Cesar’s Place
More like 3.5, if I could give halves.
Cesar’s got diversity going for them. Breakfast, lunch and dinner menus, specializing in Mexican seafood, plus fish and chips.
Also, a spacious dining room and sturdy tables. It does not quite feel like a hole-in-the-wall.
A flat screen tv on either side of the room means you can watch Mexican wrestling and/or soap operas in any direction. Or, you have to watch Mexican wrestling and/or soap operas no matter where you look. This all depends on how much you like Mexican wrestling and/or soap operas. On this day, the guys in the masks were getting a pounding, and then the midget manager would get the last punch in from the third rung. Ouch!
Most of the clientele on a hot Saturday afternoon were a mixture of latino plus a few hipsters and everyone was ordering the seafood cocktail. I can take a hint.
Shrimp cocktail $10
Octopus cocktail $11
Shrimp, octopus and baby clam cocktail $11.50, that’s what we got.
It comes with lime wedges, some packets of saltine crackers and is topped with about half an avocado, cut into chunks.
Yeah, it was yummy! Next time, though, I’ll be perfectly content with the shrimp. But it was all good.
Also ordered were chilequiles with green sauce and an adobada soft taco. The taco was about $2.50.
The taco was fine, with 2 factory-made tortillas, a pile of meat that was good to dish out between the two tortillas. They’ll add onions and cilantro to order.
I really enjoyed the chilequiles. There was a choice of red or green sauce, the red being hotter. And for the first time in my chilequile enlightenment, there was an option on how the two eggs should be done. Over-easy, please!
Chips with two salsas were complimentary, coming straight to the table with some glasses of water.
The prices were a smidgey higher than some of the cheap eats elsewhere on Milpas, but for this you get a less divey atmosphere and waitresses who won’t struggle with English as much as you’re struggling with Spanish.
Cesar’s
712 N Milpas St
Santa Barbara, CA 93103