La Palapa

The best authentic Mexican food in town! Hands down! The micheladas are thirst quenching also! I usually order mine with Tecate beer. The food always tastes fresh every time I’ve came!

Enjoy the preparadas and the food is delicious! Been coming here for years and will continue to come!

Enjoyed our dinner there. Great service, good and prices. Had ½ dozen oysters with ceviche on top, grilled langastino with garlic butter, fried ice cream and strawberry margarita. Seafood was flavorful and fresh! Bill was only $ 40 for everything! There was a guitar player there, music a bit loud for my taste and they went around asking for tips.

Under staffed, there’s always people nothing you at your table to buy stuff. Prices are ok butplace is loud & bathrooms are a mess, never any paper towels.

Let down, especially when compared to another Mexican restaurant real close by.
Started with a shrimp cocktail. It was very boring, shrimp with tomato juice, a scant amount of cucumbers and one small piece of avocado. There was very little flavor to it. The steak fajitas tasted ok. The steak was tender, a little on the sweet side, but it was swimming in grease. They were served with 2 small tortillas, we had to ask for more.
The preperadas were a major disappointment, I drove across town to get a good preperada. It just tasted like a little tomato juice with beer. It did not even have a lime with it.
The service was ok. I was super irritated when a lady singing and playing the guitar on the other side of the restaurant came over and demanded a tip. At first I thought she was asking if we wanted her to play for us, so I said «no thanks.» Then she put her hand out and demanded a tip. She repeated herself 10 times. I didn’t come here to hear her play an out of tune guitar, I simply came here to have a nice lunch.
Too many other options for good Mexican food around.

Was there for a Las Vegas trip and wanted some authentic mexican food and most of all, I was craving a michelada so bad.
For food this restaurant is very good and tasty but the michelada was dissapointing. Took one drink and had to get something else. The micheladas I’m used to drinking have a nice spicy mixture with beer with a spicy salt mix on the rim but they don’t make it like that there. It had no flavor at all not even beer flavor just tasted like water and regular salt. Not good sorry

La Palapa was a fairly authentic Mexican restaurant. It had the colors on the outside and very friendly service from the staff. I really enjoyed the flavorful carne asada and beans. I wasn’t crazy about the yellow-​style type of rice. I guess because I’m used to tomato-​based rice. The beef tamale was also good and not dried out as I often encounter when eating tamales. The waitress was kind, friendly and accommodating that she made our meal very pleasant. The one unusual thing that I did not like were all the people coming up to you to make money or begging. There was an accordion player, a trio of singers, a duet that kept singing at our table although we said no thank you, a little boy that was selling cookies, a trumpet player, a dancer, and then, I think, two Americans because they spoke perfect English and looked American, begging for money because someone in their family was dying of cancer. All this while we were eating or trying to eat. It was the strangest experience that I ever had dining and reminded me of when I was in Cabo San Lucas when people would wake you up on the beach to sell something to you (Hello…can’t you see that I’m sleeping!). But that’s Mexico for you. I can’t imagine why the owner would allow all these people to come in and disturb the customers. I imagine this is authentic to how the restaurants are in Mexico. I don’t think I’ll go back because of that.

Just ok. The ceviche was ok it needed to be doctored up. The fish tacos were good and plenty. They do charge you for everything. We ordered a rice and beans plate for our little one and asked for cucumbers and tomatoes and was charged for that. The waitress came by 2 times and was ok nothing I’m this restaurant would make me want to come back.

La Palapa is my first and last stop in Vegas. I get there and order a Cocktail (Campechana) and a Michelada. Let the party begin. Before I leave Vegas I stop in for the same thing and oyster shooters. The food is fantastic, the Michelada’s are the best on the West Coast outside of Mexico.

Traditional Mexican food & drinks — michelada and horchata are the specialties!
Everything is super cheap and everything we’ve tried (quesadilla, fish taco, chorizo dip) was good. It’s definitely on my list anytime I’m in the area. Trying the ceviche next visit!

One reviewer said it best, «a hidden gem»; particularly this side of Vegas, you can’t go wrong, plenty of great dishes, great service with a smile. Try it with friends, family, large groups, you’ll love it. Enjoy!

This is a GIANT restaurant! I had never been to this side of town but came here for a
coupon. FYI– that coupon didn’t work!
All of the fried fish dishes we tried were very good. Price for 3 of us to eat (with 1 beer and 1 horchata) was about $ 45. We had a cerviche that was quite good too.
This is the kind of place you’d expect random people to walk in and sell you roses and candy bars. The service was attentive but there also weren’t very many people in the restaurant on a Friday night at 6pm. I wish this place wasn’t so far north away from the city center. I’d come here more often if it was.

Food was very good, loved the fish n shrimp tavos. Also tried the shrimp n octopus coctail n was good too. One bad thing was thar tge eervers all kept esting behind the counter

This place is awesome. My first cóctel de camarón was in México and by comparison nothing comes close. Palapa on the other hand is as good as can be expected. I always go back when in in Vegas.

A hidden gem for seafood in particular for shrimp coktails and ceviche. They have the best Micheladas I have ever tasted and make it a point to drop in everytime I am in town with family and or friends.

This place was recommended to my by a friend and I must say it’s authentic Mexican food. The servers here are very welcoming and really helpful with the menu. The vibe of the place is as if you are in the islands of somewhere along the coast.
There’s a bar and there are tv’s, but the TVs by the bar are in need of an upgrade.
The portions here are pretty big and you definitely get full off your plate. I got the flautas plate, it’s topped with cheese and lettuce and a side of salsa verde; they offer chicken or beef so I got both. It’s a plate for sharing and will fill your tummy. The drink sizes here are regular or LARGE so the large is good for sharing.

Enjoyed the food here it was good not only that but we were treated very nice by the waitress

Writing this review because there are so many debates about whether or not Las Vegas can serve up good Mexican food.
I was referred to La Palapa by a friend who hails from Mexico, and is picky about their food. Especially mariscos! I myself, having spent a significant number of years being part of a Mexican family, have a discerning pallet when it comes to Mexican fare.
I arrived at La Palapa with my friend and his family, and upon sitting down he was immediately greeted with a michelada ‘preparada’. This is one of the best inventions ever, so I quickly followed suit, while presented with several options of the cerveza to be used in the drink. I’m a traditionalist… Modelo Especial is my standard. I have to say, this preparada was unique to anything I’ve had elsewhere, including those in Mexico City. It was much lighter in tomato than most, but had great spicey goodness! The 2^nd one was better than the 1^st!
I split a tasting of shrimp and octopus ceviche cocktail and a combination shrimp and fish taco. All was phenomenal. I think there was a full pound of 21 – 25 shrimp in my ceviche, and the lightly fried goodness in the tacos was amazing. Super fresh and awesome. Even did a dozen raw oysters on the ½ shell as appetizer. a) I wouldn’t risk this at 90% of the restaurants in Vegas and b) I never thought sliders with lime juice and Tapatio would be awesome! I was wrong!
Needless to say, this was worth the drive off the beaten path. I’ll definitely be back!

Not in the greatest part of LV but for lunch why not. There was only 1 other party dinning when I arrived.
Started off with ice tea which is was huge. I ordered the 2 combo tostada with octopus and crab — it was large and decent but the octopus was chopped to fine. I followed with a shrimp taco and a side of rice. The taco was ginormous and stuffed with deep fried shrimp, cabbage and a light white sauce — it was very good. The rice was also tasty and lightly flavored.
The service was OK, the waitress put white sauce on my taco when I requested it on the side thankfully it was light otherwise I would have sent it back.
I suggest the shrimp tacos, you can go wrong and if you eat two you’ll be set.

Best shrimp tacos ever! Best cerveza preparadas ever! Awesome service! Nobody ever gives me a hard time for not speaking Spanish… probably cuz I’m Asian. There are places that expect me to speak Spanish cuz they assume I am Latina but it’s all good over here.
Their fish and shrimp tacos are battered and fried, served with shredded cabbage, pico de gallo, and a white cream sauce with a lemon wedge. If I can recall they are huge and cost about $ 3 — $ 3.50. Not bad at all cuz they are not greedy here. The campachana cocktail with shrimp and octopus always tastes so fresh. I have yet to find it better anywhere else.
Their cerveza preparadas are made with a concoction of shrimp stock, lime juice, hot sauce and whatever beer of your choosing. They are served in a frosty goblet that makes the beer so delicious on a hot day, after a long day at work, after a long night of partying – the morning after of course, or just any old freaking time they’re open. The first few sips have that icey layer of frost on them that I just love so much. Almost like a beer slurpee, kinda… not really. Just go there and get one. Only then will you know exactly what i mean.