Allende Restaurant

Look, Allende is a simple no frills establishment. The food is solid, the prices are cheap, and there's really not much else about it. It wasn't crowded at all while people were waiting forever down the street, so all things considered this is a great place to stop by.

Love this place, love the folks that work here.Waited far too long to write this review. The hot sauce that comes with my tacos is "burn the tongue out of your face" hot to me, which is why I typically order extra.Always remember my order, always super friendly and overall, a great neighborhood Mexican spot. Keep doing you Allende.

I would give 5 star for the service but the food was just so so . It was a very cold day in Chicago and my favorite XI an dynasty that I usually go after massage had shut their doors:( Upon passing here to go to kizumi sushi last time with my bestie, she said that this was where she ate a lot while attending Lincoln park high school. I ordered the beef tongue and skirt steak taco which was served to me with a Large marinated pepper. The lady there was very nice :)

Go to for burritos in Lincoln Park. Nothing fancy at all but really good food. Service is friendly and the owners seem to be very nice people.

As a young person I would typically frequent allendes after midnight, as an adult I happily stop here to pick up some lunch. The lingua tacos are fantastic and the Guac is great.

As a teenager who attended and graduated (Class of 1999) from Lincoln Park High school this Allende wasn't my Allende of choice! My friends and I would walk the two extra blocks to go to the other Allende off Halsted. (See my Yelp review for that particular Allende) That one was the best one back in the day. Heck it was delicious for years until recently which brought me here. I had not eaten here in twenty years before last year. The tables have turned Chile! They are poppin up in here(insert Nelly's hot in here)!So I came here last week and got my food to go for my mom and I. I ordered my usual "taco place" order. Steak nachos with everything on it, extra cheese and extra sour cream, a side of rice and guacamole and chips. My mom just got the steak nachos. We also had one 7up, a bottle water and I ordered two extra little (2oz) cups of hot salsa. Our total was $34 and some change. We were in a rush and tried to wait and eat it later but we busted it open in the car baby!!!! It was sooooo damn good and the portion was massive as hell...The cheese was perfectly melted, the steak was the two t's (tasty and tender), the chips were nice and crispy. So gooood! The rice is a plain Mexican rice that's lightly flavored and a good side with your nachos. The guacamole was fresh, thick, flavorful and nicely salted with a nice hint of lime. The salsa isn't your typical salsa it's more of a thicker hot sauce consistency nice and spicy. Get an extra one!! I highly recommend this Allende!! Parking is very tight but still go get some!

I'm a sucker for a hole-in-the-wall Mexican food spot, and Allende is a place I live close to that I quite frankly need to take advantage of more often. I went here on Labor Day with my boyfriend for some lunch, and no one was inside except for a chef and a woman at the cash register. I ordered an el pastor tostada, and added on some rice and beans. My boyfriend got a skirt steak burrito. The woman at the register said since we were eating in-house, that we could go sit at a table and pay when we're finished. I like that they sell tostadas and tacos in single portions, because I know that I typically can only finish one tostada, even though they're SO good. After I was finished with my tostada, rice, and beans, I felt just the perfect amount of full, and not overwhelmed or like I needed to take a box home. My boyfriend finished his burrito easily as well, and was satisfied with the amount of food on his plate. The woman behind the register was very nice, too, which is always a nice touch to any business! I can't wait to come back, and next time I'm going to try their horchata.

Unfortunately I did not have a tasty burrito. Place does have 4 red starsbut they did not earn them from me. I ordered a chicken burrito. I felt it was tasteless and filled mostly with lettuce. Chicken was not that hot, the chef pulled from a container in the fridge, I've had hotter burritos from Chipotle. I will not return.

Great late night food spot. Nachos are fantastic, Maria always does a great job taking care of my table.

I am giving Allende five stars because they consistently deliver quality authentic Mexican food for a very reasonable price. I have been to other so-called Mexican restaurants that don't deliver half the quality that Allende does. It is a small, simple restaurant run by a family that has been there since I started going around 20 years ago. We normally get chorizo and eggs, tostadas or tacos al pastor or with carne asada. All are delicious. The guacamole is tasty and the only thing I've had that I won't get again is the horchata -- too sweet (although I have yet to find a restaurant that serves good horchata) It makes me mad when I see restaurants in other places that claim to serve authentic Mexican food and then charge top dollar for average, watered down Mexican food. Allende is real Mexican food, run by people who have put everything they have into deliver delicious authentic Mexican food.