Cantina Laredo

Hands down the best Mexican restaurant in the area! Consistently blown away by the food and amazing flavors. It’s a top family favorite. You have to try this place!

I have been to this place several times and each time it has been amazing! This part of Florida seems to be severally lacking in good Mexican cuisine but this place destroys that stereotype. I have not had one bad item on the menu.

Even though this place is a chain restaurant it is one of my absolute favorites in San Destin! You gotta try this place! Get the Mole… trust me

This place is great! I love how the guacamole is made at your table, it tasted so fresh and was easily some of the best guac I’ve ever had. We had the Cantina Mojito and Casa Rita Margarita, both delicious. Service was warm and friendly and the restaurant has a nice atmosphere, with super comfy booths. I ordered the Enchiladas Veracruz, and while it was delicious I wish they had used a little more spinach, but they were still good. This place is definitely a little pricey but it’s well worth it.

First time visiting this restaurant and will be the last. Service was terrible — our waitress was awful! I love margaritas but their pre made margarita mix was disgusting! The salsa was watered down and the chips were so greasy — the fish tacos smelled bad and made my daughter sick — my chicken was ice cold in the center — I did not even finish my meal — do not waste your money to go here — BAD FOOD — SHITTY SERVICE!

What an amazing lunch with the best enchiladas I have ever had. The tortillas were freshly made and the individual sauces on my chicken, beef and cheese were outstanding. A truly gastronomical experience.

Dear person considering coming here:
First, you should understand that this is not authentic Mexican food. If you go here, please don’t walk away thinking «that’s what Mexican food tastes like». It’s not. (I have a Hispanic surname for a reason. I grew up in Arizona. With Nanas that can cook well.)
Second, I can only assume the other glowing reviews are tourists comparing this place to Taco Bell or … Chipotle? Because this place is kind of good compared to them (albeit VERY pricy)
Third, what sets this place apart is its upscale ambience and location. It’s across the street from Brooks Brothers. It has very nice seating. It has a classy (ish?) looking bar area.
If you’re an older male tourist looking to impress your friends by throwing some cash around, this is your place. If you’re somebody with an even mildly sophisticated palate, look elsewhere.

It was our second trip to the Laredo.
The salsa is exceptional, particularly the warm salsa.
Casa Rita’s are very good.
We went with the fish taco, fish special of the day, and it was a grouper and it was exceptional.
There may be a bit of a wait, but the bar is comfortable, the servers are nice and they have TVs. Our wait was not much more than 15 minutes, although there were some people that said their weight had been closer to 45 minutes.
The Mexican is a bit more expensive than typical, but I thought that the food quality was well worth it.

Good food. Great service. Good ambience. The drink specials are great (be fore warned, the mixed drinks are strong). I would strongly suggest the table side guacamole as an appetizer.

My first time eating there was yesterday. Best Mexican food I have ever had!
Highly suggest this place.

The food was good but overpriced. The quality wasnt such that I would go back. Not that it was bad but it just wasnt great either. We had the mixed fajitas, tableside guacamole which was very good, chicken quesadilla (average). The drinks were inconsistent in that the first one was different tasting from the second one right down to the glass it was served in. 1^st coconut mojito was tart 2^nd was sweet. Dessert was the brownie sundae, apple pie, tres leches. Service was a long drawn out process of over 2 hours but we were enjoying our evening so that was ok. But not for every occasion.

This is actually a 3.5 review. We just moved from San Antonio and explored all of South Texas for some incredible hole-​in-​the-​wall joints that served tremendous Tex-​Mex. It’s hard to do classy Mexican in a resort town like Sandestin and comparing them to South Texas is an outright mismatch.
Nice Place, clean and upscale. Wait Staff dropped the ball initially and when we mentioned that, service sky-​rocketed. Dante stepped in, was very good and turned that ship around.
Food was actually decent and the Carnitas entrée was outstanding! For those of you who know what German Schwein Haxe is, their Carnitas are three smaller versions with a boatload of meat! Ask for the tortillas and build your own Carnita tacos… and use the warmed salsa… Yow! Bar menu is very good and a decent happy hour. Fish Tacos were only OK and that’s surprising for a fishing resort like Destin. They could have spiced the fish a bit more to give them some zest. Salsa and chips were super.
Overall, expensive for Mexican fare but that’s to be expected in Sandestin. Service was mediocre to start, but picked up. Overall, food was actually quite good.

Our all time favorite Mexican restaurant!!! This location is as great as the others. Great salsa, queso, fajitas and some other shrimp/​chicken dish my husband ordered. Service was prompt and friendly.
Highly recommend!!!

Upscale Mexican is not easy to pull off. Cantina Laredo figured it out. My wife and I had lunch here for the first time a few days ago and we both really enjoyed it. My wife ordered a salad and the tortilla soup, both of which she really liked. The greens in the salad were crisp and fresh and the chicken was very well seasoned and blackened while still being juicy. My wife (who is Mexican) said that is exactly how her father used to grill chicken. I really wanted desert, so I ate light. I just ordered the Ahi Tacos from the appetizer menu. The three little tacos were the perfect mix of sweet and spicy. The fish was sashimi grade and was perfect. The presentation of the food was nice too and everything looked as good as it tasted.
We then split the Mexican Apple Pie, which they prepare with cinnamon ice cream and a butter sauce in a sizzling skillet right at your table. It was far and away my favorite desert on our recent trip to the emerald coast.
The service was attentive and friendly and the lunch was great. We would definitely return.

The food was horrible. The meat was dry and rubbery. Even the kids enchalada was dry and hardly anything in the enchalada.
I WOULD NOT WASTE MY TIME EATING HERE.
waitress was friendly though…

Absolute worst service we’ve gotten at any restaurant in the Miramar Beach/​Destin area. The food looked GREAT and smelled SOOOO delicious… but I can’t tell you how it tastes. My wife and I sat patiently waiting for service for 30 minutes… wait staff never even came by to even take a drink order.
They seemed to have plenty of time to stand around and socialize with one another — but not enough time to serve their customers.
After 30 minutes of waiting patiently, and dealing with a very rude hostess, we walked out.

Dined here last night with a party of 11, based on Unilocal reviews. Mexican is my favorite food, and this is definitely a more upscale Mexican joint. We did call-​ahead seating, which was perfect for our large group. We only had to wait about 5 minutes for a table at 7:00 on a spring break Tuesday night.
The menu offered a fantastic-​looking, diverse selection, and everything our folks ordered was proclaimed tasty. We got the table-​side Guac since it had such rave Unilocal reviews and IMO it was good but not any better than any freshly-​made Guac you can get in dozens of restaurants these days. I had carnitas tacos on flour shells (rather than corn). The pork was delicious. My hub had tacos al carbon with chicken. And while his tolerance for spicy is higher than most – loves a good kick – the roasted pepper on his tacos was so strong that it nearly choked him and with just one bite, he felt the heat for the rest of the meal… heck, the rest of the night. Be cautious with these!
Service was deplorable, unfortunately. We waited so long to be greeted, we had to ask a hostess who our server was. We ordered drinks that took so long, we had to inquire about them multiple times. I ordered the margarita special that was featured prominently on a poster at the front door but the waiter had no idea what I was talking about. When I requested it over ice vs straight up, the waiter was uncertain it would be accommodated by the bartenders (as it turns out, it was). The mojito my hub got was outstanding, once it finally arrived. Food came out in a reasonable time, but the separate checks we requested took three attempts to get straight.
Parts of our experience were good here, but there just weren’t enough of them that I’d bother returning.

Lively feel. Fancy enough but not snooty at all. Friendly, but forgetful, but friendly. Messed up drink, order, waited 15 min for chips after delivered fresh made guac… Seriously guys, cmon. Mixed drinks above average quality & taste. Hair in food but s happens. Comped that plate, thus we left 25% tip on original amt. brownie was very good. Will return.

If you’re in the San Destin area, you must visit this restaurant. The quality of food and excellent customer service is the best you will find when it relates to Mexican cuisine. Fresh food, awesome drinks, and a friendly face will make you wanna sit in your chair for hours upon end. I’ll give it a 4.7 but Unilocal only do whole number reviews.

Came here with my SO, cousin, and cousin’s wife for dinner the night before a triathlon. I had one of my cousin’s ahi tuna taco appetizer bites, and it was delicious. I normally stay away from raw tuna — I’m just not a fan — but this won me over.
I ordered the chicken tacos, which came with pico de gallo, avocado slices, rice and beans. They were very good, and plentiful. The free chips and salsas are an obvious staple at a place like this. They had a warm mild salsa and a cold spicy salsa. Neither was anything special, but we sure ate a lot of those chips.
The service was pretty good, but I wasn’t a fan of the general ambience. No real character in the place. And it seemed pricey for run-​of-​the-​mill Mexican food.
But it did the trick.