Mariscos La Marea #1 Seafood & Bar — Restaurant in Dallas

Due to the fact that I had heard good things about this place, I really didn't want to leave a bad review. But, from the time we sat down, I was unimpressed, and when it comes to food, I'm pretty easy to impress!

First, the salsa and chips they brought out were tasteless, stale, and just very lacking (it's hard to mess up chips and salsa!). Then, out came my michelada which was only an inch of tomato juice and maybe some limon... as a lover of micheladas, I was pretty sad to see how poorly made it was, especially at a Marisqueria. My hubby ordered a huachinango, which are usually pretty big with a lot of meat. The fish they brought out looked so small and was at least half the size that a regular huachinango (red snapper) would be. This was upsetting because this fish is expensive! I mostly ate oysters which were pretty good, but afterwards I ordered a tostada de ceviche and when it came out I was really unimpressed. Just from looking at it I could tell it wasn't going to be good. It was only chunks of tilapia with pico de gallo poured over the top. It looked like something a Tex-Mex restaurant would serve!! The worst part was that the tilapia tasted SO OLD! It tasted like they had soaked it in the fake lime juice overnight - yuck! It was so bad I couldn't even eat it, another $8 wasted. Lastly, when the check came, we were shocked to see they had charged a $10 tip onto our check! Not to say that the service was that bad, but we were just surprised at the audacity they had to charge us that much extra when the food was so bad. We love going to marisquerias and often prepare marsicos ourselves, so we knew that this poor experience wasn't just us. We were extremely disappointed that such a well known Marisqueria was such bad quality and that we spent nearly $100 on this experience... we won't...

I ordered the big shrimp cocktail for $15 dollars and it came with 8 shrimp. Everything else in the huge bowl was tomato sauce. The guacamole had no salt but I guess thats why they have salt shakers on the table. However what really ticked me off was that they let people go in there and sell flowers and toys while you are eating. And there was a lady who seriously asked us four times if we wanted to buy flowers in less than 5 minutes. And she came by again and asked if we wanted to buy a toy and when we declined, she tried to hand the toy over to my son to entice him. So I though maybe she just tried to be nice, but she literally went over to the table next to us and handed the toy to another kid when the father had also declined on buying. She was being so pushy on selling and I suppose that was her tactic so that eventually you would give in and buy. In total, I was asked a total of 8 times if I wanted to buy something during my one hour stay. So with that being said, I won’t be going back. I wanted to have a nice family dinner on the weekend and instead we were pestered and payed a lot for it. The only good things about the restaurant were the polite hostess and the...

HORRIBLE service This is my first time writing a review we got here before a table that was next to us and they were helped first.....it took 20 min to ask us what type of drinks we wanted then it took 20 min to get our Drinks and chips 1hr to get our food and they didn't have my plate so I had to wait, everyone finished their food and i didn't get my plate after awhile the waitress remembers and asked me if i got my food i said no and to just forget it. The table did not have napkins when i asked for some the lady gave me a mean look. We asked for another drink and took 20 min to let us know they didn't have the kind my dad wanted and more min. to get whatever they had, my mom also asked for a drink they didn't have it so she asked for another type and finally she said whatever you have is fine. Maybe if the waitress would have asked how we were doing they would have notice i didn't get my food. Las meseras ni te pelan!! I talked to the manager he just said "You have all the right to be angry, i'm sorry" I wanted to treat my parents but wasted my Time and My money!!! and...