Uncle Julio's Orland Park

Please save your robotic reply, “Manager,” when you reply to my review about this horrible restaurant. I really tried to give this place the benefit of the doubt, and I really don’t see it staying open for long in the city of Orland Park — laughing but so serious. No liquor license (they lost), pitiful 🤣. And it’s not just that… the food is HORRIBLE NOW! It’s not from scratch. They removed a lot of good food items from the menu that were actually good and a fan favorite. Doing things like that is only gonna make you lose even more business than the business you’ve been losing with the lousy service and cold food. Cold food I had to send back because who goes into a restaurant to pay $30+ just to eat cold food? Are you out of your mind? Yeah, this establishment needs John Taffer from Bar Rescue to save their dying bar and grill — “Mexican food” that is NOT from scratch.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Had an amazing time trying out uncle Julios and man was it great. I dont usually write reviews but I've been to other locations and by far from my experiences this was the best. My friend brought me to try the fresh guacamole and the gentleman pepe was phenomenal and a delight to meet. He has been here 11 years and was just so friendly and made the guacamole in front of us and was very friendly. Very clean, great food and our waitress Janet was very pleasant! Highly recommend the food and this location. I will definitely be back to see pepe, very funny and friendly personalities from him and the whole staff. 5 stars

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

You get chips and salsa when you get seated. The Server, Alyssa, was nice. She was on top of her game. I got the 3 steak street tacos which came with rice and beans. Those were good.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

This place has gone downhill big time

It's not from scratch anymore. They lost the liquor license. The food is not the same.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 3

Party of 8 had reservations through RESY. Arrived 10 minutes early for a 1:15 time on Oct 12 to see a sign on door - NO ALCOHOL, PERMIT GONE. Then told they cancelled our reservation because I did not reply to a text. Finally got a table only to have 3 dinners incorrectly done. Got bill to discover $57 overcharged. Took 20 minutes for Mgr to correct. Server was very nice, not her fault. For the money, many other restaurants to choose from.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 1

We were there to celebrate our son's birthday. When his food came out, we were highly disappointed. Even though he had chicken tenders and fries, the portion was tiny and different from what we had before. It had no flavor, and it looked worse than if we had bought it from the grocery store and cooked it ourselves. He was ready to leave.
He stated we should have gone to Cooper's Hawk.

We won't go back.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 3

Not authentic Mexican food for me

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 4

Had a reservation for my mom’s birthday. To order drinks, appetizers or anything took well over 10-15 minutes and to get any refills took another 15 minutes. Not sure if large groups were there or what since the main floor only had like 6 tables that were used. Well, now my family members and myself that attended my mom’s dinner are all sick. Needless to say we will not be going back. Super disappointed. Had high hopes since I had attended a different location (Schaumburg location) and absolutely loved the food, staff and experience.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 1

No liquor license right now

I've never been here before and didn't know what to expect. I thought it was going to be a cheesy chain. But it wasn't. The tortilla experience alone is worth going. Our server, Tim, was excellent. Pepe showed us the tortilla machine and was very professional. The food was really good to my surprise. We ordered the quesadillas and the carnitas tacos. But we had a lot of fun!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Suspended liquor license!😱😭

Nearly no staff present and had to wait quite a while before someone showed up to seat us. Thought everything would be fine once seated and receiving chips and salsa, after waiting a while for the waiter to come take my order, I was informed that their liquor license was expired and they can’t server alcohol. That would have been great to know before being seated and maybe putting a warning on your websites to avoid people wasting their time.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Unfortunately they decided to make some changes to the menu removing the birria tacos which sucks was a fav

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 2

Service: 5

Great place! Special shout out to Pepe! He made the greatest guacamole and was so friendly!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5