Lechonera Borinquena Restaurant

Food is good sometimes depending what time you go the food taste different because it’s not fresh only when it’s fresh the food is awesome other then that is not. But I do recommend if u doing takeout.

Just an updated comment on this place: The food is not so great anymore. What happened?!

This place is not the lechonera boricua is now carida. Where do I begin if I could give this place a zero I would. The service sucks the waitress are rude, nasty and stuck up. I walked in to get some food to only wait 20 minutes. The food was horrible I ordered chicken a la brisa with rice & mojo. The chicken had no flavor and the rice was salty never again.

This place really sucked as well as the neighborhood. I’m black and just moved there. Its a very integrated area, but no one even speaks to one another of different races over there. Its filled with illegal aliens and their anchor babies and can get really filthy with garbage and noisey at times. ive never lived in such a pig sty and cant wait to move. as far as this restaurant, I found the staff to be very racist. They serve spanish people before you even though you entered the restaurant before they did. I found that to be a total slap in the face because they saw me walk in and totally ignored me the whole time. I ciuldnt get help until I asked for it. I was then served by a guy and a woman with very bad attitudes. I felt embarrassed and not wanted. afterall I thought my money was «green»??? I also noticed that they skim on the food of people who are not spanish. I used to barely get anything everytime I went there. then on top of all that, the food was disgusting. if I could leave them negative stars I would.

Yuck tryed this place so many times but they let me down each time. Not only is there name misleading from being a Puerto Rican restrurant but there food and service sucks! Ordered break fast was a oil spill they gave me fried beacon in which was charred black on one side and uncooked pink on another don’t waste your time

If I could give this restaurant zero stars I would. Service is horrible the staff all of them have a very nasty attitude and the food is disgusting I ordered chicharrones with maduros and the maduros were soggy and were almost rotten and the chicharrones smelled liked they were really old or left raw. It’s a shame that Soundview does not have a good Spanish restaurant that delivers.

I don’t even want to give this place a one star but I have no other choice, I love avena early in the morning before heading to work my husband always stop by this place by7:30 the doors are open once he goes in the waitress with a nasty attitude looks at him up and down and states that they’re close! So why the hell have the doors open then! She serves him the avena with a nasty attitude. After having this happen to us many times we stopped returning to this place. And the delivery for breakfast starts after 10! What about people who needs the breakfast before this time due to work?! Who opens a restaurant early but starts serving hours later!?! Besides that’s not even a Puerto Rican restaurant it’s a Dominican restaurant.

Let’s start off by «outing» these guys with their f aux name. The Lechonera Borinquena is definitely a misnomer. The name suggests or implies a Puerto Rican restaurant serving roasted suckling pig from a rotating spit– (an indigenous Caribbean specialty dating back centuries from the island of Puerto Rico.) The reality, this is a Dominican Restaurant masquerading as a previously owned restaurant with a very similar name that was located and since closed, just several blocks up along Westchester Avenue. I gather that the folks who own this restaurant adopted this name in their attempt to gain a competitive advantage in their quest of gaining the lost souls of a restaurant that had been in the area for several years before its demise.
Now the reality. This restaurant is owned by a family member (wife) of «Caridad and Louie» restaurant located on East Gun Hill Road. In fairness, please take the time to read my prior review of that Caridad Restaurant. This will give you the reader, a preview of this review which by the way, faired more positive than this review.
Upon entering this restaurant, you are guided into a glass enclosed cafeteria styled interior offering a bare minimum seating forum with mirrored walls. To the left is the ever popular steam table offering the specials of the day of rice, beans, and meat sides. During my visit, my daughter of six and I, ordered from the steam table. This is where things take a turn for the worse. I am completely, unequivocally, positive that pre-​cooked food that had been refrigerated and not discarded, was served to us. The stew chicken that was served to me was completely cooked but frigid (stone Cold) at the center of the chicken. The potato mound that accompanied this dish was raw, hard, and green at the center. My daughter’s beef stew faired similar results where tough to cut pre-​cooked beef, had been served (yuk!~). The rice was mushy and the beans were similar to the infamous «Bihon» (artificial color) colored, starch infused «Caridad styled beans.»
After leaving most this hog wash behind, my daughter and I headed back home.
Once there, we were succumbed to goosed bumped skin, gyrating stomachs and both of us competed for the down stairs «throne» in order to relieve this pain. I never realized how fast my daughter had become and she beat me to the «punch.» Notwithstanding that I assisted in birthing her and love her very much, I immediately considered over powering her as the head of household and over ruled her all while exercising «eminent domain» for the thrown. She, unfortunately, headed upstairs to the «queens» den and up chucked the remnants of the pseudo Puerto Rican flair. As of this writing, our stomachs are still smarting from this «loosely» interpreted Puerto Rican food. (No Pun Intended.)
While I take great pride in announcing my Puerto Rican Heritage, I do however frown upon those who clandestinely attached themselves to an ethnicity and then serve unappetizing, old, cold, and sickening food at the cost of defaming the heritage and culture of many. Look, I am all in for small businesses that attempt to survive in this ever so competitive market especially in a lack luster economy. I am not, however, for those who seek to enrich themselves at any cost without putting in the hard work, maintaining ethical and hygiene standards. More disconcerting is the disparaging mark of abdominal destruction that this restaurant offers all while choosing the cloth of secrecy by masquerading themselves as someone and something they are not.
My recommendation: Unless you are interested in losing weight by means of dehydration, elimination, and anal castration, stay away!

If I could give a negative star I would! It’s called Lechonera Borinqueña right? Well not even the servers were puertorrican. If you are Puertorriqueño and you see a restaurant with this name you would gravitate to it. What puertorrican doesn’t? The flavors were not there at all. The waitress had a nasty attitude and so did the guy at the register. My husband loves chicharron depollo sin huesos, he would never ask for it with hueso (bones). The waitress swore that he did and gave us more attitude! We ate what I ordered instead and left the store without leaving a tip. Never will I ever go back to this place. Lies from the beginning not a puertorrican restaurant the flavors were not those of a puertorrican cuisine and the waitress lying about our order…

Went there yesterday for the first time for take out. The food is good and the prices are just right. I just ordered from them and the delivery was quick so I didn’t have to heat the food. The oxtails were meaty and juicy and, of course, you get a load of rice & peas.