Fiesta Grill & Cantina — Restaurant in Arcata

The Fiesta Grill and Cantina in Arvada Ca could easily do better with more attention to details. The restaurant is nice, but could use a freshening. Some of the plants could use attention, but the food has to get attention first. The Pork Tamale had no meat, it was only red chili spice inside (see photo), the only pork was the small piece on top the tamale; it was good so if they put some into the tamale it would also be good. The Taquitos are too large and don’t have the crisp you want from a fried taco, I think they soft fried the tortillas then rolled them around the chicken to crisp as the cool into shape. The chicken was good, but the presentation and crispness was a fail, The chili rellano was a single green chili from a can most likely, it was very soft and exhausted of color and flavor, then overly stuffed with cheese, and folded into an egg wrap, the rellano sauce was good. The service was slow for not being busy, and did not seem very knowledgeable about the menu. They kept the beer cold, so the...

Went here for the Jalapeno Popper Burger Special, it nothing like advertised and ended up leaving dissatisfied. Server was polite but SLOW, the burger was advertised as Bacon, lettuce, Tomato, Red Onion and Fried cream cheese popper. The only thing that was true was the disgusting frozen flavorless popper. The pictures showed a slaw on the side with crinkle cut french fries, what I got was the slaw on the burger with soggy cold non- crinkle fries. Will not be back....... ever.

Just read the owners response, (excuse). If you don't specialize in burgers, then don't offer one! Don't advertise something you are not going to serve, sounded great, too bad that isn't what I expected. (and the additional Mexican food was...

Hello as always the service and food is wonderful at Fiesta Grill haven't been there for a while because of 19 but I took my new girlfriend there and August 29th we ordered our food to go and got a drink while we were waiting food came out pretty quick we had finished our drink outside, safely and very comfortably, there was dining outside.... and we took our food back to eat and as always like I said it was perfect she said it was the best chili relleno she's had since being in Mexico I thought that was a pretty nice compliment to share thank you folks again for a wonderful experience I hope more people get to enjoy that opportunity God bless you and your loved ones sincerely...