El Palenque Menu – Wahiawa, HI

Type : Mexican restaurant

Location : Wahiawa, HI

Snug mom-&-pop restaurant offering traditional Mexican dishes with locally-sourced ingredients. Based on 414 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.4 stars. Price $$

✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Takeout ✔️ No-contact delivery

El Palenque 96786

Address:
177 S Kamehameha Hwy, Wahiawa, HI 96786

Phone: (808) 622-5829

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Hours

Saturday 11 AM–8 PM
Sunday 10 AM–3 PM
Monday

(Labor Day)
Closed
Tuesday 11 AM–2 PM, 5–8:30 PM
Wednesday 11 AM–2 PM, 5–8:30 PM
Thursday 11 AM–2 PM, 5–8:30 PM
Friday 11 AM–2 PM, 5–8:30 PM

Menu

Appetizers
Queso Con Chips
Melted cheese with house made chips.
$9.00
Nachos
House made chips tossed with beans, cheese, guacamole, and your choice of beef, pork or chicken. Make it a nacho salad for $2.00 more.
$10.00
Guacamole Con Chips
House made chips served with a generous portion of fresh guacamole.
$8.00
Quesadilla
Grilled flour tortilla filled with cheese and your choice of beef, pork, or chicken. Served with lettuce and guacamole.
$10.00
Carne Asada Fries
French fries topped with steak, cheese, sour cream, and guacamole.
$12.50
Huevos (Eggs)
Huevos Con Chorizo
Eggs scrambled together with Mexican sausage served with your choice of corn or flour tortillas. Add potatoes for .50 cents more. All served with rice and beans.
$12.00
Huevos La Mexicana
Eggs scrambled together with onions, tomatoes, and jalapenos. With your choice of corn or flour tortillas. All served with rice and beans.
$12.00
Huevos Con Papas
Eggs scrambled with potatoes, served with your choice of corn or flour tortillas. All served with rice and beans.
$12.00
Huevos Rancheros
2 tortillas smothered in ranchero sauce, topped with 2 eggs and served with your choice of corn or flour tortillas. All served with rice and beans.
$12.00
Machaca
Eggs scrambled together with shredded beef, onions, tomatoes, and jalapenos. Served with your choice of corn or flour tortillas. All served with rice and beans.
$13.00
Kids Menu
Zander’s Chimichanga
1 Chimichanga with your choice of beef, pork, or chicken. Served with small rice & beans. No drinks included in kids meals.
$8.00
Nana’s Enchilada
1 enchilada with your choice of cheese, beef, pork, or chicken. Served with small rice & beans. No drinks included in kids meals.
$8.00
Erik’s Tacos
1 taco with your choice of beef, pork or chicken. Served with small rice & beans. No drinks included in kids meals.
$8.00
Cyrus’ Quesadilla
Grilled corn tortilla filled with cheese and choice of protein. No drinks included in kids meals.
$8.00
Miriam’s Eggs
2 scrambled eggs together with corn tortillas. Served with small rice & beans. No drinks included in kids meals.
$8.00
Platillos
Platos Mexicanos
1 pork tamal, 1 sope, 1 gordita, with your choice of beef, pork or chicken in your sope and gordita.
$17.50
Fajitas Plate
Your choice of grilled chicken or steak with onions, red & green bell peppers. Served with sour cream and guacamole and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
$15.75
Gorditas Plate
2 house made thick corn masa pockets, crispy or soft. Filled with your choice of beef, pork or chicken. Choice of Colorado or verde sauce. Served with lettuce and tomatoes.
$14.75
Chile Verde Plate
Cubed pork with potatoes in a spicy jalapeno green sauce. Served with your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
$14.25
Flautas Plate
3 deep fried corn tortillas filled with beef. Served with lettuce, sour cream and guacamole.
$14.25
Sopes Plate
2 deep fried thick corn tortillas with your choice of beef, pork or chicken. Topped with lettuce, tomatoes and sour cream.
$14.75
Carne Asada Plate
Steak served with lettuce, guacamole, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
$16.00
Pollo Marinado Plate
Marinated chicken topped with melted cheese. Served with lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
$15.75
Pollo Al Tomatillo Plate
Chicken smothered in tomatillo sauce, topped with cheese. Served with lettuce, sour cream, guacamole and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
$15.75
Pollo Rancheros Plate
Chicken with tomatoes, onions and jalapenos. Served with lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
$15.75
Enmoladas Plate
2 corn tortillas filled with your choice of beef, pork or chicken. Smothered in mole sauce and cheese.
$14.25
Chilaquiles Plate
Corn tortillas cut into small pieces with your choice of beef, pork or chicken. Covered in your choice of red, green or table salsa. Topped with cheese and onions.
$14.25
Chimichanga Plate
2 deep fried flour tortillas filled with cheese and your choice of beef, pork or chicken. Served with lettuce, tomato and sour cream.
$14.25
Enchiladas Plate
2 corn tortillas filled with cheese and your choice of beef, pork or chicken. Smothered in red, green or table salsa. Served with lettuce, tomato, and sour cream.
$14.25
Mixed Enchilada Plate
1 mole, 1 red, and 1 green with your choice of pork, beef or chicken. Topped with cheese and served with lettuce, tomato and sour cream.
$16.75
Chile Relleno Plate
2 Anaheim peppers filled with cheese, dipped in egg batter and pan fried to perfection. Served wet or dry with lettuce, tomato, sour cream and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
$14.25
Tacos Plate
2 house made corn tortillas soft or crispy served with your choice of beef, pork or chicken. Topped with lettuce, tomato, and cheese or Mexican style with cilantro and onions.
$14.25
Tostada Plate
Fried corn tortilla topped with beans, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, cheese and your choice of beef, pork or chicken.
$13.00
Mole Plate
Shredded chicken in a thick SPICY sauce with hints of chocolate and cinnamon. Served with your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
$14.25
Steak Picado Plate
Thinly sliced steak with tomatoes, onions and jalapenos. Served with your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
$15.00
Steak Almabrado Plate
Thinly sliced steak, lightly seasoned. Topped with cheese and grilled onions. Served with lettuce, sour cream, and your choice of corn or flour tortillas.
$15.75
Camarones A La Diabla
Shrimp sauteed in El Diablo sauce. Served with lettuce, cream, and guacamole.
$15.75
Torta Plate
Toasted roll with lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, and your choice of beef, pork or chicken.
$14.25
Burrito Plate
Flour tortilla filled with beans, cheese, lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, and your choice of beef, pork or chicken.
$14.25
Quesadilla Plate
Flour tortilla folded in half, grilled and filled with cheese and your choice of beef, pork, or chicken.
$14.25
Ala Carte & Side Orders
Chimichanga (A La Carte) $6.00
Enchilada (A La Carte) $4.75
Taco (A La Carte) $4.75
Gordita (A La Carte) $6.00
Flautas (3pcs.) (A La Carte) $9.50
Sope (A La Carte) $6.00
Chile Relleno (A La Carte)
Your choice of wet or dry.
$5.50
Burrito (A La Carte) $10.00
Beans (Side Order) $4.75
Rice (Side Order) $4.75
Tortillas (2 Pcs) $2.50
House Made Chips (Side Order) $2.50
Large Sour Cream $3.75
Guacamole (Side Order) $6.50
Salsa (Side Order)
Caution! Salsa is very hot!
$2.50
Pico De Gallo (Side Order) $4.00
Shredded Cheese (Side Order) $3.00
Drinks
Horchata $4.00
Jamaica $4.00
Lime Jarritos $3.50
Strawberry Jarritos $3.50
Pineapple Jarritos $3.50
Guava Jarritos $3.50
Pepsi $3.80
Diet Pepsi $3.80
Fruit Punch $3.80
Raspberry Ice Tea $3.80
Mountain Dew $3.80

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Reviews

T A
Ordered this place on Uber Eats after wanting to try a new mexican place and I wasn’t let down! We ended up getting a good sampling of the menu.. Tacos, burritos, torta, asada fries and a gordita.

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Andrea Chang
Best Mexican food ever. My husband has lived in at least 7 states and he claimed that this place had the best Mexican food he had ever had. He is a huge meat eater so I was surprised when he said that he only gets the cheese enchiladas. The salsa was super spicy. The food was straight off the stove fresh and hot. The waitress was on point with everything. With only 6 tables in shop she was the only one running the front and she worked hard. My husband said that the food was so good that he would get a job there just to learn how to make their food. The only junk thing about this place is the parking. There is only street parking.

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Crystal Bennett
The wait time was much longer than quoted .. we waited almost 15 mins inside. They forgot one of our meals and we didn’t realize until we got home.. ok yes, I should have verified everything before leaving the parking lot but with such a large order (12 items) and us having to wait 15 minutes inside the restaurant for it I assumed it would have been correct. The food was less than edible, so ALOT of money wasted and almost everything thrown in the trash.. Their “queso” is more of a solidified burnt milk curdle with some hot salsa mixed in it. I wish I would have taken a picture but it was quickly tossed in disappoinment. We ordered chicken in our kids meals quesadillas and there was none. The quesadillas were ice cold when we got home. The tamal was crumbling and lacked flavor. The pollo marinado plate went into the trash. The chicken was pretty much dehydrated jerky. The chimichanga was supposed to be chicken but I’m pretty sure it was pork. They gave us giant burrito size tortillas so I dipped those in the beans which again I’ve had better but I was hungry from a long day at the beach and needed anything to eat at this point. My youngest ate two helpings of the rice. It tasted microwaved and lacked flavor but also had huge chunks of burnt clusters in it as well. The chips were very stale. Super disappointed in the wasted money.

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julielagree
Great food and service but the tab does not match the menu. Chorizo was $1 more than menu. Extra potatoes were $1 instead of.50. fajitas and pollo were $17.11 instead of $15.75. I know places do this but it’s super frustrating!!!! Not a fan.

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Raechel Averett
This food was absolutely amazing. Real Mexican food, hand made chips, handmade salsa that was HOTT! My favorite Mexican place on the island. Total hole in the wall, with only 4 tables. Take it to go if you want!

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Holy Moly
Small place with great food and affordable prices. I had the Carne Asada.

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Samuel Parker
I’ve been trying to visit this hole in the wall for almost a year based on friend’s recommendations. It’s either closed or between lunch/dinner service, or randomly closed for the day for unknown reasons. Considering this place is an hour drive round trip from me, you can understand my extreme frustration with their unreliable schedule. With that in mind, their food is totally worth it! It’s not the style of Mexican good I was expecting, but it was delicious nonetheless. If you happen to be in Wahiawa when the moon is 1/18th waxing gibbous, they might be open, and you should certainly try it out!

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Victor Lopez
Small place, big flavor

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Laura A. Yee
Have missed authentic Mexican home cooking quality. Refried beans are absolutely delicious. Have never had something I didn’t love and always clear my plate despite generous portions!

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klint menzies
I ordered the Chile Relleno wet and what I got was two dry cold and soggy battered peppers. Really like this place and was willing to try something new especially since I’ve been eating military food for the last month and this disappointed me to the full.

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