Penelope’s Vegan Taqueria

The food here is good, especially the soy al pastor tacos dinner (and especially if you spring for the cheese) and reasonably priced for the area. The employees are friendly and I love the convenient location right off the brown line. I just wish they had a lot more gluten free items on their menu - because their fryer isn't gluten free, even basic corn tortilla chips are off limits so there's a very limited menu selection.

I enjoyed eating here. They had multiple gluten free options and the food was great. Also I have the same name as the restaurant which is funny. The only reason I rated 4 stars instead of 5 is due to them having desert options listed on the menu but not regularly carrying most of them. Also the chips were somewhat burnt and really not worth the price.

I found this place on the Happy Cow app. And since it shares a name with one of my daughters, we just had to check it out. I loved that the whole place was vegan and they had a ton of gluten free options also. The menu is well labeled, which was extremely helpful. 2 of us got the taco dinner deal since it was Tuesday and they do a $5 off deal on that dinner. It comes with 3 tacos of your choice, rice and beans. All of us loved our meals, and the margarita I got delicious!! I was really excited to try their ice cream sundae for dessert, but it appears that they don't usually actually have the ice cream at this location. Apparently it's made at a different location, so they usually only have the cake, which isn't gluten free. I was really disappointed that there wasn't a dessert for me to try, especially since I'm the one who's vegan in the group. One of my daughter's who can eat gluten did try the cake special and really liked it though. In my opinion, in order to get 5 stars, they either need to have all of the dessert options regularly, which includes a gluten free option, or just make the cake with gluten free flour and call it a day. Other than that issue, it was a great find here in Chicago!