends wanted to continue the night up state street at Harry’s, but all of us had to leave within an hour of arriving because our stomachs hurt so much. I’m pretty sure I had mild food poisoning, but thankfully it cleared up in a couple of days.
I’m never going to return to Poblanos. It’s not worth the risk of food poisoning, and the food is just not very good at all.

very good food
sometimes there is trouble with the person taking orders
sometimes depending on who takes your order — he might understand specially if you eat vegetarian food or are allergic to mushrooms etc
their cheese bean dip is wow
they should also make FRESH tortillas like Don pablos — if they make fresh tortillas they will be top of the notch
Very hard working staff

Great food and a great atmosphere. Not sure where all the negative reviews are coming from other than we are in a college town so everyone thinks they are some kind of aficionado. Owner operated this place is great and helps drive business to the levee which this town greatly needs. I go with the loco burrito everyone. Great place to go on Sunday afternoons.

If you’re in the mood for bland flavorless food head to Poblano’s. The only thing ordered to my table that was even remotely edible was the chips and queso. The chips tasted like store bought Totino’s and the salsa was so bland that my one year old was eating it out of the jar.
I ordered a salad with fajita chicken that was basically flavorless. The chicken came white and looked boiled. It was so bad that I sent it back. The beef quesadilla that I ordered for the baby came with a pile of flavorless ground beef and barely and cheese.
On top of the bad food, the atmosphere was bizarre. When we got there for a very early dinner at 5:30pm there was Spanish music quietly playing similar to many Mexican restaurants. About 20 minutes in all of a sudden the music starts blaring Pit Bull and it continues like that the rest of the time. The whole experience was bizarre.
As we left I saw lots of people waiting to eat but they were all college students with their cups for the Cactus. I guess that says something about he place. I’m just not sure what.
I would recommend pretty much any other Mexican place in town over Poblano’s.

I’m an avid Mexican food eater. This place rocks! If your in Lafayette I can tell you where yo go, Poblanos.

Quite flavorless Mexican food, but it’s the only place I saw that delivered through Hungry Boiler. I got the steak tacos and some nachos and dip that cost around 20 bucks. The dip tasted okay, but the queso was very runny and it looked like vomit with all the beef and pico de gallo in it. The tacos were very lacking in the meat department as there wasn’t much in it. The guacamole had no flavor and neither did the salsa. It was edible, but not worth the money I spent. I won’t be eating here again.
***The day after I ate Poblano’s, I had the WORST food poisoning I’ve ever had in my life. Horrific stomach pains and vomiting for the entire day. I suspect it was the queso, but there may have been something wrong with the taco meat. Never again.***

Don’t always believe the reviews. Excellent service from one of the servers. Had chicken fajitas and it was great. Not many «proper» Mexican restaurants in the Purdue area! Requested for some extra sour cream and got a whole tub of it, going to regret that in the morning…

量大，价格合理
口味嘛。。重口咸湿。。
发现我还是更能接受American Mexican Food…

I never would have picked this place because of the poor Unilocal reviews. A friend asked us to meet up, we said yes, then i checked Unilocal to see if any menu items were highly recommended. I assumed I was in for a terrible meal.
First, the food was very good, borderline excellent for what it was.
The salsa is served cold in a carafe with individual salsa bowls for each person to pour it into and eat from. Never seen this before and I thought it was brilliant. Maybe someone wants cholula in there. Maybe someone is sick and likes to double dip. Maybe it’s annoying to have to precariously balance that salsa while pulling your arm back from halfway down the table. Whatever your reason, this is a good system. I do like my salsa at room temp, so it got better to me as it warmed up.
My steak fajitas were very good, but the flour tortillas (which I did not order) ended up being better than the corn ones. Much better. Very weird because I generally love corn tortillas.
The refried beans were perfect for a Mexican restaurant. Sort of sweet with some white cheese melted on top. The side of rice was also good.
Kids eat free on Sundays, so both my kids got free bean burritos. We bring our own crayons and coloring stuff, so I’m not sure if the restaurant has that stuff to offer.
My only problem was the waiter messed up our order in several ways and I didn’t have the patience to wait for him to fix everything (which is why I ate the flour tortillas). He fixed the important stuff. Really it might have been the most messed up order I have ever had taken at a restaurant which is why this review could only be 4 stars.
But in the end, after having trouble with the order, I really did love the meal and everyone in my party did as well. It’s a nice interior layout, a little dark but not problematic when the sun is out.
This is a very good restaurant. Maybe the service isn’t perfect, but it was good enough if you ask me. Give it a try!

Walked in at 7:30 on a Tuesday. The place was empty. Sat at the empty bar for ten minutes waiting for someone to serve me.
On a plus note when I ordered a small beer they had an unclaimed large beer which they gave me for free.
The salsa is not too pretty to look at bit it does have a nice mild flavor to it.
The burrito deluxe dinner comes out like typical Mexican street food, not bad but not exploding with flavor.
I would come here again.

It was okay. The service was good. The margaritas tasted like there was no alcohol as stated by all 3 of us. The food portions were plentiful and food was only okay.
The environment was casual and average noise level. It was very college age filled which is expected. Overall it’d be fine for a quick low key dinner but not drinks.

I want to give this no stars. Absolutely awful. DJ was way too loud and not playing authentic music. No one came to us for 15 minutes. Didn’t bring waters. Were out of chips and salsa. Our «margaritas» came without tequila because the waiter said they were «out of alcohol.» No apology offered. Left hungry.

Not a bad place to eat, but not a great place to eat. I don’t know of much authentic Mexican places in the West Laf. area so this may be one of the only if not one of the handful in the area. My friends and I ate here before heading over to the Cactus. Loved the chips and salsa. I can’t remember exactly what I got, but it had one with steak and cheese all over it (and I think I had one with chicken and cheese all over it). Anyways what I do remember is how bad the steak was. Do not get steak here in anything. It was very over-​cooked. Chewy for days, and lots of fat on it. I didn’t eat that much of it because frankly I couldn’t. Other than that it was a good experience. I would come back, but I’d have to try something else.

This Mexican restaurant is the closest to Purdue’s campus, and it’s definitely one of the cheaper dining options in the area.
I came here on a Friday night, and the place was really popular! After I was seated, I saw multiple people being told there was a wait which I think speaks numbers about this place. I had the quesadillas, and the server was very accommodating about my request for corn tortillas instead of flour ones because of an allergy. Even though I was accidentally given chicken quesadillas instead of cheese quesadillas like I’d ordered, I was pretty pleased with the flavor and quality of my meal. Best of all? My total was only $ 4! As with most Mexican restaurants, we were served tortilla chips and salsa at the beginning of our meal. Honestly, they were both pretty average, but hey, they were free!
While this place is by no means fine dining or even casual dining, Poblanos is a great option for quick, low-​key Mexican food in the Lafayette area — especially if you’re on a college student budget! The prices, the extensive menu, and the quality of the food will definitely get me to come back again!

This new Mexican restaurant is on the Levee near the Neon Cactus and Hodson’s. The menu was very similar to that of Don Pablo’s or Chi Chi’s with several salad, nachos, burritos, tacos, fajitas, enchiladas, etc. There were also a few more authentic items such as shrimp diablo (camarones ala diabla) and chiles rellenos (they call it Chiles Poblanos).
We ordered the Martins enchiladas and the Chiles Poblanos (along with 2 Dos Equis the bill was $ 28 before tip). The food arrived quickly and was good and the portions were huge. The décor is nice and the large space is divided into several smaller spaces and was surprisingly quiet. Most of the people there on a Thursday night were Purdue students.
I think that this place will be attractive to students because of the large portions, price, and drink specials. If you want a more varied and authentic menu, you should probably try one of the other Mexican places in town.