Acapulco Restaurant

Best authentic Mexican I have had in a long time and service was great. Looks like a dive, but food is off the hook. We had the taco plate and my wife had the enchiladas. Queso fundido for an appetizer was great. We asked for the hot sauce and the verde salsa was awesome.

The food and service is top notch. And for the price? Wow, it doesn’t get better, very inexpensive and a great meal.
Try the margarita with the mini corona in it. It’s great!

Best place for Mexican food in the area!

You must have the Shrimp Cocktail here! Great way to start your meal, one order is enough for four. Good varirty and selection of food. Friendly wait staff, clean place. Reasonable prices, too!

I love the fact that Acapulco is in a converted bowling alley, sketchily located in the shadow of a larger structure. I guess for some that would be a negative, but.
The food was good, but not great. Don’t expect anything spicy or authentic, but it was definitely passable. The owner and the staff are all brilliant, and they have decent drink specials if you’re there on the right night. It’s certainly one of the better options in Galesburg.

This place is great. The waiters are usually friendly and the owner seems to remember my girlfriend and I. The food is good for the price and this place has some of the best mexican steak that I have ever had. I am a definite frequent visitor, and this place always has me coming back even after trying the other mexican restaurants in the area.

This is by far really authentic hispanic food. My family loves it!

With the plethora of Mexican cuisine to choose from in Galesburg, IL, Acapulco has always held a special place in my heart. While at Knox I frequented the restaurant with one of my Professors. I also was there on Thursdays for their Margarita special. Which are very good! I recommend the Blue Moon. I also enjoy Acapulco because it serves a cuisine that is little seen in the MidWest.
So yeah you guys, I’d definitely recommend Acapulco!

Good food… awesome people!

Stopped here on a long road trip based on above review. It was just ok for us.
Poll dancing on tv right by our table, not cool seeing as how my four kids were there with us
they did change the channel but it wasn’t any better when they did
food only so-​so, it’s not the real deal, it’s canned tex-​mex to me
service was nice but not all there

If it were in Chicago, I might give this place 4 stars, only because of the existence of places like Topolobampo and Dorado. But out here in the Breadbasket, Acapulco earns 5, no question. The décor is nothing special — a converted bowling alley bar, brightened up with white-​painted walls — but the service is good, and the food, oh, my, the food! It’s the real deal. There are other Mexican restaurants in town, and maybe one or two of them is actually good, if by «good» you mean «comparing favorably with Chi-Chi’s.» But Acapulco is playing an entirely different game: authentic Guerreran cuisine, heavy on the seafood, along with the ubiquitous Tex-​Mex favorites, NOT smothered beneath artery-​blocking blankets of cheese. The flavors are subtle, not simplistic; when you want spice, you get it. And yet Acapulco still maintains as impressive a bang-​to-​buck ratio as any other self-​respecting restaurant in the Carb Belt: for $ 10, you can get a skillet of shrimp fajitas that’s easily double what you can stuff into the four corn tortillas that accompany it. Seriously, there is no reason to go to any other Mexican restaurant in town when you have this as one of your choices.