The document presents EPLQ, an efficient and privacy-preserving location-based query solution aimed at enhancing the privacy of users' location data while querying information about points of interest. It introduces a novel predicate-only encryption scheme and a privacy-preserving tree index structure to overcome existing challenges in querying encrypted location-based service data. Extensive experiments demonstrate the efficiency of EPLQ, which requires minimal latency for mobile users to perform secure spatial range queries.