Karina's Cantina Gaslamp
755 Fifth Ave, San Diego
(619) 756-7333
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Awesome place. Great food and service.
Great happy hour specials
Best food I ever had in san diego that whole fried fish was bussin off the meter the green ceviche and ribeye burrito with the fajita vegetables inside was too good🔥🔥🔥
I sat at the half-filled bar top for 15 min waiting for someone to just give me a menu and not a single server would even look over my way, unfortunately. There were 4 bartenders, and 3 of them were standing around and looking around bored. 1 was working incredibly hard and was clearly busy picking up the slack from everyone else. After it became clear I wasn’t getting any service, I got up and left and took my business elsewhere.
My wife and I agreed this is the absolute worst restaurant experience we've had in our entire lives. Zero Service, waited over an hour and a half for really bad cold food. The noise was so loud you couldn't hear yourself think. 
Amazing place. Great vibe and specials. Tom is one of the best bartenders in town. Do yourself a favor and swing by. 👍
Their food is delicious.
I just had a delicious Michelada and some tacos at Karina‘s Cantina in the gaslamp district of San Diego! Delicious!! They have excellent Mexican food, a really fun atmosphere, and check out the rim job on these Micheladas!!! #FoodieSanDiego
Aurora provided outstanding service! She's worth requesting and we'll seek her out when we return! #cincodemayo
Servers didn't acknowledge us for more than 30 minutes after being seated no water or orders taken. Even after showing up on time. Very rude staff
Great for a group dinner! A little loud but fair pricing, great service, and beautiful ambiance! Would visit again
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We had a group of 8 and everyone tried something different. It was very enjoyable. The food was delicious and the staff was fantastic.
Karina's for dinner on a Friday night! We came here with dinner reservations but they gave our table away. They sat us in a private room but there seemed to be confusion as to who our waitress was. Service was just ok, we were forgotten toward the middle of our visit which was during dinner(kind of important I would say). Food was great, drinks were good.
Witnessed a server setting up a table and carried 4 glasses in 1 hand with his fingers inside all 4 glasses. Service was very poor.... Server did not regularly check on table. Music was too loud to have a conversation with the person across the table and this was at 7PM... can understand if it's later for the club crowd but dinner was not pleasant not being able to communicate with people at the table because of the loud music. Overall 3 of of 10. Would not recommend.
Really good food, service and atmosphere. We really loved the seafood and margaritas.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
I arrived with my aunts and sister, whom are all of age, and my 15 year old sister at 9pm. We had made it very clear that we were simply here to have a meal. The short curly haired security with a tattoo behind his ear, in front would not allow us to sit down inside. After so called asking his manager if it’s allowed, and made us sit outside. He did not inform anyone that we were outside and after 20 minutes we had to go and look for a server. The server, Samantha, was very sweet and did her job well. At 10 pm the security then allowed two young boys, they looked around 14 and 9, and their family in. When we questioned as to why we had to sit outside the security said “I just work here” and walked away laughing as we were speaking to him. He is the face of this establishment and was very disrespectful towards us. This establishment is very disorganized and no one seems to know what the schedule is. After speaking to the manager and other staff everyone had different answers as to what time they stopped serving minors. My visit here was not pleasant and I felt as though we were not treated as customers should be.
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 1
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