Alejandra's Fine Mexican Food And Cantina - Carlsbad, CA

Dietary restrictions: Careful - items listed gluten "free" are really gluten "friendly" .. not for celiac.

We had a great family brunch on Sunday. Food was great. Views fantastic. Treated us like family. We will go back

Great atmosphere! Love the decor and chill vibe... the putdoor patio and bar area is very cool, especially with the live sounds. I'm definitely going back! Taco Tuesdays is a great night to stop in.

Great happy hour.

The food is no longer what it was. The brunch menu was OK, but the food was bad. Probably the chef is trying new approaches to Mexican food, well, it did not work. The food was bad. The service was slow, but polite. The restaurant was empty, spoiling the atmosphere for an Easter brunch. Very disappointed.

Drinks were delicious. Food was mostly bad except guacamole salsa and chips and queso fundido was good but took a long time to get to our table after ordering. Fajitas don't even sizzle and taste like fatty long chew. Mole chicken dry and salty. Keep in mind this place charges premium prices. There is nothing premium about the food. You'd be much better off getting food from a local hole in the wall Mexican take out place.decor is beautiful but this place needs an intervention.

This place has really gone downhill. Extremely expensive for what you get and food is just ok. Service has been awful last two times we visited so will not be back. It’s too bad because there was potential.

Chilaquiles- chips were rubbery. My husband hates sending food back. I, on the other hand, would have returned these back. Chips were not crispy nor soggy.. they were rubbery.. same goes for the huevos rancheros. Unfortunately, we were not satisfied. The bloody mary, on the other hand, was good.

A night of pure disaster. We had reservation for 4 people. Walked in 5min before the reservation time and no one was at the host table. After 5min someone came and said will get us the host then after few min the host came and said they are cleaning our table. It took them 10min to get back to us again. The restaurant was empty. Maybe 8 tables was taken but that place is huge and so many empty table was available. We were settled in at our table finally. The chips and salsa came. I never ever remember a Mexican restaurant that we could not finish a small basket of tortillas chips. The chips came half full and extremely salty. The amount of salt burnt all of our mouth. Then we ordered drinks which came in 40min later. Appetizer was Oyster which came 65min after we sat and they just put it at our table with no utensils and plates. We didn’t see our servers for another 20min. Finally she came to get our main food order which at that time was 90min of our time observing their poor managements, horrible customer service and disaster food. So we decided to wrap up our bill and leave. We didn’t eat there. On the bright side, the lady at the bar made very good drinks. So the quality of drinks were very high and wonderful. The only good thing about that restaurant was the good bar tender. If your restaurant survive, I suggest to keep her around. She can be one of the key to your possible success there. The manager didn’t charge us for the Oyster and she came to us and apologized of being under staff. She was nice to take care of us after our bad experience however I do not understand how a big restaurant like that with only 1/8 of their table occupied on a Saturday night is under staff. I asked her why are you under staff and she said no one wants to work… this answer was our answer back in 2022 and 2023 and not a smart answer for 2024 which we are post Covid. Too bad that nothing worked there because the restaurant was pretty. Poor management, disaster management in the kitchen, confused host, bad quality food made a difficult experience for us. We ended up going to somewhere else which was fantastic and showcased how a professional team can bring great experience to their customers.