La Cocina Mexican Restaurant / Smithfield — Restaurant in Smithfield

Please like our reviews. Wheelchair accessible yet be prepared for the fun entry way doors. There are 2 sets of doors back-to-back. Make sure to ask someone to help you enter or you'll be stuck between the 2. We never planned on eating here but we were famished after losing track of all time & space in the Walmart next door. The lights on the sign were mostly not lit but that didn't stop it from having guests! We ordered some kid sized horchata drinks (rice, cinnamon beverage). Big mistake...we should have ordered the large size... wow. Those were amaaaazing. I would return just for that. Our server was Ramses and he was super quick and efficient. He didn't need to right anything down. He was quick to get orders in and out. My husband ordered the beef fajita but we got the wrong meal... best mistake that could ever happen to us though...we got the "Texas" (chicken, beef & shrimp). Omg. Just go order ya the Texas and some extra tortillas and rice and it is enough to stuff the stomach of 2 hungry people. The portion was fitting to the name. I had the carne asada but the Texas took the cake. Will def be back later. I was quite impressed with how the food served was identical to the photos on the menu. Just wow. Highly recommend if you are in the Smithfield...

If you’re reading this, find another restaurant.

Staff (including but not limited to, Nicole) are extremely rude and inattentive. We couldn’t even get a napkin out of Nicole. It took over 45 minutes to receive our food on a Monday afternoon (which wasn’t even that good. The shrimp was so dry). We were okay with the unexpected, long wait but had not expected for the service to be so bad — the waitress rolled her eyes at us multiple times, left in the middle of us asking where our missing items were to serve other customers (that did not look like us…), NEVER checked on us. Despite the lack of service and long wait, the manager, Martha (Leah?), was not accommodating-we asked how much would be taken off and she said it depended on what the computer said…only $2 was taken off of the bill.

It was an extremely negative experience for our first time at this restaurant. It was a slap in the face to see the waitress check on other tables but not ours even when she knew we were missing items. We will not be returning, and do not recommend this...

I travel a lot and eat Mexican at least once a week and this restaurant was the best I’ve had in a while.

The food and service was amazing. The salsa that they bring out free with the chips was the perfect balance of heat and flavor, perfecto. I had the lunch Texas Fajitas which was a large portion for the price. Also purchased was a taco salad, soft and hard taco, which were very big and full of flavor, and a enchilada meal. My daughter said the enchilada sauce was a little sweet and I agreed, it was a little on the sweet side, but other than that everything was excellent.

Every time I go to a Mexican restaurant I always ask if they have a homemade hot sauce and they had two, a red sauce and a green. I’m assuming the green was a tomatillo, but I chose the red because it was the hotter of the two. The homemade red hot sauce was full of flavor and heat, and I loaded up on it. I was not disappointed one bit.

Great food and service was my experience here. I’ll definitely come back while traveling...