Acapulco Mexican Restaurant Y Cantina

A short curly hair in a drink. And an incompetent waitress who didn’t fulfill check demands. Yet another 1 star.

Food from this restaurant is very good high recommended is you like Mexican food this is the place yummy

Not good first one of the waitress name nathaly was giving me attitude and was really rude and she took about Ten minutes to bring my drinks and then my food was cold she needs more traininng or was nervous but for a first time it was a bad experience

My hubby and I were craving for some Mexican food so we Unilocaled it and found this place. It was very spacious and we came around 8:45 pm I know it was pretty late for dinner but hey, what can I say. So we went side the restaurant and ordered some food. The steak was very good, tender flavor and the shrimps were so great! I saw the waiter out something in the place and then the fire came out before we are. That was pretty awesome! Oh the good itself was about 19 dollars. The waiter and waitress were cool. The food has a taste of bbq which I love the most, even though it was grilled. Glad we found another good place to eat!

They really should have a negative stars, this has by far been the worst service and appalling billing i have ever encountered! The waiter came by twice. I ordered 3 margaritas 1 of which i never received my friend 2 strawberry margaritas and then we had wings and taquitos, we asked to be separate from
The party we were with. We decided to leave since the waiter was basically non existent finally after asking everyone with a name tag for the bill we received the FULL bill from the entire party, not everyone was ready to leave so we asked to have the check separated… Yet AGAIN. Another hour later and the waiter finally comes back with two checks since another member of our party decided to close out (her bill was nachos and 2 coconut marg. The ONLY one to have coconut margaritas in our group btw) she paid her bill. As i look at ours i am charged the full amount of the bill 30 plus the split amount of 15 and my friend the other 15. Puzzled im like wtf?! Why am i being double charged! And as my friend is looking over the bill we were charged for the 3^rd drink i never got AND THE COCNUT MARGARITAS from the girl who had already paid them! So essentially Re-​charged for those drinks on OUR bill! When we asked the waiter his response was 1. Your card is going to have the charge reversed once it goes through and you’ll only be charged the 15 (really?!) thats just the way we do it, we change the full amount and then it reverses, now i get while people go to get intoxicated its easy to bs them and get away with it, but im sober there is no bsing me. 2. The drink i never got his response you ordered it i dont know if you got it or not (really you were the one bringing the effing drinks!) 3. The coconut margaritas his response well someone had then (are you kidding me!) i asked to speak to the manager gave me the same bs story about my charges. Needless to say i got frustrated and signed the check for 15 not the 30. And still had the nerve to ask why I didn’t leave a tip. Heres a tip: don’t be an effing moron and try taking advantage of people!!! I will be contacting my back and having the 30 dollar disputed and allow the 15 once it posts, i took both receipts as proof as they both have the same transaction number. I will NEVER return here again! And once they do post both transactions i will be contacting the BBB.
Word of advice if you do come here, make sure you check your bill carefully for over charges or double charges! And bring cash if you’re going to be splitting the check! to avoid their «charge the full amount and reverse it» bulls**t!

Came here for brunch today 1÷3÷2016 and the food was pretty good. Except for the hostess who clearly saw a family of 5 come in and after sitting another 5 before us comes back and ignores us when no one else is around then another guy as well doesn’t acknowledge us. So we waited like 20 min until another group of people came in and they started to sit them first til I said something. New year same ol dumb stuck up people who think they’re shit don’t stink working here. It wasn’t even busy for them to take so long and they had been open already.

False advertising their $ 2 margaritas specials on Mondays. Their website states that special is valid all day in the restaurant & cantina.
The margaritas were good but it’s for an older crowd type of enviroment.

Service is ok. They have happy hour but only in the bar area which is like a club. You get carded at the door and they make you take off your beanie. Do you not know its cold! Good thing I was already leaving.
Another time bar was too full and i sat in the dinning room. Going back to my comment about only serving happy hour at the bar. If I can hear it then I should be untitled to the happy hour specials. My booth was right next to the bar door.

Well two margaritas deep and I was feeelin it, which is awesome. To make it even better they were only $ 4 on happy hour. Then we ordered happy hour nachos and hot dang, those nachos were on point (and that is not the margaritas talking). Anyways, basically I’m glad this place is walking distance from my house because I will be back to drink more and stumble home.

Disclaimer: LONG REVIEW
Seriously. Don’t know where to begin.
First off, this is one big Mexican restaurant ripoff (across the street from another Mexican ripoff, El Chavito).
We came here on a Monday evening to meet with a group of friends around 5, after having drinks at Akbar. The place is already structured weird and complicated. To my impression, they have two (2) dining rooms? Which you need to walk AROUND the bar/​cantina area to get to.
We sat in the cantina area in front of the bar. They had the Steelers/​Chargers game on most of the TVs. (Weird cause, as a Hispanic having been to many Hispanic establishments, they mostly play the news, court shows, or talk shows, and if it’s sports, almost always socce). Not complaining though, at least there was something good to watch. The music level was decent. We could hear each other speak.
Our waiter, God bless him, took his sweet ass time to attend to us. Not sure if they were short staffed, or if he was just slow at being a server. I don’t know, I can’t say. He was the only waiter in the entire bar and cantina area. I work in the restaurant business, I know when to expect a ‘rush’ and when to expect a ‘calm’. This was almost happy hour peak, and he took forever to come to us. He should’ve known better.
He told us the only special they had were $ 2 margaritas. I don’t drink tequila, so I just sticked with my typical Rum & Coke. He brought us chips and salsa. Oh lordttttttt. The chips were stale and flavorless. No salt. Nothing. The salsa was cold and runny. Bad, just bad.
Drinks took forever, and this time it was because the bartender would leave the bar every now and then to go mingle. What kind of establishment is this place. I know how hard and critical Hispanics are when it comes to their employees doing their jobs, seems like these employees just didn’t care.
My rum and cokes were all strong, can’t complain about my drink. However, my other guests ordered ice blended mango margaritas and they were unsatisfying. Pure ice and sugar, little to no alcohol. It almost tasted like tampico juice (google it).
I didn’t even want to order food, but two guests did. They ordered some sort of cheese dip which looked like it came fresh out of the microwave, with some more stale and bland chips. I refused to eat anything.
The scrawny security gau
Around 30 minutes later, the lights go out, and the DJ laser lights start flashing. We all start looking around as if someone was about to pop out of a corner and start performing. The fog machine was blowing fog. Then we hear a loud boom. The DJ (excuse my french) is a fucking idiot. He turned on the speaker first, THEN the mixer, he almost blew out the speakers and subs (and our ears). DJ RULE: ALWAYSSSSSSSSS TURN ON YOUR SPEAKERS ON LAST. I can go on and on and on and on about how much of a bad MC/​DJ this guy was when it came to handling his equipment, but I’ll stick to the restaurant experience.
He started playing loud slow jams (circa 80s 90s). I’m at a Mexican restaurant, why am I listening to slow jams? …It’s ok, I’ll wait.
Furthermore, the music was so loud, we couldn’t even hear each other talk anymore. Mind you, we were all at a four seat table top in front of the bar and we still couldn’t hear each other. After about 15 minutes of slow jams, they started karaōke (which the waiter failed to tell us). We had to endure almost an hour and a half of people yelling on the microphone singing songs that shouldn’t even be played at a HISPANIC RESTAURANT. What kind of people are you trying to attract? Black people with your slow jamz? College kids with your football games? Americans who think your place is «authentic» when it isn’t? What exactly is your purpose here??? If you’re gonna have karaōke at a Mexican restaurant, AT LEAST make it to mostly Latin music. Some staff even sang karaōke, which WOULD’VE been ok if the bar area wasn’t busy. The radio/​jukebox music they were playing when we came was good enough. They continued to ruin our experience.
The server took forever when we asked for our check. When we first ordered HE asked US if we wanted split tabs, we said yes. When we got our ONE check we politely asked him to split it. His response, «oh ok.» No apology or guilt. When I thought things couldn’t get any worse, he brings us the EXACT SAME SINGLE CHECK… AGAIN. At this point we were supper annoyed but we continued to keep calm. We asked him AGAIN to bring split checks. He said «ok». When we got our checks, it’s as if he put in our orders carelessly. My check had some margaritas and the cheese dips and one rum and coke. We all decided to just pay the damn tabs cause all we wanted to do was get the hell out of there.
We were pretty disappointed with everything. Service, staff, food, and drinks. Which is why I’m giving this place 1 star. I would consider it to be closed if I could be honest. I detest fake-​me-​out mexican places like this. It’s no where near authentic.

If you’re looking for cheap margaritas on a Monday this is the place to be. They have margaritas for $ 2 each and they’re not stingy with the alcohol. Their food is good but I think could be better for the prices. I tried the enchiladas Suizas, something definitively different but still good. My friend had the Carne Asada plate and it was pretty good too. Apparently Monday is karaōke night, so the bar was very packed and live. Seems like something fun to do on a Monday so I might go back for that.

I came here on Margarita Monday and they had $ 2 margaritas.
Also, complimentary (and unlimited) chips and salsa.
Thumbs up, Acapulco.

The service is above and beyond. There is always somebody to serve you for whatever it is you need. The quality of the food is great, especially for the price they offer. Amazing cocktails!

This place is ok, I came here for Labor Day just because it was close to me. The service was good, It was empty due to the holiday so my food arrived quick. The food was good and I would suggest this place to others but I don’t think I would ever make this place my number one choice.
This place is pretty big and spacious. Perfect for big parties

We ordered soup to go and got a very small child size cup of soup. We asked them why it was so small since we were paying full price for the whole meal, except to go. she said we don’t have bigger containers, so we just pour them into child cups.
Can you believe this place. So i said basically you are cheating. Charging full price and putting the soup on a child cup size.
Also the waiters literally walk around do nothing and go missing and oh wait they stand on the corners and watch soccer.

I don’t usually write bad reviews but, this place was that bad.
Initially, the prices for the entrée seemed fairly average. My family and I are from San Francisco, CA and came to visit and enjoy the Olympic weekend in Los Angeles. We stopped by to dine for some Mexican food and hoped to enjoy a 9.99 beef burrito but experienced something completely different. As we were eating, a cockroach looking creature the size of golf ball came out crawling. To add on to the bad experience they charged more to have carne asada on a burrito! Two burritos came out to $ 45! What! In addition, the customer service wasn’t the best.

This is the ultimate 3-​star restaurant. It’s just «A-​OK».
I wanted simple combo plate Mexican. And let’s face it, we all know that’s what you’re getting at an Acapulco. This was actually my first time ever eating at a location of this chain, but I already knew what to expect. And I wasn’t disappointed or surprised.
One thing that was a little surprising — the valet parking in the lot. Why? But it’s free so whatever. Roll with it.
We were seated quickly in a booth. Our server brought us water, chips and salsa. The chips were surprisingly fresh and tasty. Good start.
I ordered a combo plate (see — I told you!) with a chile relleno, chicken taquitos and a cheese enchilada. It was a big gloppy mess. Which is exactly what I wanted. Pretty good and very cheesy. Hit the spot.
She ordered the «fresh spinach enchilada» which looked really pretty. It was served with an unusual queso sauce on top that she didn’t love — would have preferred a typical red or green enchilada sauce — but otherwise found the dish tasty.
We used a coupon from the newspaper (of course I had a coupon), but prices here are relatively low — again, exactly what you’d expect. Her spinach enchilada was $ 9.99 and my super-​cheesy combo plate was $ 12.49.
It’s not fine dining. But it’s exactly what you expect and sometimes just exactly what you want. And that’s just fine, right?

Brings back memories of past and as always its as delicious as it was then! The food was served hot and with a welcoming smile! Our waitress was on par and we never once has to ask for refills she was on top of that. The restaurant was clean and well kept.
The prices are within reason and the quality of food is exceptionally good.
I can give no complaints here as the restaurant employees and overall experience was above and beyond.
Cheers!

After going on a long hike in Griffith Park we decided to stop by this place for some tacos and margaritas. I can’t say I’m impressed with the food. although, in their defense, I have to admit that my expectations for Mexican food is pretty high.
we ordered the chicken nachos and guacamole to start with a couple of rounds of margaritas. The two dollar margaritas were amazing; you can’t expect much but for two bucks they were great! The guacamole was too salty and the avocados were warm. There was no crisp at all to the guacamole. I didn’t like the chicken nachos either.
For the main course I ordered fajitas. The fajitas were good. You get steak, chicken and shrimp. It’s a pretty nice portion and it comes with Rice, beans, guacamole and some pico de gallo. It’s not bad.
Me personally I was not impressed and probably will not come back to this place again. My friend on the other hand, who is not big on Mexican food, enjoyed the food.

I’ve only been here with friends for the drinks and music. I have never tasted the food. Drinks are fairly priced. Better than majority of places. Every time I have been, there has been a Latin crowd. I don’t really care, but maybe you do.
Men and women actually dance here. No complaints from staff. There is always security there, so minus star because someone thinks they are needed, maybe they are. I’ve never seen any issues.
Decent place to grab drinks and actually dance.