Casa Martin Ocean Ave - Santa Monica

Felt like having Mexican food for the first time in a while, thought that since they where in such a spectacular location the food and the service would also be spectacular, but that was not the case on our visit for 2 people this past Sunday night 11/21/21. Iam not one to put a place or person down just to make them look bad but this is what transpired: Started with being seated at our table, they have a large table exactly at the entrance with tortilla chips under aheat lamp and salsa in a large bowl of ice with utensils all over, plastic containers for doggie bags and plastic bags hanging on the wall. Appetizer: Chips and salsa chips were cold and not fresh, salsa watered down. Drinks: MargaritaSupreme $22, non-alcoholic Strawberry Margarita $8 Main Course: Shrimp fajitas $32 requested with no cheese,no sour cream. And Vegetable Tostada Salad $22 Requested with no cheese, no sour cream. They brought the shrimp fajita with cheeseon the red beans and a big blob of sour cream next to the pico de gallo, guacamole and red rice, we called the waiter over to assist us with the issue and to change the red beans to black beans. The waiter took the plate and brought back abowl of black beans, pico de gallo, guac, and replaced the red rice to white rice for who knows what reason. My husband gave up on asking for assistance from the waiter as to why he made the extra changes, to prevent anyone possiblespitting or putting something else in the food for making too much request. His food was tasteless and bland. My Vegetable tostada salad was definitely unique topped with steamed broccoli, cauliflower flower, carrots which I did not carefor at all. Under that was lettuce, white rice, black beans, guac, and pico de gallo. After clearing away the steamed veges from the tostada bowl the salad was ok. The main waitress brought our check right after we finished eating stillwith all our used plates on the table not even asking us if we might want dessert before bringing

Tacos were ok. Drinks were great. It?s a good location on 3rd street. Bathrooms were ok, not the cleanest but good for a bar. Staff was attentive. Seats were spaced far enough apart.

Had lunch here. Service was quick and polite. Food was tasty (liked a lot the guacamole).