La Maria Restaurant

Delicious 🔥👌

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The food, the service, everything is good here. Highly recommend.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

So i've been to this place on and off. When I do my laundry, I like to settle down for a few and have dinner.
My favorite is the pork chop and the carne asada meals. They put the sides like the plantains and other goodies in there. I definitely leave stuffed. Good flavors for what I've had recently. I had a omelette with the sausage recently and a side of potatoes with onions.
My only drink I like to get is the Pony Malta. Tasty beverage.
I would definitely stop by and try it one day and you might just come back again.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Love this place!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

I tried Colombian cuisine here for the first time, quite unusual and delicious. I live quite far from this place, but if possible I will definitely go there again.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Clean good food, quiet and good service

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Excellent find. A true hidden (in plain sight) gem!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Excellent food and top-notch service💖

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Ive come to this place alll the way from Arts District cause itb has very good reviews just to run into two rude ladies asking me if my dog is a support animal. My dog is a support animal in fact so I answer with the truth, they both mande me look for my dogs papers, one was rude but naive the other one was a Mexican girl with pink hair and no manners, no costumer service and no social skills. She read my dogs papers out loud and told me I needed to go eat outside in the patio. It is very cold and they only had one costumer, if she is the manager she clearly doesnt know much about a business. You cannot rely on public health excuses when none of them wears hair nets and not even tied hair. The floors and tables feel greasy. There's only two costumers for a bunch of employees and she can't even have the tact to handle the situation better, she only wants to prove she's right and she can do as she wishes in the small greasy place. You can take the latinamerican out of latinamerica but unfortunately in some cases you cannot take latinamerica out of the latinamerican.

Good luck with your public health standards.

By the way, not even in month stays at airbnbs ive been charged or asked for evidence about my support animal and I have to go through all this just for a couple empanadas an a burrito. Thank you so much.

Comment after the reply:

There was one table eating it was late none of your colombian employees were wearing gloves or hair nets not even tied hair. I'm colombian myself and I was very respectful in the beginning, respectful enoguh to look for my papers after the whole stuff (2 people ) asked me to see em which is against the law, however she read it out loud and then says due to saludridad she cannot have me and my dog inside, I corrected her word to salubridad since she was very into the whole topic and that when she got tense. I was never disrespectful towards her or nobody else. I have been to multiple restaurants in this city with very high public health standards and ive never been treated like that. The comment I made about latinamerica addresses the fact that your employee decided it was better bussinness to humiliate me by reading out loud such sensitive content that I only shared cause I wanted to eat colombian food and in the end not letting me stay than having better social skills and business mindset to have win win agreements instead of kicking people out by ruining the dinner. I have worked in the service industry and I know the client is not always right but his money is what jeeps the restaurant going so it's better to be friendly than to be sassy.

I would gladly accept the feedback about a public health issue if you're place would lookpristine however as a suggestion it would be better to spend all this time in cleaning and making the image of the restaurant follow the rules with gloves, uniform, hair rules for ladies, etc etc etc.

Im not pointing out any cultural issue or trying to be racist. I said that about Colombians cause I am one and iw as once like that I'd rather be right than be at peace or in this case I'd rather read out loud that my dog is not a service animal and ruin a dinner than having a check paid for the restaurant that pays my wages.

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Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

The Colombian traditional food served here tasted as good as the food we had in isla Tintipan and Cartagena

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Great Food! Wish I wud have saved the pictures! But this place is definitely a place to try. When I come to Cali I like to try Columbian Peruvian Cuban anything different from Mexican or Chinese lol.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I've been coming to this restaurant for 23 years! This was my introduction to Columbian food, and from my experience and what I'm told it should be the standard. Every dish exudes craft , quality and authenticity. Family owned and operated, with a friendly attentive staff. The head Chef and owner was also the head chef at Hugo's restaurant, another of my favorite Los Angeles gems. The empanadas are a crispy, lighter departure form you may be used to with a salsa tapenade that lifts the familiar dish to new heights. Their use of fried yucca is a fun and fresh alternative to more traditional starches and pairs amazingly well with their house Criollo sauce. I recommend any dish that features that sauce. Pair anything with their homemade Sangria or authentic Columbian beers. They also feature a fast food menu for those on the go!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

My family and I love the food here, but the service is consistently disappointing. I came in today, and the waitress at the front was extremely rude from the start. She asked if we preferred to sit inside or outside, and I said we were fine with either since it looked busy. Without a word of courtesy, she handed us the menus and told us to go sit outside. The whole interaction felt unwelcoming, so we decided to leave.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 4

Service: 1

Loved this cozy restaurant a few minutes away from the airport! The portions were substantial and the food itself was fresh, and delicious. Will come back soon!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Excellent food but they made me wait too long

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4