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    La Cocina

    3.9 (78 reviews)
    ModerateMexican
    Open 11:00 am - 9:00 pm

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    Moderate noise
    Good for kids
    Good for groups

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    "Chile relleno," but was it, though?
    Ev L.

    They have one song here. One. Song. They play it, leave a little pause, and then they play it again. Over, and over, and over. Oh, wait, after the first song repeated 4 times, they have now played a second song. That said, I am so sorry, but this is a pretty sad experience. The booth we sat at was slashed up and taped back together in a few places. That, I'm happy to overlook if the food is great. The rice is overcooked. I am pretty sure the beans are from a can. The cheese used for everything is a "special blend" from NYC, though our server was not certain what it contained. It tasted like processed cheese food to me. No queso fresco or cojita here. Not even jack cheese, which is sometimes substituted. There was an odd bitter aftertaste in the bland, unsalted chips. The salsa was a bowl of watery tomato sadness. The Chile relleno was not a pepper stuffed with appropriate cheese, fried in a light after, and topped with a red sauce. Rather, it was a flatened out cooked pepper with processed cheese food "blend" atop it, swimming in red sauce. I sent it back. I almost never send food back. The lobster quesadilla, well. All you can taste is processed cheese food blend. The "lobster" is absolutely NOT lobster. I have cooked with imitation crab and lobster meat many times, and this is very clearly lobster-flabored processed pollock . There may have been a very very tiny bit of actual lobster meat in there? Mostly, however, it was imitation lobster meat. The server felt bad and offered to serve me something else, but my dining partner's burrito was equally sad, so I declined. His burrito contained unseasoned ground beef. He said "I didn't know bland was a flavor, but here we are." They were kind and didn't charge us for all of it, which we really appreciated. Grateful for that. The server cannot help how the food is made. We cannot fault her. 5 stars for service. She was kind. I am so sorry, but I just cannot recommend this place. It made me sad.

    Michelle G.

    Unassuming but tasty experience in downtown (?) Chittenango. Stopped in for lunch with a friend and could not say no to the Huevos Rancheros. Yum. Eggs were perfectly fried with spectacular runny yolks that added flavor to the rice. Beans were pale but tasty. And were those chips homemade? Warm, not too salty and a perfect mate to the salsa. We did not add extra heat. We were the first in but the place filled up before our meal was finished.

    #BeefBurrito #Bean Dip #salsa.
    Corinne T.

    La Cocina is so good. The food is really delicious! I take it out a bunch ! They treat me like family ever time when I go there !! Tony is so niceeee ! I'm glad Chittenango has La Cocina in town !

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    1 year ago

    Food was okay, not overly amazing but decent. Overall an okay experience in a pinch, food was decent but could be worse and could be better.

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    11 months ago

    Great Mexican food and service! Been there 2x so far and plan the make this a regular spot!

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    Great food, quick service! Kid menu, family friendly. There's no bar so no margaritas.

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    2 years ago

    We love La Cocina! Great Mexican food and a very friendly staff right in Chittenango!

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    3 years ago

    The food is authentic. The service is great and the restaurant is quaint. I eat there often and they remember me when I come back

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    3 years ago

    Can't review when they don't answer their phone to order take out. It is definitely during open hours.

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    Cinco De Mayo - One of the best Nacho Supremes ever. All fresh delicious ingredients! Very Friendly staff too.

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    Had their special. Tacos De Birria with rice and beans were very good…read more Pollo con Crema was also very good, portion large. Chicken Empanda so,so wouldn't get again. Service was OK server tried her best. Margarita was just ok, nothing special. Restaurant is ok inside, nothing fancy but appears to be clean with quite a few tables. Would return but not order empanda. You get chips and salsa.

    A restaurant that messes up a carry out order needs to follow a few steps to make it right. First,…read morehave a phone number that works. Second, apologize profusely. Third, make sure that you fix the order. Finally, make it up to the patron for having to make a second trip to the restaurant. (This is for pick up orders, specifically). My pick up order was supposed to be ready at 6:45, but I sat there until 7:00 waiting. Then when I got home, I found that we were missing two entrees. The phone number on the website went straight to a busy signal, so leaving my family to eat, I drove back and informed the restaurant of the issue. They handed me one of the entrees in about 10 minutes, but after waiting a while longer, I found the server to ask about the other one, and had to argue with him and the cook that what I ordered and paid for wasn't in the bag. Finally they agreed to fix it and handed me what they insisted were two beef chalupas. Guess what- the picture above is what they handed me. It's soggy corn tortillas with beans, sour cream, lettuce and tomato. Definitely not worth the $15 they charged. Most of the food that we got was tasty. Not amazing, but not terrible. But not worth the $120 for dinner, either. If they had apologized, gotten the food right the second time, and done anything at all to make it worth my while to make a second trip for food I'd already paid for i would have much better things to say. As it is, I'm just disappointed. Go here or not, I guess. But maybe double check your order before you walk out.

    La Cocina - mexican - Updated May 2026

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