Baja Beach Cafe

Horrible! Avoid this dump at all cost!!! The tacos do not contain good quality meat, they are over salted and the beer is over served in plastic cups. Plus the cops hang out in front of this place!!!

First time here and probably won’t be back. Extremely slow even though the place was empty, waited over 45min and our Queso dip didn’t ever show up. Not good drinks.

If you’re looking for the best happy hour in town, great music, amazing bartenders (Thanks to Blake and Ryan — u guys truly make the experience much better) and GREAT food… This is the place where u want to be. I been coming to Newport for many years and been to all the bars around here and I must say that this one is on the top of my list. They have some amazing drinking games. GREAT place to watch Sunday football and awesome place to hang out with ur peeps! Customer service is not like any other bar /​dive bar you go around NP. U feel like you’re truly on vacation when you’re here. Happy hour goes from 4−8pm and then starts again from 10 – 12:30am I mean seriously where else do u know that has 2 time slots of happy hour!!! Oh, yeah almost forgot must come for «Taco Tuesday» AMAZING TACO’s!
The bartenders really kick ass here!!! My hat /​respects goes to Blake & Ryan! Keep kicking a** guys. I’m sure most people come here to see u both and for the amazing service u guys give. Thank you both again!
–JP–

I came here today and had the lobster taquitos, I’ve ordered them every time I come here and they are so good.
The service here is on point, including the bartender Don who works at me of my other fav. Spots, he is the best !

Came here for the first time on Sunday to watch football. We got a good spot near the bar. Kylie was our server and she was awesome!!! They have a 2 for 1 happy hour from 4 – 8. Similar to Cabo Cantina but seemed cleaner. The food was okay, Mexican items were better than the burgers. My burger was literally raw, sent it back and they took it off the bill. My friend thought his burger tasted like meatloaf, so I wouldn’t get the burgers, nachos and tacos were good. Definitely a fun place, will definitely be biking here during the summer!

GREAT FOR GAME DAY! Also, good late night happy hour (buy one, get one) Other than that, food is okay.

I have never left a review before but felt it was necessary since we received some of the worst service I’ve ever experienced. I went to brunch with some of my friends for my birthday yesterday and we ordered food and the bottomless mimosas/​bloodies for what seemed like a pretty good deal. However, nothing about this deal was bottomless. We had to ask close to 5 times just to get a refill and all got over trying to track down a server for a refill and called it quits after the second round. What seemed like a great deal turned into paying $ 10 for two warm drinks in Dixie sized cups. Definitely won’t be be giving this place any of our business again!

The fruits are not sweet and taste like sanitizer detergent. The tacos tortilla was not hot steam texture. The ice tea was average. The food price is average but need to improve quality. Most of the dishes are spicey and loaded with fatten cheese. I love the tv bar area, more than 20. I was shocked they sell cigarette.

If I could give 0stars I would Not recommended at all !!!’ Sooo dissapointed here 2 person 2 drinks
2 items food our total bill $ 70
Can say will never go back
Happy hour drink is a scam food was terrible
Won’t come back again

Great crowd! Always a fun time, would go back in a heart beat! Staff is amazing and they all know how to put a smile on my face. Come for a MEGA, cucumber is the best!!!

This place has everything. Dope ass drinks, dope ass waitresses (and the waiters are easy on the eyes, yeeeee!), and dope ass margs fer daze!!! Me and MY BOYYY go there all the time and it never disappoints!!! You lookin 2 have a good time? No? Well good this place doesn’t need you. Me and MY BOY will be here on New Years for a DOPE ASS PARTY so be there or b square! Bitches

This place is awesome! Great deals on drinks, great food, and a super fun atmosphere. They have tons of games like corn hole and beer pong amongst others. The waiters and waitresses are very friendly and attentive. Oh and the fajitas are bomb! Definitely come to this place for a good time and a good atmosphere. They’ve always got sports on.

We’re all familiar with the usual trashy restaurant bars on the peninsula and its surrounding areas, restaurant bars with crappy food and terrible service.
But rest assured Newport, there’s a new bad boy in town!
FINALLY visited BAJA BEACH CAFE with some friends after hearing the hype about the new spot on PCH.
Here is what I found:
LOCATION:
–prime location just a half mile south on PCH from Newport Blvd, impossible to miss.
–VALET PARKING!!!
–immaculately clean place without that disgusting bar smell that theusual places have.
–TVs everywhere you look, I’m guessing somewhere around 50 of them. AT LEAST!
–GAME ROOM with just about everything including, beer pong, foosball, Jenga and more.
SPECIALS:
–All you can eat TACO TUESDAY!
–HAPPY HOUR 4 to 8pm and then again 10:30 to 12:30pm. 2 for 1 prices.
-$ 9 BEER PONG KIT, it includes a huge pitcher, ping pong balls and the cups.
SERVICE:
Upon walking in I was genuinely greeted by who became my server for the day, her name is MICHELLE. She was beyond perfect, from recommending the breakfast burrito and the delicious Mega Margarita to baffling my group with her constant check ups and kindness, we were thrilled.
But it wasn’t just our server that caught our attention with her work skills, I watched who was obviously the boss man help buss tables AND bring out food and drinks to help when it was busy. That alone gives this place a 5 star rating. When management is hands on, I’m a dedicated customer.
If you hit the bar make sure to ask for Ryan and Jake, they make KILLER drinks.
Check this place out people, it will not disappoint.

Calling all tequila loving sports addicts… this is your place.
When visiting Newport, I stopped in here to get a nice frothy beverage and was NOT disappointed. Given that this place is new and as all new restaurants do — be patient with the staff as they need to get their bearings. I was a waitress once, so I get it. Our waitress was very friendly and made some great recommendations.
The food was delish (try the peruvian ceviche & the morning after burger) and the vibe was even better. As the great Beyonce would say, I am «drunk in love» with this place. That could be because they have lots of games for you to play. GIRLS read that as: you won’t be bored as your significant other (or Tinder date) looks at the sports game the whole time. Shuffleboard, Jenga, corn hole, you name it — they’ve got it.
I could also be drunk in love because the Spicy Margarita’s are the
and I may have had several… oops.

I wouldn’t even give this place a star if I don’t have too.
The most ridiculous restaurant I have ever been too.
It’s a brand new place that had the worst costumer service I’ve ever. If you just open a restaurant you should be happy, kind, outgoing, telling your customers what they should order and especially what’s on happy our when we are there.
We sat at the bar for 5 minutes watching the bar tender walk back and forth in front of us and didn’t even look our way. Then I finally got up got his attention and tried to order happy hour which we were 5 min late for because we waited so long for him to even recognize us. I’m sorry I don’t have double Ds.
I will never go back to this place ever.
DONT LET THE BRIGHT LIGHTS, LARGE TVS, AND COOL GAMES FOOL YOU. ITS A SCAM.
PLUS THE MANAGER WAS HITTING ON THE HOSTESS THE WHOLE TIME I WAS THERE. #firethemall

The service was ok like not good. The food was poor. They do not have fresh ingredients and when I spoke with the manger about it. He argued with me. Definitely not a great experience. I do not recommend

WORST customer service. Not joking. I read the bad reviews before walking in and wanted to give this place a shot since its new and has a great happy hour.
Our excitement deflated quickly once we were ignored by the ignorant bartender for over 5 minutes (there were only two other people at the bar). While the bartender was filing his nails and playing pocket pool the manager was hitting on all the waitress’s and didn’t even notice. We had to FLAG down the bartender who was ignorant and extremely rude and apparently had no peripherals.
Short of long — this place sucks. Not friendly and didn’t care at all about us. Not somewhere I want to be on a Taco Tuesday.
Cheers!

Ventured to Baja to catch playoff baseball action with some friends. Vibe is as advertised, beachy cantina. Music was blaring early 2000s one hit wonders, and a plethora of TVs were available from every vantage point.
Crowd during happy hour (4 – 8) was an interesting mix of yuppies, surfer dudes, bikers, and overly botoxed Cougars with Louis bags, making for very entertaining people watching.
Waitresses are adorably young and perky in tank tops and cutoff jean shorts. Apparently the 2 for 1 happy hour means you get two drinks simultaneously. I really just wanted one at a time. It was 90 degrees and, by the time I got to Diablo number 2, the ice had melted and it was watery and warm. No bueno.
7 of us were there for four hours, so we tried a lot of menu items. Stand outs were the BLT salad (got mine with grilled steak and subbed a side of horseradish cream for blue cheese dressing — wow horseradish was the right call) and grilled chicken quesadillas. The lobster mac and cheese was electric orange and noticeably lacking in lobster (though I didn’t try it). My bf found the chicken fajitas bland.
After happy hour ended, the lights went dim, the music volume went up to an ear bleeding decibel level, and the place emptied out. Not a bad choice to watch a game. Other than that, Baja is exceptionally average.

So let’s talk about all the good this place has to offer. The atmosphere is great. Lots of TV’s, lots of fun games and lots of tropical resort like memorabilia all over the place. If you want to play a little Beer Pong, connect four or Corn Hole they have it all set up. The windows open up to PCH, not that there is a view of anything but it’s kind of cool watching cars and people pass by on PCH. I haven’t seen this outside type of environment in this part of town in a very long time. The margaritas are really really good and really really big. The chips and salsa is not bad, not great but not bad at all. We did not get any food other then the chips and dips but everything we ordered was good.
Now for the BAD! No A/​C so on hot days this place should be avoided at all cost. Even with the ocean breeze it’s going to be really hot. The service is slow, not 20 min like some people said but it’s not fast. The waitress did make a mistake, brought us out something we didn’t order but it wasn’t that big of a deal. The cheese dip is kind of bla, with all the awesome Mexican restaurant competition that exist in and around this part of orange county you would think that they would make an awesome cheese dip that stands out compared to others in the area. The biggest disappointment for me is that this place charges you for chips and salsa and then charge you for a refill. I’m 42 years old and I have never been to a Mexican restaurant that charges for chips and salsa. Again you have some of the best Mexican restaurants in the country to the left and also to the right of this place, you think that they would follow tradition and give chips and salsa away for free. The other thing that I thought was kind of BS is that the owner or maybe a manager posted several pics showing off the product. This is normal and expected by most business management personnel. What’s is kind of cheesy is that this same person also posted a FIVE STAR review on Unilocal. Maybe they are not familiar with Unilocal but in my opinion that’s just kind of stupid.
So to recap the margaritas are really good and the environment is fun but I’m not happy that I have to pay for chips and salsa and the appetizers that I had were not that good. I do watch a lot of football and I spend a lot of time and money in restaurants and I do like to drink and watch football however, for me I think there are places better than this however I most likely will be back.

Was very disappointed, read all the reviews it took 20 mins to get chips n salsa. Another 20 mins to get the drinks we orders. The sevice was terrible r poor waitress was her first day not sure if they r setting her up for failure 2 bartenders behind the bar n it still took long for r drinks. The atmosphere is great jus the food was a joke. I could understand if the bar/​restaurant was busy but it wasn’t. I even took pic to prove it. Someone plz call BAR RECUSE on this place.