Elsa La Reina Del Chicharron

I have to talk about this restaurant. We had previously ordered through Uber Eats and had never had a bad experience, so we decided to dine in for a relative’s birthday. We arrived around 1 PM, and at first, everything seemed fine—light music, not too crowded. But as soon as we started ordering, everything went downhill. The service was incredibly slow; we had to keep calling the waiter to check on our drinks and food because they took way longer than expected. At one point, they even turned off the music, and the whole atmosphere felt tense and uncomfortable. When the food finally arrived, it was a huge disappointment. My sangria tasted like pure alcohol with no trace of the actual flavor, The mofongo is SUPPOSED to come with a garlic mojo to keep it moist, but what they brought me was

This is as dominican as it gets. As soon as you come in you here the nice merengue music on. This was my first time here. We were a group of 12. Our waiter Marcelino was excellent. There were others helping him also. All very friendly. Let’s talk about the food: Amazingggggg. We ordered: their famous chicharrones (probably one of the best that I tasted, Mofongo with chicharron and fried cheese (I need to come back for this), Fried Fish balls, Bifongo (sweet plantain and regular) with shrimp, Skirt steak, spaghetti and meatballs, tostones and fries. To drink we had: morir soñando (it’s typical dominican drink with mix of orange juice and milk), chinola and soda.

DOMT GO THERE! The chicharrón taste like it was cooked in the morning and then they warm it up in an air fryer. It taste burn, it looks burn and it is tasteless. There’s no way you can mess chicharrón this bad but they succeed at it. Food was on counter and still had to wait about ten more minutes for them to give it time. Place has gone at full speed downhill. I also bought a mofongo and ended throwing it out because it looked like it was cooked in old reused oil and it was dark. The chicharrón also, ate two pieces the rest ended in the garbage. How disgusting is this food that.I got in my car to drive about five miles and couldn’t smell food at all.

This Dominican food was incredible! It was authentic and delicious! I ordered the Chicharrón guisado with white rice and red beans and my wife ordered the tres golpes. The portions are HUGE! So be ready to take some leftovers home! Enjoy it!!! Ohh, I also had the Morir Sonando. Next time I'll get the Country Club!

Ever since the son of the owner isn’t there this place has been getting worse and worse. They have combos on their menu which are included with mainly chicken and around 5 pm they already talking about they don’t have chicken anymore. They never try to accommodate us the customers if you’re done with chicken replace it with something else but it’s always the same story that they can’t. Food comes cold sometimes as well and not even from picking up the food late. I hate to put a bad review but the owner needs to step it up again because this place used to be really good. The staff doesn’t treat the customers like they want them to stay..