Palapa Restaurant

4123 State St, Santa Barbara
(805) 683-3074

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Seth

Authentic experience, great service (fast), and excellent cuisine!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

sazm42

Being a Mexican American from Texas I am always very cautious when trying a new Mexican restaurant. But since this restaurant shared a parking spot with our hotel, we thought we would give it a try and are very happy that we did. The food was very flavorful and definitely pleased my taste buds. We actually ended up going back the next day again before we checked out. We tried the four taquitos, the various enchiladas with refried beans and rice. My son loved the Horchata andthe chocolate flan just melted in my mouth.

RetroFan

First time here and we enjoyed it. They offer seating indoors and outside where we opted to sit. We were attended to right away and they patiently answered our questions about the menu. Unlike other places where it's always beans and rice with an entree, you can choose from three kinds of beans, two kinds of rice and grilled vegetables for your sides. Chips and salsa were yummy. Plenty of chicken in the enchiladas. A solid choice.

juansV7482TS

Good place,clean and nice view aroud the restaurant,Best chile relleno,good taste. I would like camback with my family.

Brian Jones

This is my second time in the restaurant due to lodging at the hotel next door.

Great food!
Really bad service. Took forever to get drinks and the waitress couldn’t remember all of our food, so our one child sat here without food while the rest of us finished our food. Maybe they are family members of the owner and don’t have the pressure of a good tip. Im literally begging for good service! Please take my money so I can leave!!!

* dnainsb

I have driven by so many times I don't know why I hadn't tried it. I now have a new Mexican food spot in my list. I had the chile relleno and it was so rich. Perfectly done and accompanied by the cilantro rice and refried beans.. Absolutely perfect.

Cynthia Luna

Cute and fast service!

Dena Scales

The restaurant is old and not well kept up. The service was fine, but nothing great. The tacos were hard and lacked flavor.

adele filippin

We love this neighborhood restaurant. We live only a mile or so away. Happy hour is a great deal from 3-6 M-F.
There are some new staff members that are inexperienced but they are sweet so if you are a patient person, it will be fine

Craig Skidmore

Hit crazy traffic and pulled off luckily stumbled upon this spot! Great Happy HR, super tasty crispy tacos & cold beer

Heather Lamas

Warm and inviting staff, nice ambiance, delicious Mexican food. The owner is also very kind & welcoming!!! Great stopping point when on-the-go as they are fast and courteous, or dine-in of course as well.

BoulderNut

Next door to Hyatt with nice atmosphere and excellent staff. Wide choice of dishes, including seafood. Happy hour too. We enjoyed enchiladas and great pork dish. Lots of good salsa and chips.

Angelica Millan

There were a lot of flies, the chips were old and too hard to eat

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Jovana Svetozarevic

The best restaurant we've been to. Service, food, friendly staff, all recommendations.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Bernabe Rosas

Was aight ?

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 5

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