Cocina Mexicana - Barrie

Food is prepared per order rather than buffet but they give a heads up to please be patient. So other than needing a little patience, the food, ambiance and especially the service was wonderful.

Cocina Mexicana offers both all you can eat or a la cart items. The food is authentic and the service is great and very friendly.

Worst Mexican food I have ever eaten. No flavor. Shocking to me that it was busy. Really can't believe it.

Upon arriving we had some very tough decisions to make as we attempted to pick which tacos to start with. We placed our first order with the server, and the food arrived pretty quickly and was awesome. We got a whole bunch of taco flavours and enjoyed all of them. I think the Carnitas tacos were our favourite. We also got a quesadilla but the tortilla was so thick it didn't have much flavour. We had the same issues with the sopes we ordered; it was too doughy and just felt like filler. We ordered a chicken soup and it was refreshing after eating so many carbs. Our biggest complaint about our experience was the service. After taking our first order, the server never checked on us again. I held up my hand for a few minutes, and in a restaurant with three occupied tables no one noticed me. I had to walk up to the front to ask the waiter to visit our table. We placed a small second order and I asked for some napkins, because the number of tacos I can eat without making a mess is quite low. The food came pretty quickly, but I never got my napkins. The owners here seemed very friendly. The man brought us our food and spoke with us and he was fun to talk to. The woman apologized to us at the end of the meal for the poor service we received and gave us a coupon. Between the friendly owners and the amazing tacos I really want to like this place, but I can't justify the terrible service we got from our waiter. Was I really asking for too much when I wanted a napkin?

This is the only Mexican all you can eat I know of in the GTA or nearby. Certainly it is the only one in Barrie. So it's great to indulge your love of Mexican (and not Tex Mex! . That said there're some concessions to Tex Mex, with the burritos and American cheese on the nachos. We were greeted with servings of what seemed to be light versions of nachos 2 sopes (like the corresponding items on their menu, but with fewer toppings . The nachos used nice, crispy, firm tortilla chips. The sopes were decent (though I'm not a fan of Hispanic corn dough, since it's quite heavy has a strong taste Sopa de tortilla was very rich tasty slightly spicy. There was a nice texture from the tortilla bits pork rinds. Caldo de pollo was good but it was just chicken soup with rice. The tacos were pretty big. Campechano was mostly beef sausage inside, but was dry with a flat flavour. Yet, it was not the fault of the meat on its own the stuffing was pretty tasty it just didn't work in the taco. Camaron was pretty good it had a lot of herbs had a fresh taste especially with the sour cream. Gringa was good: like Mexican pulled pork more onion, more sour less sweet than American pulled pork. Pastor was tasty spiced pork with pineapple, though it was better on its own outside the taco. Pambazo was a soft, very potatoey bun which was pretty good. Enchilada mole was quite small you could just order 1. It was decent. The lime agua fresca drink had a good lime taste tasted fresh homemade. The desserts were decent too. 3 milks cake was pretty good I've had moister but this was moist rich. Bunuelos (fried dough were decent fresh with nice cinnamon, but very thin so they were all crunch; they were also a bit oily. Ice cream was normal.