La Playa Multiple Locations
Seafood · 3343 West Ave, San Antonio, Texas 78213
This is a chain with multiple locations - the address above is the one reviewed here.
★★★★☆ 1 review(210) 340-2762
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Average Seafood - Affordable Prices, But The Fries Were The Best Item.
This week I tried La Playa mexican seafood, located on West Ave. I decided to try this place completely at random. One factor being they had fried seafood. I'm not fond of broiled, baked, or seafood soups, and steer clear of the whole fish plates.
I ordered the (2) fish (3) shrimp and (4) oyster plate, with coleslaw and rice for the sides. I wanted to try as much as possible on my first visit, but stay with somewhat of an affordable meal. Most the plates here are $10-12. But the fried food makes up a very small portion of the menu.
My plate came out decently fast, in less than 10 minutes. While waiting I read some reviews, and began to become concerned as a large portion of the recent reviews were negative. My food arrived, and the waitress noticed I didn't have silverware. She prepared a small glass bowl with tartar sauce, cocktail sauce, silverware & bread. Then asked if I wanted Cholula, Tabasco or Louisiana hot sauce.
I tried a piece of shrimp first, the menu stated breading was thin, and it was. Everything had a thin skin of breading, not crunchy, not thick. It was thin enough just adding lemon to the fish caused the skin to stick to the plate and peel off easily. I tried a piece of the fish, it was really good, moist, seasoned well, and the tartar sauce here was great. At this point I was pretty happy with the choice.
Then a fork full of coleslaw.. Well.. lets say I once had a friend comment "I've never seen you spit anything out". I admit, its a rare event, but this was one of those times. Thinking I just got a bad piece of cabbage, I tried the opposite end of the serving, same as before..
I moved on to the rice and the oysters. The rice had minimal peppers in it, but was closer to spanish rice than rice pilaf, the oysters were decent in size, not tiny, but not overly large and had decent flavor.
One lady came by and asked how everything was, when I said "the coleslaw is bad, its bitter" the lady replied "oh, you like it?", I said.. no. She sent another the waitress over. I told her the coleslaw was bitter and she asked if I wanted another side instead (in Spanish). I asked for fries.
A few minutes went by and the fries came out. The fries were really good, they had a light coating of batter on them, were seasoned well, freshly cooked.. and was actually a highlight of the meal..
Service was decent, prices were fair, about average for seafood, and while portion sizes weren't huge, but I left decently full..
I would return again. Avoiding certain items of course. Definitely a good option for affordable seafood. While I was eating I saw other people order several things that looked really good, one being what appeared to be a giant shrimp cocktail in a glass topped with sliced avocados. This place might be worth visiting as a group to explore the menu a bit.
La Playa - 3343 West Ave, San Antonio, TX 78213
Fish Shrimp & Oyster Combo w Coleslaw & Rice
Fries
La Playa - 3343 West Ave, San Antonio, TX 78213
Fish Shrimp & Oyster Combo w Coleslaw & Rice
— Paul