La Costa — Restaurant in San Jose

Review written during COVID-19, onsite / takeout order.

Thank you to everyone at La Costa for showing up and helping out at such times!

Friday's have turned into Mexican nights - so it doesn't matter where we are we try to look for local Mexican places to eat.

Orders: bean and cheese burrito, wet veggie burrito, pastor tacos

Food: since we ordered and got it to go ASAP, the food was hot! It's always nice to have hot takeout.

Pastor tacos: come as smaller tacos - with a heap of meat. The flavors were there, seems like everyone has their own pastor recipe. This was good, but we've had better. Not sure if they have a spit in the back, but it was a bit dry.

Wet Burrito: this comes with green sauce, which is really runny. Again good flavor, but makes for a very soggy experience. The filling was well balanced, good portion of beans, rice, etc. But the burrito sat in a watery sauce, which was hard to pull through the burrito fixings.

Bean Burrito: typical, beans were bland, and runny as well. The burrito was wrapped up onto itself, more like a bean roll, than a wrapped bean burrito.

Overall: they had a good selection, I think everyone has their own taste profiles and we may have ordered the wrong things here. But glad we were able to keep our new...

Usually I freaking love this place. Today I ordered a shrimp & avocado burrito as well as a steak super quesadilla and a large soda. My total came to almost 18bux. Decently priced.

Now maybe it was my imagination (or just coincidence) but the employees chatting... I initially took notice as one of their eyes opened wide like maybe something was wrong? Not sure, No matter, overlooked.

Anyway my food was ready pretty damn fast. Impressive. I live down the street so I walked it home in the matter of minutes. I get home and take a couple of bites into my steak quesadilla. It was definitely a little spicier than usual. Now although I dont typically order this item there, my roommate does all the time, and its typically never that spicy.

Id be a bigger fan of this if i didnt just recover from gastrointestinal surgery just a few weeks ago. :( Other than that, Portions, pricing & flavor...

8.8/10 super burrito

Honestly one of the best burritos I've had in San Jose. I was really surprised. Really good size. Cheap for the area at $12. This is one of my best scores for a burrito. Super moist and I could taste all of the flavors and juices

I can taste every single filling put inside. Meat has great flavor. Rice, sour cream, salsa, cilantro, onions, everything is great. I tried their tacos too and ceviche and was really surprised how good they are too.

The only thing that can make this better is a homemade tortilla which is rare to find, but nonetheless this is definitely a place worth trying and I for sure recommend it. Service is great. Outdoor seating in some shade.

I'll be going back to...