La Presa Restaurant
319 S Rohlwing Rd, Palatine
(847) 221-5475
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I’ve seen this restaurant for years (maybe decades?) while going to Napoli’s. It always appears unassuming. A friend and I decided to stop here randomly and boy was I pleasantly surprised! Great service I need to say firstly. Although the laminated menus don’t have prices, the paper ones at the counter do for most items not Market Price. Don’t let this put you off. My meal was $20.99 at time of payment before tip, for seafood. The insane amount of different whole seafood options and steak specialties, the massive colorful platters, the huge drinks… This is a wonderfully decadently-far cry from my typical Napoli’s trip. BUT they still make the essentials like tacos, sopes, and burritos too. I got the Camarones con Crema de Chipotle, my friend got the Chilaquiles Verdes. Both were on MASSIVE platters and was a great amount of food. Seasoned rich sauce, great shrimp, warm tortillas… My friend’s margarita with the Corona took forever to finish and must have had good quality tequila in it. As the meal wore on, the restaurant had more and more customers for a late Sunday lunch. It didn’t seem so empty and quiet as what you see from the outside, and it was nice seeing people coming in. I would definitely come back again or make a pickup order with the fam. Great job, employees!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Seafood
Very good food, if you like spicy food you are looking at the right place.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Pozole De Camarones, Seafood
Came in on a Sunday night and it was pretty much empty. Food was delicious, huge servings. Horchata was good, salsas was great, steak burrito was better than I expected. Quac was also great and the server was nice and attentive. No prices on the main menu, but it wasn’t crazy expensive- about $40 for a burrito dinner, enchiladas dinner, horchata and quac…
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
if I could give them 0 stars I would. we had 2 steak chimis and they were disgusting! the steak tasted old n close to being rancid. I fear a near future bout of food poisoning is possible. the service was so bad we didn’t tip. the server stood n talked to another table while we sat n waited for our bill. I would NEVER recommend this place! YUCK. n $19 for each dinner? wow
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Very good camarones a la Diabla.
Dietary restrictions: Keto, dairy and gluten-free, friendly.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Camarones a La Diabla, Seafood
I will be back! Delicious food prepared with joy. You can tell.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Outstanding experience here. Great food. Super nice people.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Do not order through the website. I placed an order and it totaled $53 and I get there and they tell me it's $82!!! No way! They would not honor the price of the order placed. "Sorry we don't use that service anymore. I don't know what you want me to tell you." Obviously you do still use it cuz you got my order, which had my phone number attached to it. If you knew there was an issue with using that site to sell your food and your prices have since changed... You alert your customer! I obviously walked out without food. I'm not paying $30 more than the price I ordered.
Service: 1
Decided to try this place out having passed it so many times. Maybe things have improved over a year ago because my husband and I really enjoyed our food and drink. We had their steak, pastor, and lengua tacos and a dinner entree of their fish fillet la presa style. All was good except my fish was a bit too wet. But I don't know if that was the style. Price is higher because you also get a lot of food. My entree was literally a meal for 2. The Mexican rice is DELISH! Definitely be back because there were a lot of dishes on the menu we would like to try.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
I'm serious "I went to lunch with my husband, we ordered soup, it took about 45 minutes to bring it when it arrived, we were surprised ? when the soup arrived in a punch bowl for 4 people, some crab legs ? in principle the shrimp were decomposing ? without cleaning the The food was terrible, very bad and apart from the quite high price, they really should close this place, $26 for the famous Presa soup, very bad taste, be careful with this place, you can get poisoned ?
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The shrimp cocktail was not very pleasant, it was all tasteless.
Parking: Great place
Decided to try this place out having passed it so many times. Maybe things have improved over a year ago because my husband and I really enjoyed our food and drink. We had their steak, pastor, and lengua tacos and a dinner entree of their fish fillet la presa style. All was good except my fish was a bit too wet. But I don't know if that was the style. Price is higher because you also get a lot of food. My entree was literally a meal for 2. The Mexican rice is DELISH! Definitely be back because there were a lot of dishes on the menu we would like to try.
Cutest waitress, she spoke broken English but you can understand her plus she can understand you. Fantastic authentic Mexican food. The burrito suizo is GREAT !!! I will be going back. And I believe the chef will be working on making the California burrito ? that is also going to be fabulous !! really think this Mexican restaurant is a little hidden secret, but won't be anymore !! It's a must stop for authentic Mexican food ??
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Decided to try this place out having passed it so many times. Maybe things have improved over a year ago because my husband and I really enjoyed our food and drink. We had their steak, pastor, and lengua tacos and a dinner entree of their fish fillet la presa style. All was good except my fish was a bit too wet. But I don't know if that was the style. Price is higher because you also get a lot of food. My entree was literally a meal for 2. The Mexican rice is DELISH! Definitely be back because there were a lot of dishes on the menu we would like to try.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
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