Asada Cantina + Kitchen - San Clemente, California

Melinda

Our server Fernando was outstanding! Great energy, lots of smiles and was very accommodating of our specific dietary requests.

Free chips and salsa were delicious! 😋

I ordered the Asada bowl and felt it was okay; a little bland in my opinion.

My parents ordered off the brunch menu and enjoyed their meals; chilaquiles and the hangover burrito plus a side halibut taco (that was $13) but apparently fantastic!

I always appreciate when an establishment serves non-alcoholic beer, in this case Heineken 0.0.

We arrived around 11am on a Sunday morning and the place was fairly empty, by noon it was completely full. Seems to be a very popular spot for parties of all sizes.

Daryl Y.

This place is very popular and the upscale Mexican cuisine is delicious , and plated beautifully. In the weekend when we go this place is humming with everyone from church goers to families on the way and coming from the beach.

The bar has an excellent selection of tequilas from affordable to the best brands. There is a special tequila menu for over 30 selections. Very impressive.

Their dishes or bright and flavorful. My favorite is the taco player with 4 different types of filling from blackened halibut, to pastor. Having the tacos and a clean, crisp, cold beer is just heaven. My son love the Mexican infused burger. It is big, moist, and delicious. And my wife loves the braised, shredded, beef.

CritDicks

The food was decent, and the plating was rather nice for a sit-down CaliMex restaurant. The restaurant is beautiful and huge inside, with a pretty, but rather small bar and some TVs scattered about.

Everything seemed very salty. My table mates and I thought it was the chips initially (we scraped the salt flakes off), but we all garnered that there was too much salt also in the warm salsa. All of the salt seemed to destroy any of the entrees and other offerings. In short, everything was overly salty, perhaps a marketing ploy to encourage buying more drinks. Upon our departure, I immediately drank most of my bottled water back at the car. Whew!!!

Service was initially slow until our server, Luis, took hold and provided an excellent experience with professional and swift service, even providing a plate of warm (hot) towels upon our departure. An unnecessary but nice touch I have not yet seen from a Mexican restaurant.

Dicks is still searching for that ‘one of a kind’ Mexican experience. Not this!

Dicks

Randee S.

Absolutely delicious! First time here and we were so impressed. Great menu. A lot of great choices. The chips and salsa are fire. The coconut margarita was great. We had cheese enchiladas and the crispy carnitas. The meat was out of this world. The beans and rice was also fantastic!

We will definitely be back soon!

Nicole G.

The food here was very good and the drinks were even better they give you great portions I would definitely come back

aaron T.

Waited over twenty minutes for a pick up order. To had to ask someone other than the hostess to check on my order because she clearly wasn’t. But here is the worst part:

THIS (see pictures), is their ‘hangover burrito’. Check out the ingredients on their menu and see if you see anything else in my pictures other than rice, rice, more rice, and tortilla.

They stuffed this burrito with rice and put one piece of bacon in it, a slice of onion and some potatoes and called it a day. Incredibly disappointing.

Jerry G.

All the food was good. My one complaint about this place is the portion size. I ordered the guacamole and went with the small size it was $11.99. When it got to the table, I was like this is $11.99. It was the same size as the small salsa plate given with the chips. It would have been nice if I was told before hand how small the "small" guacamole is. Other than that, all the other plates were great and a good size. Just that guacamole size left a bad impression on me.

Roo A.

As a Mexican I can tell the food in this place is really good. The service is really good and the place has a nice layout. Totally recommended.