El Hermoso Mar
313 Beach St, Santa Cruz
(831) 423-2200
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The food at this establishment was disappointingly flavorless and bland. The fish in the fish and chips dish lacked any seasoning, and it had the texture of frozen fish sticks rather than the fresh, crispy fish one anticipates. The seafood molcajete arrived lukewarm, giving the impression that it had been sitting around for too long. To my dismay, it contained aged seafood, including slimy, rubbery imitation crab that was utterly unappetizing. Overall, the seafood did not taste fresh at all. Additionally, the service was far from satisfactory, making the experience even less enjoyable. On a positive note, the ambiance was pleasant since we were seated outside. However, I regret that I won't return to this place again.
Best food on the Boardwalk!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Above all, very good food, sizeable portions and for a couple the supernachos are enough. Nice place, although spacious, it can get busy on weekends. Come and see, the current rating of 3.9 does not reflect this place.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Very bad service, terrible food, I ordered a molcajete and they filled it with pure surimi and no sauce, they only give you a little sauce, they serve you in a bad way and the food is not good, they should improve the place, they are a mess if they don't want to work, stay the night to your house ❌❌ and apart from the very expensive and very bad food, I don't recommend it at all ❌❌❌❌
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
My cousin loved the sassy guy up front very friendly nice cordial demure and welcoming. My other cousin said the burgers and fries were really good. Worth the wait very cheap place to go to santa cruz THEY GET DOWN!!
Saturday October 5th 9:48 My cousin said the guy in the red hat thinks he should get promoted and get paid more and said he was a fine daddy boy. My cousins Instagram id 2o9.qvah if he want to add it my cousin said wsp baby?
This restaurant was very friendly and the food was very delicious, everything was very tasty and the people were very friendly, this restaurant is very cheap. If you are in Santa Cruz you already know that it is very expensive and everything costs a lot but here you can eat at low prices!!
Thank you The Beautiful Sea!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Delicious vegetarian burrito!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The only things good were the fries, the burger, and the beans. I can say that confidently, because I had a party of 6 adults, 2 kids, and 1 baby--I did their ordering because only I knew what dish names were. Almost half the dishes ordered were misses because the food was either too tough, no flavor, dry, or too salty. What really made the experience worse were two things: 1) I ordered for guacamole on the burrito--it was the thinnest spread I've ever seen. 2) I clearly had a large party. I should've been given 2 complimentary nacho dips, not one. And not given a look as if I was greedy. This really left a bad taste when I saw another party, same size, automatically given two.
That said--good beans and burger.
Save yourself the trip if you want to just eat something to save money. You're more than likely to save money by just going into the food stalls at the boardwalk.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 2
Recommended dishes: Regular Bean and Cheese
Can take an order, there’s no fans at all, it’s super hot to dine in and when there’s an issue they are not professional at all, class of customer service needed here due to giving a customer an attitude when asked a question.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Very much..... just o.k...... kinda flavorless food. The place is really run down, the bathrooms are deplorable. I like the place just off beach street much better but they close early.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
Worst Mexican food I've ever tried. I thought I would be nice and give it a try. Definitely never doing that again, comments are accurate. A tourist trap.
Food was bland. I had shrimp tacos that were over seasoned, way too much salt. Salsa was not salsa.
Rice and beans had no flavor. Such a waste of money. Overpriced and un reasonable.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
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Save yourself your money food was horrible I didn’t even want to ask for refund I just felt bad for the business
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 3
the food might have not been awful, but the customer service was. they tried to steal $50 from me.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
I ordered stuffed chiles and the rice was flavorless as if it had been roasted for two days and very expensive, I almost paid $30 for my dish.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 2
We looked at the reviews before going and thought “just go, we’re hungry” but daammmm this food was bussin.
10/10 your missing out if you haven’t been here yet
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Bought $130 worth of food. Only for them to give us 4 wrong orders out of 6. On top of all that, they charged $6 for Verde (green) sauce on the side. Bad customer service. Food was OK, nothing special for $20/ burrito.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
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