Best Hot Spot Restaurants in Ladera Ranch

We just love this restaurant ! Food is wonderful, appropriately priced, servers are efficient, kind, helpful and courteous! It’s close by where we live , but we’ve vowed to try all I think 7 of the restaurants in this group!

Fantastic - Javier’s never fails! With friend in town for the holiday we wanted to do something festive for late afternoon drinks and then an early dinner. Service was outstanding - starting with sitting at the PCH side bar where our original bartender is still serving up perfect jalapeño margaritas — to the hostess who easily accommodated our request for table in that area for dinner — and then the food stoke the show. Queso fundido was terrific, Pork Verde and the Salmon dishes were ‘off the charts’ and the chicken Enchiladas and Crispy Tacos were perfect. Javier’s ALWAYS lives up to it’s reputation. We’ll be back again & again!

Everything was good but some large parties arrived shortly after us and it became very noisy and hard to converse.

The food is consistently good. We tried the tuna tartare for appetizer, and it was not good. We will not order that again, but overall great food great service and great place to go for a bite.

Mangia Bene is always excellent! Been coming 2x/month at least for thirty years: business meals, family celebrations, meetings with friends, and solo meals. Chris Karas is a wonderful owner, and all the managers are responsive and professional.