Restaurant La Bocanita

Fresh oysters, various shrimp and seafood dishes, but also meat dishes. We tried all and it was all fresh and very good. Rustic atmosphere, good service.
I will go back there for sure.

I had dinner here last night. A family runs this restaurant and the food tastes like authentic Mexican food. The salsa served with the chips was too spicy for me personally. The guacamole was delicious.
I thought this place was vegetarian friendly but upon arrival there wasn't anything on the menu. I asked the waiter about making me a vegetarian dish. They made me a gigantic burrito that only contained veggies. It was ok but I could barely eat half of it. The highlight was the mango margarita.

This restaurant is very small so it fills quickly. We went on a Saturday night, party of 3. There was live music which was nice, he was talented, but it was SO loud you can't have a normal table conversation. We never got drink or chip refills. Had to ask for napkins. It took quite some time for our food to come out after ordering. My food wasn't terrible but it wasn't flavorful for the price. There were definitely more peppers than (very dry) meat on my fajitas and the beans and rice had zero flavor. The flour tortillas were definitely the star of the show. Bf tried the bacon wrapped shrimp and they were AMAZING. The service was overall ok but not great.

We have eaten here before and haven't been disappointed. My son in law and I ordered the whole fish. They really know how to cook it, done but still moist. My wife had a delicious chicken enchiladas. Our granddaghter had a shrimp taco and a shrimp tostada, very good!

Worst chips and salsa of any restaurant in Santa Cruz County. Many entrees are to hot for most people. Other entrees are extremely over salty. Complaints are not welcome nor discounts or refunds allowed for unedible entrees. Shrimp cocktails are not deveined and we found some shrimp shells and a piece of plastic was found in one.

We'd heard that this place had really good seafood so we tried it. Of the four meals we had, only one was excellent. The others, not so much.

Garlic shrimp - really, really good with lots of shrimp and garlic
Grilled octopus - no way this was grilled and came in small pieces
Shrimp skewer - huge pieces of veggies. not good. Just look at the picture
Shrimp empanadas - way, way too doughy

Service was spotty at best. We had to walk over to the server for our bill. It was understaffed for the lunch rush.

All in all, it was a miss.

Great food but they don't have their liquor license. Not sure what happened because they had it, didn't have it, had it again, but now don't have it.

Too bad cause cold beers go great with their great food.

Finding restaurants, around Tubac that are open on Monday is like pulling hen's teeth, but a friend told us about this place and we thought we'd give it a try.

What a find! The margeritas were really good, and our entrees, were, spot on!

I had the shrimp in mushroom sauce with onions and jalapeños. The shrimp were a good size, and perfectly cooked. The mushroom sauce, onions and jalapeño rounded out the flavor profile. The Cole slaw 2as delightfully light, providing just enough acid to balance out the shrimp and sauce.

My 2ife loved the grilled fish which was well cooked and just melted in her mouth.

We are eyeing the fried ice cream for dessert, and are very happy we found this place.

We'll definitely be back!

P. S. This would have been a 5 star review had it not been for a couple of pesky flies that just wouldn't leave us alone.

It's not my cup of Horchata.
I find it a place that I would go to as last resort
Just the chairs themselves aren't comfortable. It's really cramped in there and the service is mediocre.

This used to be a GREAT place for Mexican style fish dishes. They must have changed ownership lately. We were in there last night with great expectations. I ordered my usual Pulpo al mojo de ajo (Octapus) and my wife ordered her usual Shrimp in mushroom sauce.
Usually my dish had Pulpo, rice, beans and cole slaw. This time it had pulpo and rice with a kinda mixed salad with no dressing. And Flour Tortillas. My wife's dish had shrimp, with the tails still on, broken cream sauce and no mushrooms, rice and the same mixed salad as mine.
It took them 45 minutes to bring the food. The price was reasonable.
They also quit serving alcohol, which meant we could not have our usual glass of wine.
We were thoroughly dissapointed with the meal and all else that added in. It used to be a wonderful place! Sorry, we won't be going back.