We found this place by accident and it was wonderful. We had $5 margaritas the tuna tar tar and the guacamole which was to die for.

This place is definitely not closed. We stopped in for lunch today with another couple and had a incredible meal. Definitely try the sangria, it is awesome. I have the fish tacos and my wife have the quesadillas. Both were excellent. This is a great place in the Garden District that is moderately priced and the food is excellent. I highly recommend it. read more

Mayas - Lunch - Latin American Near Me - New Orleans, Louisiana

Would give it 5 stars because it is one of the best latin restaurants in the city, but the service is terrible. I have been here at least 10 times and the food never disappoints, but i wish i could say the same about the service. The waiters never seem to know anything about the items on the menu, or the wine list. One time we had to open our own bottle of wine. They also need to update their website, as well as their hours of operation. Love the food, but terrible service. read more

We went here at a weird time on a Saturday, in between the brunch/lunch and dinner time. The drinks (I had a house margarita and my husband had a blackberry mojito) were fantastic. The food was delicious. I had the brisket dish, he had the skirt steak. While my food was very good, his skirt steak was amazing. I loved the fried plantains that came with our meals. We ordered dessert, strawberry filled churros with dulce de leche ice cream and it was phenomenal. We can't wait to go back. read more

We had an excellent lunch here, as we were walking around the neighborhood. We started with fried plantains which came with three interesting and subtle dipping sauces. Salad, enchiladas, Cubans sandwich, & quesadillas were all excellent. Large portions executed with flare & attention to detail. Check it out! read more

Went there for lunch around Mardi Gras. Food was fabulous!!! Service was great!! Reasonable prices.

Food was really good. A little on the expensive side. We sat outside with our dogs and we had to flag someone down after about 30 minutes to please come over to start ordering. read more

OMG. Fabulous. Was here on St Patty's day at noon and got seated right away. Guacamole and chips - awesome and also the seafood tostones. Drinks were on special and full strength and delicious. Staff were attentive, gave great advice and very friendly. Highly recommend this place! read more

Stumbled upon this gem when the restaurant we were heading to was closed. Everything was amazing and I left so full and with so much food to take home. We (two people) shared the yuca fritas and the mango guacamole for appetizers and I was so stuffed afterward I was only able to eat four bites of my lechon roasted pork before tapping out! They also give you a basket of tortilla strips with jalepeno mango sauce whicb basically tastes like duck sauce. The portions are humongous here which is great because it makes the price point worth it. My friend got the breakfast burrito which is massive and served as a wet burrito, so it is smothered in a delicious sauce. Our server, Juan, offered us some great suggestions and was lovely. Can't wait to go back! read more

Arriving during a thunderstorm, we were met by a server bringing us towels for drying! The great attention continued, including co-owner Trinity's barmixing and explaining his concept for the place. Just there for appetizers, the vegetarian friend enjoyed the Venduras, more sauteed veggies than rice, in a pleasant sauce allowing all the flavors to come through. I tried the Nacatamal. The pulled pork was the best I found in NOLA, and the tamale itself had wonderful corn taste without being salty. Brazilian beers and mojitos. Definite return here. read more

First time there. Had a great dinner. All the food was terrific, great wine, loved the menu and will be back. The menu was a great fusion balance between Latin, Caribbean and Asian. New orleans needs more like this. read more

Love Maya's - their mojito, sangria, Lechon-Roasted Pork, and Ropa Vieja

I've only eaten here twice, but both times were fantastic. I've tried the spring rolls, the avocado mango salad, and the verduras which were all good. read more

I think it's most accurate to describe this as a casual restaurant with pan-Latin American (including the Caribbean) fare. There are some tapas-style dishes, but they're more appetizers. This isn't really tapas -- and the tables are too small to make a tapas-style meal work. A lot of the food was excellent, particularly the yuca, tostones (made of plantains), and mango salsa. The guacamole was a little over-creamed, but the accompanying tortillas were excellent. The fish (I had a snapper special) was fresh and presented whole. The skewers had an abundant amount of meat. Seriously, though, the yuca. Get more than one plate. The restaurant is a bit uncomfortable -- the tables are a little short and small. Everything feels crammed in and pell-mell rather than planned out. It was cold. It's meant to feel casual, but instead it just feels scattered and cramped. It doesn't even really have the trendy "dive" style -- it just seems like they've put too many tables into too small a space and want it to be more classy than casual. It's casual. The service was slow and we often had to wave someone down (and we were there on a Saturday night). We ordered a veggie nacatamal and got one with pork. One of the drink orders was forgotten completely. The atmosphere and service leave a lot to be desired, but the food's solid. read more

Came here for a random date night with my fiance, and we LOVED it! It's definitely a pricey place, so can't come here all the time...but it was delicious. The crab and avocado salsa thing ( can't remember what it was called) as an appetizer was AMAZING. Atmosphere was cool...a littl ecclectic but still romantic, yet kinda lively. we really enjoyed this and will definitely be back. read more

Delicious food and sangria, as well as great service. This was my first time and I will definitely be returning!

Some of the best food I've ever had. We got the regular and fried plantains as an app. Delicious! I got the Cuban skirt steak which had amazing flavors. The wait staff were sweet and very attentive. Wish I could say more but honestly it is beyond words. If you are visiting New Orleans, I highly suggest it! read more

Enjoyed our fantastic meal at Maya's last night. The paella was as good as what I remember from Tio Pepe's in Baltimore and unlike Tio Pepe's they will serve it for one. A bonus was a special on house margaritas. read more

Fabulous food. Eat and drink anything Roberto recommends! The mojitos are the best. All four of us were blown away by how tasty the food is. read more

My wife and I are locals who love to eat out and are usually very forgiving, but this food was just awful- chips and salsa was more like fried wonton strips with bottled sweet chile sauce (no, really), there was more of this sauce on the tamale which itself was sickeningly sweet, rice and beans were paste from too many reheatings and plantains were fried-out cardboard. If I had to guess I would say the chef was more used to a Chinese takeout. Left feeling like I'd swallowed a brick. Truly disgusting. read more

Food is ok, they have the same rice and beans base for some of their plates which I think they should change a little. Staff is awesome. Cocktails are good. A little on the overpriced side in my opinion. The place is nice. read more

Too bad I can't give negative stars. I live in Manhattan and New Orleans and after many wonderful dining experiences in both cities, I would have a hard time picking a favorite but I can definitely say that my dining experience at Mayas was the worst of my life. We chose Mayas due to their Cinco de Mayo menu and in celebration of our Jazz Fest weekend. After a great day of the festival, we combined two standing reservations at Mayas with friends we met up with to make a party of 10. We thought it was 9 people, we were off my one - our mistake. 3 of us were there right on time, the remaining 7 of us arrived less than 10 minutes late after getting stuck in Jazz fest traffic on the way over. The first diners wanted to order appetizers to have things waiting, they were told to wait for the whole party and that there weren't enough menus. They added a chair to the end of the table and we apologized for miscounting. After ordering appetizers we waited about an hour for guacamole to show up and then at least another half an hour for the rest of the appetizers, which only came after we asked for chips to tide us over for food given we had been waiting over an hour and a half. Or order was taken by an assistant waiter, who was the only person who seemed to care about our dining experience and felt bad that everything was taking so long. The waitresses then came out with an order 20 minutes later or so (2 hrs in) and started screaming at the table "crab stack" which none of us had ordered, and she seemed very annoyed that none of us wanted to take the food. It was for the wrong table. After waiting for another 20 minutes without our order arriving, my sister (who works in the food service industry as a chef), asked to speak with a manager about the delays. The OWNER immediately started waving his finger in her face and saying "You added 2 people and you were 35 minutes late." He had mixed us up with yet a 3rd table. I was walking to the bathroom and saw him standing there cursing out my sister and said - whoa what are you doing buddy, at which point he realized we were another party. I said - we've been waiting for 2 hrs you should be apologizing - he said "ever been to Bayona's - it takes 2 hrs to eat there." Actually - I have been there (Susan Spicer - amazing!) and the main difference is that you're actually *dining* for 2 hrs and enjoying yourself in a professional establishment. When I pointed out that he Bayona's this was not he basically told us we weren't welcome and we could have our check. When the check arrived - it had a mandatory gratuity added for the worst service of my life. We all left upset, our rare time together ruined, with empty stomachs and feeling threatened, insulted, and robbed. read more

Absolutely the most incompetent restaurant experience of my life. Comically, insanely idiotic. Among at least five other "misunderstandings" prior to getting our actual food (coffee is wrong, they apparently can't steam milk even though they offer espresso and we ordered cafe con leches, request for salsa forgotten, request for salt forgotten, etc etc etc....) my friend explicitly told the dingbat waiter that she is deathly allergic to avocado. Her food comes smothered in avocado, we tell the waiter, and since we're already totally over it, we just tell them to leave it but take it off the bill, and I switch my food with hers so we can just get the hell out of there instead of waiting another 20 minutes for a replacement. The bill comes, and the avocado smeared entree is still on the bill. Again, we ask to have it removed, finally it's removed,we pay and I approach the manager/bartender to let him know that as a person who's worked in restaurants forever, this by far the most inept service I've ever experienced. Dude then actually cops an attitude and blatantly accuses us of trying to scam them for free food... Seriously. Cannot even f'ing believe the layers of audacity and idiocy at this place. It's like a vortex of total incompetence and gracelessness. Never go here. read more

Sat for 20 minutes at a table outside and didn't even get our drink order taken. They were not even packed. Only 6 people seated. Tries to get waiters attention and he completely ignored me. Pure incompetence. Don't waster your time. Too many good places to eat In the area. read more

Made a reservation. Got to the restaurant and it was closed. Surprised that open table allowed the reservation to be made

I went there tonight for the first time and it was beyond my expectations. I had to get a to-go box and later started watching a movie as I was eating some more of the left overs. It was still so good I had to pause the movie in order to let everybody know how wonderful this food is and how gracious and knowledgeable the staff is. I don't know where any of these bad reviews are coming from (?) but I can tell you this one is more than authentic and so is the food as well as the service. Thank you Mayas and everybody there, Doug D read more

My husband and I were on Magazine, in search of a great restaurant, for some reason most places were closed. We stumbled on Mayas... omg, it was delicious!!!! We talk about it all of the time, the best restaurant on Magazine St. We will be back! read more

Loved the freshness and variety of the food. The entree portions are quite large and vey shareable. Service is great - our server Victoria was very helpful and accommodating. We will definitely return as there were a number of dishes we would like to have tried but after a huge bowl of curry we simply could not eat any more! read more

Went for the first time with a friend who LOVES this place. Great atmosphere, decor and service. I found appetizer, salsa and treatment of soft crab overly sweet. You can do the sweet thing if you have the acid or spiciness to enhance. Unfortunately, just sweet. Would definitely try again as the place has a lot of good going for it. read more

The caipirinhas were delicious but the food was bland and didn't have much flavor. It was overly salty We had an appetizer of crab cake and that was good. The owners were very friendly. Might be worth a second try as it seemed they were going though some changes. read more

Terrible management, terrible kitchen-- I've been going to Maya's since it first opened and have always loved the food and the drinks (mojitos are always good) but tonight was terrible. We came in as a party of four on a Saturday night at 8 pm. It was crowded, but nothing new for these guys. Our apps ended up taking almost an hour to come out and our entrees took over 2 hours to arrive since our seating. Our waitress, apologetic enough, brought out a small serving of chips and a single serving of sweet chili sauce for dipping to sustain us in return for the long wait. When I suggested that since we were ordering twice as many drinks than we would have without the wait that it would be nice if she comped one round she said she would. Our food finally came out and the seafood paella that I had ordered was in fact a pile of fried, unseasoned rice with clams and mussels full of grit and shrimp improperly pealed. I was too tired (it was 10:15 by this point) to send it back. Then when she brought our bill she told us hat she gave us the "military discount" of 15% off our bill for the inconvenience, but when I looked at it, it wasn't even enough to offset the 9.5% tax, so I figured that this "discount" was really just 15% off the food bill and not the four drinks per person we racked up. The manager never came out to apologize. In the end, poor management, poor kitchen and I'm sad to say that I won't be patronizing Maya's anytime soon. It's really too bad...I used to love this place. read more

great food, sat outside on a beautiful day. The food was very fresh and delicious and the wait staff was great. Only complaint was the restaurant smelled of strong perfume like carpet fresh that is why we sat outside which was a great decision. read more

Was served old wine. Also, $13 for a margarita that wasn't top shelf and was made using sweet and sour mix. Can't comment on the food, couldn't make it past the drinks. read more

We had a delicious meal at Mayas last night. Devon, our server, was a delight. She knew the menu and was very attentive. We split the Pampas salad--very generous portion easy to share==wonderful with asparagus, grilled steak, cheese. The seafood moqueca was exquisite, as was the ropa vieja. Good wine list too. Hoping this great innovative Latin restaurant is not discovered too soon. We will be back. read more

Great food. Top notch service. I loved the Caribbean Fish with yellow curry. Grilled or breaded it's outstanding!

Just had a great lunch at the bar. Fish tacos were probably the best I've ever had and the sangria was delicious. The prices were reasonable, the ambiance was relaxing, and our bartender, Michael, was friendly and entertaining. I only wish there was a Maya' s in my neighborhood. read more

The food was amazing. The Tuna Tartar, Monterrey Chicken, and Carnitas Pibil were outstanding. Very large portions perfect for sharing or guaranteed leftovers. Several other things on the menu sounded delicious. It was hard to choose! Can't wait to go back! read more

Great looking place with good music, but should be classified as Latin fusion, not Cuban... If you're looking for traditional Cuban, it's not here. Food was decent, not great, but the Mojito was very good. read more

We stumbled upon this little gem on Magazine Street. Incredibly delicious and authentic. Love the guacamole and the hanger steak is amazing.

Stumbled upon this place while visiting the city and couldn't have been more delighted. Excellent food, great drinks and friendly wait staff. The mango habanero salsa was fantastic and if you don't try the guac, you're a fool. If I'm ever in town again, I'll be sure to go back. read more