Mar y Tierra Restaurant Kannapolis — Restaurant in Concord

I didn't think I was going to be disappointed, but I was. First I was very excited to eat here, lots of yummy looking items on the menu, nice looking photos in the reviews etc. We ordered the oysters with Pico de Gallo, the oysters were ok, the pico was off balanced no salt no acid to many onions for the right ratio, so the combo was not good with the oysters. My wife ordered the combination ceviche which was relatively good. I ordered the lobster in mushroom cream dish. On the menu this sounded phenomenal, lobster, crab, shrimp and squid in a mushroom cream sauce served with accompaniments. First the crab, was artificial krab sticks, which honestly were some of the worst I've ever had, bad texture, flavor, the works. The squid and the lobster were so over cooked they were almost inedible. I literally fought with the lobster to cut it with a knife and fork on the plate because I couldn't eat it out of the shell without pulling it all out at once. The overall flavor of the dish was good but execution was bad, really bad. I doubt I'll return but even still after this experience there are items on the menu I still want to try because they sound really good, I guess that's why I feel so disappointed. Use discretion when ordering if you visit. I'd skip the lobster dishes and the oysters, maybe the other stuff is really...

If I could give this restaurant a zero i would; I am following a previous comment to which the owner replied to my husband giving an honest review(which is so unprofessional) First of all we had a big party as we got there the first thing I notice was the sanitation score, we decided to dine it considering it was a party we had, we were sat down and were given gave nachos with chips and cheese dips (Which we DONOT) as for. The wait was extremely long which we understood but I have NEVER been to a restaurant that doesn’t provide refill for the nachos..it was around 7pm and they said they were done cooking chips for the night. This is suppose to be dinner time…. The so called natural waters were not good and they were upset people kept changing them (it wasn’t because they didn’t wanna pay refills if we go to a restaurant we know we have to pay) they only offer Pepsi, diet, Sunkist and everything else is bottled. The food was meh 🫤 we had a cake and again I have NEVER been to a restaurant that gets upset if we ask for plates… this is insane and we should’ve left when we came in and saw it was super empty .

This place is overcharging and their services sucks take your money elsewhere. Go to fiesta Mexicana or if you like pupusas go...

We really had somewhat of a bipolar experience.

The food was great and very reasonably priced. This part was a nice, enjoyable and pleasantly surprising experience.

However, the service in the bar and the alcoholic drinks were AWFUL.

The service was very, very lazy and inattentive. Our server literally walked by and/or looked directly at out table several times clearly seeing our drinks and basket of chips were completely empty, all the while ignoring that fact and avoiding eye contact so we could ask for more. It was very frustrating and felt like it was very difficult to get any kind of a refill.

The alcoholic drinks were not only about double the price in that area of town ($11 for a small margarita, which they called regular, but was really a small), but they were incredibly weak. We ordered 2 drinks, both of which tasted more like mocktails than actual alcoholic drinks. I actually question whether the margarita even had tequila in it as not only was it very weak, but it didn't even taste like a margarita.

As far as the drinks go, I truly felt stolen from. It was...