Arcata
Valley Azteca

Valley Azteca

5000 Valley W Blvd #4646, Arcata, CA 95521, United States

Fish • Meat • Coffee • Chicken


"Great Mexican comfort food. Valley Azteca (Valley, as in Valley West Shopping Center) (707) 826-0723 is where the original Luzmila's restaurant used to be. My wife and I and my two sons have eaten here for years, since it was the original Luzmilas. The restaurant is spacious and the furnishings are old, but in a good way. LOTS of spacious red leather upholstered booths, along with older tables and sturdy service-scarred chairs. The place is great for a quiet conversation over a beer. Northeast corner of the shopping center, near the passage to the back parking lot. The food is quintessential Mexican home style. In fact I think the owner's wife is in charge of the kitchen. English and Spanish is spoken here. I see a lot of take-out with Spanish banter thrown in. It seems to be a family business with the friendly portly Cheech-Marin aspect middle-aged host ensuring that you are happy and get exactly what you want, the mom overseeing the kitchen with various other age groups from grandma to school aged kid stopping off studying with his schoolbooks dispatched to a minor errand with a Spanish exhortation. As I said, the food is home style Mexican. A large menu with a variety of combinations. Good portions. I usually choose one or two items such as Tostada or Chili Relleno with rice and beans. Mexican beers. Not gourmet, but good and tasty and reasonably inexpensive. Comfort food."

Wildberries Marketplace

Wildberries Marketplace

747 13th St, Arcata I-95521-5832, United States

Vegan • Fusion • Seafood • American


"Wildberries Market has the most polite people at the register and people on the floor assisting to answer my questions or help me find an item, like Gomasio (Eden Organic Gomasio! yum) sesame seeds sea salt can be made myself by toasting organic sesame seeds on a cast iron skillet...stir stir stir circular motion with wooden spoon till smelling done and popping, then grinding in a suribachi bowl with a pinch of sea salt or salt of choice. Expensive little pleasures without all the work. Sprinkle Gomasio on steamed veges, yams, acorn squash, or eat straight on a spoon; so yummy. Found this out hanging out with my Japanese friends. Very happy to find it here, just as good as home made. The veges here are top quality organic and on the young side, the way I like them. Zucchini, cauliflower, red cabbage, cucumber, red bell peppers, young, smaller and very firm. It is the next best thing to the farmer's markets. Medical professionals advised me to eat organic and non gmo, and better to grass fed or pasture raised and avoid additives. Feeling much healthier, thanks to them. The people in this store have always gone the extra mile, and nobody has ever been rude to me in any department of Wildberries (unlike the other two health food stores in Eureka). Hopefully, they can lower the plastic since Covid is over, but the hot and cold deli food is delicious none the less. They also have many varieties of wines and types of beer."

Pho Hoang

Pho Hoang

1390 G St, Arcata I-95521-5821, United States

Soup • Asian • Vegetarian • Vietnamese


"I try not to write reviews I think might affect businesses in any negative way, but I tried to give this restaurant three chances before I finally decided to write my review. First time I visited, it was many years ago, almost 4 years ago. My order came out wrong and it was tasteless. But it was my first time and I thought it might’ve been just a mistake that they mixed my order and did not get it right. It was simply a veggie pho, however, they gave me meat pho broth with vegetables. Vegetarian should mean only vegetarian, no meat, no animals broth and no meat. Just vegetarian! I never went back because I did not like to spend money on bad quality food and at a place that doesn’t not honor customer food requests. When I go dining out I would like to enjoy my meal safely because I am taking a break. After I got married, my husband tried to convince me that it was a good place because he had never had any issues. But at the same time he only orders the same dish. I decided to go with him, and after we ordered, our drinks this time never made it to the table. I was not so impressed by the customer service, but I thought maybe they are very busy and it was an honest mistake. Our orders were okay, I was very scared to order anything so I just got the fresh spring rolls because I can at least see what’s in it. He got the usual order yellow shrimp curry. Because he is a pescatarian. No meat. Yesterday, a friend of ours invited us to go for pho. I was apprehensive about it but I thought it would be nice to have something warm like pho since it was a cold no night. I’ll start with the service: We waited 20 minutes and no one came to take our order. I had to flag them down to get our order. The person who took our order did not take any notes. We orders two drinks, vegetarian egg rolls, one vegetarian yellow curry, one shrimp yellow curry, and one seafood (only shrimp) noodle special. One drink made it to the table, I got completely different order, the egg rolls were chicken egg rolls and they were ice cold, and we got chicken yellow curry. So the only thing that was right it was the veggie yellow curry. Everything else is a complete different order. We sent back the chicken curry to get a fresh shrimp yellow curry, and the egg rolls as well to get vegetarian cooked properly. It almost terrified me to find out they send back the yellow curry with chicken pieces and same broth with some shrimp. I send it back and I said we do not want it and we want it to be removed from our orders. They bring back a third bowl of shrimp curry and this time they swear it’s fresh! I told them I do not want it and they need to remove it from our orders. We decided to share our orders and just call it a night. The nightmare continues. We found out the seafood special rice noodle pho had beef broth instead of just seafood broth. We were horrified by the entire experience. This was extremely disappointing and honestly scary. If you can, avoid for your sanity sake and to safe your money! Dietary restrictions: Be careful they do not change or accommodate to your restrictions. Service: Dine in Meal type: Dinner Price per person: $20–30 Recommendation for vegetarians: Would not recommend Vegetarian offerings Not sure Parking space Somewhat difficult to find parking"