The name Las Tablas comes from the wooden boards on which the restaurant serves most of the dishes.
The restaurants rustic wooden tables and chairs handmade and imported from Colombia add to the casual and familial ambiance to the establishment. The menu offers dishes staples such as Colombian-style Empanadas, Arepas, Churrasco, and the Bandeja Paisa (Colombia's national dish).


Las Tablas was the first Colombian restaurant in Chicago to introduce dishes that are now commonly emulated by the city's several other Colombian eateries.
Always a trend-setter, Las Tablas was the first Colombian restaurant in Chicago to introduce dishes that are now commonly emulated by the city's several other Colombian eateries. The first of these was the Matrimonio - the ultra-popular combination of flame-broiled steak and chicken breast on the same plate. Another example is the Entraña, or Colombian-style skirt steak, which was selected as best in the country by national food show "America's Best Bites". Las Tablas is the only Colombian restaurant in Chicago that works with special aromatic herbs from the Andes called "guascas". These herbs are an essential ingredient to the famous Ajiaco soup from the region around Bogotá, thus Las Tablas is the only Colombian restaurant in the Midwest that serves authentic Ajiaco soup.