Teocali Mexican Restaurant & Cantina

I'm a regular customer and my work had a great holiday party at Teocali!

Kid-friendliness: Great family restaurant, kids are very welcome.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chips and Salsa, Chimichanga

Worst dining experience we have ever had in Kansas City in the 4 years we have lived here. We used to eat here...about 3 years ago and it was great. Tonight...everything was a complete disaster. Never again

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Amazing food.. fantastic place to eat a Mexican food

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chips and Salsa, Guacamole, Chicken Enchiladas

The food is delicious. They had some traditional pooled and while it took about an hour to come, you could tell it was freshly prepared and tasted wonderful.

Tacos were great and so were the quesilladas. Service was slow but otherwise was fine.

Definitely worth a visit or two...

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 3

I really liked the open air seating options and went with the balcony seating for this dinner. Had the Tapatias (steak, chicken, and shrimp) fajitas, great plate for sharing. Have to commend them that they have a very reasonably priced ($6/glass) wine menu with interesting choices; I chose the malbec.

Service was just a little bit slow but otherwise very pleasant. They had lots of seating available. Currently, menus are online only but this might be a reasonable paper saving maneuver to make permanent. Also was not too noisy.

Definitely would come back if I'm looking for a downtown Mexican meal in KC .

Parking: When I came found free street parking right near the restaurant

Wheelchair accessibility: They only had second-floor seating when I was there, not sure if they have an elevator.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Chips and Salsa

Very good food. Lisa and Eli deserve a raise. Best customer service ever and they bust their tails. True story.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chips and Salsa

Delicious soup. Neat atmosphere. Super friendly staff.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

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We went in for happy hour and they over charged us on every. single. item. It’s like they don’t recognize their own advertised happy hour specials. Will not be returning.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 3

My wife and a few friends went to Teocali on a Saturday evening a couple of weeks ago. We sat on the roof, which was quite pleasant.
Unfortunately, that was the extent of the pleasantness.
The food was subpar and the service was pretty awful. Granted, the server had to go up an extra set of steps, but she seemed very reluctant to do that more than she absolutely had to.

To add icing to that cake, some of the metal chairs on the roof have holes in them and sharp edges. The seat of my favorite suit pants were torn in three places. My wife told the manager on duty, I cant remember her name, and she seemed to have little concern. She never even bothered to come look at the chairs.

I called the general manager a few days later. He seemed genuinely concerned about the situation and promised that he or the owner would call me back the next day to discuss it further. Its been two weeks and I still have heard nothing from them.
Alas, this just made the entire experience negative. Other than the roof being pretty cool, nothing about Teocali is worth returning. The service sucked, the food was bland, unimaginative and poor quality.
We will not be returning.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 1

Food was amazing, loved the fresh salsa, came for lunch with my company and our server Marcy was so kind and accommodating for our table of 11/12, I Will be planing on coming back with family for future dinners, the drink prices were pretty reasonable as well. Thank you for the excellent service.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Ask for Karen, she is amazing! I love this place!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Teocali is amazing and Karen is the best server ever! Had a great time here. Great food and good atmosphere!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Karen & Ed are the best!!! We originally went to Antler Room and they couldn’t squeeze us in with one extra person on our reservation but Karen took such great care of us, Ed changed the music for us, and we were very well taken care of!!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Teocali was amazing! We met the owner Enrique at our restaurant earlier in the day and he invited us to check out his place. We came and I can truly say it did not disappoint, the atmosphere was great & drinks were amazing . Can’t wait to come back! ?

Atmosphere: 5

Service: 5