Masa Mama

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   Maria

   Calgary

   3 reviews

   5.0

   3 reviews

   Dined 2 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   The food and drinks are simply outstanding. There’s a good variety of tacos and quite a bit of creativity infused in every food item, same goes for cocktails. In the past few times I’ve visited the restaurant, the servers were inattentive, but today was exceptional. Our female server was actively checking on us and made sure we had everything we needed.
   

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   Megan

   VIP

   Calgary

   4 reviews

   5.0

   4 reviews

   Dined 5 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   Masa Mama was an exciting night out, with excellent cocktails - especially the margaritas, and delicious food. We sat at the bar, so were able to have a comfortable conversation, but it is definitely on the louder side. We left very full, but very happy. We will be back for more Tamarind Margaritas and incredible tacos.
   

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   Iain

   Calgary

   10 reviews

   5.0

   10 reviews

   Dined on 1 January 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 4

   The food was amazing! The music was quite loud for a restaurant. There was only one server working, so the service was a little slow and scattered. I would definitely go back.
   

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   Dion

   Calgary

   2 reviews

   5.0

   2 reviews

   Dined on 1 January 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Unique and tasty variety of tacos, appetizers and cocktails. Attentive service. Modern location. Decent prices. Great value especially for a last minute booking on New Year’s Eve!
   

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   Keagan

   Calgary

   1 review

   3.0

   1 review

   Dined on 29 December 2024

   1. Overall 3
   2. Food 3
   3. Service 1
   4. Ambience 4

   The larger fish taco was really unique and tasty, but the Birria was drier than others in the city, and no salsas by default sadly. Wasn’t a bad experience but just needs ironing out and a couple twists to the menu.
   

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   Benny

   Las Vegas

   1 review

   5.0

   1 review

   Dined on 29 December 2024

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Small cosy Mexican restaurant. Food is awesome – gotta try the calamari. Service was attentive. Thank you, Alexia.
   

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   jim

   Calgary

   6 reviews

   5.0

   6 reviews

   Dined on 29 December 2024

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Great food and service and wonderful flavours - we will be back.
   

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   Nancy

   VIP

   Calgary

   18 reviews

   1.0

   18 reviews

   Dined on 28 December 2024

   1. Overall 1
   2. Food 1
   3. Service 2
   4. Ambience 2

   Guacamole was good. Good drinks. Pastor tacos were dry with little flavour. Fried items- calamari & fish tacos were extremely greasy.
   

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   Van

   VIP

   San Francisco

   1 review

   5.0

   1 review

   Dined on 23 December 2024

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   Great food and service. One recommendation I would make is to have coat racks or hangers so people don’t have to sit on their expensive coats on their stool.
   

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    Debbie

    Calgary

    4 reviews

    2.0

    4 reviews

    Dined on 23 December 2024

    1. Overall 2
    2. Food 2
    3. Service 1
    4. Ambience 3

    The room has a nice vibe, the Masa Guac and Korean Fish Taco were fantastic and the salsas were good. However, the margaritas were tasteless, the pork in the Al Pastor was dry and chewy and the beef in the Birria Taco lacked flavour. The restaurant enforces a rigid time limit for diners but the servers and kitchen haven’t been trained how to properly and politely manage that limit. After finally receiving our dessert after a long wait, our server dumped the charge machine on our table and walked away while we were still eating. It would be much kinder to customers if they were informed in advance that their table would be needed shortly. And in that case the kitchen should prioritize the orders for those tables to give diners time to finish their meals. Instead, we were rushed out the door in a way that felt very rude and frankly ruined the entire evening.
    

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