The food here is phenomenal. Everything tasted fresh and our fries were extra crispy. Our server Andrea was so polite and attentive. I definitely recommend this place - some of the best service in town.
Manfree Sanchez
really bad food ..supuesramente es comida oaxaqueña pero eso no es asi nada que ver
Luz Plascecia Granados
delicious tortas de quesillo mis preferidas son las cubanas recomendado
Sue B.
So sad they have changed and got rid of the shrimp tacos :(. Now can you give us the sauce receipt since you are not making them anymore ?We are going to check out the new BOIL they have going and then at that time we will decide if we will be back or not . Good run !
Julia D.
Portions are small and less than what the menu states! I ordered a pound of shrimp and probably got 1/2 of what I got the first time (9 shrimp in total) and they were so overcooked they were the consistency of a mashed potato. It was completely inedible and I will not be going back and telling my friends not to as well cause it has clearly gone under recently due to new management. I only received 2 potatoes in a 3 potato order after confirming three over the phone, as well as 1/2 a cob of corn when I ordered a full cob. It was not worth the money at all and is ridiculously overpriced for what you get for it. Wouldn't be surprised if food made one sick.
Jacqueline G.
Still called turtle bay just add boiling crab to the end ?Ordered for take out on the hope that I wouldn't have to drive to San Jose anymore. Ordered one pound of shrimp, potatoes, sausage and corn.... let just say there is no way in hell that was a pound . We got 1 corn and 3 slithers of sausage no potatoes. The shrimp was overcooked you couldn't even peel the shell off anymore it was one with the shrimp at that point . Asked for Cajun fries got regular fries. They were so dry and tasted like they were previously freezer burned . The catfish literally tasted like nothing , it was like eating air and I'm unsure how that's even possible. Also gave us no sauces or anything for our take out. I'm usually not one of those that writes a bad review but honestly don't waste your money or time.
Monty Ray
This is by far the best seafood in Monterey.You have to stop by and try out everything on the menu. I have travelled far for good seafood and I was blown away by the portion, quality and service for the new restaurant.The team was great and accommodating. Feel free to just walk in and grab a table. I had a wonderful server and the owner even bought us a round on the house. What a great time.I will say this is a 10/5 If I could and I can not say enough about this place. Love it and it's my new favorite on the Peninsula.I hope all the best for the new Beer Garden! This place is a Monty Ray 5 Star Home Run!
S H.
Went today for lunch. My friend and I got two pounds of shrimp, potatoes & sausages. We also got one rice , asked for utensils and napkins and they got us another serving of rice instead . The servers were Spanish and didn't seem to understand much English. The music was obnoxiously loud and distracting. Food definitely needs to improve especially for that price. It was extremely salty with big chunks of black pepper. It lacked flavor and spice level. Also, when ask for 1 lb of shrimp, I believe they weight the potatoes & sausage included in that pound because it was DEFINITELY not a pound of shrimp. BTW, overcooked sausage that shriveled was $6 a serving !!!
Yaritza P.
I am leaving one star on this review because that's the lowest I can give here ( I would rather leave no star ). This business has recently changed from a local Mexican restaurant to a "boiling crab", well let me tell you I wish they would of just kept the original restaurant. We received the worst service ever, from the WORST server. When we first walked in everything was good and we greeted by a really friendly waitress ( not the one we got ) our waitress was servicing the tables inside, which is where we sat, she proceed to ask us for drinks, everything was good up until this point, she took a while to bring us drinks then after brought us the table paper and took our order QUICKLY, she seemed to be in a lot of hurry that she could not wait for us to fully finish our order. Only to not bring us all that we asked for, we obviously kept reminding her of our order and how we were missing items. Story short, we never got our items. PS. Don't get me started on the main cooks attitude
Ginger Williams
It doesn’t exist, we went there last night, this is deceiving.There is a restaurant there under a different name and it’s not a taqueria, the menu had pasta dishes.
I was really unhappy with the food they promote Louisiana style shrimp and promote the picture but the food wasn't anything near that and to top it off we waited 1hr for food to come out save your money and time we asked for steam rising got something else I was really happy about this place since it would save me a drive to San Jose AND yes the name is still turtle bay taqueria
Sherbelle R.
Very disappointing. The restaurant claimed to reopen March 1st, but never did. Then later fixing the sign saying grand opening was on March 6th (too late considering this placed was claimed CLOSED). Food was terrible. I got a pound of crawfish (frozen & extra small) for $17 and my parents shared a pound of shrimp that was also $17. Extremely overpriced and cooks seemed to have not even known what crawfish was. We also ordered sides of rice and I could swear that it was just microwaved rice that came from a box. The sauce was extremely salty and tasted almost like pizza marinara sauce. We spent a total of about $45 on such little amount of food and went out not a single bit full, nor satisfied one bit. Might I add, service was terrible, the only good thing about this place was it's outside "new look". All in all, I highly do NOT recommend this place. Coming from a crawfish/seafood boil lover, this place was an extreme let down.
Cat Corazza
One of my favorite restaurants since I was a kid. Everything is good. Shrimp nachos and AMAZING. The best salsa ever. Delicious carnitas burrito, fantastic seafood burrito, great quesadillas all of them. The mole is soo good. Overall just bomb food and great people
Nicholas Duque
I got the chicken burrito and more than half of the burrito was pickled salad
Debbie R.
My co-worker and I have been going to Turtle Bay restaurant literally for years, for lunch from our work place in Monterey. Definitely on the top of one of our favorite places to eat, fresh created tacos, bowls, burritos. Just recently we found out that Jefferson who used to own Turtle Bay, has sold his last business for retirement. My friend always orders the carnitas tostacos, and I normally get the calamari tostaco.. yesterday we called in our order, and I went and picked up. I decided to go outside the box and ordered a calamari salad. They always use this awesome cabbage slaw on their tacos, tostacos, and bowls. Well my friends tostacos instead of having cabbage slaw, was topped with wilted lettuce pieces. Not only that my salad, which is mostly lettuce was all wilted as well. They both were aweful. My friend picked through her tostacos and threw the rest away, and I ended up just eating the fried calamari out of my wilted salad. It's normally so good, I don't know if they just ran out of cabbage slaw? I sure hope they don't start using lettace instead of the slaw, they will lose customers for sure. And what's the excuse for the wilted green salad? First time ever having food issues with Turtle Bay, so hopefully they were just having a bad day. Wish they would have saiid something though for the greens substitute for the cabbage slaw. We spent $30 on that lunch. They also have upped their prices I might add. We definitely will go back as long as they have not replaced the slaw with the lettuce. Will be asking before ordering next time. We were so hoping they were not going to change the menu with the new owners, but I'm wondering now...
The food here is phenomenal. Everything tasted fresh and our fries were extra crispy. Our server Andrea was so polite and attentive. I definitely recommend this place - some of the best service in town.
really bad food ..supuesramente es comida oaxaqueña pero eso no es asi nada que ver
delicious tortas de quesillo mis preferidas son las cubanas recomendado
So sad they have changed and got rid of the shrimp tacos :(. Now can you give us the sauce receipt since you are not making them anymore ?We are going to check out the new BOIL they have going and then at that time we will decide if we will be back or not . Good run !
Portions are small and less than what the menu states! I ordered a pound of shrimp and probably got 1/2 of what I got the first time (9 shrimp in total) and they were so overcooked they were the consistency of a mashed potato. It was completely inedible and I will not be going back and telling my friends not to as well cause it has clearly gone under recently due to new management. I only received 2 potatoes in a 3 potato order after confirming three over the phone, as well as 1/2 a cob of corn when I ordered a full cob. It was not worth the money at all and is ridiculously overpriced for what you get for it. Wouldn't be surprised if food made one sick.
Still called turtle bay just add boiling crab to the end ?Ordered for take out on the hope that I wouldn't have to drive to San Jose anymore. Ordered one pound of shrimp, potatoes, sausage and corn.... let just say there is no way in hell that was a pound . We got 1 corn and 3 slithers of sausage no potatoes. The shrimp was overcooked you couldn't even peel the shell off anymore it was one with the shrimp at that point . Asked for Cajun fries got regular fries. They were so dry and tasted like they were previously freezer burned . The catfish literally tasted like nothing , it was like eating air and I'm unsure how that's even possible. Also gave us no sauces or anything for our take out. I'm usually not one of those that writes a bad review but honestly don't waste your money or time.
This is by far the best seafood in Monterey.You have to stop by and try out everything on the menu. I have travelled far for good seafood and I was blown away by the portion, quality and service for the new restaurant.The team was great and accommodating. Feel free to just walk in and grab a table. I had a wonderful server and the owner even bought us a round on the house. What a great time.I will say this is a 10/5 If I could and I can not say enough about this place. Love it and it's my new favorite on the Peninsula.I hope all the best for the new Beer Garden! This place is a Monty Ray 5 Star Home Run!
Went today for lunch. My friend and I got two pounds of shrimp, potatoes & sausages. We also got one rice , asked for utensils and napkins and they got us another serving of rice instead . The servers were Spanish and didn't seem to understand much English. The music was obnoxiously loud and distracting. Food definitely needs to improve especially for that price. It was extremely salty with big chunks of black pepper. It lacked flavor and spice level. Also, when ask for 1 lb of shrimp, I believe they weight the potatoes & sausage included in that pound because it was DEFINITELY not a pound of shrimp. BTW, overcooked sausage that shriveled was $6 a serving !!!
I am leaving one star on this review because that's the lowest I can give here ( I would rather leave no star ). This business has recently changed from a local Mexican restaurant to a "boiling crab", well let me tell you I wish they would of just kept the original restaurant. We received the worst service ever, from the WORST server. When we first walked in everything was good and we greeted by a really friendly waitress ( not the one we got ) our waitress was servicing the tables inside, which is where we sat, she proceed to ask us for drinks, everything was good up until this point, she took a while to bring us drinks then after brought us the table paper and took our order QUICKLY, she seemed to be in a lot of hurry that she could not wait for us to fully finish our order. Only to not bring us all that we asked for, we obviously kept reminding her of our order and how we were missing items. Story short, we never got our items. PS. Don't get me started on the main cooks attitude
It doesn’t exist, we went there last night, this is deceiving.There is a restaurant there under a different name and it’s not a taqueria, the menu had pasta dishes.
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I was really unhappy with the food they promote Louisiana style shrimp and promote the picture but the food wasn't anything near that and to top it off we waited 1hr for food to come out save your money and time we asked for steam rising got something else I was really happy about this place since it would save me a drive to San Jose AND yes the name is still turtle bay taqueria
Very disappointing. The restaurant claimed to reopen March 1st, but never did. Then later fixing the sign saying grand opening was on March 6th (too late considering this placed was claimed CLOSED). Food was terrible. I got a pound of crawfish (frozen & extra small) for $17 and my parents shared a pound of shrimp that was also $17. Extremely overpriced and cooks seemed to have not even known what crawfish was. We also ordered sides of rice and I could swear that it was just microwaved rice that came from a box. The sauce was extremely salty and tasted almost like pizza marinara sauce. We spent a total of about $45 on such little amount of food and went out not a single bit full, nor satisfied one bit. Might I add, service was terrible, the only good thing about this place was it's outside "new look". All in all, I highly do NOT recommend this place. Coming from a crawfish/seafood boil lover, this place was an extreme let down.
One of my favorite restaurants since I was a kid. Everything is good. Shrimp nachos and AMAZING. The best salsa ever. Delicious carnitas burrito, fantastic seafood burrito, great quesadillas all of them. The mole is soo good. Overall just bomb food and great people
I got the chicken burrito and more than half of the burrito was pickled salad
My co-worker and I have been going to Turtle Bay restaurant literally for years, for lunch from our work place in Monterey. Definitely on the top of one of our favorite places to eat, fresh created tacos, bowls, burritos. Just recently we found out that Jefferson who used to own Turtle Bay, has sold his last business for retirement. My friend always orders the carnitas tostacos, and I normally get the calamari tostaco.. yesterday we called in our order, and I went and picked up. I decided to go outside the box and ordered a calamari salad. They always use this awesome cabbage slaw on their tacos, tostacos, and bowls. Well my friends tostacos instead of having cabbage slaw, was topped with wilted lettuce pieces. Not only that my salad, which is mostly lettuce was all wilted as well. They both were aweful. My friend picked through her tostacos and threw the rest away, and I ended up just eating the fried calamari out of my wilted salad. It's normally so good, I don't know if they just ran out of cabbage slaw? I sure hope they don't start using lettace instead of the slaw, they will lose customers for sure. And what's the excuse for the wilted green salad? First time ever having food issues with Turtle Bay, so hopefully they were just having a bad day. Wish they would have saiid something though for the greens substitute for the cabbage slaw. We spent $30 on that lunch. They also have upped their prices I might add. We definitely will go back as long as they have not replaced the slaw with the lettuce. Will be asking before ordering next time. We were so hoping they were not going to change the menu with the new owners, but I'm wondering now...