Cali Costa Restaurant & Cantina

Casual restaurant with big screen tvs throughout and an indoor outdoor bar and patio. They have great Monday night specials, Taco Tuesday’s, and Sundays Game day specials. Margaritas and tacos were great! Highly recommend for a casual outing.

I really wanted to love this place. Decided to try it out after driving by it so many times I’ve had zero luck finding a good Mexican restaurant in Dana point and was hoping that this one would surprise me. The salsa had little to no flavor, the steak tacos had no flavor. I will say the margaritas were very good and the Modelo on tap was good. Great spot to watch games. Service was good.

😶‍🌫️It's okay🫣. I might have high 😋expectations for fish 🐟 place so take that as a biasee⚖️. It's not a Mexican🇲🇽🌮🌯🫔 restaurant. I (we) orded Hispanic🥑 food 🌶🌯🌮 and 🍺🍋drA*nks 🍹 🥃... it was closer to Tex-Mex: looks like Mexican food/drinks but has no soul 🇲🇽. Also, the 🚻RR ♂️was really dirty 💩, I took a pic 📸 but felt i would do the restaurant a 🖖🏽favor🤙🏽 and not🚫 show it. In the end🤷🏽‍♂️, for the💵 price💲 🪙, [...] I think 💭 it 😬wasn't for me😔. Also, because they weren't exactly generous with the meat and fish... the tacos 🌮 has the smallest amount of fish 🐟 and the Burrito 🌯 Which was a surf 🎣 and turf🐄 had like barely anything 😥

Very fun place, the staff were extra friendly and helpful. We arrived shortly after they had taken an order for a party of 40 and were nice and told us it could be a boot to get our food. That was nice that they were honest. Had some great drinks, so it was all fine. The food was very good, and the presentation was excellent. Adam was our server, very nice and attentive. Lots of big screens with every sport imaginable on, it is lively. Great bar area to just hang out in as well.

The service and atmosphere was great. The food was not bad. I would go again for something easy.