El Terco Leon is the best place to get authentic Mexican food in the Rogers Park area of Chicago, IL and the surrounding area. Our friendly staff is all family and we like to treat the way we like to be treated. We value our customers and strive to make your meal satisfying and fun. We offer dine-in, carry-out as well as neighborhood delivery. Hope to see you soon and often!
Based on 238 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.4 stars. Price $
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Curbside pickup ✔️ No-contact delivery
Address:
7152 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60645
Phone: (872) 208-6878
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Hours
| Sunday | 10 AM–8 PM |
| Monday
(Labor Day)
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10 AM–9 PM
Hours might differ
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| Tuesday | 10 AM–9 PM |
| Wednesday | 10 AM–9 PM |
| Thursday | 10 AM–9 PM |
| Friday | 10 AM–9 PM |
| Saturday | 10 AM–9 PM |
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Reviews
Tyler Blaz
Really tasty food and quick, polite customer service. The portion sizes are very generous and reasonably priced. The chips and guacamole were a good starter, and we all enjoyed our enchiladas, tacos, and burritos. We also had sopes, which ended up being our favorite choices of the night. I recommend their chorizo on tacos/burritos/sopes!
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Patasa Johnson
This is my brother’s go to restaurant. I’ve been there twice and had their steak tacos. In fact, he ordered the platter of tacos because he treated me, mom, my daughter, granddaughters and nephew. Everyone enjoyed the food. The tacos taste pretty good along with the green and red sauce, cilantro and onions.
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Mario Perez
Amazing barbacoa, the consommé is to die for. Is just like at gramma’s cooking back in Mexico, I highly recommend this place.
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Jane F
We have gotten Mexican food from El Terco Leon several times, and it’s always consistently delicious! I am a big fan of their burrito vegetariano, and my daughter loves their tacos. The delivery is always prompt, the food is always fresh and plentiful, the delivery gentleman is very polite and respectful, and you can tell that they put a lot of effort into the food. We are repeat customers, and we will keep coming back!!
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Patrick Burns
I work in the area and love this place so far(I’m new). They make great tacos fresh to order and I have not been disappointed with the flavor. And an absolute must is the salsas. Just enough heat to make me think of them for the rest of the day ❤️❤️
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Alex Cassidy
This food is incredible, give it a try. Their produce is fresh, the tacos are full of flavor, and they have the best green taco sauce I have ever had. Definitely a hidden gem, I will be back.
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Jake Weiss
Hidden Gem when it comes to some of the best tacos I’ve had. Probably the best Al Pastor around, and the salsa is really good. Tacos on homemade tortillas is huge, and take these tacos to another level. They use to give out chips and salsa when eating there, I guess they don’t do that anymore?
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Jaye Stovall Akintonde
The food here was soooo good. We arrived around 2:00pm got a couple of burrito bowls, and a couple of taco dinners. The food is very flavorful, and the owner is very nice. I would definitely recommend this place if you love authentic Mexican food.
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MD
Dumb! Uneducated Owner, blaming Me for writing a bad review, which I never did until now. Not only I got blamed by the dumbo owner she decided to over charge me for the same food i order at this restaurant I refuse to overpay, and I also refuse the food. Discriminating customers in this way, I rather just try to cook myself.
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LL
I went for the consome de chivo.♡ I really like it. I could go here every weekend for the consome but I was just visiting Chicago. The service was good- very helpful. The agua horchata the best so far.
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