La Catrina

Great, authentic Mexican food, like when I lived in CA. To save time, we did takeout and am very happy with all the “extras” added to the bag. What a great value! We’ve dined in, more than we do takeout and the atmosphere is fun, comfortably cozy. This is my GO TO Mexican restaurant in the greater Portsmouth area!

We enjoyed our anniversary dinner. I had a Mango Tango and my husband had a Bahama Mama. We both enjoyed our drinks. Our dinners were delicious and had plenty for leftovers!!

I'm sad. Ordered steak Burrito Colorado. It had only steak in it, no sauce, and the steak was rubbery. This place is not worth even whispering the name of. Stale chips.

It's difficult to find good Mexican food in the northeast, even more so outside of Boston, but La Catrina is actually worth visiting! It's a small thing but the Tortilla chips were so addictively good that they threatened to fill us up before our entrees arrived, very crunchy, and the guacamole was abundant and well made. We both got fajitas and found the portion sizes impressive, I don't think you'll be leaving hungry at all. My two minor complaints are that the table we sat on was somewhat too small to fit all of the food, I was putting my drink cup on the window sill to keep it from getting knocked over. The last complaint is that as a Mexican restaurant, I personally feel that you should carry a very spicy hot sauce to delight and humble your patrons. All you would need to do is print

If I could I'd exclusively eat their chorizo tacos, burrito cochinita pibil and the pineapple fajitas on rotation. Their enchiladas are also delicious! If they offered the cochinita pibil pork as a taco meat I'd be in super heaven. Their drinks are great and the bar/servers work incredibly hard. Watching them on a taco Tuesday or a Friday/Saturday night its crazy watching their rhythm. Skinny marg and house marg are what we usually order but also they carry the guava Jarritos which is hard to find and is my favorite so big plus. My only complaint is that the men's bathroom always smells awful and I've been going here for 5 years.