Justin's Reviews

This week I visited one of my favorite Hispanic restaurants in Peoria, Tequila’s Mexican Bar & Grill. This restaurant is located on the other side of the river on West Washington Street in East Peoria. They offer a variety of traditional food as well as seafood options. After being seated they provide chips and a home blend salsa. The chips are made in house and are served hot fresh out of the fryer. I do not like very spicy salsa but this blend has just enough spice to it and is very enjoyable. This combination is perfect and we ended up eating two bowels of chips and salsa before our food came out. For the main course I usually order the same thing every time. (Chicken tacos with rice and a home made Queso sauce.) As good as it is I decided to change it up this time and get something I have not had before. I went with shrimp fajitas with sizzling grilled onions, bell peppers, and rice. This dish is straight off the grill and actually comes out sizzling and steaming. The tacos ar...

This week I decided to try a new place I have not been to before, called The Blue Duck Barbecue Tavern. My family and I are huge barbecue fans, and a few friends have recommended this place to me. My family came down this weekend and I thought this would be a great new place to try some new food. This restaurant is located on Southwest Water Street right on the river. They are open Tuesday – Saturday for lunch and dinner. This location has a very small dinning room and bar along the back wall. Since it is so small the wit time can be very long. Getting there before the rush of lunch and dinner will significantly cut down on the wait time. We started with the Barbecue Nachos appetizer. This blend of home made tortilla chips topped with your smoked pulled pork, cheese sauce, pico de gallo, spiced sour cream and guacamole. The homemade chips where incredible and mixed with the meat and other spices really made this dish special. For the main course I got the half-pound of ...