Cayenne - Peoria Heights

Food was amazing, I had the chicken chimichanga and my wife had the 2 tacos side. They have non traditional tacos along with the classic. Great staff and service, check it out!

We normally love Cayenne, their food is great. But we were there for a friend’s birthday party last night, there was 8 of us, we sat there for 2 hours waiting for our food. It was unacceptable. I understand staffing issues-I worked in the restaurant business for years, but 2 hours? This was on top of the hour it took us to even get drinks and order. We paid our drink tab and left before we ate. Was super disappointing

We walked in at 2PM on a Sunday and stood at the hostess stand for five min waiting to be seated. Hostess finally came out and hurried us to a table, took our order and left. After about 15-20 min we were wondering where the chips and salsa (that you have to pay for btw) were. Hostess came walking by eating food, almost surprised to see us sitting there, and we asked if she could bring our salsa and Queso out we ordered. She sighed and told us she’d get our server, like we were inconveniencing her. They forgot we were there obviously. The hostess came back and threw our chips and salsa on the table, leaned down close to us and told us very snottily “have a nice day”. Not sure how this lady has a job especially in the serving industry. Come to find out later from our actual server she’s the manager of the place. The food was not good enough for that kind of service. Will not be back.

Stopped in on a whim after walking the strip of stores. No one up front to greet, then when the girl came out she just kinda waved at us and said sit wherever. So we chose a table, that ended up being dirty. When asked to wipe it off she seemed like she had an attitude, and let out a big sigh when she walked away. The menus also had food and old finger prints all over them. I asked my S/o to leave but they didn’t want to be difficult. The food was less than stellar, the queso was a dark orange color and tasted like melted velveeta. We ordered 2 tacos which we didn’t finish due to no seasoning it was the most flavorless taco I’ve ever bit into. My S/o said it tasted like nursing home food. We also ordered the brisket burrito which was acceptable, the red sauce really takes over. All the brisket was on one end so I had to open the burrito up to spread it out. I really wanted to like this place. Charging $10 for chips and salsa is crazy work though when we can better food, service, and free chips and salsa elsewhere.

My wife and I showed up at 5 pm on Saturday 4/20. We didn't have reservations but there were two tables left, so we got one. We saw a minimum of 10 tables get turned away because they were booked. Definitely recommend reservations if you want a table. I had the steak quesadilla and it was fabulous. Our server that night was also the bartender. She was very busy but we never felt like we were ignored. Highly recommend!