The food is pretty good. Â The salsa is a little too salty. Â The margaritas are terrible, but they pour a decent shot of tequila. Â I recommend the chicken tacos, and order them with extra spicy sauce. Â Ground beef entrees are pretty standard Mexican fare. Â It is a decent Mexican place, and one of the only authentic ones in the area. Â Good Tequilas is better, but it's too far on the other side of town for me.
Review Source:Though we eat here fairly frequently and enjoy it, I just can't bring myself to tip Jalapeno's up to that fourth star, and I'm not sure I can articulate why.
The servers here are incredibly friendly, but the service itself is sometimes kind of frenzied and awkward. It seems your table doesn't really have one server, just whoever happens to pass by, which means requests can sometimes get lost along the way. The food is almost always lightning fast to the table, though on one or two occasions it's been painfully slow (which no one on staff noticed, a problem with not actually having an assigned server).
The food itself is... well, it really is just okay. It's never bad (except for that one spinach burrito I got), but it's never great (except for their beans, which I have a bit of a love affair with), and it kind of seems like the kitchen doesn't care a lot about what's going out on the plates. Obviously Jalapeno's is a million steps up from the likes of Taco Bell, but at the same time, it seems quite a few steps away from real Mexican cuisine as well.
There are a few Mexican restaurants in Peoria, and to be honest, this one is just decent. The food is not the best, but the service is very good. They have a lot of wait staff so you are always good to go with refills, fresh chips/salsa, and ofcourse your food comes out in like 10 minutes. They also have very cheap lunch specials (about $5). Their strawberry margarita is also good. I usually get the taco salad or now, more often, the taquitos mexicanos. It is tasty, but could be better. So, all in all, good place, but not the best in the area.
Review Source:I can't compare their food to other Mexican restaurants in the area, but what I tried for lunch was decent. They had a lunch special and provided chips and salsa on the table (like any other Mexican restaurant you go to). The only thing I did remember is that their chips is quite thick which I didn't really care for.
Overall, it was ok. Nothing memorable, nothing bad.
We tried Jalapeno's for the first time last week, and they definitely have the best salsa of any Mexican restaurant I've tried in the Peoria area. It actually has a little kick! And they had some more inventive options, like potato burritos and spinach burritos, etc. The food was good, and the service was quick and friendly. We'll definitely be back.
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