Mariscos El Nayarita

The food is delish! Best aguachile verde!

Some of the best seafood on central coast. Nicest staff great place .

Love Nayaritas sea food ....good service quality food i had great time and most of all my palate is delighted. 😊😆

Food is always succulent and bountiful and the staff is always friendly! A must when you are in the area!

Food seemed really fresh and was good. Service was attentive. Enjoyed our visit got busy as we left so arrive early :)

As others have said, BEST seafood in Watsonville. This place contends with any other seafood place in the county for sure. The oysters and plates are all amazing, and the drink selection is great as well. Highly recommend trying this place if you haven't!

Great food. Shrimp tostadas were delicious. Staff was very friendly. The music was amazing. Plenty of seating. Parking is a little difficult. But itd worth it.

We stopped in just after they opened, so we had the place to ourselves initially. We ordered the garlic prawns and the shrimp and cheese empanadas. The chef brought our plates out to us personally which made us feel appreciated. We couldn't eat our food fast enough, it was that good. The prawns were cooked to perfection and the empanadas were amazing. Thank you again

Best Aguachiles ever

TheBayArea.831

Great food. Shrimp tostadas were delicious. Staff was very friendly. The music was amazing. Plenty of seating. Parking is a little difficult. But itd worth it.

Gabriel

We stopped in just after they opened, so we had the place to ourselves initially. We ordered the garlic prawns and the shrimp and cheese empanadas. The chef brought our plates out to us personally which made us feel appreciated. We couldn't eat our food fast enough, it was that good. The prawns were cooked to perfection and the empanadas were amazing. Thank you again

Juls Vale

Best Aguachiles ever

They have great tasting seafood. It is rare that i say that about any reateraunt. My go to is their Fish Tacos and let me tell you, they are so good that anyone who would dare try to eat one of my fish tacos of my plate, will get a serious beat down. Yeah, they are that good. Next time your in town or craving sea food, this is the place you want to go to. Hands down, great food with some serious kick and succulant flavor.

This place is bomb!! I know me some good ceviche and this place has incredible ceviche de pescado! I literally wanted to throw it up just to eat it again!! Like that bro! The fish tacos, AMAZING, and the green salsa off the hook. Alexa, the cashier, she was just as awesome as the ceviche! Not only did she provide great service, but as I waited for my delicious meal she fed a homelessman that sat outside 💗Thanks Mariscos Nayarita for the amazing take out experience that took place in my place humble CRV 😀

Got Mariscos plate and shared with my family. It was amazing. Best mariscos I've eaten. Also tried the fried prawns and they were also great. Current on low carb and this hit the spot.

Honestly I didn't eat there YET. The employees were nice and the food smelled great. I was just grabbing DoorDash for someone and they were willing to pay money to have a dollar to their house so it must be pretty good. I like the way the dining room set up and the music. I think it would probably be a fun place to hang out on a Saturday or Friday maybe Sunday They have a bar too

David Nguyen

Got Mariscos plate and shared with my family. It was amazing. Best mariscos I've eaten. Also tried the fried prawns and they were also great. Current on low carb and this hit the spot.

Mari Mercury

Honestly I didn't eat there YET. The employees were nice and the food smelled great. I was just grabbing DoorDash for someone and they were willing to pay money to have a dollar to their house so it must be pretty good. I like the way the dining room set up and the music. I think it would probably be a fun place to hang out on a Saturday or Friday maybe Sunday They have a bar too

Cassandra Ortiz

This place is bomb!! I know me some good ceviche and this place has incredible ceviche de pescado! I literally wanted to throw it up just to eat it again!! Like that bro! The fish tacos, AMAZING, and the green salsa off the hook. Alexa, the cashier, she was just as awesome as the ceviche! Not only did she provide great service, but as I waited for my delicious meal she fed a homelessman that sat outside 💗Thanks Mariscos Nayarita for the amazing take out experience that took place in my place humble CRV 😀

Xavier Hunter

They have great tasting seafood. It is rare that i say that about any reateraunt. My go to is their Fish Tacos and let me tell you, they are so good that anyone who would dare try to eat one of my fish tacos of my plate, will get a serious beat down. Yeah, they are that good. Next time your in town or craving sea food, this is the place you want to go to. Hands down, great food with some serious kick and succulant flavor.

Decent. Very busy on a Sonday night and we were the only Caucasians, so that's probably a good sign about the authenticity.

It is my first time and was ok , ill be coming back to give theme a second chanse to earn 5 stars

I work out of town and this place is good recomend it for will be back the sea food is goood👍😎

Food is always great.. al Little crowded and loud but very good

Nice atmosphere, good food and the service as well

The mariscada platter was excellent...ordered it with the Chipotle salsa on the side. Shrimp empanadas were also great.

o oshiro

The mariscada platter was excellent...ordered it with the Chipotle salsa on the side. Shrimp empanadas were also great.

The place is very good if you like delicious mexican style seafood and having a few beers only few set backs would be the overall price and the slightly agressive eye contact from other people eating there. If your in the area i recommend trying the shrimp empanadas or the bacon wrapped shrimp. Expect to spend at the very least 25 to 30 dollars a person.

I love this place, it's so good and it's thanks to them that my boyfriend likes seafood! The service is usually great although this last time we waited so long to even have our drink order taken meanwhile the waitress joked and flirted with the table full of men next to us...the only other reason I'm not leaving 5 stars is their octopus, it's super small slices of octopus in any dish, even if your dish is primally octopus, you'll never get nice big pieces, it's always slivers of it. I'll take the bad with the freaking amazing though and return every damn time.

Jennifer Cortez

I love this place, it's so good and it's thanks to them that my boyfriend likes seafood! The service is usually great although this last time we waited so long to even have our drink order taken meanwhile the waitress joked and flirted with the table full of men next to us...the only other reason I'm not leaving 5 stars is their octopus, it's super small slices of octopus in any dish, even if your dish is primally octopus, you'll never get nice big pieces, it's always slivers of it. I'll take the bad with the freaking amazing though and return every damn time.

Michael B. Ancira

The place is very good if you like delicious mexican style seafood and having a few beers only few set backs would be the overall price and the slightly agressive eye contact from other people eating there. If your in the area i recommend trying the shrimp empanadas or the bacon wrapped shrimp. Expect to spend at the very least 25 to 30 dollars a person.

Food is good. Service was great. The later in the afternoon you go the more people drinking and loud music.

Service was alright. Somewhat slow. They made up for it by serving promptly after they realized they had not attended to us. The seafood was good but could use some improvement ( ie longer marinated periods, carefully deshelled shrimp. ). The dozen of oysters were fresh and at a buck each, good for the price. The drinks were good and we were given a basket of chips and salsa as an intro appetizer. Overall, 3/5. Decent place and affordable for the quantity given.

After 3 years later I went back today young blonde girl was super rude, told me to only speak to her in Spanish off the bat, one of the things I ordered was something I wanted to try out but she just made me feel uncomfortable, to just even order my food so I just asked her can she just put it to go she started to roll her eyes…. And canceled my order lol I asked her I still want it I just don’t know what it comes with like if they had a size option or what difference was I just saw the picture and ordered it hahha . I’m not coming here again I should’ve just went somewhere else like I been. ( hopefully they didn’t spit on my food)

Pridike

After 3 years later I went back today young blonde girl was super rude, told me to only speak to her in Spanish off the bat, one of the things I ordered was something I wanted to try out but she just made me feel uncomfortable, to just even order my food so I just asked her can she just put it to go she started to roll her eyes…. And canceled my order lol I asked her I still want it I just don’t know what it comes with like if they had a size option or what difference was I just saw the picture and ordered it hahha . I’m not coming here again I should’ve just went somewhere else like I been. ( hopefully they didn’t spit on my food)

edwin Sanchez

Service was alright. Somewhat slow. They made up for it by serving promptly after they realized they had not attended to us. The seafood was good but could use some improvement ( ie longer marinated periods, carefully deshelled shrimp. ). The dozen of oysters were fresh and at a buck each, good for the price. The drinks were good and we were given a basket of chips and salsa as an intro appetizer. Overall, 3/5. Decent place and affordable for the quantity given.

very friendly staff. But the food I order [ coctel de pulpo y camaron] was kind of not good. Good luck with yours.

Definitely not a good place to eat seafood. They didn't make the cocktails good for the 2nd time I been there.

I don't really dislike the place. I haven't ate there so you need to be the judge and stop on by for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Bad service, the food was okey. They took long to attend and bring tortillas.

"Shrimp tacos" were breaded seemingly formerly frozen shrimp bits with white sauce in a tortilla. Their salsa that came promptly with chips was hotter than the sun. My partner couldn't eat any. It appeared to be jalapenos blended up with water. Not good. Service was ok.

Music box was so dam loud you have to YELL out your conversation to the people next to you. 6 TV screans. What the heck for? Defiantly not a 4 star feel. Although meals came out one at a time and a bit over cooked they were tasty. Table service ranked the highest here. I don't think I'' be back.

Angelina Rojas

Music box was so dam loud you have to YELL out your conversation to the people next to you. 6 TV screans. What the heck for? Defiantly not a 4 star feel. Although meals came out one at a time and a bit over cooked they were tasty. Table service ranked the highest here. I don't think I'' be back.

Satch Gonzales

"Shrimp tacos" were breaded seemingly formerly frozen shrimp bits with white sauce in a tortilla. Their salsa that came promptly with chips was hotter than the sun. My partner couldn't eat any. It appeared to be jalapenos blended up with water. Not good. Service was ok.

not family friendly, there so much noise, music, tv and lots of drunk people. Customer service not good and the food is not from Nayarit, fish dry and has no flavor.

The food was terrible, we will never eat there again, shrimp cocktail only had cucumbers and a little shrimp, 7 mares soup had no fish, hardly no vegetables, no octopus, scallops, cilantro, and that soup doesn't come with fish, no more eating there.

This place has very bad service. I went in a couple times and charged me more for an item that I did not receive. However, this isn't the first time this happens. I unfortunately ordered couple of foods with certain things that they did not care to take note.

The worst place to savor a Mexican style shrimp and octopus coctel Camaron con pulpo) it seems like they have no idea of the essential ingredients/condiments or garnishes of that dish I went there with my wife a d my little girl I ordered 2 large shrimp coctel and a ceviche tostada,I was going to eat there but for personal reasons we decided to take it to go. After driving for 10 minutes to enjoy our food we started eating after the second scoop we quickly discovered that the order was wrong and the portions were half the amount and there was no octopus,no avocado or the other garnishes that go along with that dish what so ever. So we thought anything body can make a mistake and every body deserves a second chance to make it right, so I took the food back and told them that it was wrong that it was missing ingredients and condiments such as one of the main ingredients avocado I was told that they don't use that main ingredient in the shrimp coctel,we have eaten that same dish in dozens of restaurants and taquerias and we never have to ask for avocado or the other ingredients/condiments I showed them the resit for what I pay for they agreed to fix it. What happened after that totally piss me off they topped off the container with juice and put crumbs of octopus instead of peace's like any other place that serves this dish and they said that the avocado was at no charge this time. I opened the container and I saw the crumbs of octopus and two little tiny pieces of avocado flying on top of all the shrimp juice I told them that I wanted my money back after an hour and a half later and they refused because I already had taste the food. I highly encourage the workers and ownbers of this establishment to taste the same dish elsewhere for example mariscos las islitas in watsonville if they could manish to copy 50 percent of their recipe they could stop selling their mediocre dish. The one star is for the waitress she was ok.

This places is not as good as before. Quality of the food is not as good but the price is high as snoop dog. Crazy. I order some shrimp tostadas 2 of them. For 20 dollars. Damn. And I get home and they gave me fish. To add to the madness. Never going back.

Chris

This places is not as good as before. Quality of the food is not as good but the price is high as snoop dog. Crazy. I order some shrimp tostadas 2 of them. For 20 dollars. Damn. And I get home and they gave me fish. To add to the madness. Never going back.

I tried this place for the third and final time. I waited in line to place a to-go order. The woman at the register took an order from the person in front of me then proceeded to take orders from tables. The people waiting in line behind me went ahead and gave an order to another woman that was going around the counter. After she took their order she went into the kitchen to run their order (I presume), then came out and walked over to service tables. 15 minutes passed from the time the person behind me ordered to the time another woman answered the phone. The phone which was right in front of me next to the register. I was not acknowledged, not even to say that someone would be right with me to help. The third woman took an order by phone then took off again! It was unbelievable! I must have been in there a total of 25 minutes without being helped AT ALL! I will not be returning here, nor will I be recommending this place to anyone.

Music so loud and it was only noon time. I ate some Oysters and 30 mins later I had diarrhea.. We had shrimp Tostada, no flavor at all-same with my fried fish. Mexican restaurant that does not have salsas!!!. The Waitress no idea of what was going on, if you do not speak Spanish there...no one can help you....One of the employees brought his little kid...4 yrs old the most...Running around the kitchen. Such a negligence and lack of safety. Health department should take a visit to this place. When the food gets you sick...someone needs to be accountable.

I don't know what's the big fuss on this restaurant. I ordered aguachiles and the shrimp had a smell to it and tasted days old. I gave it another try and ordered tostadas mixtas and shrimp were dark, not Devined, it also looked like shrimp were days old and they had a smell to it. The waitress offered to give me a new one, but decided to get my refund and go else where. I just hope nobody gets badly sick from eating at this restaurant.

If u don't know how to fight or shoot don't go. Also 12oz beers are $8! food is lacking... Also don't take kids here it's not safe

The worst food I’ve ever eaten. Very dirty place and very loud, hard to hear.

Martin Alfaro

The worst food I’ve ever eaten. Very dirty place and very loud, hard to hear.

Roberto Pineda

Music so loud and it was only noon time. I ate some Oysters and 30 mins later I had diarrhea.. We had shrimp Tostada, no flavor at all-same with my fried fish. Mexican restaurant that does not have salsas!!!. The Waitress no idea of what was going on, if you do not speak Spanish there...no one can help you....One of the employees brought his little kid...4 yrs old the most...Running around the kitchen. Such a negligence and lack of safety. Health department should take a visit to this place. When the food gets you sick...someone needs to be accountable.

Family Oviedo

If u don't know how to fight or shoot don't go. Also 12oz beers are $8! food is lacking... Also don't take kids here it's not safe

Maria Zamora

I don't know what's the big fuss on this restaurant. I ordered aguachiles and the shrimp had a smell to it and tasted days old. I gave it another try and ordered tostadas mixtas and shrimp were dark, not Devined, it also looked like shrimp were days old and they had a smell to it. The waitress offered to give me a new one, but decided to get my refund and go else where. I just hope nobody gets badly sick from eating at this restaurant.

Johnny N (Johnny)

I tried this place for the third and final time. I waited in line to place a to-go order. The woman at the register took an order from the person in front of me then proceeded to take orders from tables. The people waiting in line behind me went ahead and gave an order to another woman that was going around the counter. After she took their order she went into the kitchen to run their order (I presume), then came out and walked over to service tables. 15 minutes passed from the time the person behind me ordered to the time another woman answered the phone. The phone which was right in front of me next to the register. I was not acknowledged, not even to say that someone would be right with me to help. The third woman took an order by phone then took off again! It was unbelievable! I must have been in there a total of 25 minutes without being helped AT ALL! I will not be returning here, nor will I be recommending this place to anyone.