Puesto Park Place Irvine

3311 Michelson Dr, Irvine
(949) 608-7272

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John

Everything here is superb. I truly enjoy the chips, salsa, and tacos. My favs are the tamarind shrimp and the beef tacos. Service and cuisine are awesome.

Cindy

The host, waiter and bartender were great. Taco Tuesday made the tacos much more appealing!

Amena

Our server was super nice hard worker kept coming checking on us, the food was amazing very flavorful salsa was little salty with chips made it little more than salty but I ate it was good tacos was yummy love this place your eating quality food it's worth it will be there again soon

Andrew

Fantastic place for 2 or a group. We celebrated a birthday and it was great. The tacos are the best.

Lionel

Prefer to be seated to the main section of the restaurant. Whenever I think ahead and make a reservation, they stick us in the bar area and it's just not as nice of an experience.

Cary

I miss the days where customer service was important. It seems the staff is more interested in the other associates. It seemed we were bothering them

Joan

We had Tacos and the guac sampler. guac was good. Tacos were meh. The chicken taco was dry. Lobster was tasteless. Mushroom taco was uneventful. Shrimp and Filet mignon tacos were the best. The rice and beans were good.

Shy

I always have a great time. Perfect drink, Jalapeño Cesar with filet mignon and pomegranate ceviche .

JaeWon

No words needed always Nice and best of best Taco And best Server Kevin, He was the best since i was there Nice kindness and smile Will come back soon Thanks always

Jason

It would have been helpful to share your air conditioning was not working prior to our reservation or at least when we arrived. Being that we have been in a heat wave it was very warm especially with two younger kids and we weren't told until we were leaving and after numerous service issues.

Juliet

Went for taco Tuesday and waited 20 minutes for a Caesar salad. Our server was good and checked in with us. They said the kitchen was behind which is understandable as the place was packed for taco Tuesday but it would've been nice if they had offered us chips and salsa while we were waiting for our food as a courtesy. One of the tacos we ordered was so salty we couldn't eat it. The others were weirdly flavored, with a bitter taste. Overall didn't enjoy the food, don't really see the point in coming back.

Nick

Excellent food and 4 Copas Cadillac margaritas! Great service at the bar with Destiny. One of our regular spots. They should remove the “4% Surcharge” they added to the bill that I have to have them remove each time. It is not a good presentation of managements views of customers for restaurants that started doing this nonsense during Covid.

Vincent

We used to love this place, but our last few meals have gone downhill. Our service yesterday was poor (drinks came out haphazardly, the guac sat on the table for 5 minutes before chips arrived), the presentation was limp (literally a limp piece of cilantro as garnish). My wife is sensitive to spice and informed the server. While our server made sure that all of the spicy sauces were left off her plate, she didn't inform her that the meat itself was very spicy. My wife couldn't eat her taco. I know I'm rich-people-problem-ing right now, but honestly Puesto is a rich-people restaurant. I have no problem at all with all the delicious taquerias in my area, but if Puesto wants to charge $10+ for a taco, then those prices ought to be represented in the experience.

Joe Lutgen

First timer. Loved almost everything about this place until I got the bill. Yes it was expensive. Yes it was great food. The thing that made me not happy was a surecharge on our bill. I asked the waitress to take it off and she did. I had that saw an Instagram about this being a new thing at restaurants and glad I did! A great experience turned into a big disappointment and made me wonder if I will ever go back.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Greg Rock

Not sure how some people are giving this place good reviews, guess a lot of them have never had good Mexican food or have no cares about value, I don’t leave a lot of reviews, but we were so put off by this restaurant I thought I have to warn…
We walked in at 11:30AM and asked hostess for a booth, her response was “a booth?” Like I had invented the word or she had never heard the request. I asked again, “could we sit in a booth?” She replied “do you have a reservation?” I looked around incredulous, there was literally not a single diner in the entire restaurant, not one. I said no, and was told she can probably get us in… of course she sat us right by the kitchen in an empty restaurant. But she must have figured out the meaning of booth, because she did put us in one.
We asked for chips and salsa, it came with a price tag of $4, every other Mexican rest. i have ever been to has free chips and salsa. The menu is tiny, tacos start at $10 apiece, enchiladas are $20/30 , want a burrito or carne asada? Out of luck?
Wife had a caesar $18, add $8 for chicken, $26 for a Salad?
I guess if it was the best salad ever OK…
It was terrible, she could barely eat it, chicken was totally dry and flavorless, and dressing was weird with lemon being the overpowering flavor. Lemon on a Caesar salad?
I had shortrib enchiladas for $30, nothing with that, add rice and beans $8. Rice was white rice, not mexican rice with a tiny bit of cilantro and beans were simple black beans no flavor. So almost $40 for two tiny enchiladas with rice/beans. The enchiladas were spicy but with a harsh chile flavor, not great, but edible. A little avocado and cilantro garnish with this.
Did not finish anything and asked for bill, The food, 2 sodas ($5 each) and chips/salsa was $80. Thanks in part to an added 4% service charge. Pretty steep for Mexican meal with no drinks and kind of crappy food.
As we paid and left, I looked around, there were prob 20 people in the entire place that probably served 200, so I’m not sure what the ‘reservation’ thing was all about. It is in the middle of a business hub, so my guess is, it is really just a pretentious place catering to business men and women who are spending corporate money as write offs and willing to overpay for bad food. There are no other Mexican restaurants close by, so I guess that helps.
As I said before, I don’t leave a lot reviews and readers can accept my words or not, but prepare yourself. For my money, the best Mexican places nearby for quality, value and atmosphere are SOL and Cha-Chas. Cha-Chas would have been about half the price and much better food…I would avoid Puesto of you want a good meal.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 2

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