La Chiva Colombian Restaurant

We loved our experience here. The food was outstanding and made with Colombian love. We eat a lot of home made beans and rice ourselves and loved the food here alone with the fried plantains. Every bite from start to finish was spectacular. Plus the service was fantastic. This really an at home feel like your eating ad authentic as it gets to someone's mom making the food for you. Even my kids 6 and 4 enjoyed the empanadas more than anything, they called them mini tacos! We plan to come here again as a family.

The food was good. We went around lunch and it was pretty busy but the service was great. I ordered a Bandeja Paisa and the steak was delicious. I added the salsa that was on the table onto my rice and beans and it made it exactly what I wanted. Give this place a try for some Colombian food!

The food was unbelievably tasty. Service was a little slow but they were busy, we just had to wait a little longer for requests. My two kids totally loved the food. We ordered a bandeja paisa, one order of the chicken fingers, a side of fried yuca, and 3 beef empanadas. The 3 of us shared and had to ask for a box. Still wishing to find a place as good as El Portón Colombiano, but this place is close enough.

Really good empanadas! A little on the pricy side though. Also very small place takeout is the way to go

Awesome little hidden spot in Buena Park! I usually drive by this place to and from school, and it's always interested me since I've never had Colombian food before. I got some food to go from La Chiva a few days ago. The food was so damn good that I decided to pitch the idea to have lunch there with two friends just a couple days later. For just under $80, my party of three got an extremely delicious, bigass meal, and 5 drinks.

La Chiva turned out to be an unintentional fortunate experience. I was driving with another person down Beach Blvd to grab some Korean BBQ when we noticed La Chiva at the corner of our eye. So we decided to take our chances. It is a small little casual hole in the wall but we were pleased to see it was pretty busy for a weekday. We shared an order of their empanadas. An order is 3 empanadas. We got two of their beef and one chicken. They were all really good and we had it with their house chimichurri and aioli sauce. For myself I got their Cazuela de Mariscos, which is their traditional seafood stew. There was crab, calamari, shrimp, and all sorts of yummy and fresh seafood in it. It was super flavorful and delicious. I was definitely satisfied and happy. It came with some rice and french fries which were good. The person I came with got their seafood and meat paella. It was a huge portion that came with chicken, sausage, and all sorts of seafood in it. It was also really good and went good with my stew. Both our items came with a small salad with some thousand island sauce. We also got some guava smoothie which was also good. Our total came out to be about $80 but the portions were so large and we had plenty of leftovers. Everything also had lots of seafood in it as well. Service was excellent. The lady working there was really nice and the food came out pretty quick. The restaurant is honestly nothing fancy. It's located on the street and they have parking in the back of the restaurant. You just have to walk around.

Great authentic Colombian and inexpensive food. The place is small and the parking is in the back. Careful walking to the front (walk around or carefully cut through Taco Bell). I recommend you go hungry. It's a lot of food. You can easily share with a group. Shrimp pasta dish was the best.

Decidimos probar este lugar porque Donde Adela están cerrados hoy lunes, estacionamiento muy pequeño y está ubicado atrás. Llegamos a las 7:00pm ya que aquí dice que cierran a las 8:00pm, pues da la casualidad que el letrero de la entrada dice que cierran a las 7:30pm pero ya estaban cerradas las puertas. No volveremos a este lugar nimodo.

Que delicia de comida. Soy rola y vivo en california y no hay muchos lugares colombianos encontré este lugar y traje a mi novio. Pedimos bandeja paisa y sobre barriga. Excelente. Las empanadas de carne y arepa de queso wow! Y la persona que nos atendió muy muy amable siempre. Will definitely return!!

Bad food didn't give all the stuff we ordered . Not clean . Food posing . Smells bad like vomit . Rude. The only thing I would recommend is the rice