Cocula Restaurant

Came for the first time and I all I have to say is that the food we ordered was really good. Would definately come back to try other items.

Have been coming here for 10 years. All my friends and family love this place. Best Mexican food with great portions. They prices are reasonable… I always order the laredo. its a huge platter for about $ 11. They also have huge $ 5 margaritas on mon & weds. After 2 you will be feeling nice lol. Also recommend the long island ice tea and strawberry shake.

Great food good value thr drinks are even better with margaritas specials on Monday and Wednesday.

We stopped by for dinner and we got chips and salsa (to much cumin), and no pickled jalapeño.I order the cancun combination and my husband the caldo de res. My dinner was overpowered by cumin spice and the caldo no flavor just water. The only thing that was good were the beans and rice. The tortillas are not handmade like almost all authentic Mexican restaurants. The horchata water was really good for $ 2.50 we got a large mug, but in all we won’t stop here no more.

you have to try the horchatta, there maybe another place that serves better but I have yet to find it. theirs has the homemade rice water taste that only your mexican grandmother can produce.

Just like in the pictures shown, there are huge amounts of cheese thrown all over the food!!! Just melting with cheese!!! If you’re not a fan of cheese all over your tacos, make sure you let the server know. Our server was really nice, not much interaction just takes the order :) .
Prices were decent, 11.95 for a combination plate. I had the enchilada, tostada and steak taco. It came with rice and beans. The rice was very flavorful not salty or greasy and had the frozen vegetables in it and the beans weren’t watered down and didn’t taste like it came from a can .
What I didn’t like was even though i received a nice portion of food, it looked like slop thrown on the plate.
The steak taco didn’t have any flavor in it but dripped out with the grease and it was served on a hard shell with shredded cheese tomato and lettuce .
The enchiladas sauce had a basic flavor wasn’t very spicy or authentic, but for only having one, I had to search for it underneath the beans, sauce and cheese that was thrown all over the place.
I had the chicken tostada, it had sour cream, more beans, lettuce, tomato and avocado slice, shredded cheese! …
I guess to sum it up, the flavor of the food had Taco Bell feeling. But I would come back.

Delicious authentic Mexican food. My party was immediately seated and served. We had nachos, quesadillas, tacos, seafood, enchiladas, burritos, tortas, quacamole, rice, two types of beans, frozen lemonade and margaritas. Almost everything was great. The red salsa was a bit spicy so we ordered pico de gallo which was still too spicy. Would definitely go again!

Wow !! First time here today. The food was delicious! ! Went with great coworkers./ friends. I’ll be back with my gamily… Very impressed I’ve been to other locations and the food was not as delicious as this place. Glad I came here and I will return. Took awhile to get our food but it was worth the wait. :)

Stopped in for some margaritas and food.
The Guadalajara was awesome. My favorite was the cheese enchilada and the beans. Wow tasted amazing. Didn’t really care for the beef taco but it was still damn good. The tostada was excellent.
The margarita was just boozy enough with strawberry goodness
I definitely would recommend!
Food excellent
Waitstaff alright
Margarita good.

I ordered for pick-​up after work. So once I get there over 30min ago my food was still not ready. So I waited. When I saw the guy coming out with my order (looked like he was a manager or something) I saw him reach into my bag and get one of my frenchfries and eat it. So then I get home and my torta that I ordered wasn’t even the type I ordered. Plus I did not appreciate how everyone was looking at me like I was about to rob the place or something and all giving me attitudes.

The food is mediocre but it’s a great place to come on Thirsty Thursday. They have a great $ 5 special that includes Tecate served in a frosted mug and a shot of tequila. Not bad for a quick after work drink!

I love Cocula as a chain. I have to say this location is not the best though. I prefer the one on Pulaski. Still pretty good, just not as good as other locations I’ve been too. Specifically they use a weird cheese on their nachos, like a mixed shredded cheese, which I don’t like and their margaritas aren’t nearly as good as their other locations. The salsa here is also inconsistent. Some days it’s really great other days it’s way too hot and watered down.

The food is good but what really irritates me, is that they don’t do free refills on their fountain drinks cmon, that’s just being cheap. As long as they keep up their cheapness on the refills i won’t be back.

Holy $&@@ this is the worst ordered food to go… Never again! Ordered Nachos it was 6 chips melted to the container!!! I’m pissed!

Nice Mexican restaurant! A nice variety of drinks too. Their margaritas are made with real fruit too.
Came here for lunch one day and dinner the next day. If you like a variety of meat — try the Parrillada. Comes with angostinos, shrimp, chicken, mexican sausage, short ribs and the sides. Also had the steak and chicken fajitas. Perfectly seasoned, evenly cooked, great flavor. My friend had the seafood soup which had a lot of seafood, fish, crab octopus and was very filling!
Some of the staff does not speak English so knowing a little bit of Spanish doesn’t hurt.

The food is good, but it isn’t anything I’d go crazy about, especially considering the other options in the area. I’m a vegetarian so due to lack of options, I got the chilaquiles. They were good but I knew I could’ve gotten something more satisfying elsewhere.
There are varying opinions of this place though so it’s worth a try. Some of my friends hate it, some really love it. I’m just «eh».

I was starving when I came for lunch. Our party of 15 was seated immediately and the salsa, chips, and pickled carrots were brought out super quickly. I loved the chips and salsa. I can eat much spicier dishes than the salsa but for some reason I thought the salsa had just the right amount of spice I wanted for that day. The pickled carrots were good but it could have been pickled a little longer for the flavor to really seep through.
I ordered the cocula entrée and I’d have to say that everything on the dish was delicious except for the tamale. I got a beef taco, chicken tostada, and pork with green salsa for the tamale. The beef in the taco was excellent and had a lot of flavor and juice. The tostada was huge and was topped with lots of chicken, four generous slices of avocado, sour cream, and cheese. I’m not sure what went wrong with the tamale but it tasted worse than the frozen kind from trader joe’s…There was barely any pork filling, I couldn’t taste the green salsa, and the outside was stiff and lacked flavor. Besides from these three items, the entrée was also served with beans and rice, both of which were quite nice.
For lunch, the portions were pretty big judging by everyone’s dishes. My friend’s burrito was about the size of her head! It will definitely fill you up for the next 6 – 8 hours.

The food was great all except my enchiladas suizas. I ordered a veggie sope & it was fulfilling. The large beverages are huge too. Overall, it was good Mexican food but just don’t order the enchiladas suizas

Good prices for good food. Big portion sizes! I had the 7 seafood soup, so good!

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I have been here many times over the years and have been able to try many different items in the menu.
Last Tuesday after watching the Batman movie (did I just capitalized batman?? LOL)
with some friends we were hungry and ended up here. Yes ended up here, we were in the north side and past many restaurants and bars and ended up here.
The place is big and nice the chairs are rustic-​ish. The place is super clean and the service could not be any nicer.
But, there is always a but, the food is just ok. In my last visit there I had fundido as the app, langostinos and a torta de milaneza. The melted cheese was just that melted cheese accompanied by some tortillas. Langostinos were good but, to my taste, a little salty and the torta was inedible. There has been very few times that I returned something because is that bad and this was one of them. It was bad, bad, bad. I also had a lemonade to drink. It was a virgin lemon Margarita and at $ 4.50 I thought it was a little high.
This place has everything to be a great restaurant if they only kicked it up a notch with the food.