Hard shell chicken taco food doesn't taste to well feels like it's been cooked from 2days ago get better cooks please rice n beans were good though better off going to a taco truck read more

La Parrilla - Hard shell chicken taco food doesn't look good besides the bean and rice get better cooks please - Mexican Near Me - Los Angeles, California

I don't know what happened to this place but as we waited to be greeted and seated there was a this horrible smell that lingered, it smelled like sewage, mixed with cat pee. We left immediately. I'm sad to see that this place is in such bad shape. read more

Underwhelming is what I think about La Parilla if I had a single word to describe the experience here. In a neighborhood full of better examples, La Parrilla seems to be surviving and it is a great mystery to me. Unless they were 200% better before the pandemic started, the patrons here must love mediocre Mexican American food. Chicken and Beef dishes all seemed to taste like leftovers, and the quality is most likely Select or grades below. They can't even get beans and rice correct? A side of beans was a runny mess spreading itself and trying to take over the scoop of dried rice on my plate of Enchiladas with bland shredded chicken. Their service is friendly and slow, thus if you're part of the lunchtime crowd please a lot more than an hour. Simple tacos are not any better as they taste like they are catering to gringos. I also don't have anything positive to say about their salsas. Small establishments like these are the backbone of Los Angeles's culinary might and I only hope La Parrilla may improve and support the strong Latin influences here with better food. read more

I was highly disappointed with everything from the service, to the food and on a Mother's Day! Keep in mind, I'm a dtla born and raised, so I've been coming to la parrilla as a tradition every year for birthdays, holidays, etc.... And honestly they went from being golden to being worse than copper. First off, I was first shocked as to why it was so empty and it was already after 5pm. Once ordering and trying to consume my food I realized why... The lady that served us, first was nice, but she was lagging and kept forgetting things we ordered and would bring them to our table late and there was literally not many other consumers other than 3-4 other small groups. For example, we ordered an agua de tamarindo, and our server brought us a Jamaica. We kindly asked if we could get the tamarindo, we didn't order Jamaica. Then were brought the partial part of our order ( we got 2 molcajetes aztecas) and when it was brought out, we got the molcajetes, but no rice, beans or tortillas. AND STILL NO agua de TAMARINDO. We waited until about 5-8 minutes until the rest of the food was brought out and we had to remind the lady she still hadn't gotten out tamarind agua. Food quality in all honesty, 3 / 10 and I'm honestly being generous. The beans were cold and looked microwaved. The rice was the most stale Mexican rice I've had, and the meat quality was trash. So much fat, barely any actual meat, and for $50 per molcajete for a very small portion of each meat and it's mostly fat, and then has this distasteful old meat taste... seriously the worst, they're risking food borne illnesses. This place went from being so genuine and authentic to literal trash. Owner & management really need to look into how to get their business go back to being good again. , seriously wasting potential on the location especially since it was locally famous for being Charlie chaplins home in his time in LA. Need ideas let me know, I'll manage the place and bring back the quality it used to have back when my parents used to bring me, because honestly, it's wasted potential and food is so disgusting and inedible. read more

La Parrilla - Molcajetero azteca. The only good thing in it was the cheese. How the heck does a cook manage to serve a dried up nopal?? - Mexican Near Me - Los Angeles, California

Solid 4 star Good: quesadillas/price Bad: could work on their salsa as in picture This place is solid for a quick home food tasting type of meal. I haven't tried burritos or tacos here read more

La Parrilla - Quesadillas - Mexican Near Me - Los Angeles, California

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Always perfect. I'm enjoying a lovely lunch at this moment! This place reminds me of eating at mi abuelita's. Folks reviewing this place poorly maybe never had an abuelita. Too bad for them. read more

Food is good, priced fairly. This restaurant has character; you can tell many decades of meals have been served inside this premises. Loved the decor inside and the overall feel -- I wonder how many doctors/nurses from the neighboring hospital had sat and peered out of the same window after a long day. Maybe it used to be a cool place for doctors to get together after work. The service was inattentive and disinterested here --- she was polite but was quite slow. I almost did not want to tip her given her poor service. It was bad --- many reviews state the same. Food was fresh with high quality ingredients. Try their Verde sauce, you'll like it. Would go back. +3.5/5 --- gave 4 stars to not butcher their general rating. read more

This was a great place to have lunch a few years back. Things have changed as far as quality and higher prices. I've never been to a Mexican restaurant where beans and rice weren't on the plate. The quality of food was bad and the prices didn't match that. Before they would also serve soup while you wait for your order but they don't do that anymore. The ambiance was mehhh they try to do holiday decorations but seriously it's beyond tacky. They're chips and salsa were bad as well. Salsa was boring with no flavor as if they just blended chipotle sauce from a can and the chips were stale. Oh and on top of their higher prices they charge a 4 or 5% fee if you use a credit card!!! Ya won't be going back there again. read more

Food is below average. Bland and underwhelming. Service is even worse. They offer so so chips and unsavory salsa. Prices are unreasonably high. Nothing good to say about this place. Plenty of better options out there. read more

The service was HORRIBLE and NO ONE including the owner who was aware that her employee Cynthia was struggling to keep up with a large group. The food also was cold and just wasn't good. I would not recommend this place to anyone. Everyone was rude and they really don't know the meaning of customer service. They should just close this place down. This is a S..t hole. read more

LMAO! Do no even waste your time here! While it is not me to write a negative review, I do feel it is important to inform everyone of this establishment. The service here is non-existent. I walked in and there was not one worker present to greet me or seat me. After waiting for 10mins ( I should have left right then and there) I sat myself. Upon seating I still did not see ONE employee. Eventually a cook came out from the back and I asked him for a menu. He gave me a menu. I had decided on what I wanted yet there was STILL no one there. Eventually a lady came from the back and took my order. I asked for water. 10 mins later my food came. No water. I asked again for water. Still no water. It was not until I asked a fourth time that she brought the water. I wanted to support this business because it was small and family owned but to be transparent the food was mediocre and the service wasn't worth any money in the world. PLEASE DO NOT SPEND YOUR TIME NOR MONEY read more

It was like coming to Mexico. Not in a bad way but it just looked so traditional and fun. The decor was very traditional and the servers were all dressed up. I'm guessing there is a live band or music from time to time because I saw them passing by as I was going in. There are also TVs so if you're looking for a place to watch the game you can do that here. I made the mistake of coming here before checking yelp. I got the enchilada pobalanas and it really wasn't that good. 1/3 of the plate was beans, 1/3 rice, and the other 1/3 was the enchiladas. It was in a sweet mole sauce. Maybe a little too sweet. My coworker ordered a chicken item and he received a beef item. The meal comes with chips and salsa and also a small bowl of soup. It was tasty so that's a plus. There is a lot of space and a lot of tables. read more

La Parrilla - Mexican Near Me - Los Angeles, California

To look for parking was terrible! They don't have their own parking lot and steet parking is very tight. However, we did end up finding some, we just had to walk alittle. For starters they brought chips and salsa. After we ordered our food they brought us a lentils soup meanwhile we wait. The soup and food were delicious! They do have hand made corn tortillas. The only reason I took away 2 stars was 1 for no parking and the other 1 for the service. The lady who helped us was nice, but we literraly didn't see her after she brought the food until we paid... she never came by our table to see if we needed anything, not attentive to any needs at all. She was not even around for to call her to our table. Anyway the food was good. I give them thay credit. read more

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Great food, parking in the back, and really great house sangria! Usually get their taquitos.

This place is all the yum. If your looking good Los Angeles Mexican food, this is the spot.

You know those hidden places where everyone talks about, but when you go there it isnt a hit at all? Honestly, this is one of those places BUT its because you just don't know what you need to order. This place can be a major hit or a miss depending on what you order. This place is known for their La Parrilla which is basically a hot plate with meats, but there is sooo much more. - Tortilla & Salsa: Basically they make their own tortilla so its always fresh! Along with their chips. Also, their salsas are homemade as well. There is two different kinds, one is chunky and the other is more like a sauce. - Vegetable Soup: They will always serve you this veggie soup. Its a great starter. It is usually made fresh, but always ask for lemon because it always make the soup better. It has chunks of veggies along with tons of macaroni noodles. - Queso Fundido - it is a cheese lovers dream. It is basically melted hunk of cheese and there is some where you can add chorizo or champinones to it. All three choices are great but the original is always the best. You can see the cheese strings being pulled as you scoop into it...sooo beautiful. - Guacamole: This is a dish that beyond fresh. Every time I go, it is always freshly made by order! Who else can say that?! It's a great dish to share. - Parrilladas: This is basically the bigger version of La Parrilla. NEVER ever go with seafood here....unless you want to get sick. They have the carne asada with shrimp and that's the one with of course, carne asada. And the shrimp is basically bacon wrapped shrimp....ummmm yes...I said bacon wrap shrimp WITH CHEESE! I absolutely love these shrimps. Also, it comes with grilled green onions and cactus. - Fried Ice cream: Do I need to say anything else? It's a crispy sweet layer on top with a sweet vanilla ice cream as the center. So basically, no matter where you go, it all depends on what you order. It is hard unless you go with someone who knows exactly what to order. So basically DO NOT order any seafood here. As appetizer, the guacamole and the queso Fundido is great. And as a meal, order meat parrilladas. As for drinks, their strawberry and Cadillac margaritas are great. Along with their homemade horchata. The only downside is the service. You will either get great service or it will basically suck, so it's a gamble. read more

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Waited 1 hour 10 min for Shrimp Camarones. It was not even good. It's overpriced ok food with lousy service. I paid $22 (plate plus soda ) for like 7 pieces of shrimp, 2 scoops of rice and dried up salad. See pic You should not have to wait 1 hour for seafood or any kind of food. Bad service overall. Barely apologetic. Nothing complementary. No idea how they stayed in business 40 years with that kind of service though. And they charge almost 5% on credit card purchases. This is possibly the worst service I've received read more

La Parrilla - $23 - Mexican Near Me - Los Angeles, California

Slow staff !!! It took more than a hour to get 3 burritos. Last time coming here that's for sure! Also food was definitely not worth the wait or the $62 for 3 burritos and 2 drinks . read more

Went with the family today and was looking forward to their wonderful food. I don't know what happened to this place as the food was a shadow of its former self. The quality has definitely gone down and I want to say it had something to do with the pandemic. The cuts of meat were of lower quality, the rice was awful, the beans were like a paste and not tasty at all. To top it off, they neglected to mention their credit card machine was broken and could only take cash. It truly is a shame as their food used to be the best around and we would go out of our way to visit this place. Would have been better off going to Taco Bell. Such a disappointment. read more

Absolutely horrible. I paid 18.00 for the worlds worst beef enchiladas. Total trash. They were dry and had little to no sauce plus they were bland with no seasoning. I will never order from this dumpster again read more

Great food. I'm vegetarian / Vegan and they have great options. I love the fact that they try to make people aware of how bad plastic straws are very bad specially for the environment. read more

La Parrilla - Mexican Near Me - Los Angeles, California

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Place is okay. My girl had a taco de papa that was good and I had a hard beef taco that was good. The concerning part was that my wet bean and cheese burrito tasted weird. I don't know how you mess up a bean and cheese burrito but‍. read more

The outside looks like something out of a Kitchen Nightmares episode. Unfortunately, the inside is worse. Cheap and tacky decor hangs from every possible surface -- where it has slowly collected a fine layer of dust. The only positive thing I can say is the dust would probably taste better than their food. read more

= GREAT DTLA MEXICAN FOOD = Saw that many people were complaining about the prices LA PARILLA charges, but I personally think it is reasonable considering it is just a few blocks north of Wilshire and Figueroa. * RESTAURANT * Located across from the Good Samaritan Hospital. I couldn't help but giggle when I walked inside the restaurant because it is filled with festive colors and decorations. Definitely not a romantic dinner spot, but a place that makes you feel at home and welcomed. * FOOD * Given the fact that I am not a Mexican food expert, I loved my CHILE RELLENO Y CHICKEN ENCHILADA ($10.95). Now.. Again... I never had this dish before, so I don't know how an authentic dish taste like, but the plate was filled with a generous serving of rice and beans, and I loved the oozing cheese coming from the Chile Relleno. We also got a complimentary soup and free chips & salsa. * SERVICE * Since we have a limited time for lunch, we called and placed our order in advance. My waitress forgot my Cafe de Olle and my table when we were asking for the check, but quickly brought us what we needed when we reminded her. * PARKING * Try to find street parking. Otherwise, there is a small parking lot that charge $4 flat parking on Witmer and Ingraham. read more

La Parrilla - Chile Relleno Y Enchilada $10.95 - Mexican Near Me - Los Angeles, California

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This place is legit. As soon as I walked in I knew I made a good choice. I order from their breakfast menu the food was delicious. The lentil soups was perfect for this rainy day. They serve freshly made tortillas. This is definitely a good place for food. read more

La Parrilla - Mexican Near Me - Los Angeles, California

I ordered the seafood special garlic butter camarones/shrimp ($15.95). It came with a side of rice, salad, and potatoes. Rice was bland, salad had no dressing but i liked it without it. Shrimp was okay, no big kick or freshness to it. The garlic butter sauce was average. I shouldve tried the a la diabla sauce instead. But their guac and tortillas were hand made and sooo good. Guac was nicely mushed but still had chunks and tortillas were freshly made. Yum. Would 10/10 recommend both. Horchata was also really good. Food was overpriced for the quality. Staff was super friendly, the environment felt home-y, a lot of art on the walls, awesome service. read more

La Parrilla - Seafood Special Camarones/Shrimp (garlic butter) served with rice and salad - Mexican Near Me - Los Angeles, California

I'm not sure if they are on the edge closing down or profit margins aren't good. But I asked for a carne asada plate, and it was like a 2 dollar meat that they charged $20 dollars for. Rice tasted like they had it under a not well scrubbed pot, it had a nasty taste to it. Brought out different plates, try to upsell beer. Not worth it. Won't ever step foot here again. read more

What happened to this place?? Used to have good service and good food. The wait staff was nice but the service was not great. Took a while to just get water. They could of got more money out of us because we wanted more drinks but no one bothered asking us if we wanted anymore. They also charge you a service fee for paying the bill with a card, which they didn't tell us about. Tried to ignore the low reviews, but it's true. Very bad experience. Will never come back here again. read more

Pretty good spot. We ordered two taco dinners comes with chips and salsa. The receptionist didn't understand our english we didn't know it comes as a plate where you fix the food yourself. The container came with chicken, lettuce, guacamole, salsa, pico de gallo, beans and rice with tortillas all seperated. They forgot the sour cream but it was pretty good read more

La Parrilla - Two chicken tacos dinners with chips and salsa $28 - Mexican Near Me - Los Angeles, California

Very good service. Drinks are good, food is excellent, decent prices , nice varied menu.Atmosphere will make you think you are in Mexico! Wish was closer to us, and parking was better. read more

Worst customer service very rude and unprofessional specially the waitress Luz screaming at you never coming back foods not Worth what they charge you.Take too long in helping you out .Food was not what I expected the place were we sat good but could've had been more attentive. read more

this place has really gone down over the last few years. I ate there today and it took two hours to bring out two drinks the appetizers and my main course on top of that there was a rubber band in my salsa and they didn't even offer me a drink, charged me the same price with not even a spoonful more of rice I wanted to leave, but we had already placed our order and I had already started my drinks and appetizers if I knew it was gonna be that long I would've left I recommend not going there. The food is good but for all that it took to get it it wasn't worth it . But it was one waitress, and she came back to the table like every 30 minutes or so read more

Came here with coworkers for a holiday lunch and was pleased with the decision. The building has "authentic Mexican restaurant" on the outside and I'd say this was accurate. The service was good and the food was good too. Service and food can slide during this time of the year, given the amount of parties, but we were satisfied. Though good, the food wasn't too different from the many similar restaurants of this type in this area. If invited, I would return without regret, but I wouldn't make a special trip here. read more

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Looking for an authentic Mexican restaurant to try real good Mexican food, this is it. I'm personally a big fan of Carne Asada and the way they make it here is so so good. I want the recipe! They also have an alcoholic Sangria that's so good and refreshing. The atmosphere is also very cultural and they give off Mexican vibes from all angles. They have a solid bar as well if you only want to drink. They've also added outdoor dining so that's very convenient as well. Highly recommend. read more

I wish this restaurant was better since it is close by. Service is slow! It wasn't busy either. I was by myself and ordered taquitos. It took a solid 45-50 minutes. No one came by to refill water... it was 97 degrees out and I walked. It was hard to get the water in the first place. Like many people here they are also reporting how slow it is. The rice portion was so tiny. The whole thing was light on well: food!!! It was covered up in heaps of sauce. Bean portion for a toddler under all the sauce. $19 plus tax. Took almost 1 1/2-1 3/4 hours for something you can get at a food truck for 1/2 the price. Not going back. I walk by often and go much much further. read more

This place doesn't even deserve 1 star as horrible as experience as it was. Heard decent things about this place so I thought I would try it out. Waited 10 min to be seated and it was slow. Once sat down took another 10 to get helped and once we did it was hard to track anyone down. What's really odd is we were the only white people in there and everyone else was getting great service. I don't believe in playing the race card deal but they truly didn't want us in there. read more

Stopped by with the husband for a Mexican dinner. We ordered a molcajete the expensive one with seafood and Carne Asada and chicken. It's for 2 ppl the amount of rice they gave us in each plate was a baby portions. Not even home made tortillas . And with all honesty the food wasn't great. The service took a long time but that doesn't really bother us when the food is worth it. read more

Service was horrible, waitress serve what ever she wants. We were a part of four, and I have to wait 25 min after the rest of the party end eating. read more

I ended up here only because the place I was going to was closed. So I figured why not. So walking in the door, you get a big wiff of what smelled to me like toilet cleaner. Not a good start. Not sure why places have to use cleaner that smells like toilet cleaner/freshner. But lucky for me we were not seated near the front. Once at our seat, near the kitchen, our server got us water and chips - salsa. Salsa was fine, chips were good, not stale. I ordered the grilled chicken burrito with no beans, rice and avo dip. Food came fast and tasted good, I liked it. Chicken was cooked good and tasted fresh. I liked the seasoning on it. I polished it all off. I would eat that again. Kind of weird when I asked what they put in/on the burrito, she said chicken. Just chicken? Yes just chicken , that's it. Wrapped in a tortilla, cheese on top, rice and avo dip on the side. Kind of weird , most places put all kinds of stuff in a burrito, but not here. Note: I did ask them to keep the beans. But it was a plane jane burrito. And I liked it. Im not one for sour cream and all the other crap. Some onions and tomato would have been nice. The place itself, other than that smell by the front door, was fine. Nice Mexican décor. Kind of patio back yard furniture to sit at. Nothing to write home about. Service was good, cost for the food was normal for downtown sit down restaurant food. Portion of food was good size. they did have a guy singing with a guitar, not bad. Over all a decent Mexican place to eat at. I think ill order again from here, I liked my burrito read more

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Fantastic food and service ! Wife in hospitial up street and needed their tacos ! Alway fresh peppers and cilantro and great drinks ! I have been going to this place for 20 years ! Feels like your having dinner with family read more