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Centrally located inside the historic Santora Building in Downtown Santa Ana’s Artist Village, Lola Gaspar is a cocktail bar and restaurant proudly serving DTSA since 2008. With a focus on Mexico’s vast culinary history, our bar features freshly made mezcal and tequila cocktails to suite everyone’s personal taste. At this time we are offering exclusive seating inside, as well as patio seating, takeaway, and delivery. Please visit our website and socials for the latest menus, hours, and information about upcoming events.
Cozy tapas joint serves up Latin & Spanish small plates, plus creative cocktails, in a small space.
Hours
| Friday | 3 PM–12 AM |
| Saturday | 12 PM–12 AM |
| Sunday | Closed |
| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | 3–11 PM |
| Wednesday | 3–11 PM |
| Thursday | 3–11 PM |
Address and Contact Information
Address: 211 W 2nd St, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Phone: (714) 972-1172
Website: http://www.lolagasparsantaana.com/
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Reviews
Rubine Red C
Hands down, the best restaurant in Santa Ana. The camote and carrot al pastor tacos are out of this world. Everything tastes incredible. The music is great—at the perfect volume to chat with your peeps. And don’t forget the churros. Love this place.
… moreTanya Gutierrez
The food and drinks were amazing! I ordered the chile relleno, sweet potato tacos, chorizo and lentil quesadilla, brisket taco and the churro.
… moreLauren Rodriguez
The service here was great and the food was delicious. Our server was friendly and gave us recommendations when we asked. The chips were thin, crispy and perfectly salted and the guacamole was some of the best I’ve had. The chorizo quesadilla was unique with the lentils, but so good. All 3 salsas provided were excellent and we all enjoyed the brisket and carnitas tacos. My husband said the brisket taco was his favorite. The drinks were also very good. We will for sure come back again sometime.
… moreJacob Parker
The drinks and chips were great. Shrimp tacos were good. Carnitas and brussel sprout tacos came out a bit cold. Staff was overall really personable. Enjoyed the time there.
… moreYassi Sadri
My new favorite place. All their drinks options are delicious. A fabulous arrays of appetizers: guacamole tasted fantastic with yummy salsa options, their bacon wrapped dates are uniquely sweet and salty with a creamy blue cheese. And my absolutely favorite was their chile relleno. Super friendly host and waiter. A must stop place in Santa Ana.
… moreSaul Aroche
This michelada was really good… they also have a great selection of Mezcal and omg the tacos are other level.
… moreMichael Sundquist
Arrived for late happy hour, Thursday, About 5:30 pm…
Went to check it out as a result of the venue just being recognized as a “Michelin Selected Restaurant”.
A slight wait to be acknowledged at entrance to be seated. A little discouraging but turned out to be no big deal. I was politely asked where I’d like to sit…chose the bar, as a single patron.
I was quickly approached by the personable bartender/server, Garrick.
I chose a margarita (jigger poured, approx 2oz tequila and 2 oz mix, shaken and strained into an ice filled, salted rim “bucket”). It was tasty, and satisfyingly potent…I had two, and actually felt a little buzz, and I’m not a lightweight!!!
It was “Thursday Date Night”, the only night you can get Bacon wrapped, cheese filled dates…VERY sweet n’ savory, oh, and quite good.
One of my reasons to visit, was to try the Blue Corn, deep fried, Chili Relleno. NOT your typical Relleno, except the cheese stuffed pepper, but was well worth the try…you should try it too!
It sat in a thin red pepper type sauce that is quite potent. I loved it, but it might be too “hot” for the weak palate. CAREFUL!
Overall, it was a very worthwhile visit, albeit short due to the damn parking meter!!!
Some amateur diners might think that the offerings are a bit pricey, but it’s actually appropriate, given the ingredients, preparation, and this lovely economy!!!
Kudos to the kitchen staff, Garrick and also Aristotle, another personable front of house guy.
… moreWent to check it out as a result of the venue just being recognized as a “Michelin Selected Restaurant”.
A slight wait to be acknowledged at entrance to be seated. A little discouraging but turned out to be no big deal. I was politely asked where I’d like to sit…chose the bar, as a single patron.
I was quickly approached by the personable bartender/server, Garrick.
I chose a margarita (jigger poured, approx 2oz tequila and 2 oz mix, shaken and strained into an ice filled, salted rim “bucket”). It was tasty, and satisfyingly potent…I had two, and actually felt a little buzz, and I’m not a lightweight!!!
It was “Thursday Date Night”, the only night you can get Bacon wrapped, cheese filled dates…VERY sweet n’ savory, oh, and quite good.
One of my reasons to visit, was to try the Blue Corn, deep fried, Chili Relleno. NOT your typical Relleno, except the cheese stuffed pepper, but was well worth the try…you should try it too!
It sat in a thin red pepper type sauce that is quite potent. I loved it, but it might be too “hot” for the weak palate. CAREFUL!
Overall, it was a very worthwhile visit, albeit short due to the damn parking meter!!!
Some amateur diners might think that the offerings are a bit pricey, but it’s actually appropriate, given the ingredients, preparation, and this lovely economy!!!
Kudos to the kitchen staff, Garrick and also Aristotle, another personable front of house guy.
Celeste Carmen
Really like coming to this places. The drinks are good, would recommend the Paloma. The guacamole is my favorite with the pumpkin seeds. The taco are 3.5 stars but overall atmosphere, service, and drinks make up for it.
… moreMichael Spencer
The octopus was cooked to perfection. It was soft enough to cut with a fork but charred a bit to give it that sensation. We had carnitas and octopus tacos, guacamole, and churros which I highly recommend everything
… moreLex Lewicki
TL;DR: Amazing food, get a group of friends and go there now so you can order everything and get to taste it all. Also, fabulous drinks.
Lola Gaspar was a delightful find for our group. A group of friends met up for beer at a The Good Beer Company and after a few tastes and a pint or two realized that we needed to eat. 4 of the 5 of us love tapas and so we decided to introduce our friend to the delights of tapas. Since none of us had ever been here we were a little apprehensive but we shouldn’t have been.
We walked over and the inside space was tiny and didn’t seem to have room for our group but the outside was empty and the heaters were on. I’m usually the one who objects to eating outside because I get cold quickly but even I was fine. After looking over the menu, we asked our waitress what we should expect in portions for several of the items because different tapas places vary on amount of food delivered as it is expected to be shared.
I should have taken a picture of the menu so I could remember everything we ordered but honestly, everything was great. We didn’t have a single bite that was mediocre or sub par.
The chips and guacamole were delicious and the two salsas that came with; one was slightly sweet and the other more smoky, chipotle style. We went through guacamole quickly and added the other salsas to different dishes. The nacho fries were easily one of the favorites of the night with several people making noises about ordering a second if we had room in our stomachs which we didn’t. We also ordered the dates and I really wanted a second order of those. The steak make-your-own tacos were my favorite of the tacos but others loved the prawn and short rib better. I don’t remember what the third order of tacos contained other than pork but they were apparently delicious also as a second plate of those were ordered.
For desert we ordered the pot de creme and the bread pudding and neither lasted long although I think the bread pudding won the dessert round. As for drinks, great cocktails, beer and wine. A well rounded drink menu to make everyone happy.
… moreLola Gaspar was a delightful find for our group. A group of friends met up for beer at a The Good Beer Company and after a few tastes and a pint or two realized that we needed to eat. 4 of the 5 of us love tapas and so we decided to introduce our friend to the delights of tapas. Since none of us had ever been here we were a little apprehensive but we shouldn’t have been.
We walked over and the inside space was tiny and didn’t seem to have room for our group but the outside was empty and the heaters were on. I’m usually the one who objects to eating outside because I get cold quickly but even I was fine. After looking over the menu, we asked our waitress what we should expect in portions for several of the items because different tapas places vary on amount of food delivered as it is expected to be shared.
I should have taken a picture of the menu so I could remember everything we ordered but honestly, everything was great. We didn’t have a single bite that was mediocre or sub par.
The chips and guacamole were delicious and the two salsas that came with; one was slightly sweet and the other more smoky, chipotle style. We went through guacamole quickly and added the other salsas to different dishes. The nacho fries were easily one of the favorites of the night with several people making noises about ordering a second if we had room in our stomachs which we didn’t. We also ordered the dates and I really wanted a second order of those. The steak make-your-own tacos were my favorite of the tacos but others loved the prawn and short rib better. I don’t remember what the third order of tacos contained other than pork but they were apparently delicious also as a second plate of those were ordered.
For desert we ordered the pot de creme and the bread pudding and neither lasted long although I think the bread pudding won the dessert round. As for drinks, great cocktails, beer and wine. A well rounded drink menu to make everyone happy.