El Sabor Tropical Restaurant

Food came in over an hour, just placing a call for delivery is annoying because they will put you on hold countless times. I understand you are busy but it’s still frustrating. When the food finally came it was cold! I had to reheat everything! Will second guess from ordering again

This place had a good thing going for a while, but yet again I’m disappointed with another Paterson establishment. For one, if you call and speak English, you are now put on hold immediately and/​or indefinitely, and that was by accident, since my wife and I can both make orders in Spanish. Out of suspicion, we put this to a test and ended up hanging up when they left on us hold for over 5 minutes. Also, when I finally got through tonight, they no longer honor their menu in which you get rice with gandules, beans, and salad with their combo. We specifically asked for the beans with the rice, and when we called back to say they forgot the beans, they said it no longer comes together and hung up on us, even though it always has up until my last order with them a couple months ago. They have reduced their carne de res guisda to measly strips of beef as opposed to the cubed beef stew, which is a sign of laziness. A ludricous $ 2 delivery fee raised from a $ 1 from when they first opened is too much. I will now move on. There is another place on Union Ave. that has better food, and gives you your money’s worth.

Just placed a pretty big order. Waited more than an hour for delivery, and not only was the food cold but HALF my order was missing! So I’m now on my way to the restaurant cranky and hungry af to pick up food that’s probably cold as hell too and should have been delivered. First and last time I’ll be ordering from this place.

Yet another GrubHub choice for me. They are pretty freaking awesome.
I typically order their Tres Golpes breakfast. Traditionally, it consists of Mangú con salamí, queso, y huevos. Pero, this place offers a 4^th option (so you get to choose 3 out of the 4), in which you can replace any of those items with longaniza. That’s sausage, for the gringos out there… Or Lil’ Mama fans. (Eggs, bacon, grits… SAUSAGE! But I digress.)
Today, for the first time in life, I tried a dessert called Habichuela Con Dulce. Habichuela means Beans (red kidney beans), Dulce means ‘sweet’. So this dish is essentially a thin, über-​sweet porridge of sorts, made with kidney-​beans. Sounds pretty jacked up, right? Like, BEANS!!! In a dessert??? Even though I grew up around a gajillion Dominicans, been to their houses, and been to their restaurants in Paterson… I had never heard of (or paid attention) to this dish on their menus. I saw the light when I was watching a BuzzFeed video that showed different Caribbean people trying each other’s desserts (go watch that, it’s awesome AF). Well the Habichuela thing looked so awesome, I decided to get a bowl of it with my breakfast. And it was delish.
As far as all Latino food that I’ve had in the Greater Paterson, it’s good. Not SPECTACULAR, but it satisfies my urges. They make some wicked empanadas, by the way… Just thought I’d add that in, at the last second. Okay, I’m done. #ImFakeDominicanNow #HabichuelaConDulce #TodoLosDias #ItsLit

My order came after 1 hour and a half. My food was cold and I didn’t like the taste either so I threw away 41 dollars and stayed hungry

The rotisserie chicken and the rice and bean was delicious. However, I was very disappointed in the sliced cake… it was stale and very difficult to eat.

We used seamless app to Order food and took about an hour which wouldn’t have bothered me at all if the food was excellent. I ordered the mofungo with shrimp which was double the price of the other mofungos and it came with 1 piece of shrimp. I’ve had mofungo in Washington heights sooooooo much better. This was disappointing after reading positive reviews. I also ordered an avocado salad which had absolutely no avocado. My boyfriend ordered beef empanadas which were dry. He also got fried green plantains which had no flavor what so ever. They tasted as if they fried flavorless dried plantains. The delivery driver could not find our building and would not even try. He asked my boyfriend to come outside and find him in the parking lot. Would not recommend this restaurant for take out. Can’t speak for eating in. Maybe the food is better if you go there.

I order from this place all the time. Food is fresh and the portions are a nice size. They have a special for a whole chicken rice beans plantains and a soda for 20 bucks. You can’t beat that.

I really like the food I’ve tried here. My fav dishes are their mofongo with the garlic sauce or meat sauce, and their Sancocho that they only have on weekends. Early in the day they have a lot of options of meats that are cooked for the day but if you wait too late evening they run out of a lot of things.

Updated review: yesterday I placed an order through the Unilocal app. I didn’t receive it until about an hour after I ordered, then they sent me the wrong item. (The last couple times I’ve ordered they’ve been slow) I called the place up to let them know that my order was wrong and they couldn’t find my order but they still sent me my original order (about 20 minutes later I received it). The lady on the phone was helpful and friendly. I suppose they are starting to get busier and more mistakes are happening, understandable. Food was still good!

Very poor customer service. Food is good if they have it– but they’ve charged me twice for food that didn’t arrive. Wouldn’t recommend.

Wow! This place has some of the best chicken and rice I’ve ever had! I got the yellow rice with beans and a half of roasted chicken. Flavor was amazing! My boyfriend and I both got large portions and it only came to around $ 12. The place is clean and the staff is friendly. Definitely one of my favorite go-​to places in north jersey!

delivered– yay
7÷2÷15− Just placed another order for lunch delivery for me and the co-​workers— cant wait!

We order from this place all the time at my job. I do not know if they have different cooks during the week, but the food does varies in taste. The bistec encebolado (steak with onions) is the best thing they have on their menu. Their mangu ranges but is usually very good. The only thing that always upsets me is the people who place the orders over the phone are always messing up the order, or distracted while on the phone.