Carrizal Bar & Grill

This is a review for a delivery order.
While it was probably not their specialty, I made the mistake of ordering a penne vodka and a side of veggie plate. The veggie plate looked a week old (huge pet peeve of mine when veggies — broccoli and cauliflower — have no crunch or color and are a big pile of mush. It may as well have been mashed potatoes). Also not sure when vodka sauce meant salty tomato remnants. No cream at all! I’ll have to give it to them that portions were huge though.
Too bad the garbage had to eat it.

My husband is Dominican and loves this place! We eat there for breakfast and they serve both American and Spanish breakfast. We order as well with no real issues. They even saved my a#$ for christmas when I ordered a tray of pernil because I couldnt bring myself to make one (scared to fail in front of the new in –laws). Anyways, it was a hit!

Love this place. The food is great, and service is quick and always excellent. They have never messed up my order and my delivery usually arrives within 30 mins, except for during the lunch hour it takes sometimes up to 45 mins. I have order from her more than a dozen times, so they have been consistently great. Although I have only ever ordered delivery through seamless. But, this is my go to delivery place whether it’s breakfast, lunch or dinner.. The mofongo is delicious (my fave), and I love love love their breakfast 3 Golpe (Salami, eggs and fried cheese, and mangu!!) The portion sizes are big, so you get your moneys worth.

I had a sit down breakfast after a long trip from Syracuse this morning. I was considering going to McDonalds for a quick fix but I decided to give this restaurant a try.
I wanted something simple so I ordered Pancakes with beef sausage and water for my drink. I needed to say hydrated for the day. Anywho, the cashier was courtesy in letting me know the options of the meat and asked if I wanted to stay or go. I decided to stay since my sister was busy and she wasn’t home. So I chosen my own seating area and waited for the food. The food plus the water arrived. But my cup of water was sooo overflowing, it spilled when I moved it. SMH! On top of that I wasn’t given no extra napkins and not even a straw. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Anywho, the food was fresh and very good. There’s no complaints on that part.
A few other things happen,
1. It was a windy morning and they had their door open and their metal plates flew into the kitchen. It was on top of some glass that covering where they cook their food. Maybe a lack of stock area for them.
2. I ran into a customer who doesn’t eat eggs. Neither do I so, she let the lady cashier who was taking her order that she didn’t eat eggs like 3 times politely. Which was a good thing since her main language was Spanish.
3. When they turn the music on it was extremely loud for another person who was eating and myself but they tuned it down.
Anywho the price of the food was reasonable. I would most likely come again.
P. S.: Make sure you spend a minimum of $ 7.00 with a credit/​debit card. There was no sign on the window or menu.
That’s why now they are getting three stars!

Everytime I place an order from them, I pray it’s better than the last time. And everytime I get the food I immediately regret the time and money I’ve wasted and swear I’ll never order again. Needless to say I’ve ordered the rotisserie chicken combo, again, and although I haven’ t received it yet, I already regret ordering it after reading these reviews and seeing that other ppl share my exact sentiments about this place. I wish there were better options that delivered to my neighborhood. *sigh*

Hands down the worst experience I’ve ever had with GrubHub. First of all, I had a pickup order that they tried to charge me extra for for «tax» because I was paying with card. Obviously that’s not tax, that’s whatever card fee they’d have, but I already knew the amount I’d owe from my receipt. I told them that’s not what tax is, and so I’d just pay with cash. I got home only to realize we were missing a plate. On top of that, they weren’t answering their telephone to tell them that we were missing something. I then had to call GrubHub who was able to get in touch with them & they said they’d re-​deliver. They never even showed up! I had some tacos which were actually really disappointing and some decent but salty goat stew. My advice is to NEVER order from this place. Worst experience, however, GrubHub was very accommodating!

This place is the best! Real deal Spanish food and always fresh! I’m getting delivery right now!

My food came late, they had to call me so I could direct them to the place, any person in 2015 could easily pull up GPS on their phone so I’m not sure what that was. When I finally get my food I realized both things I ordered was wrong. I ordered Texas style nachos and got steak nachos instead. I ordered a chicken enchilada, and somehow got a Quesadilla. I was so hungry I couldn’t even fight it just take what they gave me. The food was good I will give them that, if only they can get their customer service better because man it is bad… or else I would continue ordering from then again.

I ordered Sunday dinner, two whole rottiss chickens with three sides. I wish i cooked instead the chickens were not fresh with a slight odor, hard n dry to say the least. 25 $ n 5 $ trip was not worth the money. Its my guess these chickens were old n they tried to reheat them. This was my first time ordering n def my last!

If there was anything less than one star I would have chosen that. My food was two hours late, and came in a cold, smashed ball of mush. Terrible customer service also. I never send food back, but when I looked at the mess they have me in the bag I had to call the delivery guy and get him to take it back.

Had a sit down lunch here on Monday. The atmosphere was good with only a few drawbacks… loud music… a lot of loud Spanish speaking… at times I noticed they had cold air blowing (in December, really?).
However, the food was pretty good. I ordered a basic meal of stewed chicken with yellow rice and red beans. My expectations were met and I was definitely full. I was there at 2:30 and was still full at 8:00 pm.
I will definitely be frequenting this establishment on a regular basis when a need for Spanish food hits.

Waited over two hours – TWO – for delivery. Finally gave up and canceled the order. Yes, Grubhub reversed the order and refunded my money, but – we are hungry!
Called and the man who answered the phone was pretty much like «duh» and had no acceptable excuse for why it took two hours for rotisserie chicken that never came. Two thumbs down.

Ordered food from here for the second time yesterday. The first time I ordered pernil, rice and pepper steak and the food was amazing. Yesterday I ordered pernil, rice, maduros, & ½ chicken. The pernil was extra salty, the maduros were bland and not ripe. Definitely not as good as the first time but I’d give them another try, the prices are cheap!

Just ordered from here and they messed up my order. I ordered a chicken sandwhich and a streak sandwhich, instead they gave me 2 chicken sandwhichs which were very bland and flavor less. I would have to actually add salt just to get some type of flavor.

Don’t order from grub Hub you don’t receive what you ordered. All they have to say for it is call next time. Disappointed, I wasted my lunch time on this place.

Ordered through Grub Hub and it arrived 90 minutes late. Ugh.
And I don’t know how you can mess up enchiladas and rice and beans, but MAN, did they do a number on these.
The shrimp enchiladas were more like rubbery, shrimp crepes – if you like your crepes dry and heavy on the cilantro. Maybe they ran out of dairy after 8pm (thusly delaying my order) because there was no cheese anywhere on my food. Nowhere! No sauce either. Them bad boys were drier than Ashy Larry’s knuckles in the Wintertime Dice Olympics. Dry, dry, dry.
As hungry as I was, I took two bites, threw it in the trash and scrambled myself some eggs.

I ordered the 3 Golpes (Mangu, Salami, Eggs, Fried Cheese), a Fruit Salad and Some Passion Fruit Juice. Overall the portion for the price is amazing. The taste made me feel like I was back in the Dominican Republic. Overall it was amazing for the value. I will definitely order from here again.

Can you say bland?

Ordered delivery for breakfast from here. The prices were really reasonable but…
The breakfast is really just not good
The French Toast was eehhh… somewhat decent.
The pancakes were really dry (I didn’t even order pancakes. I ordered a waffle but whatever)
The sausage was just nasty
1 small syrup cup per meal?
.No thanks

On my way home today I decided to satisfy my craving for Spanish food, however, this would have to take a back seat to my curiosity. The awning of this new establishment I had never noticed before was so attractive I had to see what it was. A Spanish Bar & Grill?! This required further investigation.
Upon entering I was amazed by how nice it was inside. There were 2 huge flatscreens one playing the game…(NICE!), tables where guests could be seated if they chose to dine in, and a long bar with several leather bar stools. The food was displayed in chafing dishes behind a glass and looked and smelled amazing. I ordered bacalao y arroz con judias (stewed cod fish with rice and beans). It must be my lucky day, not only was the food good it was better than the food I would have initially bought and the serving was generous.
Note:
— They deliver!
— As this is a new establishment, (for now) they only serve wine & beer.