Reviews of La Pena Restaurante (Restaurant)

Oliviá Lopez

Very, very nice place to eat and dance with Family, kids are welcome

Ida Sanchez

Awesome place great food and service. Will return.

kurt k

Good food and excellent drinks

Jose Bonilla

(Translated by Google) Ecuadorian recommend this restaurant for its space food and friendly attention !!! (Original) Recomiendo éste restaurant ecuatoriano por su comida espacial y amable atencion!!!

Luz Mary Serna

(Translated by Google) I think q Service q provide is very bad, waitresses very inattentive uneducated, food terribly bad Remala and very expensive for the amount, only placed banana in the ground, and also deny a pitcher of water, say q no q buy q knowing this is necessary as companion liquor not recommend this place for the world. (Original) Me parece q el servicio q prestan es muy malo, las meseras muy desatentas poco educadas, la comida pesimamente mala remala y muy costosa para la cantidad, solo colocan platano en la picada, y además niegan una jarra con agua, dicen q hay q comprarla sabiendo q esta es necesaria como acompañante del licor no recomiendo este lugar por nada del mundo.

Elizabeth Potes

Me encanta este restaurante. Xq además de comer rico y beber y bailar hasta cansarnos es un lugar familiar también.. siempre m la paso super en este restaurante y la atención buenisima.

Pepe Navas

(Translated by Google) Excellent place (Original) Excelente lugar

Eduardo Masias

Best ecuadorian place nice music nice food

Chrissy De Blas

Great food, great ambiance, great drinks.!! Def coming back, thank you!

anthony Robles

(Translated by Google) Excellent services (Original) Exelente servicios

MikeyG

Excellent place for visiting

Juventino Juarez

In espacio familiar para cenar y bailar

Jorge Zarate

Nice environment.

Grethel Mendez

(Translated by Google) Very rich food, good customer service and very nice place (Original) Muy rica comida, buena atención al cliente y muy lindo lugar

Deisy Gonzalez

Excelente servicio y muy buena música para bailar

Norma Castillo

Great food

Julio Galvez

It a great place to celebrate a party and sing in the pina

Dulce Ramos

Food was good. La Pena serves the best Ecuadorian food I have had in Chicago. The ceviche was fantastic and really liked the avocado salad paired with this dish. Husband had lomo saltado. He thought it was delicious but skimpy on meat. A bit pricier than expected.

Luis E

Great food!

Pedro O. Robles

Food was ok. Service the worst. Definitely needs more personnel. We were a party of 8 celebrating a friends anniversary. We Waited almost 1hr before I had to go find a server to order drinks. Waitress ask are you ready to order I said no we just want some drinks she said I'll go there later. Finally we got drinks. Another long wait to order and get food. I asked for tabasco and I notice she went to the table next to us and took their bottle without asking and gave it to us. Later she came back to our table only to take the Tabasco, again without asking, and gave it to another table. That was just rude. To get more drinks we had to go find her to order. On top of everything when we only tipped her 10% she came after us demanding 18% . My wife a waitress so when we go out we do 20% but for the service we got she should be happy she got $30. Will never go back.

Gladis Guerrero

(Translated by Google) Super..very rich food and above all the atmosphere. (Original) Super..muy rica comida y sobretodo el ambiente .

Chuck norris

No se merece ninguna estrella . mis amigos ya me habían advertido desd e hace mucho tiempo tienen la costumbre las meseras de atender mal con muy mala actitud y el dueño es peor es un mal educado , no puedes reclamar ninguna comida porque no te la cambian tienes que pagarla y te tratan mal Y LO PEOR tienen La mala costumbre de cobrar de más y te hacen un problemon si reclamas. ..........NO VAYANNNN

Reilys Julio

Good food. $$$

The Cuestas

The seafood, ownership friendlyness, Music variety, southamerican great spot!

Mayra Ramirez

(Translated by Google) Very good food and excellent atmosphere (Original) Muy buena comida y ambiente excelente

Moe.Martin Anderson

I highly recommend the lamb chops... and the chips are from plantains... Smiles!

Felipe Galvan

I had a blast on Saturday night with the DJ. Good cocktails but a bit pricey. Otherwise it's a normal restaurant with good food. Btw Saturday crowd is more on the mature side.

Italo Salazar

Nice place for dinner , good Ecuadorian food, live entertainment weekends is the trade of this place

Kevin M Sampson

Rude

Alejandro Hernandez

I've been there several occassions for dinner and live music. Food is good in taste, but it needs a little improvement in presenting and serving the dishes. Staff is friendly and efficient. Only reason I am giving 2 stars is because the washrooms are always messed up. They should schedule a service person to visit and clean them every hour when place is full.

Ingrid Garcia

(Translated by Google) It's good place (Original) Es buen lugar

Medard Ortega

Nice place!

tir maldonado

Exelente comida y lo mejor en música y la incomparable sonrisa de su gente amable gracias lo disfrutamos y regresaremos pronto

Martha Matailo

Ese restuarante vale para la fregada, nos acavan de echar ,, y supuestamente el horario dice K esta avierto asta las 3 am.. yo lo tenia por uno de los mejores, ,pero la realidad es otra, ,k mal....

Sandra Amaya

Good place to dance and sundays karaokee

Stephen Friedman

Great food. Had the ceviche, tamale and Coconut salmon. Then enjoyed a fun live band

Jessica C

Horrible service!

Tanya Galdamez

family business. Friendly, clean and pleasant.

nino chicago

Where so anwesome night....

Alex Perea

Excellent! Clean and open place. We ordered some chicken wings and they were fresh and juicy. Plantain chips were also fresh and crunchy. The sound system was good and music was ok. I would come back again.

Gerald Fuentes

Drinks and food are DELICIOUS!!! Make sure to try the Coconut Seafood Stew... Out of this world! Great service and atmosphere too. Fidel (owner) is a great host! Don't miss it!

Viviana Robles

Great music, to dance and do not stop, yayyyy

Wellington Ochoa

Es uno de los mejores Restaurants que he visitado. Buena musica la comida muy rica y el ambiente fenomenal. Los precios un poco caros!!!!!

amparito mendoza

Nice for people who like sudamericana music salsa cumbia etc....

Vino Lan

Used to be a nice place to eat.... Now a dancing place

Jose Pante

One of the best ecuadorian place.

Connie Tirado

The food was great and the environment very pleasant. Thank you!

Muñequita traviesa

No le doy ni una ☆ en ese lugar hay una mesera que se llama María ella me cobró y aparte de que ya incluyen la propina todavía se quiere quedar con el cambio, deberían fijarse a que clase de personal contratan!

monica sanchez

love the music love the atmosphere

Carmen Pineda

Me fascina este Restaurant la comida y el servicio es de primera. Y lo que mas me gusta, es que despues de comer puedes pasar una velada super ya sea bailando o escuchando la musica.

Grace C

Delicious food... Seco de Pollo and Ceviche are great

Dj Shoker

Nice place ... good food

Maria Mateus

Great authentic Ecuadorian style food

Wendolyn Martinez

Absolutely delicious.

Rodney Harrison

Great food, drinks and music. Always have a great time here.

Nick Y

Great food made better by the music.

Alma Delgado

I love the Latino environment

Sergio Lopez

Muy Buena musica y ambiente el servicio no bueno no hay meseras

Pedro Hernandez

Great place for drinks and music

Felipe Andrade

Los precios caros, buena sopa de pollo

Idaliapacios Palacios

Fidel hubieras echo el karaoke hoy alcabo mañana cierras..

Stanley Pendleton

Great place to dance, great Spanish music selection, food is expensive. Music is loud so if your going there too conversate wrong place to do it. They try their best to accommodate your party with seat/table arrangements.

Gabriel Pabon

Karaoke wow

JessicaMonterrubio

Fun place to go out and have a good time. There is a dance floor and dj weekends

Sonia Lemus

(Translated by Google) Charming (Original) Encantador

Miriam hurtarte

Me gusta el ambiente y la musica Deben de mejorar el tener a sus meseros con uniforme . El ultimo dia pedi un platillo y el arroz contenia un preciado pelo..

Carola Millares

The owner is a very nice person but he needs to realize how the bad service and attitude from the servers and the karaoke dj on Sundays is damaging his restaurant's image. Food is way overpriced as well as drinks. On top of that, they even charge you for water! I love karaoke but I refuse to go to this place unless it's my very last resort, which is rarely the case. Do yourself a favor and try other restaurants with better service and prices.

Teresa Morales

(Translated by Google) Bad attention. Not for free return (Original) Pésima atención. Ni de gratis regreso

Ciprian M.

Today 9/19/2015 the new server told me to stand up from the table and go to the bar where was packed. I wished to order food and drinks but felt rejected by his attitude. I just went somewhere else. I love this place. Good food and extremely good music.

Adrian Miramontes

Horrible place, horrible service, horrible food. I stopped to get a bite food was tasteless the waiter treated me like I was a punk I asked for a horchata (which they don't sell that there) she rolled her eyes at me and said what is that and left my table without my order I only paid for the drinks and the appetizer and left never going back there it was my first and last time there.

Becca Cameron

Delicious food and a great environment

Romel Campoverde

Great food, staff and music

Valik Solorzano Barboza

Delicious Ecuadorian food and live music after 7:00 pm on Saturday

Yumi

Food tastes amazing! Pricey but worth it.

Javier Hernandez

A very good place to eat and good music

Rick R

Great food, very delicious. Live Latin music. Great drinks. Don't expect craft beer, but that's ok.

Javier H Benavides

Came from Wisconsin... and ordered Seco de Pollo, and the Mango smoothie... Delicious.. definitely coming back to try more stuff here...

Cirse Ruiz Nuñez

Music is lousy!

Katherine Worner

Love is very Good

Pachi m

poco caro pero vale la pena

Shadia Safady

Great food am drinks love the encocado everybody should try it

mary buitron

The food is delicious, the DJ does a great job mixing a litrle bitbof everything. But the service is awful. Especially the one given by the owners wife and his sister. Not charismatic at all, very pushing on selling and horrible attitude. They dont even offer a glass of water, "unless you consume alcohol", they don't care if you consume food or not, they wont give you water, which at every single restaurant water is given as soon as you sit down. As an ecuadorian i can say this is the worst place to have an ecuadorian meal.

M Mora

Excellent customer service, atmosphere was great went there for an early dinner. Food was delicious.

Jake Coz

Great food, very very lively atmosphere!!! Come when the band is here. It's just two guys but they play authentic Ecuadorian music and as the night goes on they play other Latin stuff. Everyone was so hype and everyone was dancing on the dance floor. I don't speak any Spanish but the staff all knew English and menu was translated too

maricarmen bastidas

Amazing place

Jose Martinez

food was good , but no so much the service. long faces ladys at the door . there was not busy , but they did not bother to asked if we needed somenthing else , at least not for a while . any of the two ladys bother to pick up the plates , or offer anything else . we had to keep waiting and kind of making eye contact with them in order to get service . Ha but on our way out she , i asume it was the owner or her sister , she stop us and asked for extra tips , i had already leave about $15 dollars but she mention that was for taxes but the total was already there including the tips which was $15.00 . i am ok with leaving tips and i always do , but it seemed rude that she asked for more when in reality the subtotal was an amount , then i had left $15 extra but again she asked for more making it about $35 extra . it really seems shady and i gues that same lady does that often with other people according the rivews.

Nadia Orosco

Food and service were great! True to Ecuadorian flavor! Definitely gonna come back....!

Mauricio Padilla

(Translated by Google) Food. Very rich service very bad (Original) Comida. Muy Rica service muy malo

Rafael Robles

(Translated by Google) Excellent..

ivy

The wait for the food was long but the food was amazing. The smoothie was my favorite thing that I had my hole family and I had a good time and thought the food was amazing.

Carlos Rubira

Su atención y su comida buena

Johanna Melendez

Le di 3 Estellas porque la comida estaba muy buena pero el servicio dela mesera ....muy pobre

Irma ruiz

Domingo de karaokee excelente, la carne asada de muy buen sabor

LAVIE'N Dolci Eventos & Gourmet N DOLCI

(Translated by Google) Excellent food service and the best music (Original) Excelente comida servicio y lo mejor la música

pascual meza

(Translated by Google) My favorite place (Original) Mi lugar preferido

Denise Rodriguez

First time here and the people where nice and the food was good.

Viviana Cook

Creepy atmosphere... extremely expensive

Tonya Eason-Hansen

Romantic and karaoke.

William Siebert

Great and good service

El Papi

Yum!

Anthony Chavarria

Great music and great food

Alma Aguila

When going with a large group be prepared to not be waited on. We saw our server 2 times, to order and to pay, someone else brought out the food. My sister noticed she only received 6 fries, and when asking the server for the missing fries (compared to my plate and another persons) the server said that was the correct amount that we (me and the other person) got extra. Finally, when asking for the check, the server said we could not split it. Later she did split it and she made sure to include gratuity. Which I understand, but the service did not merit the gratuity. I work at a restautant - the standard 18% is optional - when servers think they will not get a good tip they will include it, but sonetimes you can get better than 18% when you give great service. Our server was never available and never checked on our table. Our glass of water only got refilled 1 time, after we asked for it. All that was beside the fact that the food took over an hour to come out, including an app. And the drinks were not only sub par (mojito) but straight up disgusting (michelada - which was undrinkable).

Bernard Turner

I love the large menu and my favorite appetizer is llapingachos. I would recommend it for dinner and the entertainment.

João Carlos Figueiredo

Good place

johnfer gonzalez

Awesome

Maggie Taipe

Food it's awesome, but the drink are slopy made. A píña colada without garnish is a sad drink

Juan Aguero

good service

Earl Loder

Liked the food but the menu too mixed with American food choices

golly andrade

Las margaritas ricas , la música lo mismo de siempre x muchos años y el servicio uuuffff fatal Parece k el dinero k uno paga no vale , yo x eso jamás volví a ir .... No lo recomiendo hay lugares mejores !

Edna Carreon

Love this place the food is amazing lot's to choose from

David Diaz

Food was fine, but do yourself a favor and ask for the itemized receipt. The owner's wife was the one waiting our table and she gave us the credit card receipt without the itemized receipt without telling us the tip was already included...seemed a little shady

Lina Margarita Hernandez

(Translated by Google) Good place (Original) Buen lugar

Eduardo Rosales

Good food

Claudia Porres

La comida esta bien , pero las bebidas estan malisimas y no vale los $9 que cobran. Sobre la atencion al cliente no es la mas cordaial ni acojedora. No se si sea la dueña y su hermana pero mi opinion es que si un negocio quiere prosperar tienen que ser mas amables.

Kevil Estévez

(Translated by Google) Very rich food and beautiful local. (Original) Muy rica comida y bonito local.

Camilo Carreno

The meat is excellent, we had the land and sea picada and we had to take it home because it was a lot but all of the food was perfectly cooked and tasted great, but the beef was incredible, juicy and very nice tasting.

Magdalena Salgado

Es un muy lindo lugar amplio limpio con buena musica lo recomiendo.

Wilson Maxi Pezantes

Buena experiencia en la comida

scotty klutch

Live music was great. So was music selection when they were taking a break. But a tad Expensive.

Kris Cichon

Absolutely stunning place with real south American atmosphere. Great food.. especially see food with the native south American dishes.. great live music on weekends

Cristina salgado

(Translated by Google) Congratulations, I am happy to return to the place where I always felt like family. The music, and its owners. Thank you for the attention and kindness something so valuable and important. (Original) Felicidades, me da gusto regresar al lugar donde siempre me sentí como en familia . La música, y sus dueños. Gracias por la atención y la amabilidad algo tan valioso e importante.

Fabian Oyervide

(Translated by Google) Super delicious food, good service, great live musical (Original) Super deliciosas comida, buen servicio, musical en vivo genial

Claudio Loja

Good food

Nancy

Very good place to aet, dance, sing, love it!

Nana Love

Food is delicious, atmosphere too. Only reason I gave 4 stars was because we had to get up to the bar and get some drinks. On Saturday night they are badly coordinated. Prepare to stand for 1 hour just to wait for a table. They have no reservations either.

Joe

Great place for dinner with live music on the weekends. The llapangachos are really good and the arroz con pollo is amazing. They make a fantastic pisco sour too.

zukomario

Great food and dance place

salvador cruz

Muy buen lugar la comida muy bien y el ambiente lo maximo

VICTOR SALDANA

Bad service

Diego Salazar

Lugar ameno y agradable para saludar con amigos

Alegandra Martinez

Some food is delicious. Others taste really greasy. Service crew was pleasant but we waited too long to get water and get out orders in. I suggest they get more help in order to be able to attend their customers and not have them wait forever.

Sandy

Es un buen restaurate familia y tienen buena musica para bailar en la noche

Natasha M

Service was slow, but the food was delicious! Loved the corn tamales, plantain turnovers, avocado salad and plantain chips! I could have stopped there and been very satisfied. We got the land meat platter, which was all good, except for the sausage. I'm going to try the ceviche next time. This place is definitely worth a try!

José Camacho

Bab service and the as for the manager and the server she told me is naw manager there and I try to call to the restaurant and not body answer the fon .........

Carlos Clavijo

I was there a few days ago, a Sunday night to be specific. The service was ok, the food was fine. The music was great to dance. The karaoke was even better. For sure I will come back to this place soon.

Donald Von Baran

Bunch middle aged over the hill wanna b llayboys. They act stupid where to much CaroLine bunch of losers

Johnny Pavon

best place in chicago ,excellent food ,nice music

Lorena Gonzalez

(Translated by Google) Good place to eat and hang out with music and to dance. (Original) Buen lugar para comer y pasar un rato con música y para bailar.

fernando moscol

(Translated by Google) A very familiar place you can take your children and they have super nice good music and there are problems (Original) Un lugar muy familiar puedes llevar a tu hijos y la pasan súper lindo buena musica y lo hay problemas

GUILLERMO SANCHEZ

muy buena la comida sólo que la música esta muy alta sobre todo cuando vas al baño pasas por las bocinas es mi fuerte el ruido

Poleth Avila

Exelente atencion un ambiente muy lindo me encanta este restaurant my favorito y las margaritas ummm riquisimas I love this place

Estevan Calderon

Exelent food best Ecuadorian restaurant in chicago

Elliott Greenhill

Ceviche, chicken churassco, flan= five stars

Pame Mendoza

Me encanta este lugar las margaritas mis favoritas...

Mario Diaz

Great but to busy on Sat. No seating

Ernesto Espinoza

Ecuadorian style cusine I love the Ceviche Marinero

Angel Cabrera

Friend told me about this place, went in one day with him because I had a craving for seafood. I got a shrimp and octopus cocktail, and might I say that it was amazing. Definitely will be coming back.

Angel Leon

(Translated by Google) Ecuador good food (Original) Ecuador buena comida

Wilfredo Camacho

Excellent service and music to dance. Also good air conditioning.

Carlos Noriega

Excelente comida. Buena atención.buen ambiente

Pedro Figueroa

Loved the food and the live music!

maze k

Definitely good spot for Ecuadorian food, great service and clean restaurant,I recommend to try the The octopus it’s amazing, the pork is delicious too. The price are medium .

Jorge Encalada Loja

Disculpe, si pasan el partido de Ecuador vs Venezuela el día de mañana?

Soledad Luna

La comida tiene buen sabor y la musica que no se diga

Juan Torres

.Nice place to visite