La Catrina Mexican Cantina Grill

This place is pretty tasty. I really like their street style taquitos. They don’t ever seem to be too busy so you can always get a table. Since they aren’t too busy though, it seems that the servers are either covering too many tables or get busy with other chores because sometimes it takes them awhile for them to get back to you. The servers are friendly though and you can tell they are trying. Don’t go when you are in a hurry but they are worth a try.

Really wish I would have looked on Unilocal!before eating her with my pregnant wife, sister, and grandma. Terrible experience. The three of them had major issues with their food — chicken being dry and the lettuce in the taco salad smelled like it had gone bad or had some chemical sprayed on it. Server was inattentive and did not offer to resolve the problems we had with the food. I had the lunch nachos and they were so so. Definitely won’t be back when we come to visit and highly discourage anyone from eating there also!

Chicken fajita was bland and had zucchini squash mixed in the skillet. They charge extra for more tortillas. Tiny portion of guacamole came with the fajitas and it didn’t taste fresh.
Skip the on-​the-​rocks margarita as it tastes like instant drink mix with little or no alcohol. I think this is the worst over-​priced Mexican food I’ve ever had.

What a lousy experience.
Margaritas (on special during happy hour) consisted of ice and cheap mix, and had an aftertaste like window cleaner.
Fajitas veggies were stretched with zucchini. The whole thing tasted as lame as old people food from Cracker Barrel. To top it off, condiments included only a tiny blob of guacamole, which had turned brown at the outside. In an apparent attempt to cut costs, additional tortillas only come at an extra charge. Mozarella cheese was used on top of the frijoles.
Wait staff was clumsy and screaming children gave the place the charm of the waiting room of a pediatrician’s office.

Two stars for the drinks and service. Food was not good. Guacamole tasted bland, a week old with fresh stuff piled on top. The salsa had a sour taste to it. My burrito had so much salt that I drank 8 oz of water after eating ¹⁄₃ of it.
Food was a huge disappointment.

Pros: good service, pretty quick at lunch
Cons: Overpriced. Food was below average.

It’s okay place but the food not good it was cold and not a lot of food for the over price. The drinks and service are better

Don’t EVER order delivery! Even with a second party delivery service waiting two hours for food is ridiculous. #shouldhaveorderedroomseevice still waiting #cardsalreadybeencharged

Wow. I didn’t know you could ruin refried beans but this place managed to without effort. First we were seated without menues. Our drink order was taken then about several minutes of waiting, our chips and salsa arrived, which were good. I had to go get our menues, silverware and napkins. Drinks were slow arriving but cold. Waitress couldn’t answer questions regarding menu, food just «OK». For the price and taste, look elsewhere!!!

The food and service is spectacular! Vanessa the GM was very helpful! Fish tacos are out of this world

It’s Cinco de Mayo, you have four tables open and you tell me for a party of two it’s going to be an hour and a half wait. I ask why, and you tell me it’s because the kitchen is way behind. Wouldn’t you think it would be smart to bring in extra staff on Cinco de Mayo when you’re a Mexican restaurant. Just wondering?

Bleh! Nearly empty at 7pm on a Saturday night. Had a different menu than what was on their website. Menus were dirty, they didn’t have some of the items on the menu and the food was simply not good. Soggy quesadillas, quest even bad.

Just the perfect place after business travel. Perfect Margarita and Asada and Enchilada awesome. Friendly service and great décor.

Stopped in for lunch while traveling — had the lunch special for $ 6.99 ordered chicken burrito and a soft beef taco. Chips were fresh and thin — salsa was pretty good. Received my lunch and thought it looked a bit skimpy. The burrito was not chicken and was covered in a thick cheese sauce. Flavor was OK — Taco shell was thin and crisp and pretty good.
I am used to inexpensive Mexican lunches where you get beans and other items on the plate– this place only had a sprinkle of lettuce and diced tomatoes.
Overall for the price of the lunch special with soft drink $ 10 was high for the quantity and quality of the food.

The service is not so great and neither is the food. When they first opened everything was fresh and the wait staff was awesome. The last two times I went this was not the case. Which is a bummer I really used to like this place.

Went to the place tonight. We ordered the cheese dip with the salsa and chips. When the salsa, chips and cheese came out… We dug in right away. The salsa was ok. Not great but it did have chunks of onion and tomato. Just not enough garlic and spiciest for me.
I ordered the Choripollo and it was fantastic! I have had this a few times before and I have never been disappointed. It comes with beans and salad. I also ordered a tamale. It came out and it was thickly coated with meal and it was more like cornbread with a little meat in the center. I did not like it… But I have rarely ever found tamales from a commercial place that were near good. Living in Texas has spoiled me for life on tamales.
I always enjoy this place and I think the servers are GREAT. Very attentive and always there for reference or suggestions. They have a very good selection in their menu and I have never had anything bad from here.

Geez… where do I start? This was such a blah experience that I joined Unilocal to forewarn others. I came on on a Saturday around 130pm. I only saw one other group eating inside the place. You’d think service would be on point, but I waited almost 20 minutes before my server came to take my order. She seemed busy with the other less than happy group of patrons.
The food was lackluster at best. They use mozzarella cheese in their tacos and quesadillas. I’m pretty sure I didn’t want a grilled cheese!
To further sour the experience, I asked for water instead of coke as my refill and she didn’t even pour out the glass. When brought back, it had 2″ of coke in the bottom. Gross. I’m not sure if the server was just lazy or didn’t care. I’ll not be coming back!

I really wanted this place to be good. The workers appear to work hard, but the food is just «eck.» IF it were freshly made (a big if) it is also stored and reheated. OUr salsa cam eout to us ice old and watery. They could’ve at least shaken up the Sam’s Club can before they dipped it out, I was just dipping my chip into red nasty juice.
It is easy to see that the owner is tryin to deal with staying open, employing persons, and dealing with what is probably a ridiculous overhead. I’d suggest making the place more like Cocina Superior. Keep it laid back, but switch up the interior, make one side a bar with a band and the other side the resturaunt. Have liquor specials, regular plus some known music, etc. But cutting price in the food is noticeable It is so noticeable that I am writing this review from the couch, where i fell immediately upon coming home because I felt like throwing up from shortly after eating a third of my reheated, or straight out of can meal until just now.

Went during lunch hour and had no problem being seated immediately.
Slight delay in food to table but only due to being freshly prepared.
I had the lunch special #6 Chicken Enchilada and Pork Tamale. Enchilada was very good, Tamale was average.
Only real complaints were the straws provided with drink are too short for glasses and had to ask for change to leave tip.
Would definitely try again.

«Go to La Catrina for cinco de mayo,» they said. «It will be fun,» they said. I will probably never come back here. I would only come back MAYBE if I had an intense enchilada craving and they were the only place in Birmingham serving them.
We walked in and weren’t greeted by a hostess for 10 minutes. Then we waited another 25 for a table. I understand being busy but nobody was even at the front trying to help the long line of people wanting to put their name down.
We finally got seated (I’m writing this while still here waiting for the check by the way), and ordered some drinks. Their house margarita consists of tequila flavored vodka– no thank you señor. I ordered some burrito that sounded awesome on the menu– it came with beef and sour cream. Yes, that’s all.
I wanted to like this place. I wanted to enjoy my time here and drink a lot of margaritas but… We can’t always get what we want.
On the plus side, I love the lighting here. Awesome star lanterns everywhere. Oh, and the manager did apologize without me having to complain about anything, so thank you manager! 5 stars for you Glen Coco, you go Glen Coco.