"We’re fine eating lackluster food at clubstaurants—we expect it, actually—but Toca Madera, the corporate-y “modern Mexican steakhouse in Beverly Grove” isn’t a clubstaurant. It’s a generic regular restaurant with bland food and a DJ in the corner playing Top 40 radio. If you do attempt to eat, you’ll be saddled with the fact that you just spent $16 on one scoop of soured guacamole or $22 on an al pastor taco with a tortilla that crumbled in half the second you picked it up. If you want to come here for a quick margarita at the bar with a coworker—or please a client who wants to feel hot—Toca Madera will suffice. Otherwise, there’s no reason to come here. " - Brant Cox