Baja Cantina

Small brightly decorated Mexican restaurant serving up plenty of drink specials and Mexican food favorites. Visited on a Sunday evening, the restaurant was not busy at all. There was two tables with diners outside, and inside was empty. Our waitress was friendly, however she did not make any recommendations when told this was our first time dining there. Food was mediocre at best. Street corn was ok. Chicken Ensenada Enchiladas, Baja Fish Tacos was just ordinary. Steak and Shrimp Ranchero had good sauce, but chewy steak pieces. All entrees came with Mexican rice that was dry and black beans that was just average. With service that was nothing out of the ordinary, there is really nothing that would entice us to return, based on this visit.

Consumer Beware! I got my bill today and it was $145. 4 out of the 5 meals we ordered was the 2 tacos meal so I thought $145 cant be right. Of course when I go to look at the itemized receipt, there was not one giving to me. (Im pretty sure they purposely did this). Why do I think this, because when I asked for the itemized receipt they had the tip already included. You can see below, the receipt to the left is all they gave me. Most people would simply put a tip in and leave. If it wasn’t for the price being so high I would of never asked for one and did the same thing. Then when you ask for an itemized receipt, they try to trick you again; the suggested tip amounts at the bottom of the receipt (you can see below on the right) is based on the amount $145.43 which already has an 18% tip included. I work in the payment processing space and this is just wrong on all levels. I suggest you change your shady business tactics before you loose more customers. I almost left an additional $30 tip so our waiter would have got $50+ Tip for a $116 meal. This is why I think they don’t give you an itemized receipt to begin with, it would compromise their ability to scam their customers.

Our server Shanique was very nice and professional. The food was okay. But the drinks were extremely disappointing. I ordered the most expensive margarita and it came in a juice glass, no salt and an imperceptible amount of alcohol - despite claiming to have the highest quality tequila and Cointreau. Hard to understand why you wouldn’t at least use normal glasses. We would have more than one round if they were at least the basic margaritas.

Very close to Mizner Park. Great Shrimp fajitas and Shredded Beef Tacos! The Salsa was the super delicious. The best I've had in a long time, with finely chopped garlic and onions, not too spicy. Very cute Mexican decor and good service. Go out and support this small business, you will be happy you did.

2-stars because the server was great. This great little place has gone downhill over the past 18 months. My sister and I visited two weekends ago, and the only positive thing I can say is that we had a lovely server who was kind to us and felt badly for having to return our cold food and unfrozen drinks. I've been chatting up this place to my sister who is from North Florida. I finally had the opportunity to take her. We wanted frozen house margaritas. We were served two glasses of what looked like cloudy water with a couple of inches of crushed iced (see photo). I asked the server if our drinks looked frozen, and she politely agreed they did not, and offered to have them refrozen. Whoever was behind the counter threw them back in the blender and returned them to our server. What you see in the photo is what we got the second time, and they were awful. We asked for a basket of chips and Chili Con Queso. The chips and salsa arrived first, and it took 12 minutes to receive the Queso and when it arrived it was lukewarm and tasted overly sweet. We asked the server to please reheat it, which she did, however, it was not the same recipe or product they were using over a year ago and, if it is, this slop was awful. We left the drinks and most of the dip, tipped the server well (not her fault), and left. I’m hoping this was a one-off for this place because I’ve always had great food and drinks at this place. This time was the bottom of the barrel, so I will probably not return for a very long time, if at all.