Hugo's Cocina

1830 Sunset Cliffs Blvd, San Diego
(619) 892-7882

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Reno Raines

Love this place! It's great because if you're vegan, it's a place you can bring your non-vegan friends to. So... we always bring our friends and family here when they visit. The service is great, it's dog friendly (outside patio), and everyone is so nice. We've been coming here for over 7 years and love everything about it.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Amy Green

This place used to be my go-to. Over the past couple of years I’ve seen their prices increase as quality of service and food decrease. Today was the final. They put dairy on my food. I’ve been vegan for about 20 years and know when it’s real. They argued with me about whether it was vegan and then said something about how they are inspected by the city and therefore cannot use non vegan items. Um… the health department doesn’t care about veganism. Also, they are not 100% vegan so they absolutely can (and do) sell dairy items.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

sokahat1

I was so happy with the vegan options here. I'm used to going to eat at a Mexican food restaurant and having only bean options. I had a fish taco and Apollo asada taco and they were both delicious. Margarita was great too. Updated from previous review on 2025-11-05

Yash Khivasara

Amazing vegetarian food, great staff

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Shel Blondeau

Fantastic all around. Great vegan choices too!

Jannik S.

Very good mexican food, not to expensive and good drinks! Margarita was very delicious!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

V Nguyen

Food was good and when we went, there was plenty of seating since it was slow. I give it 3 stars because they don't offer any pork on their menu. Can you be Mexican and not have carnitas? When asked, they said it's a food safety thing because they offer an extensive vegan and vegetarian menu and cannot cross contaminate with meat and would be required to have a separate grill. They cited food safety regulations, but I looked it up, and it doesn't seem to be a thing for normal restaurants. But, if you keep kosher, it's good to know. Also, they serve other meats, which I'm sure they share a grill, so there's that is you are strict vegan. Food was good. Service was good. Cocktails were okay. Kid friendly for sure. I would give it 4 stars if it wasn't for the carnitas thing.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 5

Jana Bowlin

food was mid ( i got the tofu rolled tacos) but Yuli was amazing. i’d honestly come back just for the vibes.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 2

Service: 5

Brett

The chicken tastes like animal feed. The burrito wasn’t terrible. Wouldn’t recommend the food to my worst enemy

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 4

C W

I’ve avoided this place for a very long time, because I’d heard of too many instances of cross contamination and finding meat in vegan orders.
This week, I decided I’d give them a try, and I guess I’m glad to report that I haven’t been missing out on anything.

I have pretty low standards for food. If something is “just okay”, I’ll likely return. Unfortunately, almost every item I ordered was bad.
Nopale tacos - bad.
Sweet potato tacos - bad.
Veggie tamal - bad.
Vegan pollo taco - not bad, but found myself questioning if it was real chicken or not. Still unsure, and still quite uncomfortable about it.
Not to mention the “convenience fee” of ordering online? First time I’ve seen that - not convenient at all.
The only redeeming quality was the rice and beans - these were very tasty, but probably not suitable for vegans. And I am very very grateful for the separate vegan menu. Not enough places offer this.

I don’t like leaving negative reviews. But this was a bad experience, and I do wish I could get my $70 back.

(forgot to mention, we paid extra for potatoes on the side and never received the potatoes)

Food: 2

Service: 3

Cynthia Hansen

Great food. Great service. Easy parking.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Stroudvegetarian

Veggie options (and vegan) for everything . Friendly staff and reasonable prices

G Singh

Best Mexican food with good amount of vegetarian options.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 4

SueSW

Endless vegan options, great tasting combo platter, VEGAN MOLE!💚

Micky McCapes

Did this place just change chefs or something? The food quality sucked!!! Asked for no pico on burrito, got pico. Slabs of chicken in unroasted Chile relleno. Tuff to eat. Service was slow but she was nice.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 4

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