Alegria Cocina Latina - Long Beach

We wanted to take my mom out to lunch for her birthday. I’ve passed this place many times and it was right down the street from my church. Everything was great except the music was a little loud, which we weren’t expecting. My dad is 85 so we were a little worried but then my mom started bopping to the songs and my dad was loving the guacamole so it was ok. Overall we had a good time. The service and food were excellent.

The food was terrible, paid 30 a plate would have thought the food would have been better. The reservation was messed up, was not happy with it. However that part did work out cause the show was not worth the 40.00. It was. 15 min of stopping and swinging of the arms basically a dance that you saw In The 4 grade at a school assembly. This was supposed to be a date and at the end I felt I fail on picking a location that was going to be fun.

Food and music was good but the service sucked! Drinks were watered down, basically was a cup of juice. It was good Juice though lol. Our waiter partied outside with a couple of other tables. She barely came to check on us just to see if we wanted anything else and she seemed very stand-off ish with us. Like she wasn’t interested in helping us decide what was best or her recommendations on what to order or best drinks to get. We have 4 people in our party w/ a reservation for 5 but the 5th person cancelled last minute. They charged us over $50 for gratuity that clearly stated on the receipt party of 6 or more. When asked about it the waitress stated, “oh I thought you had a party over 6.” We asked her to remove it and she said “oh well it’s for COVID”. I honestly only gave 3 stars for the food. Definitely isn’t a place worth the hassle or the amount of money we spent.

Horrible!! So obnoxious and loud!! The hostess has a scowl on her face when I asked if they could turn the music down.

We had reservations for inside only to be told sorry we don't have table inside anymore? so why allow for inside reservations ? then they told us you have to be 21 or older to eat there so we went somewhere else.