Wholly Frijoles

Very disappointed. Nice environment, looked clean, great service BUT a BIG let down. The food was not authentic.  Coming from a person who grew up eating authentic Mexican food her whole life. Extremely extremely pricey for Mexican food. Paid 80 dollars for a bill that, at most, should have been 35.  The food was bland, flavorless, dry, and cold. Seriously....not joking. Service was good though.

Was very excited to see a nice looking Mexican restaurant open in gurnee and even more so after reading a lot of good reviews!  Went on a weeknight.  2 servers working.  The female who was actually working other tables paid more attention to us than our own male server.  He dropped off the appetizers but we had no napkins or silverware.  After sitting for about 5 minutes with no sign of our waiter, the female came over to see if we were OK and then got us silverware, and no we didn't enjoy our by-then cold appetizers.  I had chili rellenos, which were rather soggy and flavorless and we each got an tiny fish taco on the side and the 2 small pieces of deep fried fish inside were not good.  Really disappointing since its a very nice looking place and the menu sounds great, but was so not worth the price.

Amazingly reasonable lunch prices. I often order fish tacos when I am out to eat, and the ones at Wholly Frijoles are easily the best I have had. Simple and delicious!