La Barca Restaurant — Restaurant in Los Angeles

Food is delicious, but the service is Terrible. I went to this restaurant yesterday (3/22/2024) afternoon around 3 o'clock hour to meet with my cousin for late lunch. When I arrived, the hostess did not assist me nor greet me, nor looked me in my eye when I asked for her help, I had to look for my cousin to be seated. The server was terrible. He never greeted us, didn't introduce himself to us, rushed us for our order, got irritated when we asked him about details of the meals while ordering, he was very short with us and combative as if he didn't want to serve us. Very unfriendly towards us and gave us no eye contact as if he was disgusted. We ordered water which he never brought out. My cousin wanted to send back an order she couldn't eat and wanted order something else instead, but he ignored her walked away and left the food. He never checked on us, wasn't attentive to us or our requests/orders, but was engaging and attentive to the "other" patrons around us 🤔 Very odd behavior and sour attitude, so I signaled him over to our table to express a couple of concerns about our orders - instead of listening to my concerns to resolve it, he became irritated, short, cut me off, and combative and threatened to tell the manager and walked away. He later came back (without the manager) and dropped the bill in front of me and tried to storm off which I then told him to bring the manager over I wanted to speak with him. He brought the manager over, and I explained to the manager both mine and my cousin's concerns regarding our orders and most specifically the bad service and unprovoked treatment and attitude we received from our waiter. The manager did show empathy and acknowledged our concerns and resolved our issue and fixed our bill. Another server came to me and tossed the updated bill at me, no eye contact no words, and walked away 😑 As we gathered our things and began to leave, our waiter decided to be friendly to us and speak to us by wishing us a good day and come back again 🙄. Needless to say that we will Never return to this establishment, and highly recommend that others "that look like us folks" follow suit. Good food, but Terrible service. Upside of this terrible experience: After leaving confused & disappointed w/ La Barca, we went to the warehouse at the Marina and was welcomed and served with friendliness, attentiveness and professionalism 👍🏽👍🏽Shout out to our server/bartender Derek @ the warehouse in Marina del Rey for being so...

Today I place a phone order for two STEAK colossal burritos With no beans no onions and two margaritas blended. The lady that took my order I knew she sounded confused because she kept repeating pork I said no to STEAK colossal burritos with no onions, no beans, remind you I’ve been getting this burrito for about seven years when the first price was around 1314 bucks . When I finally made it home thinking I was going to enjoy my burritos like I always do. I cut them open and they are both made with shredded beef when I gave La Barca a call. The same girl that took my order, answered the phone she saying well on the receipt it says beef shredded beef, I stated that’s funny because the same receipt I have have no meat at all. It just says two colossal burritos and two margaritas. I asked to speak to manager she said the manager was too busy. I believe he is a supervisor by the name of Mario, one young lady got on the phone they’re really trying to help me because I told them I don’t live local or live in LA I live in Hesperia California, anyone that knows that’s on the way going to Vegas . this rule supervisor got on the phone and said I should stay then what steak do I want? I said steak and steak just like I wanna I always call out order a steak colossal burrito that’s what I get. I said steak sounds nothing like shredded beef this supervisor told me is nothing to be done. Just bring them back in, I reminded them over something that was not my fault what they give me something more than that to return this on a day that I will arrive back to LA. They said no he goes back-and-forth with me and hangs up. Labarca will never get another dime for me. I am very...

Exquisite dishes. This is the first time I come to this place to have a dinner and I was not dissapointed, it is a nice place to hang out with family or friends. The menu has a lot of options for every person's palate. The Mexican food here is well cooked and it's taste is authentic. Our party of 9 people ordered and we didn't wait too long to get our food. The staff is very attentive and they help us to set the tables very quick and they approached us to ask for drinks as soon as we sat down, that was awesome because in other places we always have to wait, they deserve props for attending us excellently even when the house was full. They came back every time to ask us is everything was ok, our server was very polite, friendly & attentive and he brought everything we needed immediately, even a man that was the host, he himself came to see how our table was. I got my cup of coffee refilled many times without asking for that 😻. The food was served in a good proportion, not to little, not too much, just perfect. Obviously the food was delicious. Just few details were missing, like the sauce that we asked for was kinda raw, like it came from a can, it would be better is they give you homemade green tomato sauce or something similar. The place is kinda small, but the great service compensates everything. From the outside It does not look like a restaurant, or probably I didn't put much attention on that. The free parking lot is in the back of the restaurant and it is big enough, the wall painting was epic, hands up for Frida Khalo. Anyways, we had a good time here and we are...