MOLDY FOOD AND EVEN WORSE SERVICE I have been coming here for years and have never had any issues. Recently though I feel like the quality has gone down and today I found mold in my food. I debated taking the time to inform the restaurant but quite disappointed with the response I receive when I did. - I was told to just eat the other food in my meal because it should be fine (is this how they handle food safety?) - I was asked why I didn't call sooner (it was my 3rd time calling) - Lidia the manager told there was no way there was mold in the cheese, "there's only a 1% chance this would happen" as she claims their food is "fresh" - when I returned to the restaurant with my moldy food Lidia looked at it in person, shrugged her shoulders and said "I still don't think it is" and claimed it's just cilantro that got mixed in. No apologies, no extra recourse for my time, inconvenience or the mold. Sadly Baja is going to be losing business if this is how they treat their customers.... read more

Baja Fresh - Beans with visible mold - Mexican Near Me - Vancouver, Washington

I visited on a Saturday afternoon at noon. It was pretty empty of customers inside. The staff was super super friendly and helpful. The music was really good. The staff was quick with my order while also preparing a catering order to be picked up. The food was really good. I always ask for the guac and sour cream in my quesadilla to be replaced with rice and beans and they were happy to do it. The quesadilla was big and had plenty of chicken. It was a bit more expensive than I remember at $14 ish. The salsa bar was well stocked and the interior looked very clean. read more

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Better than chipotle and qdoba. For vegetarians, the impossible burrito was better than sofritas.

I will say this place wasn't terrible but it wasn't exactly good.. got the chicken bowl with black beans.. my suggestion to the restaurant is, when you use white meat chicken you may consider seasoning it. I don't know if they cook it there or if it comes in prepared in a bag but either way it was quite bland, the entire bowl was bland, don't be scared of salt, you don't need to go crazy with it but learn to use it.. had to drown the food in salsa which ultimately ends up being bland food swimming in sauce.. not impressed, won't go back, don't recommend it read more

The meat had no flavor tasted like impossible meat like it was washed will never come back to the mill plain location again so disappointed used to love this place not anymore read more

In the competitive world of fast casual eating, Baja Fresh is slightly above average when it comes to taste, value, and variety. Like so many other fast casual Mexican joints, they assemble your entree right after you place your order. I had the chicken diablo burrito enchilada style. I read that making it enchilada style (an extra $2.50) is the way to go, turning a simple finger food burrito into a full meal. For a few extra $$s, your burrito is covered in a warm enchilada sauce and melted cheese plus you get a nice side of chips, guacamole, and greens. Well worth it in my book. Most Baja Fresh locations have plenty of indoor dining. But I like this 160th and Mill Plain locale with a cute pond/fountain setting for even better social distance eating. A good place for a quick bite of mex. read more

Baja Fresh - Chicken diablo burrito enchilada style - Mexican Near Me - Vancouver, Washington

Super fast at ordering but it took a long time to get the order. I think they must have a lot of carry out orders. The staff speaks spanish so the food got to be authentic! The staff was knowledgeable and nice. I ordered the chicken burrito with diablo and enchilada style. The dish was huge and other reviewers said it was worth adding the enchilada style for extra $2.5. The mango salsa was very good and the hot salsa was very spicy! read more

Baja Fresh - Social distancing no salad bar - Mexican Near Me - Vancouver, Washington

My mother and I went here last week. Been here a handful of times and their food is always good. This time I had gotten a burrito with chicken and carnitas, and this was my first time not really liking what I ordered. It was ok, but the carnitas did not taste like carnitas, it tasted like beef that was cooked in a crockpot. Maybe they accidentally gave me the wrong meat? My mother loved her chicken quesadilla, she always ordered the same thing. Their chips and hot sauces are really good. I've noticed every time we have come here, it's been all female workers each time, which is cool the restaurant itself is nice inside. Lots of space for seating, and welcoming energy. read more

Really good food, super flavorful. Great customer service also. Bought for my team at work and everyone loved the tacos.

I love Baja! This location is super close to my house and they are so quick at getting my pick up orders ready. I love the salsa and guacamole. It tastes so fresh and there is quite a bit in one order. Often times I will buy the rice and beans, chips,guac, and salsa as sides to my main course at home. It's so convenient and easy. This time I tried the Poblano burrito, holy moly it is DELICIOUS! Highly recommend it. All the portions are very generous and worth the $. read more

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Baja Ensalada with chicken. Yum! Pronto Guacamole while you wait. Yes, you have to pay for this but you get it right away. This location is on the other side of Vancouver but convenient if you are shopping at Target or Ross, Bed, Bath, & Beyond. All nearby. The location is typically well taken care of. There is outdoor seating. The employees are friendly and seem happy to be there. If you frequent Baja Fresh, get the cup and bring it each time for discounted refills. ..... ....... . .... read more

I am not a fan of mexican food but I shop here for my husband who prefers Mexican dining to any other kind of dining. He has tried almost all of the Mexican restaraunts around town here and most i Portland Oregon. I love the cheese and chicken quesideas and I get my husband his favorite Pork Burrito enchilada style with pinto beans. He says this is his new favorite place for Mexican food. We have been here 3 times and it has been absolutely delicious. The place is extremely clean and they are very courteous and pleasant to deal with. The food is always fresh and we couldn't ask for better customer service. We will be returning regularly. I highly recommend Baja Fresh. I noticed that they have tables outside with a water fountain? and lights. It looks like we will really enjoy coming here even more during the warmer months. read more

Don't understand how this place has such a low rating it's crazy to me great food and there quick and the customer service is good as well I always order a minimum of 20 tacos I have a big family and I've never experienced anything bad read more

Baja Fresh - two plates of food on a table - Mexican Near Me - Vancouver, Washington

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I had just got done with a Doctor's appointment and wanted something that wasn't fried for lunch. I am so glad I made the choice to come here. Once I walked in the place was clean and an employee immediately acknowledged me. I ordered the Baja Chicken Bowl and you get free chips with it! The food came out quick and it was hot! It was amazing, the right amount of spice and the chips were delicious. They also have an awesome salsa bar! I got the pico de gallo and mango salsa. Hands down best mango salsa I have had! It was also not a bad price. I paid 10 dollars for all of the food, and I could not even eat half of it. I left with leftovers. All in all, great customer service, hot fresh food and fast! read more

Baja Fresh - Chicken Baja bowl. - Mexican Near Me - Vancouver, Washington

Absolutely the worst Mexican food I Absoluly the worst Mexican food I have to ever tried to eat. It literally smelled like someone had $hit on the plate. We took the steak fajitas back and got pork, which was no better. They said they season their meat with Japanese soy sauce??? Sorry I will NEVER return. We paid $20 for two tortillas and a Coke. Sadely, BF used to be good. read more

Love the Baja tacos and salads. Have had shrimp quesadillas, which are ok. They use a ton of cheese and I think it'd taste better with a little less. read more

Always friendly here, even though it is a franchise, seems to be run by a family. It's not 5 star cuisine, it is still a quick service restaurant after all, but as good as any other Baja Fresh. read more

Typical Baja Fresh with typical service. It's usually always clean but sometimes they have employees eating outside food at the tables and occasionally it's a little nasty. They also set all their currently in use soda cups around the restaurant which isn't awesome. The scene recently was as mentioned. It's just dirty and not very appetizing or professional. Also today, the bathrooms were flooded with water & toilet backup and not delicious smelling, to say the least. Hmm... read more

Baja Fresh - a table and chairs in a fast food restaurant - Mexican Near Me - Vancouver, Washington

In a veggie baja bowl I ordered, they put CHICKEN in it. My mother is a strict vegetarian and baja fresh's incompetency in following orders violated her principles. They didn't give a refund because they said "ohh you ordered through doordash so doordash has to give you the refund." Even if the delivery service was third party IT WAS BAJA'S OWN FAULT. Never ordering from Baja Fresh again read more

The chicken tostada salad is my favorite thing on the menu. Today, it did not disappoint. It's loaded with grilled chicken, cheese, guacamole, sour cream, and pico de gallo. I ordered it to go and dished up 2 cups of salsa to take with me, one for my salad and one for the bag of chips. I wish I had ordered it there. When I got home and opened up my bag of chips, I discovered there were about 10 chips in the bag. That portion seemed pretty low considering I usually get more when dining in the restaurant. The chip bag was about 1/3 of the way full. Other than that, everything was great. read more

Baja Fresh - Mexican Near Me - Vancouver, Washington

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I'm usually A-Okay with Baja Fresh, however, the experience we had a couple of weeks ago was ridiculous. We walked in at around 3 pm, so obviously not many people were there. There was no one at the counter to take our order until finally an employee who had seemingly been on some sort of break ran over. My mom ordered the chicken nachos, I ordered two seafood tacos- one with crispy wahoo and one with shrimp. We paid (Baja Fresh is kind of expensive for not being a sit-down establishment, by the way) and got our salsas and found a seat. We waited. And waited. And waited. It seemed like forever and it didn't seem like the cook was doing anything but cleaning in the back. Not to mention, people who came into the restaurant AFTER us, had been ordering and receiving their food in a timely manner. My mom went up to the counter to see what was going on and there was no one in sight but the cook, who was wiping down counters. After waiting a few moments the cook came up and my mom handed him our receipt saying, 'Heeyyy we haven't gotten this yet' or something along those lines. He looked at the receipt as if he'd never seen words in his life, didn't say a word, and walked back into the kitchen. (Side note: My mom didn't tell me this until after we left, but she noticed that the cook had the rag he was cleaning the counter with in his gloved hand, proceeded to NOT change said glove, and went back to doing something with food. Ummm, gross. Wonderful. (Also, the other cook [who I have no idea where he was for half of this experience] was wearing a hideously filthy, oversized white shirt. There was something so off about it. It was unprofessional and unappetizing.) I think at that point, the person who rang us up saw the expression of confusion on my face (watching my mom from afar) and went over to see what was going on. Apparently mine had been ready that ENTIRE time. So over 20 minutes. My mom brought my tacos over in the meantime. They were FREEZING COLD; like they were actually put into a refrigerator before handing them to me. Not just *this was sitting on the counter for twenty minutes* cold. It's really concerning to me when seafood isn't properly heated/handled, but I ate it anyway because I was STARVING and didn't want to wait. As for the nachos, the person said they were just "waiting for the cheese to melt". Wellll- 5 minutes go by and they bring us the nachos. The cheese was not melted. Like, at all. She said their oven broke. Or something? But you'd think they'd just say "Hey I'm so sorry- it seems like our oven is broken, can we make you anything else like a quesadilla on the house? We'll refund you for these pathetic nachos." Basically, they should've offered to make something else that didn't require an oven. They just flopped down this un-melted nacho pile and said sorry. SO STRANGE! It took almost 30 minutes for nachos. You'd think you'd realize that the oven wasn't working before that? Or maybe they knew that it wasn't working and just didn't care? Who knows? We left completely dumbfounded. We'll be giving Baja Fresh an extended break after this, unfortunately. read more

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I came here right beforethey closed. We ordered nachos, with no meat, a shrimp bowl, and chicken taquitos. I saved the chicken taquitos for next day's lunch, it was still good and the taquitos where still crispy. The nachos and the shrimp bowl was good. They gave some chips while you waited and even have a salsa bar. We will diffenately be coming back here. read more

I ordered the burrito and taco most worst food I ever eat we got super early and it was cold. The taco was a mess all mixed up and soggy never go to baja fresh read more

We love Baja, but the service we received today was flat out disrespectful and uncalled for. Yesterday we purchased an order including fish tacos, a custom tostada, two chicken tortilla soups, and chips with queso. Baja is a treat for us because we live 40ish minutes away. The food is always so fresh, and so delicious. We trekked home before digging into the bag where we found no fish tacos and found that the tostada meal was severely incorrect. We called the store and explained the situation to a very understanding woman who offered to have us come back and remake the two meals they make mistakes on. We declined because of the duration of the drive there and back. She told us that if we came back the following day she'd remake our entire order for the inconvenience. We drove all the way back today to be accused of lying by the manager who told us that his wife only told us she would remake the fish tacos that they forgot. He ended up giving us the two meals they messed up as compensation but still make us pay for the rest of the order even though she promised us they'd remake the entire thing for us. He then forgot to give us our drink and did not put cheese on the tostada meal. We're very disappointed with the customer service we received and we're saddened to have had one of our favorite restaurants treat us with such disregard. read more

Hands down this is the worst Baja fresh I have ever been to. My husband and I went in to share some nachos and it barely had any cheese, what it did have it wasn't melted, there were so few toppings we would take a single piece of chicken and break it apart for a minuscule amount to spread it over 10 chips. My husband talked to the manager her only response was I'll keep an eye out on that. DO NOT go to this restaurant! And the manager saw some tea leaking. She yells JC loud enough the four people stop and stare at her. This place is a disaster. Go somewhere else read more

I was searching Vancouver for a good take out fish taco. So far Baja Fresh is my pick. The fish is a grilled piece of firm white fish (I'm not sure what kind of fish it is), and it has great flavor! The fish taco comes with cabbage which I prefer on a fish taco, and it's a nice size. You can't beat Baja Fresh's salsa bar! The staff at this location are very friendly, and accommodating. This particular location is very clean, and there's a large outdoor seating area with a lovely fountain. I should also mention that my coworkers and I have had them deliver meals to us. Their customer service is fantastic. They have never let us down, they have been able to deliver large orders under pretty limited time restrictions. The food is always fresh and delicious! read more

We placed an order for catering for 30+ people which we picked up the day of. For the most part it was fresh and as ordered except, the portions were in 10s ( to feed 10) most of the portions were good except the cheese, which was a SMALL tray of cheese we had to scramble to buy more as was for tacos , for us cheese is an intrical part of the taco. We were disappointed to say the least read more

This place used to be fresh about a year or so ago. Recently everything has really gone downhill. The jalapeños are no longer fresh, instead they are the pickled ones from the can. The guacamole is brown and you can smell the restrooms from the soda station. To top it off the food is sloppy now. Truly a disgusting experience. read more

1/18/12 Consistent fresh and tasty. The only thing that I hope these guys would do is to keep the focus on the food and quit patting themselves on the back for being so environmentally conscious. I am happy for them and proud of them that they want to feel good about themselves about how they're so pure and in business to take care of mother earth but people go out to eat for the food, not for the statement that the establishment wants to make about how they are just great citizens for being green. I love their food and could give a crap about how biodegradable their plates are. If you want good, fresh Mex, this is the place.--especially now that we don't have a Chevy's anymore. read more

I'm overdue on sending you a huge THANK YOU for your EXCELLENT catering job last Halloween. You fed 35 of my office staff, and they were delighted with the food quality, variety, and freshness. We will do this again. And... I asked for eleven am delivery and your team was SPOT ON TIME! Not a hitch, thanks, Cat at Heath Net in Tigard, with an office in Mill Plain :) :) read more

The food here is great. I usually get the baja bowl, which is a lot of food for $8. You can sign up for online coupons, so my wife and I eat there for around $12 when we go. The interior looks... well used. But it's still clean. The staff is always friendly and the food is always cooked fresh. The salsa bar is nice, great variety of flavors and temperatures. There is something unsightly about pico de gallo all over the ice in the bar though, creeps me out. For the price, tasty food! read more

You can't go wrong with fish tacos. Very clean establishment, love the salsa bar. Really not a bad thing to say about this place. Except the woman at the counter who helped me could have spoken a bit slower. She was talking so fast responding to my questions I could barely make out what she was saying. All in all I will definitely be back! read more

Baja Fresh - Mexican Near Me - Vancouver, Washington

I like to come here when I want fish tacos. They have a great crispy Wahoo Fish Taco and they also have great quesadillas. Normally I prefer eating at Chipotle but they don't offer either of those options on the menu. Anyway, this location is clean and the people running it have owned it for as long as I have lived in Vancouver. The people are always friendly that work there. Went there last night with husband for a quick to go meal. Husband got the steak quesadilla and a side of rice. I got the crispy fish tacos (try them, they come wrapped in a corn tortilla with cabbage, pico, and spicy cream sauce) and a side of smoky queso with chips. The queso is just okay. My only complaint is that it tends to solidify as it comes to room temp. Kinda gross but what can you expect from canned queso? While we waited they offered us free chips. They are also generous with the chips they sent with us to eat the queso with. I tend to stay away from their salsa bar. Never have had a bag experience here. Keep up the great work! read more

I love Baja Fresh and have for a good long time. Specifically I love the one near Target on Millplain. The restaurant is ALWAYS clean. The food is consistently delicious! This is my go to dinner date with my younger daughter. I love the fresh chips and salsa bar. My kids stick with the mild and I can have super spicy! I love their tortilla soup, and my kids love the nachos (not just chips and cheese, there's meat, beans, salsa, sour cream, guacamole, etc). I like to try different things and I enjoy everything I've tried there. The staff make it a very family friendly place. Yum! Writing this review kinda makes me think we should have Baja Fresh for dinner tonight! read more

First time trying Baja Fresh today... I thought it was pretty good. I ordered the Mexicano chicken burrito which was good, but a little dry. I did love the chips & Salsa though. read more

Great salads and great burritos. All fresh vegetables and everything is cooked to order. I have always been happy with the food and service. read more

Food is great for fast food, especially the tacos. However, Baja fresh seems to be the biggest contributor to singleserving plastic waste that I've ever seen in any restaurant. read more

I wouldn't call this Mexican food. Went here once to try it and I'm definitely not returning. If we're comparing "fast" Mexican food, Tacobells food has more flavor than this place (and it's cheaper). One step up from that would probably be muchas gracias. But I'd much rather just go to a taco truck. I feel sorry for anyone who wastes money at this place. They get one star for cleanliness, but mostly because there isn't a 0 star option. read more

The chicken torta was amazing! Customer service was fast and prompt! Definitely going to be spending more time here

They make the best chicken nachos. High calories yes but worth it. The staff is always super fiendly. I think I eat here too much:)