La Isla Del Encanto

Ceviche is always fresh! We love eating the shrimp cóctel and the ceviche. we’ve come to this restaurant for years but never really got around writing the review. Inside needs an urgent makeover but food is always good!

So I came here maybe a 5 years ago. I ordered tacos and it wasn’t that good. But given that they were still around 5 years later, I figured maybe they made improvements. Seems like they did!
They have a nice blue/​water theme inside their restaurant. I ordered their ceviche and it is better than most I have tried. :) I would try their food again.

I tried this restaurant for the first time, and my impression is… this place sucks!
On Friday afternoon the place was empty, I wonder why?
I ordered garlic shrimp, instead I was served shrimps with vinegar!
I do not recommend this place, please stay away from there!
Also it’s very expensive.

Try the seafood entrees, they are good and filling.
I just get the Ceviche plate, extra limes, salsa, chips and feast.

I usually just get the fajitas, but the ranchera enchiladas are the bomb. The staff speaks english but is limited. Hot sauce is pretty spicey so take it easy. Also compared to the other mexican places this place is pretty cheap. good food and atmosphere. I have not tried thier mixed drinks.

I don’t think this place is called La Isla Del Encanto; the sign just says La Isla Restaurant. It is affiliated with Danielita’s at 1100 E Pioneer Parkway, and the menu is apparently similar except that La Isla has seafood.
My parents brought me here for dinner and I was trepidatious. They do not eat spicy food and little ethnic food, so I assumed it would be some sort of El Chico travesty of Tex Mex. I was pleasantly surprised to be wrong!
The chips and salsa are lovely. They bring each person their own little bowl of salsa (I ate mine and my parents’), which is not very spicy but not totally without a kick and quite delicious. The chips are thin and crispy.
Waitstaff is very friendly and accommodating but not overbearing. My parents speak no Spanish and have no trouble with special requests being executed correctly. I ordered in Spanish, which the waiter seemed to appreciated.
I got the Tex Mex combo plate, where you choose your own three items, plus rice and beans. I ordered a bean chalupa, a guacamole chalupa, and a spinach enchilada. All were delicious! The guacamole was delicious and abundant. My favorite was the enchilada; the salsa verde is tangy and tasty (although, again, not hot – but there is hot sauce on the table) and the spinach inside was fresh, not gloppy frozen stringy spinach. I will definitely order a plate of spinach enchiladas next time I’m in town.
My parents enjoyed their meals, chicken enchiladas verde and shrimp fajitas. The fajitas did not come out theatrically sizzling but plated as the other dishes are; we didn’t mind.
Good food, good service, and INSANE prices. I am used to DC, but $ 7.50 for my three item plate seems absurd to me. They have a daily special for $ 4.50. Insane.