LA JAIBA LOCA

Solid authentic Mexican seafood restaurant. This is not your standard run-of-the-mill fare either. Coming in from the twin cities on my way to my hometown of Chicago, I stopped by and was pleasantly surprised by the distinct family-style flavors here. I ordered the labgostinos dish and shrimp ceviche. Both were more than enough for me and possible another person if I had company. Solid. :)

A seafood restaurant that uses lesser quality seafood. My garlic shrimp were small and not de-veined but tasted good. Husbands seafood soup was tasty but fish was full of bones and shrimp/crab overcooked. Ceviche is delicious. Menu is mostly Spanish. Service is subpar. Never checked on us and husband waited awhile to get a spoon for his soup since waiter had disappeared.

Myself, my two friends and two of our kids stopped in to get dinner. We were there just under two hours. It took half that time just to get the waters we ordered. The mango margarita on the rocks we ordered was made as a lime margaritas blended. After letting the waitress know we waiting around 20 minutes for a new one to be made. The new margarita was still blended but at least the correct flavor. We ordered cactus with our dinner and it finally was brought to the table after we had already boxed up our meals. Three meals were ordered that were supposed to come with tortillas and none were brought until our meals were boxed up and only enough for one meal. Overall it was poor service. Tables of people who came in after us were getting food and drinks faster and recieved frequent check ins while we sat ignored. Not once were we asked if we wanted refills on our drinks or if they could get us anything. The food itself was okay at best. If you love onions you'll enjoy the food. At the end of it all we paid a large bill for poor service and okay food.

This place has to be by far the worst place I've been into. My wife and I went to try the restaurant out on 10/7/23 and let me add there was only 3 other tables besides ours so no it was not busy at all. We waited over an hour and 20 minutes for the food come to find out they forgot about our order. On top of it they don't even offer water in fact you have to chase the waiter for a drink. We finally got fed up and just took off. I'm all about always helping the locals vs the big guys but my God how in the world has this restaurant has survived the tables dirty and seats ripped and not to mention there missing a ton of light bulbs folks I'm can't make this up I'm warning you don't even bother trying these guys out

The place is horrible. I had an caldo and it was so salty that I could not eat it. It had flavor so it could have been delicious but they ruined it with salt. My husband had the ceviche and it over powered by salt. 🤮 The atmosphere smelled and looked run down. The service was unprofessional. Will not be coming back or recommending this place.