La Marina Seafood & Bar — Restaurant in Salina

As you all know, I am a vegetarian, but I will occasionally eat fish if an eatery has no vegetarian offerings. This has periodically translated as carte blanche to take a cheat day at a seafood place, and La Marina was totally worth it. It's one more place in Salina that serves horchata, but I believe that's a good problem to have. Seriously, I could get fat drinking horchata 🤣😅 I didn't actually sample the horchata this time; since it was a cheat day anyway, I decided I was in the mood for something domestic. In this case, that turned out to be trusty Dos Equis. Paired with a tostada con camaron y pulpo, that was a lovely experience. The salsa roja was a nice combination with the octopus. It's been years since my last taste of octopus. I'm a vegetarian and I'm saying it was overdue. Seafood has been the hardest thing to give up throughout this significant component of my spiritual and/or humanitarian journey, so I revel in the opportunities. The service was superb. They were helpful, friendly, and they all spoke both Spanish and English, so I had fun 😊 I did notice some little ones came by to meet the employees as if they were out of daycare. That is always a detail of which to be aware in Mom-n-Dad style diners, and I would hope the majority of folks will be forgiving of little children running around talking in an outside voice, but if it's simply not acceptable, remember that's a reality here. I'm used to thinking Mexican seafood places are a novelty, but at any rate, I am pleased to see that one has finally come to Kansas, and I want them to succeed. They're too...

Today I went to this restaurant for the first time. In my opinion, to be honest, I loved the flavor of the fish (the mojarra), but I couldn't describe the size of the fish 😍 The service was great. I am demanding and yes, I was satisfied... the appetizers they served us were corn tortillas with salsa, which was generous!! The price-service ratio was good. Unfortunately, I didn't give it 5 stars because I only have one criticism: they should take a little more care in taking care of the place! In the sense that to raise the level of the restaurant it would be good if they paid attention to the cleanliness, for example of the walls, occasionally cleaning the tables with wood polish, and putting oil on the edges of the sauce bottles on the tables so they don't look dry. Maybe I'm very fussy, but as a person who likes good food, these little details will raise the atmosphere to the excellent level of the food they served me today 😍 Obviously it's a place I can go back to when I want to eat fried fish and that I can recommend for its good seasoning. Another thing I liked was that they have different table sizes and you can go either alone or with a large group (maybe 8-10 people) because there...

Look. They’re trying, I’ll give them that. But.. the food was expensive, and the food was really gross, i cracked my tooth on the really hard stale chips. We got the seafood boil and fajitas. The walls are half painted, the tables are really awkward and small. I don’t mind paying 55.00 for good food. But we each ate 3-4 bites and didn’t take leftovers. The waiter didn’t speak English very much, made it very hard to order and asking questions was nearly impossible had to break out translation app. I don’t wanna bash someone’s new business. But i was just very very disappointed in the food, and atmosphere. I paid the bill, i tipped 45% and left. Definitely not worth the 75.00 i spent after tip. But we wanted to try it. We did. Won’t...