The food is the best Mexican food around! The food is great and the owners are so nice.

Well for starters took 10 dollars off credit card for free membership. Food came cold. Place is clean .

Large party to celebrate birthday Everyone liked their menu choices Clean delicious friendly service large portions read more

Delicious and fresh food! Stumbled upon this place and it did not disappoint! Friendly staff.

Food was ok. Fairly good but nothing special. Service here was pretty bad. Although the waitress was nice enough, she took her time taking our drink order, then our food order. Then she brought out our food piece by piece. It's a bummer when you get your hot fajita platter, but no sides. The. You get your sides, but still no tortillas. Then you're halfway done with your meal and the tortillas finally come out. One of us still had no meal when most of us were done. Empty drinks everywhere. The grand finale was chasing down the waitress twice to beg for our check. I won't be back. read more

Couldn't wait to try the all you can eat buffet when we stopped in for lunch, and it was great. All my favorites- rice, beans, taquitos, chicken, mixed fajita, even cake at the salsa bar. Someone told me you know it's a good Mexican restaurant by their rice and their Spanish rice was like my mom's and both grandmas. So good. The shredded chicken had a wonderful seasoning to it too. Next time I'll try something off the menu. Loved the cake. read more

La Barca Mexican Restaurant - Cake from salsa bar - Mexican Near Me - Arnolds Park, Iowa

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Delicious food, good drinks and great music! Great service too! I would come back soon!!

This new place has most excellent service and is clean. The food is good and the prices are fair. Give it a try! read more

La Barca Mexican Restaurant - Shrimp and Chorizo fajitas - Mexican Near Me - Arnolds Park, Iowa

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Buffet is amazing, pebbled ice in drinks. Dessert is also very good. Server was very nice as well 10/10 recommend

Just had a good meal, great service at a reasonable price. Looks like the have done a little remodeling too.

Went for the lunch buffet. Clean, wonderful, accommodating staff. Kept the buffet filled up consistently. Many options to choose from. Everything was fresh & delicious. Menu is available at lunch time in addition to the buffet. read more

Food is Mexican, not Tex-Mex so be aware. Does not have the spice and heat we Texans are hooked on but the food is decent and fresh. Margaritas are huge and inexpensive. read more

La Barca Mexican Restaurant - can you say A-reee-bah! That's a Margarita! iPhone shown for scale. - Mexican Near Me - Arnolds Park, Iowa

I didn't know that there was such a thing as a Mexican food buffet, but we saw the Yelp reviews and were in need of a quick and filling meal while on our way to a hockey tournament, so we tried La Barca. After eating here, I am not really sure why there aren't more buffets like this one. There was a really nice selection of beef and chicken dishes. All of the ingredients seemed fresh, and they have both corn and flour tortillas. If you are gluten free, just ask and they will get you some corn tortillas if you want. The seating area was a little run down, but things seemed clean enough and they have good wait staff. I enjoyed that they had a full bar and the strawberry margarita was really tasty for a reasonable price. The only complaint I would have is that the bathroom was out of soap and paper towel - it was clean, but that made me a little nervous. I would eat here again, especially during lunch hours. read more

So yum. My family loved this restaurant, even my vegetarian sister! The people are so genuinely warm and the food was bomb. We used to come here when it was Mrs. Lady's and decided to give La Barca a try...it did not disappoint. Also, we split a bunch of desserts-- each was delicious and huge. My tum is pleased. Also we tried a modern taco place nearby that was hella expensive and not nearly as satisfying. Come here. read more

Authentic Mexican menu; lunch buffet that offers a lot of variety. Food is delicious and fresh! Prices are very fair. Staff is super friendly. Parking is easy. Able to walk to from a lot of popular locations. You can't go wrong here! We like the mixed fajitas, chicken quesadilla, and queso dip. We've taken friends here several times and all were impressed. Margaritas, beer, and bar choices are also available. read more

Great Mexican restaurant and excellent food. Good for a large group and menu was extensive. Service was good even though staff was limited they served 13 of us in a timely manner at lunch time. read more

Wonderful lunch buffet! Several delicious entrees, the rice and beans are always tasty, the fresh vegetable toppings and condiments are plentiful and the dessert items are a good way to end our meal!! My sister and I meet and then drive 45 minutes to have an enjoyable lunch and time to reminisce about our lives, families, and good food! La Barca is perfect for us! Susan and Sally read more

Great menu with a ton of options! The food was fantastic - highly recommend the street tacos! Honestly some of the best we've ever eaten! Margaritas were perfect, too! Great options for picky kiddos. The service was wonderful. Don't miss out on this gem! read more

Best Mexican restaurant in town. Always a 5 star experience. Ask for Charbel for the best service! read more

La Barca Mexican Restaurant - a plate of food - Mexican Near Me - Arnolds Park, Iowa

Our group of 7 really enjoyed the food, best Mexican food in the area. Great prices, very reasonable for the quality!

Delicious, authentic and great service! Great menu with variety and including lots of favorites

Lunch and dinner buffet is my favorite Mexican buffet. Good variety and always fresh! They have queso on the buffet which is a game-changer for me! Have never had bad service and always have a friendly face to serve you! read more

This is the best Mexican food at Lake Okoboji if you're craving Mexican food look no further. The food is reasonably priced, but above all it's delicious. Betty has been a friend of mine since she came to the lake a few years back I followed her or to every location she's been at, for the past 10 years. Mike johnson read more

This place is simple. The seating/tables are simple. The food is simple, like Mexican food should be. Nothing fancy , which is why this place is 4 stars. Service was great. 7/8 mexican beers to choose from and serve ICE COLD Coca Cola with the Salk ice cubes. PERFECT COMBO!! Owner is Mexican female and was so cool. I highly recommend this place. Order the tacos just like this( soft corn tortilla, chicken, cilantro and onion). Add a little fresh salsa on top and BAM!! A+ read more

This place has went down a bit since opened!! The chips were stale!! The buffet was up but food nonexistent!! They are not prepared for groups or crowds!! It's better eating there during the winter when their slow!! Today the server not only lied to my face when I asked to speak with management, but the owner son was like just let her leave!! Well great business etiquette, && I'm happy to see true colors exposed!! They'll never get a dollar from me or my friends again ever!! Then to have some kid speak with me whom isn't even in high school, funny!! read more

Tacos were good and I do like that I can build them myself. Some of the side items like rice or beans were average. They keep the buffet fresh by keeping the amount on it small. Affordable and was great the day after a hard night at the bars. read more

Unbelievable, I lived in Texas for two years, yet Iowa of all places has the authentic Mexican food I crave. Me and the amigos were up in Spirit Lake, building windmills. They said this restaurant was like being home. We ordered all sorts of stuff, some of it wasn't even on the menu, but they made it all and every last bit of it was delicious. read more

We had the lunch buffet during the week and everything was fresh and delicious. For the quality of food and taste it was definitely worth the price! (It was about $27.00 for 3 people drinking water). The fajitas were probably my favorite thing. read more

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Always a favorite when come into town! We always come when they have their buffet open. They have queso on the buffet & everything is delicious! read more

This is not the Mexican restaurant you are used to. 1. we seated ourselves and after about 5 minutes the waitress comes over and did not offer a high chair for the baby. 2 the drinks we wanted were not available. 3 they messed up 2 out of 6 orders and it was not even busy at all. 4. The service was not great at all and when we got the bill it already had the 15% service charge. read more

My first EVER Mexican food buffet. Didn't know what I was getting myself into, but was soon digging in. The Chicken Quesadilla was very good. Their queso cheese sauce was thin, but as it cooled it thickened to a nice texture. I had three plates sampling a variety of ground beef burros, cheesy chicken with spinach concoction, fajitas, chimichangas, beans, rice, flour tortillas, chips & salsas. I didn't try the deserts, but what they had displayed looked appealing. Very efficient and friendly wait staff. The surprise for me was how affordable it was. It is not the best Mexican food I ever had, but I found what I sampled was tasty for the money. With drink and tax the dinner buffet was under $15.00 Wish they had enchiladas, but I look forward to trying those on my next trip. I will be back. read more

This was the best Mexican food around the lakes area! The seats good use help as some are ripped. Definitely will be back!!

Very fair. Chips were okay, flavorless. Cheese enchiladas were filled with queso instead of real melted cheese. Rice was decent. I would not go back. read more

We were very excited to visit this restaurant since they had high reviews, but were quickly disappointed. This is the worst service I have had in a while, we have been sitting in our booth for 55 minutes waiting for our food but our server is no where insight. Will not be returning. Food here is below average. read more

Good Mexican in the okoboji area. Their cheese dip is so good. My husband's trio meats fajita was excellent. Lots of seating too.

I don't leave negative reviews ever, but since this place had 4.5 stars I felt I should. First we waited 10 minutes for anyone to even aknowledge us after we were seated, and service somehow got worse after that. Out of six orders, they got 2 of them right. Like I ordered a beef chimichanga and got a shrimp enchilada kind of wrong... we had approximately 3 different servers at random times that had no idea what was going on and the place wasn't even busy. Hard to mess up a Mexican restaurant experience but they did it. Food was your average American Mexican food you get everywhere, but the experience killed it for me. read more

The food was tasted very good, it came out timely and the portions were not small. The atmosphere wasn't the greatest, but the food definitely made up for that. The servers were all very nice as well. read more

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Everything was fine until I went to pay my bill. I had a small margarita and a chicken meal. They charged me $24.75. I won't be back.

I took a Mexican and she didn't think it was authentic but they have great service and even the food texmex is really good. Big portions!

Went for the sopapilla (old school Mrs. Lady's style) and found instead a good Mexican restaurant (to our SoCal tastes). Ordered some food and found tasty items, reasonably priced. I'll try something different for my main drink - the marg was sweet for my taste. When we want mex at the lake, we'll be back. (The sopapilla fried dessert tortilla good but not as great as Mrs. L's.) read more