Well I recentlty just visited this particular restaurant(CASA NUEVA/PICANTE), reasonable prices, good menu, NO ALCOHOL (boo), & well good food for at least part of my meal. Then it happened a baby cockroach runs across table. I killed it, seconds later another, killed it. Then behind some salt & peeper shakers ANOTHER. I showed the waiter & he ...

Our twenty-something kids believe this is the best Mexican restaurant in the San Diego area. We think it has great food, service is friendly, but a little slow. It does tend to get noisy from the cantina, but the food tastes great.

This little hole-in-the-wall is definitely NOT for the family night out. Service is draggingly slow, food barely resembles Mexican cuisine. Personnel seems to have no care for satisfying the customer. Bar seems to be the hub of activity; maybe it should be touted as a gathering hole for a night out. Never again ! /S/ just a mom