Manuel's Mexican - Aptos

Excellent food. It's a bit on the pricey side. Took advantage of the lunch specials. Make reservations if you want to eat here during dinner hours. Usually crazy

Always Great food but always hard to find parking. Only problem I had was with the male hostess 3/23/24 Told him my name for pick and said ok he'll check while the food was already done. After watching seat three families and not telling the bar employee for my order after 15 minutes standing at the entrance inside I decided to ask myself and soon realized my order was there the whole time. Great restaurant I just don't think their employees are very smart, I told the hostess to try and do his job better that I get better service in Mexico and he needs to step up his game and I wasn't leaving a tip because he forgot about me even though I was standing right in front of him and staring at him the whole time, maybe hire some local Aptos people.

With four stars, I had high hopes for this place, but it is decent at best.Parking was kind of a nightmare; I had to drive around in circles until I realized I would just have to park down the street and walk over. It’s not the worst, but it wasn’t the easiest. Upon arrival, it was packed….like so crowded you are literally sitting corner to corner with others. We thought about going elsewhere bc we just didn’t want to be THAT close to others. That actually almost happened as they said they did not see our name on the reservation list, but I told them I KNOW I made the reservation bc online, it says to call a week before your desired date; I didn’t just make that up. They hustled and bustled, and finally got us a seat.Three entrees, one guoc and four margaritas later, we were hit with a $120 bill pre tip. I mean that’s not expensive, but for a meal that was just OK at best, I would’ve taken my coins elsewhere.Overall, the place was meh. I am giving them three stars bc Jesus was a great waiter. Although he messed up our order, he fixed it, and fast. Food is out in about 5-7 minutes, and I get the idea that they don’t want you lingering. We came in thinking we’d have a few drinks, hang, eat, drink some more, but we were in and out in about 45 minutes.Likely won’t return.

This is an Excellent place to take your partner. Very good service, as well as a candle lit dinner. Overall 11/10

Excellent Mexican restaurant in Aptos. Love the carne asada tacos and margaritas!