Price Guide (average entree): $ bargain - $6 or less, $$ inexpensive - $6 - $12, $$$ moderate $12 - $19, $$$$ expensive - over $19.
Quality Rating: Superb is the highest, considered the very best possible. Notes are qualifiers allowing insight into the reviewer's rating. Disclaimer
| Restaurant: | Ponaks | Location: | SW Boulevard |
| Cuisine: | Mexican | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | slow service |
| Favorites: | burrito |
| Comments: | The best Margaritas in the city! The portions were very tasty but I thought they were small in comparison to other Mexican restaurants. The hot sauce could have been hotter, and the rice was a bit too dry.. Overall pretty good but not fabulous. |
| Reviewer: | D.F. |
Date: | 11/17/98 |
| Restaurant: | Ponaks | Location: | South West Blvd Kansas City |
| Cuisine: | Mexican | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | Authentic mexican chips n' salsa (free) are addicting! |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | Very good tasty food, (I am a vegetarian to)! |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | Service is good, sometimes can get busy on weekends/fridays |
| Favorites: | Enchilda |
| Comments: | Try this restaurant. Caution!!!!: Dont get hooked on the chips n' salsa or u wont get to eat your tasty food. |
| Reviewer: | Neil |
Date: | 10/31/00 |
| Restaurant: | Ponaks | Location: | SouthWest Blvd Kansas City |
| Cuisine: | Mexican | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Food: | * average | Notes: | |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | |
| Comments: | If you are vegetarian, don't get anything labeled "vegetarian", or containing rice. The rice has chicken stock- so it's not veg. A lot of mex restaurants can't seem to understand this concept. |
| Reviewer: | Rita |
Date: | 7/23/01 |
| Restaurant: | Ponaks | Location: | SouthWest Blvd Kansas City |
| Cuisine: | Mexican | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | They don't waste money on decor. |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | Try the chile burrito if you like pork. |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | Just don't make Robert mad or you may have a long wait. |
| Favorites: | MARGARITAS ARE THE BEST!!! (if you like them strong) |
| Comments: | This is a great place. The people are very friendly and service very good. You will probably have a wait due to the popularty of the establishment. The refried beans are the best in town. |
| Reviewer: | Frank |
Date: | 1/11/02 |
| Restaurant: | Ponaks | Location: | SW Boulevard (exit at Cambridge Circle, turn left on BLVD) |
| Cuisine: | Tex-Mex | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | more or less a loveable dive |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | very good Tex-Mex, some of the best in town |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | when it's crowded, it's crowded. Orders may take time |
| Favorites: | Order the Cheese & onion enchilada's, w/ 'soupy beans' |
| Comments: | A dive Tex-Mex joint right by the railroad tracks, what could be better? They've got a good selection of beers on tap, and their tex-mex food is great. Recommend the cheese & onion enchiladas, try and include with any order. |
| Reviewer: | Carl |
Date: | 2/6/03 |
| Restaurant: | Ponaks | Location: | Southwest Blvd |
| Cuisine: | Mexican | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | Very Simple |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | The food is wonderful! The taco sonoras are the best! |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | Not the best, but the food outweighs that big time! |
| Favorites: | Taco Sonoras |
| Comments: | Most likely, you will have to wait due to its popularity, but if you time it just right, you can get in and out of there pretty quickly! Service may be slow, but the food is worth the wait - it's by far my favorite Mexian Restaurant! |
| Reviewer: | Wesli |
Date: | 4/10/03 |
| Restaurant: | Ponaks | Location: | Southwest Blvd |
| Cuisine: | Mexican | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | It is a fun, casual feel. |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | Always consistently great! |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | The staff works to know you by name |
| Favorites: | #2, #16 and #20 |
| Comments: | We have been eating at Ponaks since 1982. It has never
disappointed us. It is consistently delicious. You get great portions
without breaking the bank! |
| Reviewer: | Benton |
Date: | 7/14/03 |
| Restaurant: | Ponaks | Location: | S.W. Blvd |
| Cuisine: | Mexican | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | | Notes: | |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | Very consistent, best margaritas EVER. |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | generally pleasant/friendly and expedient. |
| Favorites: | #18 (flauta); flour, chicken |
| Comments: | First resturaunt I visit while returning to KC for a visit. I NEED the maragrita recipe. NEED IT. |
| Reviewer: | Aaron |
Date: | 8/2/03 |
| Restaurant: | Ponaks | Location: | The Boulevard |
| Cuisine: | Mexican | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | Busy and very LOUD |
| Food: | * average | Notes: | Fair at best |
| Service: | poor | Notes: | Slow |
| Favorites: | None really |
| Comments: | This place used to be really good but has since gone way down hill. The food is lame. |
| Reviewer: | Robert |
Date: | 11/14/03 |
| Restaurant: | Panzon's | Location: | 87th and Lackman - Lenexa |
| Cuisine: | Mexican | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | The Cheese Dip |
| Comments: | The cheese dip is fabulous. I live in Indiana and everytime I travel or have family traveling here from Lenexa I put my order in. I have turned a whole lot of people in the Chicago area to the taste of Panzon's cheese dip and the reviews are in.....GREAT!!!! |
| Reviewer: | Dawn |
Date: | 2/6/04 |
| Restaurant: | Ponak's | Location: | SW Boulevard |
| Cuisine: | Mexican | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | |
| Food: | * average | Notes: | bland for Mexican |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | adequate; they were busy |
| Favorites: | pork burrito |
| Comments: | I had heard of this place for years, so figured it was a good bet. Frankly, I was a bit disappointed. Everything was on the bland side, there seemed to be no seasoning at all in the taco meat-just browned hamburger. And the prices were high-$6 for a small bowl of guacamole! They were very generous with the meat in the pork burrito I had, though. But all in all, it was nothing this Anglo-Irish girl couldn't make at home. |
| Reviewer: | Cathy |
Date: | 3/3/04 |
| Restaurant: | Ponak's | Location: | Southwest Blvd. |
| Cuisine: | Mexican | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Service: | poor | Notes: | The worst seating experience of my life. Never go again. |
| Favorites: | tacos, enchiladas |
| Comments: | Food is ok, ambiance is greasy. Worst of all is the GM who attends the seating. My family of 5 was treated with disrespect and total discourtesy. I was shocked to be treated this way, and saddened when I let him know that he said he was the GM. Oh my. Never will I go back. My money goes to Manny's only, now. |
| Reviewer: | Chris |
Date: | 4/9/04 |
| Restaurant: | Ponaks | Location: | Southwest Blvd. K.C. MO |
| Cuisine: | Mexican | Price: | $ bargain |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | _ |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | Best Tasting Mexican Food in Town |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | Quick Service |
| Favorites: | Burritos & Enchiladas |
| Comments: | Favorite resturant in town. |
| Reviewer: | Sean |
Date: | 7/21/04 |
| Restaurant: | Ponaks | Location: | southwest blvd. |
| Cuisine: | Mexican | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | _ |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | _ |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | i know all the waitresses and waiters |
| Favorites: | taco sonora |
| Comments: | the staff is very friendly and polite!we know them all personally. the food has always been good and one of our favorites! |
| Reviewer: | Trisha & Mark |
Date: | 8/21/04 |
| Restaurant: | Ponaks | Location: | Southwest Blvd |
| Cuisine: | _ | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | _ |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | _ |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | _ |
| Favorites: | #7 one beef one cheese |
| Comments: | Awsome place, has a mexican feel and food is awsome, salsa and chips are great but don't eat to much or you can't eat your entre, and you would be missing out on the best part |
| Reviewer: | Branden |
Date: | 10/5/04 |
| Restaurant: | Ponak's | Location: | KC |
| Cuisine: | Mexican | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | not fancy, but still good |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | great taste |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | can be slow when it is busy |
| Favorites: | Tacos Sonora |
| Comments: | The tacos sonora are awesome, but sometimes I've had to take one or two home because the chips and salsa are so addicting. |
| Reviewer: | David |
Date: | 6/2/05 |
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