Mexicola Cantina - Coolum Beach

Mexicola Cantina is a restaurant with large servings of tasty food at reasonable prices. The restaurant however is let down by terrible service which takes all the gloss away from what should be a great family night. Not a single positive to say about the...service throughout the evening. Unenthusiastic, forgetful, slow, meandering, disinterested and unapologetic. For a place with only having wait for water and then for bottles of Corona after asking twice were two simple examples. The food is the winner however the staff let the place down.

Five of our family visited recently. Food was excellent, large serves, staff friendly and efficient. We visited again two nights later and were again very satisfied. Nachos! wow!

Booked this restaurant based on the excellent reviews. Got a phone call an hour before our booking for to be told there was no chicken OR beef left and if we came the only meals on offer would have been pork or chilli. Decided...to still go as we had been looking forward to Mexican all day. Go to the restaurant and we all proceeded to melt from the absolute heat inside and had to fan ourselves with the dirty menus. There were only other group in the restaurant so don’t know why they ran out of food. Deciding to power on, we thought let’s just start with a sangria to cool down and start to enjoy our evening. Then we were told, “oh, sorry, we aren’t doing sangria tonight!!!” Game over. What an absolute waste of our time. Is the food great. Who knows. We left and I highly recommend you give this place a hard miss.

Myself and a friend both locals had dinner here for the first time and we loved everything about it. Nice cozy atmosphere . Our meals we had the house special Enchiladas and chicken nachos ...both were terrific, authentic and generous portions and good value. The...service was excellent, friendly and efficient . We would definitely recommend this restaurant and look forward to coming back again

This restaurant came highly recommended so we thought we better check it out. We boomed way and arrived at an our table would be ready by We were offered drinks until which worked well as it took us ages to decide what...to order! Within about the place was jam packed with people and the place was buzzing. If your wanting to hold quiet conversations then this is not the place to do so. Its loud with music,people and staff. Our meals arrived pretty quickly. We were all surprised at how small the meals were and the men at the table had to order seconds. These meals dont come with sides just the small tacos etc.we all ended up having churros for dessert. These were beautiful however the sauces were very sweet. Mine an my daughters meal was which equals around I considered this expensive for what you got. Stil a great evening all the same. I would totally recommend booking a table a head of time. Its centrally located so taxis are easy to grab once you finish your meal. And to beat the crowds go early especially if you have kids.