Casa Colima

Came here to try it out and was super surprised. Portions were perfectly sized. Food was awesome full of flavor. Chips and salsa were prompt and always full. Me and my partner had combination plates and they were excellent!! Atmospheres great! Will return

So I went with my buddy to try this place and it was so good. The restaurant's interior was so colorful and the staff was so friendly . It was a great atmosphere to be in and eat some good food. They have table side guacamole that is delicious. I got a carnitas enchilada that was big enough for two separate meals and it was packed full of flavor. I also got a house margarita and that thing was strong but delicious. The service was great , we literally sat down and got chips immediately. The servers were so friendly and got us anything we needed. I recommend this place, you will enjoy it.

We were feeling a little zesty tonight so we had to come to one of our favorite restaurants “Casa Colima.” Once we were seated, we had to order the glorious table side guacamole- chunky, of course!! We told her to throw everything in there with some spicy spice. It was so scrumptious, I will probably dream about it tonight. Worth every penny. And if the guac wasn’t zesty enough, the fajitas definitely were. I don’t even need a menu; I already know I’m ordering the shrimp fajitas every time. They are so tender and marinated to perfection. Tastes like they got abuela back there whipping up the dishes. The carne asada fajitas - juicy, tender, melt in your mouth, cuts like butter. I don’t know what they do, but it tastes so, so good.

Great atmosphere, great service and PHENOMENAL food!! I’m from LA and grew up on authentic Mexican food. This is legit, delicious and authentic Mexican food. Huge portions and I couldn’t even eat half of it. But so happy to have leftovers to prolong the delicious experience. I only wish we had time to dine in as the decor and ambience are so fun and festive! Thank you Lupita! You are amazing!

My mom wanted to try this place out. It was pretty good. Food was excellent. Staff were nice and friendly. We ordered enchiladas and table side guacamole. I also ordered a mojito. The mojito was a little water down. Other than that, no complaints!

Been here once to try it with some family and we had a great time. The food is good everyone enjoyed what they ordered. Margaritas are excellent!! Atmosphere is good and fun and the orders came out fast. What I liked most was the staff. Everyone was super helpful, polite, and on top of things. Keep up the great work your employees must enjoy working there. Worth a stop in if you want some good mexican american style dishes and good drinks! Chimichanga with pork carnitas and a cadillac margarita for me. Ill be back for another round.

Solid neighborhood Mexican restaurant in a strip mall. Food is very good. The steak fajitas are great. During happy hour you can order three tacos for $10. They're very small but it's a decent value. The staff are super helpful. Drinks: The only sweet vermouth is Lejon and even worse it is not refrigerated. Stick to margaritas, but they're pricey...and sour. I like them at Los Portillos much better and for a lot less $$. Having said that, the chow at Casa Colima is better. PRO TIP: They use a mix brand called "Old Recipe" which is vert tart. Quality control your margarita to not be as sour. by ordering a Cadillac. A proper Cadillac has a shot of Grand Mariner added. But being made in France, a 750 ml bottle retail is currently $38. Casa Colima uses a cheap substitute. The mix is so sour that a shot of the orange liqueur is too small to compensate. So have the bartender give you a shot of triple sec as well. This will make it more balanced. There's no mention of it on their website and I wasn't able to find any photos of the happy hour menu. So I photographed the elusive, mythological menu and added it here. PRO TIP: If you like spicy ask for their habanero sauce. Ample parking in the strip mall. Check out my profile for more great eateries and craft cocktail bars. ✌🏼

Very friendly staff. The restaurant is very clean. The food comes out quick. They make fresh guacamole at your table. The fresh margaritas are excellent.

The best Mexican restaurant of all time! The food was spectacular and the vegetarian options were amazing and plentiful! I wish I'd taken photos! Great service and seriously everything was perfect. The ambiance is lovely with beautifully painted booths and tables and the tile work is just so pretty you feel like you're on a vacation! I can't wait to go back! Well done everyone!

I am originally from Tucson AZ. I grew up across the US, in places like Virginia, Maine, Utah, Wisconsin, Washington.... I have eaten many dishes at innumerable mexican restaurants, both authentic and the White Boy Hot Sauce variety. When I tell you this is probably the worst meal i have ever had in a "mexican" dining establishment, I mean it from the deepest, darkest recesses of my heart. A place even the foulest creatures of middle-earth wouldn't dare roam. A place so unfathomable to modern man, it should be in a Lovecraft story. Let me set the scene. It's two days before my wife's birthday and her family wants to take her to dinner. We see Casa Colima on google with rave reviews. We love mexican food. Gucci gucci Louis louis. I order the fried tilapia, my wife got the grandote burrito, her family ordered a few combo plates (one of them got the burger, surely the safest, possibly the best choice of all) and spirits were high. I destroyed two bowls of chips and salsa, eager to make some gnarly tilapia tacos with my bare, sweaty hands. When the dishes arrived, it was like the air was sucked out of the room. Sight had no color. Hearing had no sound. We had stepped into another dimension, one where the entire goal of existence was to offend every possible sense of the human body and mind and torture you in a food purgatory fit only for true demons of humanity. My tilapia looked and smelled like it was dredged up from the sewer, left outside for two days in Tacoma and then thrown in a microwave as carelessly as one throws old McDonalds fries into one. Flies began circling. I cannot make this shit up. My wife's burrito had chicken that was rubbery, grey, devoid of any love, tender or true. Soulless. Her mothers dish? Made wrong *and* given to the wrong person at the table. She made it through about half a.... burrito? Whatever they put on the plate could barely pass for cat food for my overweight, disabled chunky little man. Another member of our group re-ordered twice and still got the wrong thing. A close confidant ordered the siete mares, and was bewildered at the devious concoction laid before him, including the worst octopus I'd ever gazed upon (and i am no stranger to enjoying octopus or squid in a succulent asian meal). Nobody, out of 6 people, finished their meal, nor were offered take home boxes; the staff didn't even believe their own lies. This is the grimmest, saddest "mexican" place I have ever eaten at. The staff were nice but deep inside, I could sense the anguish they were in at having to peddle this slop to unsuspecting victims in the Vancouver area. This place had flies all over, nothing close to resembling fresh food, and prices so high I almost took out a mortgage on my house to pay for my meal alone. What low prices are people talking about? A soda is 5$. The cheapest dish *I* saw was about 16$. I've had better meals at Miguel's Chalupa Barn in midwest America or Valerie's in a refurbished Sonic in Cedar City UT. Enter at your own financial, mental, emotional, and health risk. Thank god I live in Oregon.

I spend most of my time in Portugal where I long for even the most basic Mexican food, so this was a shot in the dark. Good choice. Chips and salsa flowed freely and their House Margarita was on Happy Hour for $10 (2-5-pm - normally $15), but do not bother because even at $10, although large, it contained hardly any alcohol ...MEH! I had the House Combination ($19.95) with a shredded beef taco, cheese and onion enchilada, a shredded beef Chimichanga and refried beans, no rice because Spanish/Mexican rice is usually quite boring. All three were delicious, but the enchilada, unfortunately, was not my favorite. Overall, the service was excellent and the food was good, but the $10-$15 margarita with little or no alcohol left a bad taste in my mouth. CombatCritic Gives Casa Colima Mexican Restaurant & Cantina 7 Bombs Out Of 10 ... More Bombs Are Better!

1st time at Las Calimas and this is our go to for Mexican! Service was great. Chips were fresh and hot and salsa was delicious. We ordered chili verde and Pick 2: chimi/enchilada and will get both again. Festive decor. Big portions for reasonable prices.

My favorite Mexican restaurant. Good service, hot full delicious plates. Better drinks only complaint it's always a full house.

In between 3-4 stars with this one. It's not really the most authentic restaurant by any means, but it's fun and good when you're craving a heavy meal. Being from San Diego I'm not really used to restaurants like this but they had some great dishes to highlight. My favorites were the fried chicharron and fresh tableside guac for appetizers. I got the combo fajitas and the shrimp was good but the chicken and steak were a bit dry. Also it was a pretty small portion for the price. Someone else got the fried tilapia which looked amazing. Not really the most mexican dish. My fiancee got the carnitas chimichanga and asked for no beans. They gave the beans so he had to ask for them to remake it. Then it also wasn't listed that the carnitas was cooked in green salsa so it wasn't really his favorite. Overall not a terrible restaurant but not super excited about anything here.

This was once a great, desirable place to eat at the past two years that I've been going but after November I've noticed that the quality of the food & service has gone down very very badly. I had stopped by about a week ago to have a nice family dinner but my experience I had with my server named Lyndsay wasn't the best. She made the environment feel very unwelcoming & our whole dinner time we felt rushed out.

The drinks were weak and alright. Good was good to mediocre. FOUND PLASTIC IS MY FOOD!!!!

Tuesdays are busy no matter what, and our server (R. Jr.) Did a great job of handling the dinner rush. The tableside guacamole was a hit, as it always is, and this time, I had the carne asada with flour tortillas. Food is pretty consistent here as always, but they have increased some of the prices, TREMENDOUSLY. (Again, huge shout out to our server for letting us know)- A side of pico is now $8.00, and a side of rice is now $10.00. For side menu options, yikes. But, hey, we were informed, and based on being informed, we made our decision whether or not to order it. Inflation is killing us all.

Cute Mexican restaurant with tasty food. Better than a lot of them in Vancouver. My Chile Relleno and spinach tamale combo was very good. It was a little different from the usual. My husband liked his fajitas and my sister enjoyed the mole. Forgot to take pics as we met some old friends and I just dug right in instead of snapping a photo.

I wanna like this place but can't. Overpriced!! My buddy and I ordered the carne asada nacho's. The regular nachos are $13.00 but the once with carne asada or steak on them is $4.00 more. We got them and they were pretty lame. Not hardly and meat on them. No beans really at all. My buddy had to point out to me they even had beans on them. So basically you spend $17.00 for a little bit of cheese, list the bit of meat and hardly any beans for over $17.00. My buddy ordered a Long Island and he said it was weak. I ordered a shot of tequila for $10.00. So two beers, one shot of tequila nachos and a Long Island that was not that great costs $50.00. Just a rip off. It was only like 3pm and the only bar around there that was actually open. I won't make the mistake again and got there again. Oh well, live and learn.

Well ya just can't beat the service so if that's important to you this may be the right spot for you. If you are a chips and salsa aficionado, you will be disappointed. Mass produced bag of chips and decent salsa is what they offer. Certainly not top shelf chips and salsa. Although the table side guacamole is very, very good. We tried the Cadillac margaritas, and they were good, not exceptional. My wife had the tacos El Carbone for the second time and enjoyed them very much. They were a little bit crispy which she likes and was hoping for them to be Just a bit more on the crispy side. I'll ask for that detail next week eat there. She said she enjoyed them. I had the Carnitas chimichanga, wet with red sauce and cheese. It was very good. None of the food there we tried is very spicy, however, they do have a habanero hot sauce that is mildly spicy. If you like really hot spicy Mexican food best you sneak in your own Hot sauce. I certainly will next time we visit. The place is absolutely clean, well ordered, and well run. It's a professional, well run restaurant you won't be disappointed in. The food was fresh clean and wholesome and the flavors were delicious. We will be back.

Greeted and seated within 5 minutes or so. Chips and salsa were served just a few moments after we were seated. The waitress was so kind- rushing our order for my pregnant daughter who "needed" a taco salad ASAP! I ordered the shrimp fajitas and they were the best I've ever had. Huge, steaming hot shrimp with a pepper/onion mix. They were seasoned to perfection and served with the usual fajita sides. My hubby had the enchilada & chimichangas combo plate with rice and beans. He didn't feel it stood out as exceptional, but said it was predictably good. My daughter did indeed get her taco salad. She loved it! The tortilla shell looked baked, not fried and there was literally no grease seeping through. My two-year granddaughter had the macaroni and cheese, straight from a box, I suspect. She ignored it, opting for chips and salsa! I knocked a star off as our water and chips/salsa weren't refilled. All in all, I think it's a great little place to take your family.

Food- good but salty. Service- Very good Ambiance-as expected. With so many other choices in town, I'll probably try somewhere else before going back. I've been before and it wasn't too salty, but this time it was over-the-top and the guacamole made at the Table-side did not taste normal. It had an odd taste and we would not order that again .

Posting this on here since my review on Google isn't showing up! Our server was so disrespectful!

My partner and I stumbled across the place a few weeks ago and loved it so much we came back two days later for more. Delicious food, great margs, and a friendly staff, what more can I say? This is probably my favorite restaurant in Vancouver right now. Oh, and the table side guac lives up to its hype.

This review is for a takeout order. I have been craving menudo...basically Mexican tripe soup for weeks. Not a lot of places make it. Called and was greeted on the phone pleasantly they were open and did have this available today. A few hours later I came by to order and pick up while on my errands. Got home to some chips and salsa, warm tortillas and lovely soup. Reminds me of what I tried in Irvine, CA. I am so happy since my experience at another local Mexican place was disappointing for this dish. I will definitely be coming back.

It had been a while since going to a Mexican restaurant, so I was excited when our friends asked if we wanted to go. As soon as we sat down chips & salsa were brought to our table & we were asked if we wanted guacamole. We said sure, just know it is not free, but so worth it. Little did I know it was going to be made fresh at our table! I've never seen that before! & oh my word, it was so yummy! They ask how spicy what texture you want & if you want cheese on the top. The salsa was good also nice & chunky with very crunchy tortilla chips. I went with the taquitos dorados with birria which came with rice & beans. I wouldn't say its the best birria I've ever had. Was a bit dry, but it was good. Liked that it also came with sour cream & guacamole as I was able to dip my taquitos in there. Highlight was definitely the guacamole! Get it! Want to go back & try more things!

Had lunch at Casa Colima today. We enjoyed it a lot. The ambiance is typical Mexican restaurant--colorful and comfortable. The service was fast and the food nice and hot. I had a chicken mole enchilada and a chile relleno served with refried beans and Mexican rice. Everything was tasty and delicious. forgot to take a photo. We will go back here when we want a Mexican dinner!

Ceviche ****. Nice and fresh. The best I've ever had Table side guacamole **** Chips**** Service**** Ambience. Casual

For a $20 Carne Asada burrito I expected more literally just rice beans as small amount of steak swimming in tomato sauce with no flavor not good way overpriced

Great and fast service! Went for dinner with a party of 5 and we received our food in less than 20 minutes after ordering. The plate was full of flavor & delicious! Not pictured: if you enjoy Horchata, I highly recommend!

Incredible! Great food, great service, truly authentic! Off the menu item Birria Taco's! Hands down the best!

I really dislike giving bad reviews but this is the first time I ever had tortilla soup that I struggled to finish. It just tasted like saltwater. There was a ton of cheese that had melted into a ball at the bottom where all the onions, tomatoes and chicken had coagulated into it. Only the avocado floated at the top like drowning souls hoping to escape. I enjoyed scooping the pieces onto a chip and eating them, but I felt swollen and tired after eating the soup. I'll never get that again. P had the chile colorado burrito (Express) which had enchilada sauce all over it. As a native El Pasoan, he thought it was some kind of mistake. They don't serve burritos wet where he grew up. He said it was decent but not great. Would have liked to love it. The people there were really nice and it had a cheerful, colorful ambiance all throughout the interior. Plenty of strip mall parking.

The food was okay the drinks were a little pricy. Nothing to write home about, very basic. For 3 people to get fajitas, and two cocktails each it was $220 with tip.

We were greeted and seated promptly. As soon as we sat down chips & salsa were brought to our table. The salsa was good and came with very crunchy tortilla chips. Service was top notch and they checked on us often topping our water cups, salsa and chips. We had the chimichanga - one plate as a combo and the other was wet chimi. The wet chimi was with beef fajitas and it was excellent. Meat was tender and veggies were perfect (not mushy). The combo chimi was with chicken and it had generous amounts of shredded chicken. It has become to be one of our favorite mexican restaurant.

The greeter who seated us didn't smile, but the server was friendly. The salsa made this place promising, but that is where it ended. Took longer for the server to come back to take our order (10-15 minutes) than to get our food (5 minutes), showing that they likely threw pre-cooked ingredients together and microwaved it. Also, they even brought out the wrong taco salad. When I got the correct one, like, 2 minutes later, the chicken was tasty but pounded so thin it was as thin as a taco shell. Also, the crispy flour shell was thicker than normal and stale; it didn't taste like it was freshly made even today. Boyfriend's burrito tasted fine, and fried cheesecake was pretty good, but both again likely just heated up. We won't be back.

Came in for Mother's Day got to a table after a min wait which wasn't bad but then just rude server big bald sweaty guy just rush you to pick something couldn't get a refill on my drinks but food tasted really good queso was terrible won't be back

We love coming here for the food! They have the best carne asada! All of the hostesses and serve era are so nice!

I am ashamed to have ever recommended this place in the past. We had a work lunch for 10+ people & our server Rodolfo was awful. I ordered a Sangria and was given a Jamaica, once I complained the server began to be rude. We were told they do not do separate tabs because it is hard work. Our party was being respectful towards our server but in exchanged we received attitude. Server asked us to squeeze into one table because they were getting busy. (The restaurant was not busy at all). We took this comment as a sign that we were being kicked out. As we were walking out one of our coworkers was walking out of the restroom and over heard Rodolfo our server making rude comments about our party to the bartenders. He told them he "told us to get F out of the restaurant". I do not recommend this place at all! Awful service! I sure hope Rodolfo reads this comment and does better, or finds a different job because to be honest being a server is not one of them.

Not only is this the best Mexican restaurant in Vancouver, it is one of the best places to eat in general. The staff are amazing and the ambiance is great!

Tonight has been quite a treat! My daughter knows how I looove good Mexican food which is very hard to find outside of Mexico, no matter what city or state you are in, in the US! Well, my daughter and her 'Ohana had insisted that the food at Casa Colima is probably the best Mexican food here in Vancouver, WA! Tonight, we ordered a pretty large take out order of burritos , enchiladas, carne asada, chimichangas, tacos , taquitos, extra arroz, refined beans , guacamole and sour cream AND EVERYTHING WAS PHENOMENAL! I normally hesitate when it comes to Mexican restaurant refried beans because my Mexican sister spoiled me with her freshly made refried beans that was, in my opinion, the best EVER BUT this restaurant makes their refried beans just like she did, AMAZING! All the other food items we ordered were just as amazing as well! I was pleasantly surprised by the wonderful flavors, presentation and the large portions! Service was great as well! We ordered by phone and he said our order would be ready in 15 - 20 minutes. It took us just over 20 minutes to drive to the restaurant from where we were located (at Barnes & Noble, off 4th Plain and Andersen) and they were just in the process of bagging our take out order! Would I recommend Casa Colima, ABSOLUTELY! Will I eat here again in my future visits to Vancouver, ABSOLUTELY! It's the closest to actually sitting at my sisters house in Mexico eating what she made!!! I give Casa Colima my personal five shaka () rating!!!

Love the foo and service. However, with the rise in the Barría space, I decided to order a plate of Birria burrito. The meal tasted more like somebody's attempt at making stew with tomatoes. A poor attempt unfortunately. Lacking the the Latin spices and slow cooking. I complained to our waiter who would not exchange my dinner for something more in line with a Mexican meal. He even agreed this was not good compared to some of the food trucks around.

First off, we have really liked this place in the past few months we've come in, in fact maybe the best sit-down Mexican meal in Clark County. Obviously, the restaurant has figured out how much everyone likes them, because last night we went in, ordered 2 dinners and one of us had a margarita. The bill was nearly $70 before the tip. This was our meal for this price: * Carne Asada dinner * Fish Taco dinner * 1 Cadillac Margarita We enjoyed the food but were surprised at how expensive it was. We left there saying out loud that I guess we won't be going out of our way to come here any more. This is very disappointing.

It's hard to find California-worthy salsa in the PNW, but Casa Colima's fits the bill for me. Crunchy, salty, not too thin or too thick tortilla chips and flavorful well-balanced restaurant salsa. I've had excellent service at the Tualatin location time and again, and I've had meh service at the Vancouver location. Still, they're my favorite Mexican restaurant in the region, and they feel like a little bit of the good part of home.

This restaurant is so good in so many ways. It has a really warm and happy atmosphere, the food is AMAZING, and the staff members are always so nice. Our waitress's name was Vivienne tonight and she was incredibly thoughtful and nice. She joked and played around with my kids, which is so nice! It's such a good family restaurant. Highly recommend!

This use to be one of our favorites. However they have messed up our food the last four time. Today. We ordered chicken fajitas, combo two with two enchiladas and a Carne Asada. They gave us two tostadas instead of the chicken fajitas and then made use wait 30 minutes for them to cook the fajitas while the rest of the food got cold. I'm done with this place.

This place is one of our regular go to spots for food. The food is delicious and comes out quickly. Margaritas as great as well. The staff is very friendly and welcoming. I wanted to give a special shout out to Vivian whom we have had several times and she is the best! She takes the best care of us and treats us like we are family. If you are fortunate enough to dine when she is working, try to be seated in her station. Thank you, Vivian!

Excellent food- service and margaritas! Found a new place to love! Staff was friendly and attentive

This was our first time visiting Casa Colima and it won't be my last. I LOVED the colorful decor and the friendly service. The restaurant is also very comfortable and fun for a really nice family dinner. We loved the tableside Guacamole and the delicious chips, salsa, AND warm bean dip. I had one of the combination platters. It also came with their delicious beans and rice. The dinner was good. The only improvements I can add is the need to add a little more beef to the chimichanga as there was more cheese than meat and the masa on the tamale was a little underdone. Other than that, I really enjoyed my meal and look forward to trying more on the menu. I'm glad we found this place and look forward to my next visit.

Worst experience ever we had set a reservation 2 weeks before and our server Rodolfo was very rude. And un professional. Mind you we are a party of 10-11 people. Restaurant was not not busy at all. Do better had never been so upset than this time we've been here before and never had we experienced this. One of our co worker over heard him tell one of the other employees I told the to get the f out. Mind you he stated it was starting to get busy that we could scoot to a smaller table . We just got up and left. Simply do better.

Customer service is always great. The food always taste great! The restaurant is clean and the lighting is bright and lively.

Cute authentic feel place. Good food. Good vibes. Great service. Highly recommend coming with family!

I went with friends for lunch. I physically cannot eat adult portions so I asked to eat off of the kids menu. They said no, which is their prerogative. So I asked for a side of rice and beans. They also said no. They don't offer sides. My friend then ordered nachos with the beans on the side... so rather than offering a solution where they still earned money from a sale, they went ahead and chose to have a customer order nothing. In addition, the waiter went on for a few minutes about how he's not allowed to offer sides and listed off other ways he's not allowed to accommodate customers.

Food was good! We ordered the table side guac (delish) and combo plates. The only critique was the pork tamale was a little bland. But the friendly service and cleanliness were top notch!! The floors were spotless, shout out to the cleaning crew!! Eating in a clean restaurant always sets the tone! The restaurant was extra colorful, and the music was loud! We'll be back!

went to enjoy a drink and a taco with my friends from out of town. they refused me and my friend who were both 25 and showed ID because one person at our table wasn't. we told them they weren't, and they ordered tacos and dr pepper. for some reason at this family establishment they still refused to serve us even though we've been there plenty times and this has never occurred. no one could give me a valid answer to why they wouldn't serve us. won't be going back

Fresh guacamole made at your table and the food is as amazing as the food I've eaten in Mexico! The margaritas are generous & delicious!

Casa Colima has quickly become our go-to spot for a yummy meal and a great time. From the moment we step through the door, we're greeted with friendly smiles from the staff who always make us feel welcome. One of the highlights of our visits is the fantastic drinks. The pina colada is my absolute favorite - it's the perfect blend of sweet and refreshing (even when the weather is less than!). Of course, the food at Casa Colima is just as great. The dishes are always flavorful and fresh, and the portions are generous. We have a few favorites that we order regularly, like the chicken enchiladas and the taquitos dorados, but we also love trying new things from the menu. Every dish we've had has been fantastic. Overall, I can't recommend Casa Colima highly enough. The drinks are delicious, the food is fantastic, and the staff is both attentive and friendly. We go every week and look forward to it every time. If you're looking for a great dining experience, Casa Colima is definitely worth a visit.

The huge margaritas were yummy! Unfortunately the chips and salsa came out and the salsa was spoiled. Tasted like it was kept a few days too long. Quite a disappointment as this made us finish our drinks and choose to go elsewhere for a fresher dinner.