La Palma Mexican Restaurant - Urbana Ohio — Restaurant in Urbana

I'll grant that I was here on a Monday, where business isn't as booming as a Friday, but I have real problems with this place. Some regarding safety. The food the first I was here a couple of years ago was pretty good, and the environment seemed alright. Now it just seems a niche market is being catered to. Thats an issue for an expanding and dominant market of young folk. The paint is out date. The designs seem to stay for the niche market and the modernization is as little as it can get. The ventilation is open and the smaller vents have dust building up. I understand it's difficult to reach them, but actually though, that's a problem for the folks who have problems or things falling out the ceiling into peoples food in the booth by the restroom. Let me tell you, I've been to worser places and have seen worser things. But places shouldn't look like this or be like this for the safety of who have a possible health problem. I was here this evening with some friends and they said the food was cold. Lazily heated up as if it was Cooked, cooled down, then thrown in a microwave. This is what they said. To be honest, to see a restaurant that was hopping years ago turn to this where and business going down and the only thing that is granting it's lasting life is cheap alcohol is completely saddening. There needs to be updates to the restaurant for the ever expanding and growing younger generation.

I'm not trying to shred the place into bits, this is my experience and visual of what I've seen. It's tragic to see this place turn into this. If the niche market doesn't like it or the people behind the scenes doesn't like hearing this, y'all need to hear it.

-Thank you for those reading this for reading this. I'm only explaining what I saw and experienced. Stay Humbled...

Ate there on 10/9/19. My wife and grandchild had #51, steak Veracruz and I the #46, chicken with cherezmo sausage. My grand daughter complained about the steak, she had a piece of it in her fingers and I took it and put it in my mouth, I didn't even chew, immediarely I could tell that the steak was putrid. I immediately spit it out on the plate and the steak smelt horrible like 2 day old roadkill on a 90 degree summer day. They knew before they grilled this steak that it was rotten because of the horrible smell. I am very angry that they served a rotten steak when there are so many telltale signs that the meat was rotten whenever it was pulled from the cooler before it was grilled. I am very disappointed that this restaurant would do this and I will not be going back soon. Because of this I developed a sore throat less than 24 hours later and I'm on vacation and this happens. I will be notifying the health department and lodging a complaint. 4 days later still suffering from the aftermath of the rotten steak with cold like symptoms. If u decide not to heed this review, Helen do ur self a favor and at least do the smell test on ur food, might save u from getting...

While visiting family in Urbana, we were taken to La Palma in order to ‘go somewhere other than the usual.’

From the parking lot, La Palma looked like any typical restaurant you could envision. Once inside that vision changed…. To exactly what you’d envision a Mexican restaurant to be! The color scheme, the decor, the terra cotta orange colored tiles, the scents from the kitchen……

The service was exceptionally quick as we were among only 3-4 tables in the mid-afternoon. The food was brought to the table with a quickness not seen in many food restaurants! It was also delivered mistake free! Most definitely unusual in the food industry.

The portions were too big for me… but for the men in our party nearly cleaned their plates! I had a taco salad and the only complaint I have is that the meat wasn’t drained well enough…. Making the shell soggy. I feel that’s a common Mexican restaurant occurrence, tho.

In the end…. I’d still recommend La Palma. I know there isn’t a lot to choose from in Urbana, so check it out…. At least it’s...