Excellent fish tacos…read more Chips and salsa were great. Even the diet Mountain Dew was exceptional. Lol Great seating area and ambiance. 10/10

Excellent experience! Food is delicious, service is prompt and friendly, and portions are huge…read more Seriously enough food for two meals. There are many vegetarian options as well as unique entrées. Chips are served hot and fresh and the salsa is fresh with a little heat. The restaurants very clean and servers are attentive. Reasonable prices too. Decor is nice with many plants inside and out.

My daughter lives locally and really enjoys this restaurant. It is bright, clean and easy to have…read moreconversation. The appetizer chicken on fried plantain tostones was excellent. I enjoyed the horchata aqua Fresca was good but 32 oz. is just too much for one person. My daughter who lives nearby likes their tamales. My husband enjoyed his chili Colorado and chili verde Bandera dish. The flan was dense and delicious. The waiter was friendly and attentive.

This is a hidden gem. You can get all the standard Mexican stuff- enchiladas, burritos, fajitas,…read moreetc. They are as good as any place I have visited around the US, including Texas. But you have to try the traditional Mexican dinners. Absolutely delicious. Plus they serve beer in giant mugs cheap. Service is always good and the owners are very nice. It is decorated in festive Mexican tradition with lots of bright colors.

The food was the best Mexican food we have eaten since coming to OhioThe people were so helpful and…read moreservice excellent‼ Loved the restaurant we will be back

Well, gave them one more chance, same result (read my other review below). Lousy service again…read more This time, sat in the bar area where they apparently had no one assigned to it. Once we did get our food, tossed on the table with no pause to see if everything was good. No sour cream. Had to, once again, walk to the hostess station to request more chips and sour cream. After finally bringing it, no one stopped again to check on us. Before leaving I checked the restaurant area. there were very few guests and the floors were dirty. Stay away! This place has gone to heck.

My partner and I decided to check this place out after reading rave reviews on several different…read moresites. Being new to the area, I have no good frame of reference for what good restaurants are available to me yet, but I can usually rely on ratings to steer me in the right direction. I can genuinely say I've never been so disappointed in a "Mexican" restaurant as I was at El Palenque. Ironically the best thing we had there were the complimentary chips and salsa. My partner's tacos were flavorless at best. My combo platter was underwhelming and tasted like it was freshly pulled from the freezer and popped in the microwave. The beef in the burrito had the texture of ground dog food and was similar in flavor. To top it all off, we spent the next 24 hours fighting each other for access to the restroom, with him being sent home halfway through his work shift because he looked and felt like death. One star is not low enough. It takes a lot for me to feel the need to review a place, but this one is well deserving. The staff made us feel like we were a burden simply for being there (on a Saturday afternoon), and our server didn't have even the most basic knowledge of the menu (who works somewhere but doesn't even know what protein options are available in each item??) Super lame. We'll stick to El Parian from now on, at least their food doesn't taste freezer burnt.

Always 5 star service, quality of food, friendly staff & Margaritas. This is a must stop if your…read morepassing thru Zanesville OH

Great service, great food, and good prices Almost always a…read morefriendly atmosphere, parking right out front! South Zanesville's only option

My husband and I were in town and decided to give this place a try!…read more The service was good and food was even better! My husband got the fish tacos and he said they were in his top 5! So very good! We will definitely stop back in if ever in the area

The decorations are cool with the chairs having pictures and the walls having painting in a Mexican…read morestyle. I ordered the grilled chicken and I was the last one to get my food, I had to wait at least 10 minutes for my food to come out after everyone else. My grilled chicken was ok but my mom complained that her burrito wasn't good and that it had a stale shell. My cousin got a beef taco bowl which we agreed tasted like store bought ravioli meat. We have been here before and the service isn't ever good with us having to wait a long time the long way most times we come. Over all it's ok Mexican food but it's worse than anywhere else nearby and you should go to el par eon instead.

Super and love it. Great food and ambience. Best service. My recommendation if you want real…read moreAuthentic Mexican food

I ordered the pork and it was so dry and overcooked that it was inedible. I literally threw it…read moreaway. I went for the pork because it's usually the safe choice. Not here.

Food is trash this is the third time I've been here ! This place is trash , beef nachos look like…read moredog food , they have shitty English ! They do not understand and look at you like your heads on backwards, the shrimp smells like old fish , the water taste like it's out of a sink in the bathroom ! This place is shitty !!!!!

I guess after reading the reviews about the service the only thing I can say is that if you want…read moreauthentic cuisine, then you should take into account the language barrier. I eat there all the time, have never been disrespected, and my food was always hot and delicious.

The food is mid at best. I generally get chicken dishes and all the chicken is always dry. I keep…read morehoping but nope. The only good thing is the view, but that doesn't make up for not great food.