Cali Costa Restaurant & Cantina — Restaurant in Dana Point

Tish and her team (Cali Costa Catering) catered our 160 person wedding at Skunk Train in Sept 2024.

We could not have been happier with Tish and her team. She carefully took our menu preferences into account, and created a delicious feast for us. Her team went above and beyond to deliver on the wedding of our dreams.

Skunk Train is a train in only venue, requiring Tish to load everything onto train cars to be hauled in and out. Our venue also required a full galley (kitchen build) from the ground up, and their own power and fuel sources to be brought in.

Tish didn't bat an eye at this, nor our extensive dietary restrictions and meal requests, specifically the mac and cheese bake we wanted. Our request for salmon presented some challenges to, and in order to ensure it was as fresh and cost effective as possible, Tish researched and came back to us with creative and out of the box ideas on how to cook. This level of innovation she brought to all of her work was evidenced and wonderful.

Our wedding guests continue to tell us daily about how much they loved each of our dishes, and how impressed they were with the quality, temperature and thought that went into each dish Tish prepared.

THANK YOU Tish for creating such a delicious and memorable feast and all that it brought to our special day.

• Photos taken by Holly Shankland Photography and used...

I think this place is either new or got an update since I was here last. Definitely has a cleaner look to it, but still a Mexican food place. Service was okay. They seemed either understaffed or staff was new, but I realize this has been a difficult time for the restaurant industry. Drinks were alright. I got a vodka soda. Didn't ask what kind of vodka, my bad I guess I should have specified, so it was nothing special. The food was pretty good though. I got chile rellenos. The bacon was a fun surprise in those. Like Mexican food with an American bar food twist. Sauces and salsas were good. Wasn't too busy, so that was nice when we wanted to grab a late night bite....

I have been here a few times now for Taco Tuesday and the service has not been great each time but the food was decent so we came back. Yesterday the service was the worst it had been out of all the times we’ve gone there. We were one of at most 3 tables in the entire restaurant and our server kept disappearing for about 20 minutes at a time. We ended up being there for 2 hours because the service was so slow. When we could see our server, she was busy talking to someone at the bar but we couldn’t find her when we needed something. The only saving grace is the food otherwise I would give this 1 star because of the terrible service. I will not...