El Platanal Restaurante

FYI: This review is for the Carolina location!
0 tourists
0 English
100% real traditional Puerto Rican food at great prices.
$ 4 virgin pina coladas, bingo!
Been back 3 times within one week, because that’s how good it is.

This is a diner type of place with typical Puerto Rican food. We recommend the plantain sandwiches and the fresh fruit juices. The service is aceptable, parking maybe an issue. The overall experience was Good for us.

The place has a great ambiance, the personnel is fantastically friendly. The food is nice, not extraordinary. I ordered the pork on the plain rain basket. It didn’t have the nice garlic and salt flavor we expect with the lechon. Also it had a lot of grease (they should have cleaned it a little better considering the light is low and one cannot see details on the plate. I ended up eating it with my hands in order to feel my way around). We ordered the churrasco on the plantain basket and that was good.
The parking is horrendous! That’s what you get in doing a business at an area where it was originally designed as residential!

Great food. The service and the place has improve big time since my last visit almost a year ago. Since I got there I was greated and treated like an upscale restaurant even that this is a familiar place. Prices are great and the food too. Definitely will come again.

Is a very good place to eat typical food. The place was reconditioned and outside tables are more comfortable than before. Great food for the price. Don’t have good parking.

Well it was very good food, but didn’t like to much the place, I thought it was different.

Great service Although no one spoke english. Food came quickly. We had the shakes and juice and plantain sandwiches. It was excellent! Will be coming back!

It is a cafeteria more than a restaurant, do not expect professional service and the food is ok, some may find the food too heavy because they use too much dressing on it.

La comida es buena y también tienen buenos precios. Sin embargo no saben la diferencia entre un café con leche y un cortado. Pedí un cortado y me trajeron un tazón de café con leche. Cuando se lo indiqué al mesero me insistió que eso era un cortado y que lo q yo quería era un pocillo. Y me dijo luego q ya que lo habian hecho que me lo tomara asi. Bueno luego de insistir en un cortado o pocillo como quieran llamarle me lo trajeron. Es una locura que en un país caficultor no se sepan las distintas maneras de servir café y que un restaurant no instruya a sus meseros a servir lo q el cliente le pida. Fuera de todo esto, la comida es muy buena y aparte del incidente el servicio fue relativamente amigable.