El Palenque

The food and drinks available are very affordable but I'm used to slightly bigger portions. A little more beans and rice would be nice. Salsa and chips were very good, spicy! I recommend getting chicken entrees here. Vegetarian options were bland unfortunately. The wait service was very attentive and fast delivery of orders. Lots of seating for big parties too.

I will give one star for the nice waitress we had. But other than that, I would give negative stars if I could. You can’t make a reservation so we had to wait for almost an hour in line to get a table, ok, we chose to wait so whatever. Then we ordered drinks and they tasted like kool aid with ice, the most bland margaritas I’ve ever had. I ordered fish tacos and birria tacos, I swear to god a 5 year old could cook something better. It was barely edible. Not only that but the birria tacos had basically nothing in it other than cilantro and onions (look at the picture). The fish tacos had some sort of ground fish meat in it that I’ve never seen before, looked like cat food or something. No seasoning, no flavor, nothing, it was the same as buying a tortilla at a grocery store and eating it as is. Then we went to pay the bill (which is not itemized so you don’t know what each price corresponds to), and the waitress said we could just not pay separately, it had to be all in one card (we were a party of 4). I’ve been in many bad restaurants and I try to review them based on their strengths too but this one deserves an award for the worst in Buffalo.

The service was terrible and for that alone, I would give it a negative. The food taste good but barely any meat, mostly bell peppers and onions. Went for lunch(12:30pm) and ordered off the lunch menu but was charged dinner prices because I asked for mixed meat. It would have been the same price for 2 meals ( 1 of each ) and I would have mixed it myself with a lot more food. We should have been told once we said lunch special but the waitress didn’t say anything and she only came to the table to bring the food and not again to see if anything was needed. Disgusting and I will not be back

I wonder when the last time the salt and pepper shakers were washed? Sticky greasy caked up mess. Food is mediocre, service was mediocre, waiter never came back to check to see how I was doing, I wanted another beer but couldn’t even flag him down. A good waitstaff person should survey their tables as passing by. Visit was a true disappointment.

Just had dinner here and are driving home now. My fiancé and I love Mexican, but this is not good. Watery queso & watery guacamole as starters. Entree included watery beans. I had one bite of fish taco and that was more than enough. Someone got to a fish, salted it, and shredded it to hell. Let me be clear . . . I love fish, but that “overly-fishy” flavor is a dead giveaway that the fish was not cooked to order. I can hear the kitchen staff now with an old, ugly filet . . . “Just put it in the food processor so it looks intentional.” Not. Good.