La Penca Mexican Restaurant

1821 S Park St, Madison
(608) 819-6662

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Lens Logic

When ordering tamales, if you're not a fan of queso, request their salsa as they drown them in it. Otherwise, muy excellentè. IMHO

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Sam Huff

Amazing wonderful and super friendly staff. Food 10/10 amazing

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Bikes Boats Boots WI

Excellent food with very authentic and rich flavors. Highly recommend the burritos and chimis especially with chicken and chorizo! The hot salsa is also very good with just enough heat. One of our new favorite places for Mexican food. 😋

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

kakashi hatake

First things first every ingredient is freshly made for your order. Best food quality never a single wilt in your lettuce. I’ve never been more happy at a Mexican restaurant that I’ve been coming to for over three years. It used to be Guadalajara Taqueria. They’re still great and honestly, my second best because they have the best chimichanga in town and their cactus but as a chef I can say this place never let me or my family down bothe are number one to me but I choose this one over small thing like steak being seasoned let’s not include the margarita that taqueria Guadalajara does not offer. It’s still here and has a new location Verona over three other places before them have failed and they have lasted more than three years. Why the others haven’t. enough said just if you have ever had my cooking you would know.’ no biases just opinions

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

caleb c

this is the friendliest best place to get mexican food or a margarita or just get a cocktail

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Jasmine Nash

The tacos were $4.15 for more tortilla & onion then meat, im talking 8 SMALL cut pieces of tripe in each one, the kids nuggets were actually grilled chicken cut into pieces burnt to a crisp in the fryer, the fries were old & the pozole had 5 bones and 2 pieces of fat in the whole bowl w hominy. My son’s cheeseburger never came out. & I reminded him before he brang my taco salad out which was bearly edible. When I told him about pozole, he replied w “they’re pork ribs”. I don’t care what type of ribs they use. They had no meat on them, and they still tried to serve it to me. Overall the experience was pathetic. I cannot believe someone recommended this place to me.

Nathan Acevedo

I got 4 tacos - al pastor, asada, carnitas, and campechano. Insanely good, might be my new go to for tacos.

Jeremy Skoug

The food is amazing and so is the service. You should check your website though, it seems to be hacked or something and opens shady links when you click take out

Tamara Cook

This is a fantastic little hidden gem. There were five of us in our party and we were tended to in quick fashion and had lovely meals.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Chimichangas

JVG

Best mexican food in town!

They are the best!!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

mikki benisch

The service and food were amazing, and the margaritas are very tasty. New go-to Mexican restaurant in Madison!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Mario s

10/10 very cool food I ordered a roast beef and it was very juicy roasted to perfection the Tamarindo water was great and the waitress was a very attentive beautiful girl also place recommended 100%

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Josie Hintzke

An easy pick for Mexican food every single day of the week!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Food

Noah Kingrey

The chori pollo with the corn tortillas came out quick and was well portioned and tasted great. Also ordered two tacos and they both came with a lot of cilantro and meat which I was very happy about. We ordered takeout and they gave chips and salsa for free. While we waited they played chalino sanchez which I love. Definitely coming back for the monster margaritas

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Street Tacos

Lysa L

The food was absolutely awful. I didn’t think you could mess up Mexican food this badly. I was proven wrong.

Food: 1

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