La Fogata Restaurant

Not authentic Mexican food. I was super disappointed. However the waitress was really nice…

My favorite place for authentic Mexican food! They have great salsa which is a must for me. I love their variety my fav is the Caldo de camaronez but they also have camaronez a la plancha (yum)! They make homemade tortillas and therefore make their quesadillas amazing! :)

My first time ever eating from here and very good. Had a gordita and it was delicious and the salsa is the best. I will come here from now on to get Mexican food.

Nice little place tucked into a strip mall. My boyfriend has been raving about the chicken her for months, so I finally stopped for lunch. I ordered a couple tacos and a burrito, not realizing the burrito would be the size of my head. The chicken tacos were AMAZING. I only ate a few bites of my burrito before saving it for dinner, and the carne asada was tender and delicious.
I should have listened to my boyfriend ages ago and tried this place. Yum.

The food is good for the most part. It’s a little mediocre, if you want Mexican food I would suggest finding a more authentic restaurant.
They really make you feel like «the white people» when they serve you.

For traditional Mexica. Food, this place is legit. Mexicans eat here. Free chips and salsa when you sit down and a hefty menu make this place worth it. Carry out available. I had the pollo in green mole sauce which was very nice and mom got the guisado de puerco in green sauce, also very good.

Their Enchiladas appear to small and not very tasty. mthe cheese appeared cheap and not really has good as many other places. The prices are high and the place is small yet busy somehow as it has a advantage of being near a busy road. The food took too long to come as well. There are better places to go on this street for Mexican food.

They passed my basic litmus test. I ordered a steak taco and chicken taco.
The chicken was good and tender, overall good flavor. I took off one star due to the steak meat. The Steak taco meat was over salted and although it was warm you can smell the «cow type» freshness in the meat. Typically in Mexican cooking more lime and seasonings are used to add a better flavor and aroma in the meat. The place was very clean and cashier was very prompt and attentive.
I would re-​visit again.
Important to note:
There are 7 Mexican restaurants that I have counted on Irving park road between Bartlett Rd and slightly east of Barrington. I kind of wonder if most if the reviews here are for the correct restaurant? Overall this appears to be a clean establishment. I haven’t seen them use a microwave.

LOVE La Fogata! I don’t give anyone 5 stars unless it’s out of this world, so 4 stars from me is high praise, I would probably have given 4.5. I would call this our favorite mexican restaurant in the area, same guy has owned it for all the years we’ve been in streamwood, love to support my local business owners!
We order take-​out from there regularly, have never eaten-​in. We usually get the burritos which are amazing! The service is very good, but sometimes they have a hard time juggling the restaurant and the take-​out cause the waitresses do it all! But the place is very cute and always pretty fast, but definitely always tasty. And we tend to order things ‘special’ not the way they come normally, and they have always gotten our order correct! Highly recommend this place!

I’ve been here 4 times and the food is good, atmosphere is nice, and they have a beautiful pond and garden area right next the the window of the restaurant.
However, half of the times we’ve been at the restaurant, my orders got messed up. The first time I ordered a combination meal and when the order came it was the wrong combo meal and I ate it only because it I waited a long time to get it. The next time I came my wife and I only ordered an enchilada platter and a chicken flautas platter. When we got the bill it seemed a little high and when I checked the receipt, we were charged for three platters with a chili rellanos on the bill which we didn’t have.
I’ll go again, but I am going to talk very clearly when ordering and I’ll definitely double check the bill before paying to make sure there isn’t anything extra added to the bill that we didn’t order.