Compadres Mexican Restaurant — Restaurant in Vernon Township

I used to love coming here with friends for dinner but after the third time getting sick, I won’t be back. I have an allergy and I order my food accordingly, and let the staff know. Yesterday, I ordered hard tacos and they came out in soft shells. I explained to the staff who took the order, who also happened to be the manager on duty, that my allergy is like that of someone who has a peanut allergy, and that he can’t just put it into a hard shell. He seemed annoyed that I needed him to change my food, took it back, brought it back out. I ate my couple of tacos, one of which was half soggy but I was like okay, maybe it’s just from condensation (but now I’m not sure), and underneath my food were hairs. Like super fine hairs. Obviously that’s gross and so I told the manager and he didn’t care at all. He literally didn’t even look at the plate, and just said he’d take my small cheese off of my bill for the “inconvenience”. Um sir, it’s not just “inconvenient” to have hair on my plate of food or for you to get my allergy specific order wrong. Also, within 20 minutes I got violently ill and had to stop somewhere on my way home. So, I’m going to hedge my bets that once again, they just put the same food into the other shells. Anyway, I won’t be back. Margarita King is owned by the same people and I’ve had a way better experience there with service. If you have an allergy, don’t expect it to be taken seriously if that guy is on as manager. Dora is great, but this guy,...

We go to Compadres about once a month for dinner. On this particular day, when our food came, we noticed 3 out of the 4 plates had chunks broken off of them. Our server said the cook didn't notice it until the food was already on them. We were served food on broken plates anyway. Another problem was the music. I think the cooks enjoy music while working but it was so loud we could hardly hear ourselves talk. The food is always good but the courtesy shown to us was lacking with broken plates and music so loud you can't talk to each other. Simple solutions would be to buy new plates and if the kitchen staff wants to listen to music - earbuds so it doesn't disturb...

Definitely the best and pretty much only place in town for actual authentic Mexican. The food is tasty, prices are reasonable, and it's usually fairly quiet - though, I've only ever visited around lunch time, so it may be louder and more packed for dinner. Oh, and you get a free basket of fresh, warm tortilla chips and homemade salsa immediately after being seated, which is awesome. Only taking off one star due to the fact that the servers we get always seem like they despise their job and avoid conversation entirely, lol. They're never rude, they just lack enthusiasm or warmth and are very "meh." Other than that, we dig the place and hit it for lunch...