El Palenque Mexican Resturant & Cantina

El Palenque is by far the best Mexican restaurant around Tomball/Cypress area. I mean, just look at this Chili Relleno! The best I've ever had!!!

They serve a warm salsa that had a good flavor and it not really spicy. The queso comes with pickled jalapeños which is a nice touch. I ordered the pechuga diabla and it was very good! Get the home made corn tortillas. The atmosphere is family friendly and loud. I think our waiter had too many tables because he took forever to get out orders and needed reminders to bring our check. But he was nice and help when ordering.

This place is close to our house so we gave it two tries and both were terrible service and the food was nothing to write about.

The food here is pretty great TexMex style. It's definitely not going to make me rethink how I rate Mexican food, but it's solid. Interior is what you'd expect, colorfully rustic Latin flare. Fajitas are fantastic, the meat is perfectly cooked and seasoned. You can ask for double the tortillas at no additional charge (they normally give 3 but I requested 6.)Servers are very nice!

Servers all had great attitudes, the food is WAY over priced and has little flavor. My wife & I ordered a burrito and queso flamiado and 2 cokes. $66. We could have done a steak dinner @ a nice place for that!

I always recommend El Palenque!!! It is by far our favorite Tex-Mex restaurant locally. The service is great, and food is even better. We like their fajitas the best over every other restaurant, and the queso and margaritas are great! Tonight Last time I went out of my norm and ordered the Texas Burrito. It was so good!!! It's HUGE - definitely enough to share between 2-3 people! They have a self serve ice cream stand also!

Have wanted to try this restaurant but with so many others around we haven't tried until today for lunch. They have specials every day and today was Tacos Carbon. 3 large tacos with charro beans, rice, and guacamole and all the trimmings except cheese. I suppose I should have asked for cheese. The meat was so tender with nice thin flour tortillas. The beans needed a little more cooking but were tasty. The hot Saul was NOT hot. I will ask for jalapeños next time. It tasted good, but no heat. My husband had steak alMexicana. He also had rice and refried beans. He said it was cooked very well, meat was tender. He had corn tortillas. We had beer served in ice cold mugs. Yum! The bar was full with folks watching soccer. Our waiter was awesome, Captain Adrian. We will go back.

El Palenque has been my family's "go-to" restaurant for many years. We moved from the Tomball area for about five years and made regular visits with intention to eat at their restaurant..... all the way from San Antonio... their salsa is the best salsa I have ever had.... The wait staff are very attentive (even the new ones who don't know our family).... They have two locations.... We frequent the one in Tomball but eat at the Spring location if we are ever in the area.The atmosphere is not overstimulating and the music is just right..... I was really excited when they added homemade churros to the dessert options as I have always enjoyed the free ice cream cone.... But can't pass up ordering the churros freshly made and served with whipped cream! I don't drink alcohol any more (rarely did in the past), but when I did, their margaritas, on the rocks, with salt and lime were outstanding and HUGE!- only took one to make me happy! Lol! Great family restaurant!

I ate here for a work lunch with some high expectations since this place is well-liked by my colleagues. I ordered the Tacos A La Plancha, but even though the tortillas were pan-fried, they were already soggy as soon as they were served. The fillings were fresh, but it was otherwise overpriced for what I got. I would have been happier either ordering something else or getting tacos elsewhere. The servers were very friendly and personable, but a few of my coworkers' food came out very late, and another coworker got bumped on the head and water spilled on. The food was fine, but I'm not interested in coming back.Food: 3.5/5Service: 3.5/5Ambiance: 3/5

The kitchen forgot my food. Everyone in my group of 6 got their food and started eating.During the hour that we waited, the waiter periodically came by to let me know that he was repeatedly telling the kitchen about my food. Eventually everyone finished eating so we asked for my burrito to go.They finally brought it long after everyone finished, and THEY DIDN'T EVEN COMP THE BURRITO. Will never go back.