This used to be a GREAT Spanish restaurant, then a GREAT Mexican taqueria (among the many that have sprouted in Metairie/Kenner) Last year (2008) in Jan. We had a great meal here w/ authentic tacos and sides and pozole, but the visit this week (2009 Jan.) seemed like the ownership had changed and the service was adequate, but not great, and the offerings not nearly as memorable as last year. We asked if the owners had changed but got no reply. There are many new taquerias around the area (due to Katrina rebuilders?), and a little hunting might find you the addictive qualities of an authentic Mexican taqueria with delicious food, friendly efficient service, and no one watching LOUD TV while you try to eat. It might take a little effort and tenacity, but I'm certain it will pay off! I'm surprised upon searching taquerias in Met./Kenner I only get the bigger chains and not some of these hidden gems that I KNOW exist! read more

Pulling into the parking lot, and especially walking through the door, is a complete cultural change. I'm glad my girlfriend speaks Spanish. Saturday nights are loud with a live broadcast (I think) and karaoke, so expect that. But the food was really, really good and our server was very pleasant. read more

Tacos! Tacos! Tacos! Chilangos has great tacos. 3 things make a great taco , Chilangos tacos has all three. 1) Filling - the meats. Steak , carnitas , al pastor , chicken , lengua. The filings here are always flavorful. , moist and fresh. 2) the Tortilla- in my opinion , the corn tortillas here are heated on an open flame stove which chars the tortilla slightly and is much more tasty then to have the tortillas heated by microwave like many other Taquerias. 3) Garnishes- a great taco needs only to be simply garnished , here it is done with onion and cilantro. 3 or 4 different salsas are available as well. The price of Chilangos tacos is very reasonable and they are well worth it. read more

The service was great, food was fresh and authentic Mexican food. Everything was so delicious, I can't pick one as my favorite. You have to try this place! You won't be disappointed! read more

The food is good but for some reason the lengua is always under cook when I get or it could just be me lol...they have decorated the place, it looks nice now. It's loud on the weekends so no 1st dates here lol the staff is okay sometimes they are nice sometimes they forget about you. read more

Chilangos - It was yummy! :) - Mexican Near Me - Kenner, Louisiana

Oh my goodness! Why did this place only have two other tables besides us? This was hands down the best Mexican food I have ever ate for the price! I paid 7.99 for 2 Tamales, and a huge Chimichanga with beans and rice. They even give you 4 different sauces on the side from their salsa bar. Even the complementary chips where wonderful. They weren't the thin kind, they were thick almost like a Taco salad shell. Wonderful! This will be the only Mexican place I will visit in the future. Check out my photo! read more

Chilangos - The best Mexican food I have ever had! No need to go anywhere else, ever!!! - Mexican Near Me - Kenner, Louisiana

Good food very good tortillas very slow service. Most of the time I'm ok with slow service, but having to ask other servers for refills and ask 3 times for the check is a bit much. read more

Chilangos - Live music!!! - Mexican Near Me - Kenner, Louisiana

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Went there with two professional Chefs.. They were both dying of pleasure with each bite. Asking questions like "how did they do this?!? It's just sooo good" Authentic & Amazing. Mama in the back showing up every other Mexican restaurant in town by far!! read more

Came back after a couple years. Even better! Had seafood (mariscos) soup. Holly mother of GOD. Thats a real seafood soup right there. I hesitated a lil bit since its seafood and a lot of people get sopa de mariscos just wrong, but thank god i was brave enough to order it! I also got a michelada wich they serve with clamato in it. And it was perfect, right ammount of hotness and fresh beer in it. Just perfect for a lazy sunday. Also a change they did is that They added a salsa bar and it just blowed my freaking mind! This is with no doubt the best mexican restaurant in new orleans! I give you the crown! And im sure all the other mexi people do too! Since its always crowded with my paisas :) read more

If I could give 0 stars, I would. My husband and I visited last night. The food was average. We have eaten authentic Mexican food all over the country as we travel for a living. The menu was very small with not much variety, which is usually okay if what they cook is good. The fajitas vegs were not cooked, at all. There wasn't but a few ounces of meat versus the rest being all uncooked vegetables. The cheese dip was okay, but bland. The food was not the worst thing about this restaurant. My husband and I are white. We are not racist by any means and never meet a stranger. We love all people and it's our favorite thing about traveling. Authentic Mexican food is our favorite ethnic food. We don't really like Tex-mex, so we frequent real, authentic Mexican restaurants wherever we travel. With that being said, we have experienced racism from other cultures and "minorities" who are actually the majority in what ever place we were. Let me start by saying, we were one of 2 Caucasian couples dining there. The way were treated at this restaurant was appalling. The server was rude and dismissive from the start. We sat down and was not acknowledged for at least 10 minutes, while other couples came in after us, who were Hispanic, and our server promptly walked over and took their drink and food orders. When she finally approached us and took our drink order, I ordered water because I can't drink while I eat, so ordering anything else is a waste for me. She seemed offended that I ordered water, made a "you've got to be kidding me" face and asked me if that was all, while my husband ordered a beer. She brought out drinks and walked away, without making eye contact. Another 10-15 min go by and our server finally came back to take our order. I ordered one plate of mixed fajitas, because I can only eat about 8 ounces of food, and the server repeated what I ordered. When I said yes, she rolled her eyes. We waited about 25-30 min for our fajitas, while Hispanic people sitting around us, that came in after us, were almost finished eating. Like I said before, when the food came, there was almost no meat, maybe 3-4 ounces and a pile of raw vegetables. The salad that came with it was all lettuce with a teaspoon of guacamole and maybe a teaspoon of pico. Our server never came back to the table to ask if we need anything or if my husband needed another beer. No one else acknowledged us when we tried to get other servers attention. We had to flag her down to get a box and our check, because she kept ignoring us. It took us about 30 minutes after we were finished to pay and leave. I write reviews every where I travel. I'm a travel nurse and I have a lot of followers that are interested in places I eat. I give honest unbiased reviews and I usually take pictures and talked to owners to let them know will be reviewing their place on my website and social media. I will definitely be doing that, but It won't be to advertise good business practices for this restaurant. I can honestly say, if you are Caucasian, do not go to this restaurant, the food is not worth the money or racist treatment you will experience. There are many other authentic Mexican restaurants in the Kenner, Metairie, New Orleans area that has decent food, treats you with respect, and is appreciative of your business. read more

Taco Tuesday!!!!!! $1.00 delicious authentic food!!! Everything here os really good and super fresh tasting. I always have to have a chicharon taco, lengua and three el pastor. The salsa de aguacate is so good and spicy delicious!! read more

PHENOMENAL TACOS!!! If you come here, order the 5 tacos plate for 8 bucks. Be sure to have the Carnitas, Al Pastor, and Chicharrones tacos. You won't be disappointed. This is a pretty authentic place. The food is the best mexican I've had in town. The service can be spotty as per a language barrier, but I've found it to be overall pleasant. read more

Happened upon this place while in the area and was very pleased with the food. They are in a dingy strip mall but the food more than makes up for the location. I had the sopes which are served two to an order. The sopes are thick tortillas piled high with your choice of meats; I had the beef and chicken which were both well seasoned and tender. The sopes are also topped with fresh pico de gallo, lettuce, refried beans, cotija cheese and a large slice of fresh avocado. The portion was huge and I could not finish the second one. The complimentary chips and salsa are very good. The chips are freshly made and the salsa is served warm with a rich tomato flavor. The service was good and I didn't have to wait very long for my meal to arrive at the table. I will be back to explore more of the menu. Update: Visited again for a quick lunch, ordered the shrimp fajitas which were delicious. The portion was large, the shrimp were big and the sautéed onions and peppers were well seasoned. All served with fresh scratch made tortillas to round out this incredibly delicious meal. Also tried the fresh salsa bar which was excellent. read more

This is a great little place. The food was excellent. The chips were very crunchy and the salsa was thin and spicy. There are bins with homemade hot salsas. The red kind of hot and the green hotter. My daughter got the big flour burrito. It was a brick! I had the bistek and chille relleno. My other daughter got the chicken casadilla. The server, Jennifer, was excellent and very attentive. read more

Chilangos - Bistek and chill relleno. - Mexican Near Me - Kenner, Louisiana

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Third time i have been here since covid and it has been a huge let down. Ordered the chicken nachos and the chicken was dry (over-held). What upsets me is why would the cook put this on my nachos. You could take one look at the chicken and know you shouldn't serve this. 30 minute lunch break so i didn't have time to return. Also, no sour cream was on the nachos which seems to be an every time problem. read more

I wouldn't even put a star on this place! We ordered a Cuban Torta and we didn't like it! Not to mention she said "if you don't pay it, ima have to"... chips were stale and the service wasn't great! The margaritas tasted like a smoothie, no type of liquor! Not coming back! read more

I liked the lunch menu ($7.00 for each one), with pretty good corn chips and salsa. I ordered a carne asada tortas meal, with both of them heaped with lettuce, chopped onion, sliced avocado, diced tomatoes, and sour cream. It was delicious. I would go back, here and recommend it to others. RJT read more

Chilangos - Lunch Special (beef) - Mexican Near Me - Kenner, Louisiana

I gave this place 4 stars BC its the only REAL Mexican food in Kenner. Not that texmex crap being serve all over Kenner and Metairie. Only place where they don't flinch when you order a "guaracha". Great menu! Keep up the good work! read more

Great food with a great atmosphere. The food is advertised as authentic Mexican and they aren't lying! Best tortilla chips I've ever had and they hand make their tortillas. The food had so much flavor that I made myself eat the whole plate even though I was full about halfway through! The restaurant itself is casual and relaxed with friendly staff. There's even a salsa bar as well as a full alcohol bar complete with frozen beverages. read more

Had Chilango at Top Taco: New Orleans last night, phenomenal! Their set up defeated nearly 39 other competitors from around the city, including some pretty major New Orleans heavy weights, for Most Authentic Taco. The grilled Cebolla, pickled onions & carrots they offered took me back to my Southern Arizona roots, something that rarely happens here in this wonderful city. The owner was a joy, and I was proud to cast my vote for them. Thrilled they won! Fabulous food, fabulous people! read more

i always complain about lack of good mexican food in new orleans. apparently i just needed to go to kenner. let me start by saying i love condiments. i will try all the salsas you'll let me try. so, at least one star in this review is for the salsa bar in the middle of the restaurant, which is also stocked with a complimentary cucumber and onion salad as well as straws, napkins, side plates, and hot sauces, should you unexpectedly need such. they still give you great service at the same time, though. i got the taco plate because it's a great deal on the lunch menu at 8 dollars for 5 tacos. you can mix a match all kinds of stuff (the classics, like chicken, pork, beef, lengua, steak, carnitas, etc.). they let you order off the lunch menu seven days a week, too. tacos were great, and my friends torta was gigantic and looked equally delicious. service was good, too. i never thought i'd say this, but i'll be making the trip out to kenner more often. read more

Delicious food! It's a favorite late night place to stop in. Language barrier is not an issue and they make a great Margarita.

Authentic tacos barbacoa, carnitas, and lengua is a must try.. salsas are fresh and tasty but I little spicy if you are not used to hot food, overall good casual lunch quick bite to go. read more

Tacos are great. Used to be the best in the city. Unfortunately the restaurant has declined in all aspects since the original owner/founder's death, sadly. RIP. He would be dismayed at the way the restaurant is run now. However, the tacos are still great. This is a sad case of a great restaurant who's food is held hostage by some of the worst wait staff I have ever seen in a restaurant. The reviews here are all accurate-- I've had some truly great meals meriting 5 stars... but I've had more miserable experiences where my food arrives maddeningly slow, no refills on drinks, absent waitresses, and just getting the bill finally on your table feels like a major battle. My Spanish isn't the best, but it's good enough that I can call in orders over the phone to other taquerias in the area. Not here apparently. I tried calling in an order and had the strangest experience. We weren't understanding each other so finally I asked the person nicely if there was anyone else I could speak to. "No English!" And hung up the phone on me! When I called back, busy signal. LOL. Maybe if you speak better Spanish than I do you could get better service and up the rating, but for now, this blanco nino gives it dos estrellas. If I come back I'll post an edit. read more

I read an article in the Advocate and thought this would be a great place for Mexican food. Unfortunately we were sadly disappointed. My husband ordered the Shrimp fajitas and I ordered the carnitas quesadilla and a margarita. The shrimp plate was steaming hot, but the accompanying plate with rice and beans was cold, Had to send it back. The replacement plate was brought to the table immediately. So this led us to believe that food is microwaved to get warm and served. My quesadilla was fair. And the $10 margarita was watered down and overpriced. The floor near us was littered with last customer's debris, which did make for an appetizing experience. I really wanted to like this authentic Mexican restaurant, but i do not plan on returning. read more

The service here was really bad today. The waitress catered only to the men in the restaurant, my kids food was late, the salsa tasted like burnt peppers, they charged me $2 for a little slice of mexican cheese, they put hot sauce in their refried beans and don't care when kids burn their mouth when they eat it. Just plane horrible experience, before when I was asked by my non-mexican friends where to go for good mexican food, I would say Chilangos, now I will have to refer them to Don José's or Carretas Grill. read more

Omg!! Just stopped there for a quick to-go order. First time here so I wasn't sure to order. I chose from the Super Lunch menu which is around $8 average. I went with the big flour steak burrito plate. My gosh it was a lot of food !!! I could only eat half of but thoroughly enjoyed. It's a must to stop by and partake. read more

Very tasty authentic Mexican. Small and a bit warm, but service was very good.

Pretty Good Eats.. swung over here after a quick stop at Walmart. I had the Carne asada which was cooked perfectly and a Margarita! Both very yummy and reminded me of one of my fav mexican places back home in MD. Will def stop in on my way from the airport to NOLA next time! read more

Seated by host then waited for over 10 minutes to be greeted by our server. No one ever showed up so we finally walked out. Approximately 3 tables outside and no one inside so we were baffled as to why we had not been at least greeted as we saw two servers with a table each. Happy to spend our money somewhere else. read more

Taqueria Chilangos is awesome! My husband and I moved to New Orleans from Texas almost two years ago and have been searching for an authentic Mexican food restaurant. My husband is from Mexico City and is very persnickety. He literally almost cried the first time we ate there because it reminded him of the home. We love the atmosphere.....yes even the loud music. My favorite is the chilaquilas and my husband loves the borrego. GO THERE!!!! read more

Reminds of all the great Mexican food options in Texas and Colorado. So much flavor in everything. Their $8 burrito is huge. I ate it three different times before finishing. Totally worth driving out to Kenner just to eat here. Order to-go by the ATM. Hot verde sauce. read more

Chilangos - chicken burrito to go. asked for rice instead of beans. - Mexican Near Me - Kenner, Louisiana

The service was terrible. No silverware even after food was served. My husband asked for flour tortillas when ordering and after they brought the food. We never received them. They were skimpy with salsa. We had to wave them down every time we need something. It seemed we were a bother and there was only one other table in there. The food was good but way over priced. I could have ate sushi for what we spent on bean and cheese. The music was so loud it was hard to swallow, night club loud. read more

Worst place ever. Food ok order margaritas tasted like no alcohol ask for a shot to add to it and gave us sugar water

This was the worse service and food I've ever experienced. As soon as my fiancé and I walked in, our waitress rolled her eyes and slid us a menu and walked away from my fiancé after asking what kind of margaritas they have. We ordered tacos which only came with a little bit of meat and a few pieces of cilantro and onions. The meat had no flavor and it taste like we were just eating the corn tortilla by itself. The queso was not authentic Mexican queso and dried up within 10 minutes. I waited for our waitress to come back with more chips since we had more than half the bowl of queso left and she came back with our checks. We asked for some chips for the rest of our queso and we're told they were "out" but they still kept bringing other tables chips. We politely asked if they can remove the queso since we barely touched it with the little bit of chips they gave us to begin with and the manager got so angry and started going off at my fiancé in Spanish. We looked at each other very confused and another woman slid a basket of chips at our table also rolling her eyes and walked away. The whole experience was all of these women rolling their eyes at every single one of our request and being so rude to us the entire time. This was the first and will definitely be the last we ever step foot in this place again. read more

The food was very authentic. Our waiters barely spoke English. I ordered the fajitas and it was delicious. My daughter ordered a soup which she said was very tasty! read more

Placed my order to go. The girl that took my order name is Norixa or something to that effect short changed me. Fine keep my dollar, Seems you really need it, moving on. Then I waited about 30 minutes for the girl who took my order to realize my tacos were ready. I guess it was hard for her to notice my order was ready since it was placed on the same counter as the cash register, but I guess she felt like making me wait. Horrible customer service. Going to get my tacos elsewhere. read more

This is probably the best Mexican restaurant in southern Louisiana. Amazing tacos, fully loaded sopes, fully loaded nachos. Everything has more than enough sides and guacamole. 5 stars every time, I was here 2 times a week at one point. read more

Food is pretty bad. Don't even speak English. Service was slow as well as waiting for my food. Don't recommend :/

If i could give this place a zero i would. I went with my family and wanted to have a good time.. from the get go we walked in and nobody greeted us and we did not know if we can just sit down. I asked the girl behind the bar and she walked around and pointed us to a table and said just sit there. Lol. We sat and the waitress came and gave us filthy menus that had food on it. Crazy right. Then we ordered three margaritas and straight up got lime juice. Terrible, but we dealt with it. Then the waitress finally came around like 20 min later so we ordered our appetizers and entree and 5 to 7 min later she put everything on the table at once. Last I checked an appetizer should come out first but we just dealt with it. The waitress never came back AT ALL. we had to flag her down for a to go box and asked for the bill. She never came back again so we had to walk to the bar to pay and the whole staff got involved with my bill bc I had a freaking $2 off coupon.. I basically told them its not worth my time to stand here for 10 min while yall keep looking at me like u have never seen a coupon. They gave me a bill where as 3 people ate for $100 bucks!? Three margaritas and one coors light was $45. No wonder they didn't have them on the menu with the price. Absolutely terrible service and the food was not worth the money. Also, clean up the throw up on your entrance not a good site for a new customer although I almost made my contribution to the entrance after seeing how you ripped me off. You won't see me again. read more