We had take out from the Lake Zurich location. I'm not sure but did they take over the previous Mexican restaurant that was there? I didn't go pick up the food so I'm not sure. I ordered a burrito bowl but got the chicken burrito instead. It was fine and I didn't feel it was necessary to go back and get the chicken burrito bowl. The burrito was well balanced with Chicken rice and beans. We ordered sides of pico de gallo and guacamole. The guacamole was amazing! The pico de gallo had a lot of cilantro. We also ordered a taco dinner with two steak tacos and the barrio tacos with beans and rice. Everyone enjoyed their food. Would return. read more

I popped in here for lunch and left regretting it. I didn't have high expectations, so I wasn't too disappointed. The veggie burrito lacked flavor and a savory richness one would appreciate from cheese or sour cream. The taco salad was just as bland and the shell had a burnt taste to it. Three different sauces are offered ranging in heat from mild, medium, and hot. None of them were great. I had no problems with service or cleanliness. read more

Cilantro Taco Grill - Veggie Taco Salad had a burnt taste to the shell - Tacos Near Me - Elgin, Illinois

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I popped into Cilantro Taco Grill to pick up some dinner for myself and my sister. After having experienced the location out in Rosemont, I was excited to give this spot a try. I ordered the veggie torta for myself and the Al pastor torta for my sister. We also had gotten a handful of house-made salsas which were delicious! All the items were made to order and although I had a 20 minute drive home, everything was still warm and fresh. Both our entrees were delicious! My veggie torta hit the spot! It was flavorful and had a great proportion of filler ingredients. My sister also really enjoyed her Al pastor torta! We are both looking forward to coming back to Cilantro Taco Grill and trying out more menu items. Highly recommend to any and all folks looking for some quick and delicious food! read more

Not sure what happened to them but it was not as good as it was. Maybe it was an off day. I dunno. But not good.

Food is always fresh and really tasty. My daughter loves this place. I think they are a little expensive but it's worth it. read more

Went here off a recommendation from a coworker. I got a chicken burrito everything on it. Wasn't very impressed, portion was rather small, taste was average at best and the piece was high. I hoped for a little more out of this place but I was left disappointed. The jalapeño crema hot sauce was good but that's the only thing I can say was a positive about this place. read more

Best taco salad ever! Tacos and burritos are great too! Everything is very fresh. Don't forget to order dessert as well...their Churros are so delicious. read more

The service is horrendously slow as they take forever to complete orders and are very lackadaisical with everything that they do. Zero stars

I've only had their tortas here which is the only reason I come here for. I like how they make their guacamole dip. It's not smashed like baby food, if that makes sense. It's also not salty, it's taste like fresh chunks. Their churros were freshly made. My boyfriend didn't like his tacos though. He didn't like how they cooked the meat and lacked flavor. I don't care too much for their rice but their refined beans are good. I just prefer rice from other places. read more

Cilantro Taco Grill - Tacos Near Me - Elgin, Illinois

It took 10 minutes to get an order placed. From the lack of understanding due to not sourcing English. Another employee with doing better English to the order which was repeated and was correct. Added cheese and sour cream on my 3 tacos (which I was charged for) and didn't receive what I ordered. Tacos were soggy & no taste.... So disappointed, the location on Roosevelt is so much better. I will not return. No even worth taking a picture read more

Best tacos around town no questions asked. Been coming here for a while and they don't disappoint. Steak tacos are my number one go too. The Chile rellenó taco is amazing. The salsas are a must try. Been to this cilantro more than 35 times and is one of my favorite. read more

Excellent food. Great service. We usually get their tacos and a large horchata. Their fish tacos in particular are great. read more

We recently catered Cilantro and had their taquiza come to a location for the party. The food was delicious, the catering was inexpensive and the ordering process was simple and easy. Fernando and Jose were awesome! We are so grateful for their services, and will definitely be using them again! read more

Cilantro Taco Grill - The Taquiza - Tacos Near Me - Elgin, Illinois

I've eaten cilantro a thousand times and this is my first review ‍. I consider them to have theee best tacos in Chicago. The sauces are sublime they have a great tasting tamarind juice and they have dessert on deck with a fantastic chocolate-flan . This is my go to happy food!!! It's a must try if u NEED great tacos. While we are here can come one tell me how Taco Bell is still a thing ‍ read more

My friend ordered Tacos and a Horchata ,She said it tasted off but she was thirsty and drank it, even tho she didnt really like it. She said the tacos were not so great either. The next day she told me she had a bad stomach ache all night. Boring atmosphere, self service, poor to average food,not a good value . They need to do better! We will not be back. Nothing more to say! read more

I got a fish Taco not to tasty!!! The flavor was not very good!! Another Taco that I got was Lengua and no flavorWould not go back

Authentic, different, and quick!! Do you have an hour to kill at O'hare? If so go check out cilantro taco!! Cilantro is my second favorite herb ;) I won't mention 1st!!! N-E way so they had me at "cilantro" I just had to give this place a try!! Absolutely worth the trip, amazing tacos and very reasonable $$!! Restaurant is small looks like they cater to lunch crowd not ideal for dinner just quick fast food style tacos. I was most impressed by the verity of the salsa they offered, there is an authentic house made cilantro salsa you can purchase by bottle. I got one and used it on grilled fish, it was amazing!!! I didn't give 5 star as I was bit dissatisfied with service, slow and not attentive. I cleaned my own table before meal, cashier forgot to add chip & salsa on my order. My Cilantro salsa bottle was missed until I reminded him on my way out.... read more

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Cilantro Taco Grill is a local smaller chain with currently just 4 locations. I'd give the various tacos/burritos we've tried 1-3 stars so I'll setlle on an overall 2-star rating. The staff working when we come in have always been nice and our order is generally ready in 10 minutes or so. They have a decent amount of seating if you don't want to do take-out. The carnitas meat was our favorite for the flavor and tenderness. The chicken & pastor is good as well. Their barbacoa was the least flavorful I've ever had - not sure if it was an off day for that recipe but we only ordered it once because of this. The cesina (thin salted steak) was a bit tough. I think if you order the Burrito Belly Bowl (no tortilla) you get more than if you just ordered a burrito served in a tortilla. The Burrito Belly Bowl is plenty big and it comes with a big bag the size of a brown-bag lunch sack full of their house made tortilla chips. It certainly isn't the best Mexican take-out you can get in the area but based on their proximity we don't mind having them on occasion now that we know which meats we prefer there. read more

They charge me $4 for 3 additional 1 oz sauce for my $50 order & for an extra bag of 2 slices of carros & 1 cauliflower. I had never had a problem with this location everyone was nice but the current cashiers are rude. I had paid for 3 cans of coke & went to take them from the cooler & the other cashier asked me in a rude way if I was going to pay for them . Which I have already paid , I hope I could get a managers information because with the new employees you won't have much returning customers. read more

I have driven past the Stone Park location a few times but never had the chance to stop so when they opened a chain close to my house I had to try it out. Everything was great. The interior is nice, plenty of tables, clear menu to read, laid out well. The food is excellent. We got a burrito, a chicken and steak taco and a torta and everything was great. They didn't have any churros in when we went (noon on a Saturday) so that was devastating but it gives us reason to go back, not that we really needed a reason! read more

Cilantro Taco Grill - Chicken Taco and Chicken Burrito - Tacos Near Me - Elgin, Illinois

This is a taco spot you must try. It would be 5 stars if it weren't for the price. I still know plenty of spots where $1-$1.50 tacos are still a thing and if it wasn't for cilantro Being so close I might not have tried it. It was worth it though! read more

Food is good with reasonable prices. Only thing i was puzzled by was the the girl taking orders pretending to not understand Spanish. Girl stop. read more

I work close by and someone once ordered lunch from here. I said I'd get a steak burrito, and I'm glad I did! The burrito was filled with lots of yummy things (especially sour cream!). It was very filling and if I remember correctly, very cheap (6$ or less?). My tech got some tacos and said they were good, too. Overall, I'd try it again one day! read more

Love this place! They have the best stuffed pepper tacos! The pepper is huge! If you like pepper tacos this is the place. I get the dinner and it's only 1.00$ extra! Most places charge about 2.00$! It's very worth it! The rice and beans are excellent! They both are very flavorful! Most places the beans are blan with hardly to no flavor. Not theirs, they got a yummy flavor with cheese on em and are creamy texture not lumpy. Chips and salsa are good too they give you the red sauce with it. I've never tried the breakfast but will in the future. Horchata is my drink of choice has a perfect amount of cinnamon! So good! I definitely recommend this place! Also staff is always friendly. They have convenient delivery to which is nice! It's 3.00$ with a minimum order of $20! I usually call my order in if I'm just picking up and is always ready by the time I get there. They are really quick no waiting around! read more

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We arrived just before the dinner rush, so we mostly had the restaurant to ourselves. It was very clean and our food was ready pretty quickly. There was a wide variety of meat to choose from, plus all items on the menu were available for vegetarians. My husband, son, and I all chose different foods and they were all delicious. We're already talking about what we will get next time. read more

Honestly I don't know who they have working back there , but the meat tastes like they seasoned it then washed it off. Not only that , but the amount of meat they give you is sad . At this point I'm not sure if my tacos or the Gulf of Mexico had more oil in it . I feel like the cash register girl's attitude was spicier than the salsa . DO BETTER . I'm not going to take a picture because I wont disrespect my gallery like that. read more

Today, July 25, I came in the store and ordered two tongue tacos, two chili relleno tacos and one tripe taco. An extra taco of Pastor was added to my bill and it was also given in the order, which I never ordered. I was refunded because thank goodness I chose to eat in the store. Otherwise, I would've gotten very upset when I came home and saw an extra taco I didn't order. Then before I left, I asked for a Choco flan. It's a chocolate cake with Flan on top. And this is what I got when I opened the bag when I got home. A regular piece of flan! How stupid of me Not to check! Then I called them to let them know and they wanted me to go back to the store so they can refund me $3.75. Which I told the person on the phone that I was not going to spend five dollars in gas to go and get a refund of $3.75, in addition to my time wasted about an hour drive. I understand it was almost time to close and everybody must have been tired, but a simple piece of cake that I immediately paid for and he immediately went to pick up, there shouldn't have been a mistake. Plus there were only three people in the restaurant!! It was not because they were so busy! OMG! read more

Prior to today, I had no complaints. I thought this place was a semi decent Mexican restaurant. Until now. My burrito was extremely greasy with the steak appearing to be red in color indicating being under cooked. Which obviously was the case because my burrito came out extremely fast my burrito was literally served to me in like 3 minutes of ordering, I told the cook I wish to have the steak cooked longer showing him how undercooked and greasy it was. He decided to raise his voice at me. Telling me "well you should have said you wanted your steak cooked that way to begin with, that's your fault" considering the fact that in my previous dining experiences. My steak was cooked perfect. So why would I say anything? I would assume every burrito should be cooked to perfection. I demanded a refund, and they didn't even apologize or anything. It was very sad. Because I will no longer give them my business. Try to Taco Bell down the street instead, at least it's cooked. My only regret is that I didn't take a photo :/ I was so heated about it that it completely slipped my mind. Fair warning. Customer service is non existent. Plus the place doesn't even put cilantro on anything! It's an item on their menu that they charge you extra for! Lol weak. Low key Pisa restaurant disguised as quality authentic Mexican food. read more

Finally checked this place out. Nothing fancy here. Steak burrito was tasty. Not fantastic, but good enough. There are other places in Elgin that are much better. read more

I've been coming here for years and love it. Their quesadillas are the best and their steak is always cooked really well. Really recommend it and the people are nice! And it's all really cheap read more

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I love Mexican food and to be honest, this place wasn't too shabby. The food was delightful and appeared to be rather fresh. The pricing wasn't too bad at all either, so that is clearly always a plus. I was, however, a bit unsure about the fella who took our order and rang us up. He didn't seem too pleased to be working there and the glances up and down at me as I walked in clearly told me that my ordering experience was going to be awkward. I think that this is a delightful place to grab a hearty bite to eat and is much tastier than a number of Mexican establishments in the area. I say, go for it- but prepare for the awkwardness as you enter. read more

Food is always delicious and service is great! When ever I'm craving good Mexican, I go here.

Nasty !!!! The chicken smelled sooo bad eww ! The rice over cooked ! Never again waste of $19.00 read more

Now that this place has finally opened, I am excited to give the first review! I'm only sad that I forgot to take pictures. =( They lost a star because the service while placing the order could've been a little more organized, but I am more than understanding that this place is new and still has to iron out all the wrinkles. Also when my sister and I couldn't figure out where everyone got their salsas. There should be some kind of sign or maybe someone should've told us when they were handing us our food. I order the Tripas taco with cilantro and onion and it was fire. They cooked it perfectly because I do not like mine overly crispy. Taco number 2 wasn't anything to write home about but it was still good. (Chorizo with cilantro and onion) My last taco was the barbacoa taco and it was delish. It was soft and it pulled apart so easily. The last thing I ate was the pork tamale. I thought it was bland and rather dry, but I still ate it because the avocado salsa is amazing. I think I destroyed my tacos in less than a minute because of the avocado salsa. It definitely put the icing on the cake for me. Next time I will be back to try more from their menu. Fyi it is a little more on the pricier side compared to Los comales, but the food is good and the owner is really nice! read more

What a gem... This is a former middle eastern spot, Pita Puff, I liked that place but worried about the location. Now they age gone and Cilantro is here, Cilantro is great...I hope they don't meet the same fate. This location is annoying to get into and the parking lot is aggravating, but the food was excellent. I'm not much of a meat eater, especially somewhere new. With Mexican, it's easy to stick with a vegetarian order, so I did. I got a veggie taco and veggie tostada. Interestingly, I do not like cilantro, and despite their moniker, they omitted it from my order happily leaving beans, rice, avocado, tomato, onions and lettuce as the toppings (I nixed the sour cream too). The taco was good, I only used one shell and it held together. The tostado was fenomenal, that's Spanish for awesome! I loved the shell; not at all greasy and it had been lightly salted. The crunch of the shell with the fresh veggies were a great combo. I don't find myself in that direction too often, but next time I am, I'm definitely stopping in. read more

My husband has tried this place numerous time (the one in Addison), we both tried the Elgin location today for the first time and I was not disappointed! We are both huge fans of Mexican food and this place is great - not to mention, they are open late. My husband is a fan of their Chicken burrito, I tried their taco dinner with 2 steak tacos and 1 barbacoa taco. We also got their nachos & guacamole. The chicken burrito is great, it is my husband's go-to whenever he eats at Cilantro, the chicken is marinated well and perfectly shredded (no awkward chunks of meat). The nachos and guacamole were okay, the guacamole could have used a bit more lime and the nachos were a little on the greasier side (which could be a good thing because they fry them there). The taco dinner was great! I was not disappointed, the portions are great and tacos are the same size as you would get at any other taqueria. The steak was delicious, the barbacoa was a good consistency (no fatty pieces, shredded well) but the flavor was a bit bland - I probably won't order the barbacoa again in the future. All in all, we definitely recommend it to be tried at least once, it is not a chain restaurant - it is family owned & all locations are in IL - it's definitely a place we will go to again. read more

I usually eat at Chipotle 2-3 times a week and was pleasantly surprised by the quality and taste of the food. Appeared more authentic than others Order smaller quantities. Couple of tacos can easily fill you up read more

Good home cooked Mexican food. I came here for lunch today and really enjoyed it. Placed my order at the counter, and picked it up there when it was ready then sat in one of the booths. Everything was freshly cooked, not held on a steam table waiting to be assembled. The staff is very upbeat making it fun to eat there. read more

Cilantro Taco Grill - This is the Cilantro Dinner. - Taco, Tamale, Quesadilla, Spanish Rice and Refried Beans. Everything delicious. - Tacos Near Me - Elgin, Illinois

I've been here twice and the food is delicious! Red salsa has room for improvement. I've had steak and al pastor tacos and they are amazing.

I didn't like their taco bowls or whatever they call them. I could've gotten something better at chipotle for less money. It wasn't really healthy either. The refried beans and sour cream was overkill for me. read more