La Malinche Bar & Grill

I lived in San Diego for years, so I’m pretty jaded when it comes to good Mexican food, but this place impressed me. Their chips are good and their salsa selection was excellent, with hot and mild red salsa and a mild non-​traditional verde. I had chicken enchiladas with a verde sauce – it was excellent. The rice and beans were as expected. I’m looking forward to going back to try more things from the menu.

This place was awesome. Loved the tacos and cebollitas. I’m not a big fan of the loud Mexican music but it felt like I was home. This place deserves a try if you in the area.

Monica was a sweetheart! All salsas are made in small batches and the flavor so are perfect. They were all spicy but we love spicy. The house margarita was outstanding with fancy pink salt around the edge. Tried cactus or «nopales» for the first time. Had the mouthfeel of a mushroom with a grilled salty flavor. Al pastor was on point. Will definitely go back and recommend to friends!

My husband and I headed to Pupasita Express last night for dinner and when we got there, found they were closed on Mondays. Two doors down was La Malinche so we decided to check them out. We were the only people in the restaurant the entire time we were there. No one even came in to pick up food. Bad sign #1! The waitress brought us an array of different salsas (3 of them). All were way too spicy (I was hoping one would be at least mildly spicy) and totally «off» — none of them were anything like we’ve ever tasted before. The 4^th container was filled with pickled vegetables (jalapenos, carrots, onion) and it had a long, black hair in it! We were so repulsed and in hindsight, we should’ve went and got our waitress (she had disappeared in back). We picked it out and didn’t finish eating any of these salsas! We didn’t say anything to the waitress either when she brought our food out… again, I know that was our mistake.
The food was mediocre. I had the chicken enchiladas with mole sauce. I’m a mole aficienado and this was just «OK». The rice was totally bland and tasteless. My husband had the steak burrito and he too said it was just «OK». He said the burritos at Tacos El Norte are much better.
I woke up very early this morning with terrible stomach pain and my husband had intestinal problems, too! STAY AWAY FROM THIS PLACE!
Go to Tacos El Norte instead — decent mexican food, clean (have never found a hair in our food!), and have never gotten sick there.

Loved this place! We just found it and have been back twice. Great margaritas that are handmade, huge, and boozy and not too sweet!
Love the green salsa and the al pastor. Highly recommend. Personally, I’ve been going to Tacos El Norte for years but now prefer this place!

It’s not a bar, only 5 seats crammed on a small bar. It’s not a pool hall, but there are two pool tables. Odd. Big area cleared away for dancing and karaōke. Odd. Think family owned authentic Mexican restaurant with inexpensive décor and a few more tables than normal. However, both drink and food menu is well done and both are well executed (for authentic). Not related to this review, but please let there be some imagination brought to this cuisine and then brought out to the Suburbs.

Excellent authentic Mexican! Their mini chimichangas are amaaaazing. Their poppers aren’t just full of cream cheese and frozen like most places, it’s a spicy fresh jalapeño pepper. It’s very good.
They’re open late w a pool table. I hear they have karaōke, also. Cool place, check it out.