Lorena's Mexican - East Peoria

Been coming here for at least 10 years and always excellent. No problem if the wait is an extra few minutes when they are busy, because food always comes...

We decided to make a return here after having a pleasant experience last year. We found them to still be offering prompt and friendly service. Our server...

Frequent this place often as Maria is a nice woman and the service is good. I've never written a complaint about a restaurant before but tonight I can't...

Service is always good but the food quality is dropping.

Three stars overall based on great service only. Gave this a try, hoping to find a decent Mexican restaurant in town. The place is nice enough and the staff is very efficient. The food? Meh. I had a burrito grande and it was good but definitely on the salty side. The very salty side. Might have been the marinated chicken. The wife ordered the chile relleno with a taco and got enchiladas with a taco. Happens. The server quickly brought out he correct dish and who knows what that was. It was a plate with rice, beans, and a huge blob of some cheese-like substance. No chile relleno anywhere. Took a fork and poked around the cheese goo and sure enough: two dime-sized pieces of chile were floating in it. That's it. Both pieces would have fit on a teaspoon with room left over. And, you guessed it: Salty. Seems to be theme with Mexican food in town: salty to the point of being inedible. Too bad, as we really wanted to like it and had such high hopes for a good Mexican place. I guess I have to make my own again. Minus the salt.