The food was quite good... but the service was unbelievably terrible. I mean - this was the worst customer service experience I've ever had a in a restaurant in my life. The workers move with the speed and grace of sloths. It took 40 minutes to get our food, and the line was very long with a lot of other customers waiting in inordinate amount of time for their order. When taking the food home ( I only lived 5 minutes from the restauraunt ) it was already very cold as it had been sitting there for quite some time. Again, the food was really quite good, but the service was unbearably terrible and I'd rather eat worse food than wait for my order here again. read more

They are serving food that normally should go to trash,by eating their legume you can get sick Food is very bad read more

Just moved here from Boca. Let me tell you this is the worst Haitian food I have ever had in my life They can't cook for shit, went there 3 times thinking that they have different chefs on different days Sam bullshit. I don't know who tell them they can cook.WORST legumes/vegetable stew I had in my life One spoon I was done spit it out that's it can go down if you've been in business for that long and you still can't make a good legumes just take it out of your menu ok. I'm wondering what part of Haiti they came from because they need to go back to cooking class or hired a real chef read more

The food is "alright" if you don't have time to cook for your family (not my taste thou) and the service is horrible. They don't answer the phone even if you're standing in front of them calling. So much money for so little food. Need to do better Alberte. read more

I went to this restaurant for take out based on the recommendation of a friend. Upon entry I found that the place appeared clean. There were signs on the floor for COVID social distancing and a bottle of sanitizer on the counter. But what good are signs when the cashier who takes food orders had a mask under her chin ? She did not cover her nose and mouth. My friend and I told her that it is recommended to cover her mouth and nose but she pretended not to hear us and carried on as if we said nothing. I have to say that other staff were wearing their masks the right way. I really do recommend that the owner ensures appropriate COVID compliance by all staff. read more

The food is really good but sometimes the food will be hard and tastes odd then other times but overall well done.

This restaurant is neat and clean, and a very warm and welcoming feeling. I frequent this place often due to the fact they have very delicious food. When they come here I get the legume with white rice and beans sauce and picklez. The food is always tasty, flavorful, and filling. The fried banana is delicious with the spicy sauce, a small salad is given. Haitian patties are to die for. You need to come in here! read more

The spinach dish with meat came with nothing but bones ,fat and skin.Disgusting! I've gave this place way to many chances to improve their dishes and service ,so don't waste your money here! read more

best Haitian food in town, I love it here and would highly recommend any family here for dinner

This restaurant would appeal to so many more people and actually make a ton of money if they could just clean up there act customer service wise. I have never experienced poorer service except at Walmart before the $10/minimum wage hike (and after the temporary eager to please died down real quick) You actually have people fighting on who came first. That could be easily solved with a ticket system. Then you have the wait times FOREVER. I know this is Florida and considered the south so things are slower down here but these people need to get with the times. In NY and Boston they have Haitian Buffets on every corner. Down here you still have to wait 30 minutes for food that should have been prepped and ready to drop in the fire. EXTREMELY BAD customer service. Food is decent but some health violations may be occurring in between the disgusting bathrooms and fact that you cant even see what they are serving you due to the glass covering always steaming up. That must cause some sort of overcooking or even breed some sort of bacteria after a long day. Someone please have management contact me if you need lessons on how to train your workers on simple lines like: "Good morning, Welcome to Alberte's how may I help you" read more

The food at Alberte's is always DELICIOUS. The place looks very clean. They also sell Haitian products not commonly found everywhere. However, that's it. I have not been at Alberte's ONCE and not left frustrated! Food takes forever. I will call 30mns in advance and give them time... food is still not ready when I get there. Sometimes you call, pa gen griot, pa genyen du riz djon djon. There's always something they dont have from the menu. The staff's attitude never fails to amaze me. It's like you're doing them a disfavor by ordering. They charge extra for sauce. They charge extra for pikliz. Mentioned a bad experience to the owner's son once and he smiled and said "oh I cant believe they didn't get your order right" and he continued to smile. It's your store and you can't believe YOUR staff messed up? I've given Alberte many many many chances before I decided to write this review so I am being completely fair. Hopefully this is an eye opener for Alberte that she needs to train her employees better and start caring more about the customer service since she already has the delicious food down to a science. read more

Best Haitian food in the palm beaches. Had the lambi and legumes and I was very surprised. They use good cuts of meat and better quality ingredients. I hope they do not change... read more

This place is trash. Like the food. Nothing was good about it. I split my child's chicken tenders because the curry chicken was gross. The chicken tasted foul. The white rice was nasty Nothing about this place was good. Also forgot multiple items! Listen to the reviews. I wasted $70 on this place read more

I love this place. Ive been coming here for years. Their portions are huge for the price. I am always satisfied. Everyone is always friendly. I recommend this place to anyone. I usually get the griot. It's very good. As well as thier oxtail and fried fish. And i just love how you can see the food upfront and pick out from the many selections they offer read more

Alberte's Restaurant - Haitian Near Me - Lake Worth, Florida

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Ordered the Tassot. The food tasted alright. The flavors were not there for me. The worst part is that the meat tasted and smelled unclean. I threw the whole plate away. Also the service is not friendly. Cashier had an attitude. Lol. read more

Couldn't give less than 1 star so there it is . The restaurant is infested with roaches. I saw roaches crawling by the register as I was paying for my food . The girl tried to quickly kill the roach with her bare hand after I mentioned it to her . The food is good but unless you like roaches with your food and bad customer service stay away . read more

Food is great, however service is atrocious. No sense of coordination or satisfaction.

Service Is just terrible, they don't ever pick up the phone. Wait time is ridiculous and the ladies in the front are always rude.

This is for the Fort Lauderdale location at: 1201 NE 38th Street in Oakland Park. 954-990-4360 Amazing! Had the ox-tail stew for dinner and could not believe how authentic the flavors were. Next day I stopped by for lunch and tried the curry chicken; again I was not disappointed, The restaurant is right next door to Funky Buddha, I know Funky Buddha has some great bar food but this is Caribbean food at its best! Enjoy a good meal then go and taste great beer next door or if your looking for something more full bar items Alberte's has it. Clean environment, friendly service, awesome food! 5 stars in my book.. read more

I can see why people may complain about the wait, but it comes with patience. However, people are right when they say it's a long wait. But I'm learning food are made to order based on what you order. Hope they figure out a solution. This place is really different from the other location. read more

This restaurant is very good. However they have the worst service in Palm Beach County. 1st of all they are extremely slow. 2nd The front house employees never seem to know what they are doing. Even if you call ahead and pay for you food once you get there it is no guarantee that your food will be ready or even available. They are non-apologetic for their incompetence and bad service. It is never a Pleasant experience. If you are willing to put up with all of that and pay for it the food is good. But I don't believe it is worth the bad service. read more

Prett good haitian food!! They have a huge menu with so many options unlike typical island restaurants. They also have a store connected for the island goodies that are hard to find. I think they also have a bakery. I had some rice and legume it was the bomb. read more

For west palm beach this has to be one of the best places to get haitian food, if you are not willing to drive all the way down to miami where the heavyweights of haitian food live. I would highly recommend this place over all the other in Lakeworth area. read more

I have been going there couple of times. Every time you go there, they change the price. Today out of all the days, got me real mad. My fiance called there to make an order for a griot. Because he did not speak creole and spoke English, they assume that he's never been there before and charge him a $1.00 more to his order. After he picked up the order, I then called and ask for the price of what we ordered with tax and everything, The total came up to $8.50 because i spoke creole with them. I then ask for a manager, and the same girl that ring him up picks up the phone and stated she charges him $1.00 more because of the mix rice. When he called, they couldn't tell him what type of rice they had. Plus, he did not order any rice. He only ask for a griot. I am an honest person and I like to do business with people as such. This place is not honest at all. If you ask for griot, They will give you two-three meat and the rest is fried grease. Never again will i go waste my money there. The owner/ manager should be aware of what's going on. If you're going there for the first time, just know that you are being charge more the usual. As well as if you do not speak creole, you are guaranteed to be charge more than what the menu is, because they know that you won't bother to ask. This place doesn't hold an honest business at all. Go to Miami. To a restaurant that actually have a menu where you can see prices, and what they actually cook. read more

The food at Alberte is good but the service is horrible the staff has an awful attitude they act as if I'm begging them for food I'm paying my fucking money I don't need a stupid attitude.I'm never going there again read more

Great food, hard to find anywhere else. I usually take my food to go because there aren't enough room to sit and eat if you get there during the rush hours. The 5 star is based on the criteria of hard to find dishes that tastes really good at a reasonable price. They serve large quantities and the Haitian beef patties are to die for! read more

I love the jerk chicken, spicyyyyy!! I Love the the rice and beans, its well seasoned and close to home. I will look no further for a Haitian restaurant. read more

By far my favorite Caribbean place to eat on this area. Griot is great. Definitely a place to try.

True authentic Carribean Cuisine... ALBERTE'S! The food is consistantly full of flavor and cooked to perfection. My favorite dishes are griyo, fried and steamed fish, pikliz, and plantains... YUMMY!! All served with pleasure!! This spot is indeed the BEST in South Florida... read more

Best Haitian food ever very consistent with taste I literally come by at least once or twice a week . The fried turkey is my favorite and their fruit punch. read more

That reall Caribbean flavor!! The food is sooo goooooddd and not overpriced. The bartenders are so sexy too

The best Haitian food in the whole Palm Beach County!!! Their ji papay (papaya juice) are so good and as well as the ji corosol (soursop) ..Every time I'm in Lake Worth that's where i have to eat. read more

This is going to be my third and last time at Alberte's restaurant. Every experience I've had at Alberte's has been a negative one. They are always under staffed. Their servers are rude and management doesn't care to fix many of their issues. To get food from this restaurant is a good 30 to 45 minute wait even if you call your order in. They will tell you they have a food item on the phone and once you arrive tell you that they ran out of it. There are times where my food was given to me cold. Not because it came out of the kitchen late but because there is no sense of urgency on the wait staff. Too many customers too few wait staff and not enough organization is the main problem. No apology is ever given, you just have to learn to deal with it. South Florida has too many Haitian restaurants for me to be dealing with this. On top of everything the griot that I ordered on my last visit was burnt. Burnt Griot. read more

The food here is excellent however, the customer service is horrible. If you do not speak creole I would not advise you to buy food here. Staff will over look you, customers skip you in line. I have come to this establishment twice to eat and waited over 40 mins for a griot complete. Mind you there were people who ordered several plates of food after me and received their order. I will not give this establishment any of my money because they don't deserve it. You are better off going to Le Troubadour in Lake Worth because they value their customers. read more

My family and I love the food. Like so many have said, customer service is not so good. I had an experience today that left a very bad taste in my mouth. My husband and I went in this morning, it was clean, with just 2 customers. One paying for his food and the other ordering. We said good morning and everyone went on with what they were doing without addressing us. After finishing up with the paying customer, a young lady, with her back turned stated " If you want to order food, you need to go down there." Meanwhile, two other ladies stood around drinking. We went down to order. At this time, a young lady was fixing an order, we stood there patiently waiting. Still, no one addressed us, after standing there for about 3 mins, all the ladies congregated and started carrying on a conversation. My husband and I looked at each other and asked ourselves if we were invisible. Even as we walked out the door because of the poor customer service, they just went on carrying the conversation without a care in the world. Unfortunately, customer service is part of a business, you don't know who I am or who I may represent. read more

They have good quality and have good Haitian food that everyone likes I recommend this to all my friends and family!

So I started off with trying to order over the phone but of course I couldn't because the phone was disconnected probably because their lazy, trash employees disconnected it. When I get there I order my food which was a griot complete with 2 acra's and 2 marinades. I go to pay and and sit down and wait for my food by this time I was already there for 20-25 minutes. One of the girls asked me for my name and told me my food was ready but they were waiting for the acra and marinade. 10-15 mins go by and come to find out there is no marinade! keep in mind I overheard them talking about and had to ask them whats going on and was told they only have the acra so I go back to the register to get a refund for the marinade and ended up waiting another 20 minutes for 2 acra's!!!! at that point I was telling one of the girls I don't care about the acra anymore and to just give me extra sauce and pickles because I wasn't going to waste anymore time here anymore. then she goes to the back n gets me the acra! so overall, I spent over an hour in the restaurant waiting for this food! and out of all the times I've ate there it had to be today that the food wasn't even good. The service was trash! the employees lack motivation probably because they are under paid. the food took to long and wasn't even good! let me just throw in there that I watched my food SIT for 20 minutes! I'm never going back there again. IT'S TRASH! read more

I am having a wedding in Lake Worth, but I currently live in Orlando. I called to get some pricing for some food for appetizers. The lady was unwilling to go over any information with me over the phone. Even when informed that I live 3 hours away and would be willing to call at a more convenient, she refused my business. I am an American born Haitian and I would love nothing more than to support my country and people in anyway. This is a prime example of why other businesses thrive better than ours. I have gotten price quotes from all types of places with no problem. Shameful. The only reason they are open is because apparently their food is good but the general consensus is that the service is more than lacking. In other words; it sucks! read more

Made me wait 30min for a burnt patty very rude and the staff made it seem like it was my fault they burnt my food. Very unprofessional