Based on 234 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.6 stars. Price $
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Takeout ✔️ No delivery
Address:
301 W Santa Fe Ave, Placentia, CA 92870
Phone: (714) 996-8001
Hours
| Friday | 10 AM–8 PM |
| Saturday | 10 AM–8 PM |
| Sunday | Closed |
| Monday
(Labor Day)
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10 AM–8 PM
Hours might differ
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| Tuesday | 10 AM–8 PM |
| Wednesday | 10 AM–8 PM |
| Thursday | 10 AM–8 PM |
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Reviews
Jordan Klinger
Family owned, prices are great, food is delicious if you’re into greasy Mexican food. Service can be slow mostly because it’s family owned and under staffed, but they do at times hire people for busy days or times. My friend brought me here originally and I came back 10 days consecutively to try everything on the menu that looked good to me, Love this place.
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Terry Massie
Alva is sweet and gracious always! The food is like eating at someone’s grandmother’s house. Just plain ole delicious food! Before you order, she brings chips and salsa and a creamy avocado dip and your drinks. I had their Ground Beef Tacos and a Chile Rellano and my husband had the 301 special – all delicious! We have been coming here for years, but moved away 7 years ago and still come here every chance we get!! Be patient if it’s busy as Alva serves every table!!
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Marvin Garcia
Chili Verde is my favorite of all Mexican dishes if done right! I go here once a week for their Chili Verde Wet Burrito and ask them to add Sour Cream on top. They also serve everyone chips, HOT salsa, pickled carrots & a Jalapeño, and a creamy guacamole. I eat my wet chili Verde burrito with the added sour cream and creamy guacamole! The very best Chili Verde dish I’ve every known in my 59-years of life. Just one elderly man and one elderly woman run this Cafe. The dining atmosphere is quite run down and the men’s restroom is scary. So don’t go to the bathroom! Come for the best ever Chili Verde wet burrito and ask for Sour Cream on the top!
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Lynn Jarosz Goode
Have been coming here for forty years. Same waitress Maria and she remembers us! Chicken Mole to die for and love the pickled carrots
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Chris Mojarad
Alma’s food is truly the best Mexican food I have ever had. She makes everything from scratch, including her chips, salsa, guacamole and pickled carrots and jalepenos, that come with every meal. The value is unbelievable. My go to is the 301 special. It is $11 and includes a Tostada, Taco, Enchilada, Tamale or Chile Relleno, Beans and Rice! It is a lot of high quality Mexican food for a great price. Alma’s beans are amazing! I don’t know what she puts in them, but they have unbelievable flavor. They taste a little nutty with a very slight hint of sweetness. I call them “crack beans”, because they are addictive! I really don’t know how this restaurant has not been featured on countless food TV shows. The 301 Cafe is an absolute hidden gem of Orange County!
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Brian Law
The aerospace industry was booming in the early ’60s. My father and his friends would cash their checks at 301 Cafe to buy pitchers of beer on Payday. We families would join the party and eat dinner with them. I ate my first “restaurant” taco at here in 1964-65.
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Lucinda Brinks
Although it’s been many years since I’ve been here, it hasn’t changed a bit. First started coming here in 1964. I loved how the salsa would make my nose run. I was not disappointed in reliving those memories.
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Jose Macias
Just like mom making us food. . Must try it. Eva and Juan thank you.
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Ramona Lopez Nunez
My girlfriend took me here yesterday the one on Santa Fe in placentia, my first time, loved the food, service was terrible, it took a while to get our chips, salsa & carrots, loved the guacamole, I have never been anywhere where they gave you that for free, we got our 7Up and Modelo pretty quick, she was by herself they weren’t busy and it took them 40 minutes to make a cheese enchilada with rice for me and one tamale for my girlfriend, plus a table who came in after us were served before us, and there were three or four of them there were only two of us, she needs help in there, and the tone that that cook used while he was talking to the poor server, not cool.
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Kathi Willburger
This restaurant has fantastic Mexican food at a great price.
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