Los Gringos Locos — Restaurant in La Cañada Flintridge

A La Cañada Flintridge staple best known for it's amazing TABLE SIDE GUACAMOLE that is seriously to die for and the BIG BERTHA CHALLENGE, the 11 inch burrito-like creation that is stuffed to the point of bursting, smothered in cheese, and covered in enchilada sauce. If you can finish her off in one sitting, they will take your picture for display and give you a t-shirt!

They also have Taco Tuesdays, Cinco de Gringo (on the 5th of every month they practice for Cinco de Mayo!), Happy Hour (3-5pm on weekdays and 9-11pm on Weekends), late night Dirty Dogs (just like the street hot dogs in Hollywood!), al fresco dining on the patio, specialty margaritas (think watermelon, dragonfruit, pineapple, pomegranate, raspberry, cucumber mint, or grapefruit), and a scrumptious weekend brunch (Weekends from 9am to 2pm) with drinks served for those needing hair of the dog.

It's changed locations from the strip mall across the street from Trader Joe's to the former location of Conrad's (another staple of the town that will be missed) in the Gelson's shopping center. The dining room is separated into three sections, the bar area, the main dining room which is huge, and a decent sized patio. That patio was a big part of my teenage social life and is still a great place to eat on mild summer nights. There's always sounds of laughter and gaiety that is infectious and will leave you feeling upbeat and loving life.

You can't go wrong with anything on the menu here and you can ask for any dish to be made mild or extra spicy. The margaritas are dangerously good and there is a bar area where you can also eat if you want to sit away from the family friendly area to really enjoy that margarita. Take out is always packaged well and the orders are generously portioned and accurate. Fun fact; the owners's daughter is Sochi Olympics Luge star, Kate Hansen. All of La Cañada Flintridge is...

Oh my, i usually don't put in reviews that aren't positive, but today's experience at this restaurant put a foul taste in my mouth. First of all i have been to this restaurant over 15-18 times, honestly everytime was satisfactory for a La Canada Mexican food restaurant, but this time with our waitress was the worst, i came in with my wife and two adult aged daughters for taco Tuesday, first of all should have known this was not gonna go well when i saw our waitress, she had already had an attitude when we asked a couple questions about the menu, we had her before and was never happy with her service. So anyways our order was messed up, my wife did not receive her order of tacos, we waited for our waitress to return, well after 10 minutes she showed up, i asked her that we were still waiting for her plate of food, she said my wife did not order anything and walked away, my wife and i both looked at each other in confusion, well that was weird, my wife did in fact order, she orderd second, and the waitress clearly forgot to put it in, so why did she not ask us to put order in after saying my wife did not order, instead she took off, at this point my wife and my family wanted walk out and leave this place, my wife said ask for the bill and we left shortly after. I still tipped her 15% because other staff probably get a portion of the tip, but should have left her nothing, never going back there anymore even though my family loves their fresh guac. Too bad our waitress did not care for us dinning there tonite, because she could have done right without the attitude, and lack of service. Lack of common sense is so sad, especially when the person is incompetent...

The atmosphere was great,the food was good and the staff was pleasant. The reason for a 3* instead of a 5* was because it was our 1st time here and it was recommended. But there was this young female server today that was the most silent rude little person ever. My wife and I were server trainers at PF Chang's, Le grande Orange, market city caffe and a few other big name restaurants until I went and became a Le Cordon Bleu chef and we trained that when a guest is walking past,you stop!!! Not cut them off!!! she did not say excuse me,she did not say thank you,nothing. She continually kept walking to the kitchen,rudely brushing past,never saying excuse me,even tho she made eye contact. She was vacuuming the floor all around and thru us while we were eating& once again never said excuse me. I would throw her back into training so fast because we loved positive yelps and being great servers. I got the feeling that it's more than just a bad server,she's an example of bad...