Mexican street eats, combo platters & oversized margaritas in a vibrantly decorated interior. Based on 890 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 3.8 stars. Price $
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Drive-through ✔️ No-contact delivery
Address:
951 Niagara Falls Blvd, Buffalo, NY 14226
Phone: (716) 446-9206
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Hours
| Tuesday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Wednesday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Thursday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Friday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Saturday | 12 AM–10 PM |
| Sunday | 12 AM–9 PM |
| Monday | 11 AM–9 PM |
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Reservations: elpalenquemexgrill.com
Reviews
Cecelia Ivy Artistic Chaos
I loved my dish but it was small for the price. The chicken is actually cut super thin.
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Timothy Neal
Excellent food! Friendly and helpful staff. Frozen Margaritas are huge! We’ve had pretty much everything on the menu either in-house or take-out. Never disappointed, always delicious and well prepared.
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Michael Chernoff
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.
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Marcus Veytia
First time visit to El Palenque. I ordered the #1 from the lunch menu — chile relleno & beef ground beef) taco, served with refried beans and shredded lettuce topped with a dollop of guacamole. The chile relleno was filled with seasoned ground beef. I’m accustomed to a cheese filling but the taste of the seasoned beef was pretty good. The taco and the beans, however, were so-so. Overall it was a good value of $8.50 for the dish.
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Mark Fernandes
Nice location, good prices and decent portions. The service isn’t the greatest, appears to be family owned, but they don’t check on you or get refills or anything for your drinks. I wasn’t overly impressed, but then the food came. I had the Enchiladas 3 ways special which was awesome and my wife had a combo plate which was also very nice. I don’t live in Buffalo but I go down a couple times a year, this is definitely a place I’ll return to on my next visit.
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JOE RAMIREZ
Started meal with their chips and salsa. The chips were crispy and warm. The salsa was pretty tasty with a perfect consistency, Didn’t get to finish the salsa due to a fly landing in it.
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LuckyZ’s Hero
i cant speak for the inside of the resturant, i ordered through doordash. The food was prepared very well, Extremly flavorful and i can taste the authenticity. Prices are quite resonable and will reach out to you to fix any issues w/ your order. Not sure why this place is rated so low, i recommend checking them out.
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Raul Luciano
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.
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Courtney Sorrento
Really good prices, really loud traditional Mexican music playing. Not the best but not bad food. Not the cutest but not bad décor. I think I will try the special next time to see if it’s more exciting.
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Elizabeth Czajka
Would not recommend this place to anyone. The rice quite literally tasted like CIGARETTES. It was a cold day out and there was zero warmth in the building. Staff was friendly, which was the only positive.
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