Lamoraga Restaurant

We're visiting from Colorado and this location had excellent food quality and the portions were filling. The service was friendly and Manny answered all our questions. We loved that we got to enjoy our dinner without being interrupted every few minutes and Manny always walked by to make sure we didn't need anything. Perfect Spanish laid back feel. The braised short ribs were voted the best by our family and the flan did not disappoint. Thank you Manny!

Went for New Year’s Eve. It was a pre fixe menu. I wish they would have told us that when we made the reservation. Strike 1. The water had stuff floating in it. They explained the water needed to “settle”. Strike 2. We ordered drinks and they said they ran out of an ingredient needed to make the drinks. An hour after they opened? Strike 3. We left. Too bad. The menu we saw online looked good.

The ambience here is nice, and the dishes were great (albeit needing a bit more salt). I recommend the sea bass and their cocktails, and appreciate the vegan options available on their menu. Unfortunately though, the service was abysmal with very slow service (20m+ between table visits, without being busy whatsoever). In addition, I ordered a drink that I did not like (my fault, was happy to pay for it but wanted another) and had to be questioned by the manager why I didn’t like it after already telling my waitress about it. To top it all off, we of course tipped more than 18% (it was 4 people), but our waitress stopped us on the way out asking what was wrong with the service in a way that alluded to us not “giving enough” of a tip. I understand restaurant service wage needs to be improved and they rely on tips, but stopping a guest on their way out after trying to treat ourselves to a fancy dinner and paying what we felt was more than fair is an unprofessional look. I don’t think I’ll ever come back, but hopefully others get a better service when they visit!

I enjoyed that Lamoraga has clearly identified vegan options on the menu, I was unfortunately disappointed in the lack of seasoning/flavor in them. I tried the tostones and the pállela and while the tostones delivered on texture there was not much else to note about them. The pállela was missing any texture or soccarat and while it was filled with vegetables the rice was incredibly bland. Hoping I was there on an off night and that is not the usual standard for these dishes.