La Cocina - Santa Barbara

Beautiful place, especially the patio with the olive trees. Some excellent dishes worthy of five stars, but also a few 2-3 star plates — unfortunately service was so so and the same spice profile was part of 3/4th of what we tried, plus the cocktails were weak. Lamb tacos and Ceviche tasted great, guacamole and chips were way too salty. Fried olives are worth trying, but best shared. Server and host were distracted despite it being an early dinner and the restaurant was still almost empty, except for the bar. Maybe still growing pains?

Nice looking restaurant. Nice staff. Loved sitting outside. Music was louder then I wanted, made it hard some times talking to those at my table. I had the chicken enchilada. They were good, not great and it was $18 for two not large ones, with no beans or rice. Guess you are paying for the atmosphere.

Nice atmosphere. I ordered the ahi ceviche it was a tiny portion not even an appetizer. The sauce it sat in was eh. It tells you some thing when were asking for more chips at the end of our meal. I think our whole table felt the same way.

I couldn't find real Mexican dishes here. My food arrived cold even though we were told that the plate came out as soon as their cooked. Ordered a beer and it was stale for some reason. Food was rather bland and portions were really small so it wasnt really worth the trip. Ended up leaving hungry :

We started off pretty excited. Menu looked great. I'll start off by saying we both got sick from the food. When i mentioned to the waiter the cucumber salad was bad (tasted rotten) they told me it was the dressing. It had already soaked into my tortillas which now smelled like feet. I was met with attitude and impatience. The pork was so salty i could barely choke it down. Seasoning on everything was weird and bitter... never coming back. Thanks for the rude dinner. Customers around us also complaining. Chips we're stale. Food was gross. Waitstaff poor. No thanks.