The family-[1] and Latin American-owned[2]Mexican restaurant D' La Santa operates on 10th Avenue at Miller,[3] on Seattle's Capitol Hill. The interior features a large driftwood[4] tree with lanterns hanging from the branches, and a wall with numerous decorative crosses.[5][6]
Menu
The menu focuses on steak and has also included tacos with various meat options such as beef birria,[7] steak rib-eye,[8] or shrimp and garlic butter.[5] The steakhouse[4] has served a 25-day dry-aged New York strip with salsa, as well as the Aguja Norteña, which has wagyu and a cactus salad.[7]
Seattle Weekly's Nicole Sprinkle recommended the cochinita pibil in 2017.[6] In 2022, Aimee Rizzo of The Infatuation said the restaurant had Seattle's best Mexican food and opined, "D' La Santa is something you really do need in your life."[5] She and Kayla Sager-Riley also included the business in the website's 2024 overviews of the city's best Mexican restaurants and best restaurants on Capitol Hill.[11][17] Zuri Anderson ranked D' La Santa second in iHeart's 2022 list of Seattle's best steakhouses based on Yelp.[18]
Allecia Vermillion included D' La Santa in Seattle Metropolitan's 2022 lists of the city's "great" tacos and Mexican restaurants,[4] as well as "greatest" steakhouses.[19] The magazine has also said the "companionable spot ... remains an undersung gem".[20] Gabe Guarente and Megan Hill included D' La Santa in Eater Seattle's 2022 overview of recommended eateries for steak,[21] and Harry Cheadle and Charlie Lahud-Zahner included the business in the website's overview of sixteen "mouth-watering" Mexican restaurants in the metropolitan area in 2024.[7]