La Poblanita Mexican Kitchen

We are away from home for a few days. I picked this place on location and reviews. The reviews are right on, beautiful menu, great service, excellent food. I couldn't help but notice most of the customers were Mexican and they know great Mexican food.

Perhaps an off night. But this wasn’t good and actually turned my stomach. The chips tasted old and like oil, the steak on my meal was gray and flavorless. It tasted old like it was reheated from days before. The texture was super chewy. The rice and beans were good. To top it off it was 81 degrees in the restaurant. So I was pretty much sweating just trying to eat my food. With so many Mexican spots in Eau Claire, I probably won’t be back.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 4

Great chips and salsa!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Finally an authentic Mexican restaurant with Flavor. The food was great. Finally found menudo that's good.
Salsa samples were great.
My steak was a little overcooked but it was still juicy.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

A very quiet little restaurant with really good food

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Amazing Food! Holy cow.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The food is absolutely amazing. Definitely the best Mexican restaurant in Eau Claire. The staff is very nice And the food comes out relatively quickly. The atmosphere Caters specifically to this kind of food ,with Spanish music in the background. If you like authentic Spanish cuisine with an atmosphere that matches and a nice staff, This is definitely the Mexican restaurant for you.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Definitely will be back for more . The food was good and full of flavor .

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

I split the single shrimp fajitas with my husband, and my son enjoyed the shrimp / carne asada fajitas. We all thought the food was really good. Son had a frozen margarita, and husband had a margarita on the rocks. Great margaritas, too!! Casual atmosphere with a lot of heart, and there's a Mexican trinket / piñata store on the other side. Great place for a quick, relatively inexpensive, tasty Mexican meal.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Wife and I have been going here since we moved to EC. Good stuff every time

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Food was excellent 👌 authentic and so dang delicious 😋

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

One of the more authentic Mexican places in town! Food was very good.

Still looking for some Carne Asada.

Started off with chips, salsa, and the Flautas. The complimentary salsa was a trio and the red salsa was weird. It had a ceviche like taste, like there was too much acidic flavor from lime or something... I could not put my finger on it, but it was weird tasting.

The flautas were different. I am use to a more tightly rolled flauta but these were loosely rolled and the chicken was subject a lot of oil. This left the meat a little drier than I would expect. They were tasty enough for me to finish off, but the wife was not happy with them. Added a lot of green salsa to them to make it edible.

We also had a Chimichanga with the three sauces, added carne asada for the meat, rice and beans. The refried beans were delicious, ate those up, they nailed it. On the other hand the rice... the rice reminded me of Rice-A-Roni. It was not the fluffy rice like my Nana and aunties would make, but like the Rice-A-Roni my mom would make. It was also overly orange, not sure why, but the texture and flavor was just not right, for me or the wife. The chimi was disappointing for various reasons:

1) Green Bell Peppers... raw. Not sauteed, but raw. I have no idea what region puts raw green bell peppers in their chimis... confusing

2) The rice, again, as I did not find the rice appetizing, it was not helping the chimi as it was the base ingredient

3) Disappointing Carne Asada, perhaps we got steak instead of the carne we ordered, but it was flavorless grey meat

4) Sauces, the red and cheese sauce were nothing to write home about...the green sauce seems to be based on their green salsa, which was really good, but the other sauces were not

The good:

Green salsa, amazing. As well as the creamy green salsa, I liked that one too. We started with chips and dip and I was excited for the meal.

Guacamole, well done, had fantastic flavor and we finished it off.

Chips were not overly salted or oily, they were great and we would take home an order of chips and green salsa... which means we may like their nachos.

If this is not a regional composition, then ignore this advice... fix the rice. Add more flavor to your carne asada, charge more if you have to, make it worth an upgrade. Highlight that green salsa, and perhaps the red salsa was not prepared correctly... if it was, then the audience for it is not me, and that is fine.

The service was great, friendly and welcoming. The decor is amazingly colorful and there were families eating there. It felt welcoming.

Thank you for the meal. If I am coming off as a jerk, then I am sorry, I just want to provide an honest review of how I experienced the meal I was served on a particular day.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 4

Stopped by here for a late lunch on our way home to Minneapolis and had an excellent meal! The avocado salsa that's included with the chips and salsa was one of the best I've ever had and I wish I had thought to buy more before we left.

It was a pleasant Taqueria to enjoy with family. Food was delicious

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5