Costa Vida - Calgary

I ordered from here about 4 times in the last weeks and it gets better every time. their portion sizes are quite large, in any case enough to share lunch and dinner, so the prices on the more reasonable end of high.

I'm a little leery of Mexican food being too spicy for my poor stomach, but the sweet pulled pork burrito I had was perfection with a slight bit of a kick but nothing overpowering. To watch it being put together with the rice, refried beans, sauce, etc was great. Truly a tasty treat... one thing I should warn you... the burrito was huge so big in fact that even though I had it for lunch I was still feeling full at supper time. Not bad for $15 if I do say so!!

Fast food Canadian version of California Mexican food. Smaller portions. She spent a lot of time making sure the spoon was never heaped. The spicy hot sauce is not spicy at all. Other than that is it filling. Why do they have an option to tip? It's counter service fast food.

We were told about Costa Vida by some friends (that lived in Texas for a long time) about two years ago and it took us this long to get there. I wish we would have gone two years ago, it's amazing. This is my new go to Mexican place. It's as close to real Tex-mex I have had here in Calgary. Great flavors, with fresh ingredients. If you have kids go on a Monday as kids eat free (kids meal) with the purchase of one adult meal. Also get the Costa Vida app as you gain points quickly, which translates to free meals. Some people maybe thrown off by the restaurant style, but it's exact set up of most of my favourite places in Texas. So it's a cafeteria style system, walk up to the prep area, order your food and go down the line of toppings and ingredients that they add for you. While it might remind you of a sub shop, once you take the first bite, you will thank yourself for the experience, well at least I did.. I get the beef burrito everything I go, I really want to try something else, but fear it will not be as good, though everything looks really good. I find myself wanting to go every Monday.

I tried this place at my last job where we would order skip the dishes on Fridays. I've spent the last 2 months raving about the food to my boyfriend whenever he craved Mucho Burrito and trying to explain how much better it is. Glad to say that he is VERY impressed. Thank you so much!