Luna's Cactus Cafe — Restaurant in Bethany Beach

Please note - Carry out orders do not include chips and salsa. Not a big deal but it's not clearly stated anywhere I can find so I wanted to share that first.

TLDR - JUST BLAND - bring your own spices if eating in.

Was visiting family in the area for Labor Day weekend. We did carry out since gmaps said it was a long wait. We got nachos with chicken, black bean soup, Taco salad with shredded beef, chicken enchiladas, two things of steak fajitas and a seafood chimichanga.

The nachos were bland. No spices added to the meat, including salt.

The black bean soup was half a container of mashed black beans and was super thick. Maybe they mixed up and did a black beans side instead of soup but since the container was only about 1/3 full, my guess is they add stock to turn into soup and they forgot? Tasted like just beans, no spice, no onions or cilantro. Just beans.

The chicken enchiladas also had no flavor. Not even salt!

My taco salad had no spice! The beef tasted like roast beef. It was tender but you could tell it was not cooked with any chillies, cumin, even salt.

This year I did a fair amount of traveling around the country catching up for lost time during covid. This seems to be a common issue around resort towns. ¯⁠\⁠⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠⁠/⁠¯

It's a good place if you want to get food and have family members willing to try...

My sister and I stopped here on a whim because we were craving some nachos and we ended up getting our food to go. In addition to the Buenos Nachos, we also ordered the Queso Fundido. The queso cost $7. We sat a one of the booths while we waited for food and we watched as servers carried out complimentary chips and salsa to the tables dining in. When we got out to the car I checked my order and the queso didn’t come with any chips, nor anything to dip in the queso for that matter. So I went back inside and a very nice woman who was, I assume the hostess?, said she’s always thought it was silly not to give chips with the queso order and she brought over an older gentleman to help me. He said it didn’t come with chips. I said if I was sitting at the table and eating you’d bring me a basket of chips, but I buy something that should come with chips, and nothing. He said when I go to the supermarket they don’t give me chips for free. No sir, they don’t, but I was buying food at a RESTAURANT. He gave me the chips in the end, but he said “for the future no chips with the queso.” It reminded me of a certain episode of Seinfeld when a deli worker said “NO SOUP FOR YOU!”

But, the nachos and the queso were excellent. And that’s all that matters at the end of the...

Service was lightning fast. 7 seated with no reservations Friendly prompt attentive staff. Ambience louder but comfortable, pub-like. Place was well decorated with flags and signs.

I love my dish, I ordered off menu combination, chicken shrimp and steak fajitas which were excellent and they gave three tortillas (awesome) Salsa was plentiful and tortilla chips were fresh and slightly thick. I got a Negra Modelo, two limes and the coldest pint glass I've ever had. So good.

Pretty good parking outside.. Plenty of friendly staff with Maitre D at the door. Lovely experience.

Daughter said Taco salad was great.

Chorizo sausage (full sausage in slices, not crumbled and fried) pepper jack cheese app was tasty.

My only food concern is that the black beans have a peppery taste that someone sensitive to spice would not like. Also I think the rice had a little spice in it and the rice is slightly hard, I believe fried. Personally I loved both but my mother-in-law can't stand any type of pepper and was not happy with her dish.

I would...