Reimagined cantina features Tex-Mex comfort food with an upmarket twist along with a tequila menu. Based on 567 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.4 stars. Price $$
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Takeout ✔️ Delivery
Address:
FARMERS AND MERCHANTS BANK BUILDING, 118 4th St, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Phone: (213) 687-8002
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Hours
| Friday | 5–10 PM |
| Saturday | 5–10 PM |
| Sunday | 4–9 PM |
| Monday
(Labor Day)
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Closed |
| Tuesday | 5–10 PM |
| Wednesday | 5–10 PM |
| Thursday | 5–10 PM |
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Order and Reservations
Reservations: opentable.com
Reviews
Martina Mattar
3,5 / 5 – Staff was super friendly, nice atmosphere, but the food we ordered didn’t impress.
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Al Wong (wcb79)
Came here on a recommendation from a friend, and it definitely didn’t disappoint. The staff was super friendly. I asked them about portion sizes and any dishes they’d recommend. My favorite was the puffy shell shrimp taco.
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Jemelleh Coes
The food was great! I had the Mexican crispy half chicken. It was pleasantly satisfying, and it was as healthy as a dish like that could be! The portion size was large enough for two people. The pitcher of margaritas had LOTS of ice. I wish it had less ice as it watered down the drink. The people were great, and the atmosphere was good. It was a little pricey but still pretty good!
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Marcus Toji
Food was great, service was great.
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Laura Mills
Great food and cocktails, definitely worth a visit!
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Ajay Parekh
Sensational. The best tex-mex cuisine I have ever tasted. We were seriously full. I had the vegetarian enchiladas, rice and beans, selection of starters, oh and I discovered tequila! Greeted with a smile, thanks Eddy.
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Topher B
Amazing food! What a pleasant surprise. I had just gotten into town and stumbled upon this place in search of Mezcal in the area. While my drink was amazing, the food was the star! The only reason this isn’t a 5 star review is because our table was not ready, but we were offered to sit on the outside patio/alley for drinks until our table was available. We never got notification of our table as we wished to move inside as there was some sort of singles event going on outside. Possibly a missed communication. Would still highly recommend!
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Sandra Simmons
A few months ago the Food 52 cookbook club on Facebook (around 35,000 members) cooked from the Bar Amá cookbook and everyone fell in love with Tex-Mex, Josef Centeno’s family stories, the absolutely excellent recipes, and the alcohol section too. When I finally decided to fly after months and months of being at home during the pandemic, I came to see my daughter in Los Angeles and had literally only one food wish – to go to Bar Amá. I wasn’t disappointed. They have the alley open for outdoor dining, our server was fantastic and she seemed to enjoy all my cookbook stories , I mean, if she didn’t, she hid it well lol! Everything we had was excellent, see the photos. If you haven’t yet been you should go and don’t forget the B side of the menu the blistered okra was stellar and so was the za’atar labneh & puffy bread. P.S. BUY THE COOKBOOK! I’ve made 40-50 of the recipes, they all are totally worth it!
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Jay Keyes
I came to Bar Amá for one thing: puffy tacos. Bar Amá’s Mexican-American chef (and recent Michelin Star winner), Josef Centeno, is from San Antonio, the city that invented the puffy taco. The puffy taco, a Tex-Mex staple, has made a slow migration to Southern California, now with (at least) two restaurants that serve them in L.A. County: Bar Amá and Arturo’s Puffy Tacos in Whittier. At Bar Amá, they’re available to order off of a “secret menu,” and different varieties are rotated daily. I ordered both available on the evening I was here, the “Puffy Shrimp Taco” and the “Puffy Cochinita Pibil Taco.”
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Parker Green
Bar Ama was a blast! I had a wonderful and delicious lunch here!
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