We haven't been here in a while, but it's only because there are so many choices of places to eat in this area. I based my 4 stars on past experiences, all of which have been consistently enjoyable. I save 5 stars for absolute perfection. We're getting take-out tonight because I had a hankering(!) for their seafood enchiladas. As it turned out, I'm ordering the seafood chimichangas instead. I'll let you know how they are in a few... read more

To be honest, I am not a big fan of Latino cuisine, but it doesn't mean their food isn't good, I just didn't have much chance to explore them formally yet. I have tried some Mexican & Pan-Latin food many times before, but never from real restaurant. This is first time for me, and I'm already hooked now. This place is very close to my home but I just had paid attention on their menu and it looks so variety, yummy and interesting. I choose Carne Asada, that the famous one I heard among their food. It was really tasty with marinated and grilled perfectly, (medium), so that make me quite sure others their dishes will be great too. I ordered take out, so I can't say much about the service, anyway everything went smoothly, food was ready for picking up when I arrived and the staff knew their job right away. Moreover, I could see inside the restaurant, it is so charming and lively decoration. (As bar style) It is spacious dining room and some patio seats are available outside. Very convenient to stop by, and huge free parking lots at Layhill Shopping Center. read more

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Ada was very impatient and kept asking about my tab, which made me uncomfortable. She even added someone else's items to my check. Thankfully, the bartender fixed it right away. Big thanks to Daniela for helping me choose a great dish with the carne asada her customer service made me feel comfortable again I would of gave it 5 stars but Ada made the experience not very well read more

Azucar Restaurant Bar and Grill - Ceviche Mixto - Latin American Near Me - Silver Spring, Maryland

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We came here for drinks and snacks on our way home from Baltimore and sat at the bar. We got the skinny colada, and three pupusas. The drink was $12 which I found to be a bit pricey for a general drink with rum and pineapple juice. The pupusas were pretty good; cheese was the favorite. The salsa and chips were amazing and come with the meal. The salsa is one of the best I've had at a Mexican restaurant. It was warm and had the right level of spices. We will come back in the future for a proper sit down dinner experience. read more

Azucar Restaurant Bar and Grill - Latin American Near Me - Silver Spring, Maryland

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Representing dreaded 2020 for the letter A is Azucar. This was a bright spot in a lousy year. I went a couple of times during Covid took the food all the way home and hoped it wouldn't get cold getting back to Wheaton, but I could always microwave to heat up. Staff was nice and had an efficient setup for all the to go orders. I got the carne asada steak, which was very good. I never had the opportunity to actually eat in the restaurant, but it looked like a nice place with nice big bar area and plenty of space for dine-in. I moved away from Wheaton in November 2020, and Layhill area is a lot further from me now, but it'd be a good consideration if I was over here. read more

I loved going here for their Pupusas and drinks My last to go orders werent the same as what ive previously experienced. That said, id probably recommend dining in vs to go. Its a much different experience read more

Ada super nice la mejor mesera le doy 5 mil estrellas fue la mejor quiero regresar ella es marsvillosa Ada was super nice, the best waitress! I give her 5,000 stars! She was the best, I want to go back. She is wonderful! read more

Highly recommended gem in the Glenmont/Silver Spring area. I have been going here for over a year and the service has always been excellent. The staff are very attentive. The menu is excellent...I've tried nearly every plate on the menu and the food is great. It's a friendly environment both for families and parties or to hang out. I do want to give a shout out to the bartenders Carlos and Keiry who do a great job of engaging with the guest and are great mixologist. Also...another shout out to the rest of the staff as they are all very nice. Special thanks to Kimberly, Andrea read more

Great place, great food and amazing service. My family and I love to go and always bring our visitors to eat there bc we know they will have a good time. We love live music on Saturdays. Andrea is always serving with a smile and brings so much joy to the table :) We'll be back soon read more

My husband and I moved to this neighborhood 8 years ago. We discovered Azúcar while just driving around, waiting for the moving vans to bring our furniture (yep...it's been that long)! The food is always wonderful...the margaritas are perfect...the staff members are fabulous!!! Ada, Andrea, Kimberly, Sahi, Elias and all of the other people who are involved in making Azúcar such an inviting place are like family to us. Hands down, my favorite spot...for the food and especially for the people. read more

A random find but so delicious!! Came here early evening and was pleasantly surprised with the large seating and very well put together place. Love the salsa dip. The fajita platter was especially yum. I would come again and it would be a great place for a large party too. read more

Horrible! I ordered a seafood soup for $17 and they literally gave me one shrimp, 2 small chunks of fish l, 2 small pieces of squid and one mussel in a flavorless broth. The audacity! I'm pissed! I requested a refund. If they didn't have the full ingredients for the dish, they should've said so. Don't charge me for some bs. The quality of this place has been steadily decreasing. I will no longer patronize or recommend this trash of a restaurant. read more

Food not good. $29 for a bowl of chicken soup. Tasteless and chicken was so dry that you could choke on it. Expensive salads. Lunch should not be $50.00! read more

Went for dinner with 2 other friends. The service for sub par especially since it wasn't that crowded. We all ordered the New York steak, expecting a sizzling meal. It came out warm. That with poor service I'm rating it poorly. read more

Awesome all around. Comfortable. Great service. Tasted great. Even some good live music. We will be back for sure. read more

Azucar Restaurant Bar and Grill - Pupusas, chips, salsa, side salad. - Latin American Near Me - Silver Spring, Maryland

Azúcar is a a Restaurant in my neighborhood that hay is been here for along time - the beef soup is my favorite- read more

Love this place! Half pitcher of mojitos and churrasco Argentina really excellent. Also love the seafood chimichangas!! The service is wonderful! Regular customer! Kimberly was our hostess. read more

Besides being a Latin restaurant, they don't serve people well. The service is terrible. I waited almost an hour for a seafood soup that didn't even have any flavor. I really don't recommend this place.What disrespectful people read more

The main problem here on my visit was service. Had to ask for chips, water, salsa several times. Not sure what happened to our orders, but it took 45 minutes to get the food. The food was generally good at our 6 top, however portions were smaller than average and expensive for what you get, and the food just Ok. I would come back to try something else, just carry out next time. read more

Celebrating with Live music by Mauricio ! Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful father present and gone read more

Azucar Restaurant Bar and Grill - Live music with Mauricio Música en vivo con Mauricio - Latin American Near Me - Silver Spring, Maryland

delicious food and drinks! I've lived near azúcar all my life and their service & food is amazing. they deserve more great reviews!! they are worth way more then 3 stars read more

I've been to Azucar twice and it's very good. I love that they have Latin cuisine and not just Mexican food. The refried beans and black beans are SO tasty! read more

today we came with my friend & we had an amazing time, food was delicious & the service was 10/10 ADA made us feel very comfortable & welcomed us really nice I absolutely recommend this place! we will be back soon. read more

The service was not great, waited 25 minutes for our meal to be served. The restaurant only had a few tables seated as it was early evening.The waitress was possibly new and lacked basic understanding of customer service. The food was subpar, two tiny tacos and beans, rice for $20. Mediocre at best. Chicken soup that was awful. Never returning here. read more

My Check-In was so positive because I was greeted with such a warm welcome by the bartender! But, I have waited over 30 minutes for my carry-out order! People that arrived later than me were served their food before me! I had to ask for an update on my order... It seems like you get special treatment/ extra nice conversation if you speak Spanish but not so much if you only speak English. read more

I came to Azucar with a group of 3. I ordered the lobster special. My company ordered enchiladas and churrasco. Average price for any dish seems to be 20 or over. My dish was $44. I My lobster was tasty, but did not wow me. My sides were vegetables and rice. The sides were very bland. The rice was sticky and flavorless. The churrasco was bad. They didn't give us chimichurri sauce that's a big no no. The enchiladas were tasty and the sauce on top of the enchiladas was delicious. Service is great. We were seated fast on a busy night. Our waiter and manager kept checking on us constantly. The staff was friendly overall. Ambience is great. Saturday night They have live music. Other nights are fairly quiet. Finally, I probably come back to Azucar, but this restaurant is not on top of my restaurant list. read more

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On my latest visit during COVID, I ordered ahead as usual. I waited 45 minutes before I drove over to get my food. It ended taking them 1h15m to 1H20m to prepare my order. When my order came out, it was missing several items. This is the 3rd time this has happened since January. My experience in dine-in service is better. For take-out service, you may want to consider longer than usual wait times but definitely check your order before leaving so you don't have to make two trips as I have in the past. On a good note, the food is very flavorful and colorful. Bon Apetit. read more

Great food. Ordered beef burrito, and steak frajita, everything was fresh and delicious.

I made a to go order. I didn't mind that it took long despite their being very little people but the waiter was staring me down because I didn't tip on a to go order. She might of been offended also because I put a line through where you write the payment amount. I don't trust a soul when it comes to stuff like that. The entitlement is crazy, on a to go order?!? She was staring at me like she wanted to hurt me smh. I was going to not even write a review or give it 3 stars because at least the foods edible. I got the spinach and mushroom chicken. Taste like hospital food. For 26 dollars I could of had a ball at Panera. That's what I get for trying to support a local business smh. Never coming back there again. read more

Azucar Restaurant Bar and Grill - Latin American Near Me - Silver Spring, Maryland

The food at Azucar is okay - nothing special. Their bar area, however, is really lacking. It's too small, has no table service, and has a very limited offering. I wish they would expand into some of their very large dining area and improve their selection. read more

Super disappointed with my experience here from the premixed margarita to the fajita plates that i paid $24 for where i got 2 pieces of steak 2 pieces of chicken and 3 butterflied shrimp! The plate didn't even come sizzling to the table. I will not be returning they are ripping peoples heads off with this. read more

Azucar Restaurant Bar and Grill - #1. Fajita Trio Parilla Combination - Latin American Near Me - Silver Spring, Maryland

Three stars because of the food but would have given them 1 star for the terrible service. This is a local place and I love specific items on their menu. We sat at a table in the bar because the place was packed. First set of drinks were quick but quickly went downhill from there. 20 min later we finally ordered another drink and asked if they could take our dinner order. We ordered the combination fajitas and the seafood chimichanga. About 15min later we received our food but the fajitas only had shrimp. So had to ask for the steak to be added. Their food is really good it's just sad their service was so bad that night. read more

Azucar Restaurant Bar and Grill - Seafood Enchiladas - Latin American Near Me - Silver Spring, Maryland

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We ordered shrimp in a garlic sauce with the bread appetizer (I can't remember the name). The piece of bread was so tiny and pretty sure was still raw. I got the chipotle shrimp; I've cooked with chipotle before and it was no where to be found in my dish. In conclusion very mid. Disappointing especially because it was my birthday. read more

This was my go to restaurant because it is a nice clean place, has great service, and food has always been delicious, that was until last night. We were celebrating a new home for a friend, we were ignored for 15 minutes, then a server that said he was assigned to us, was less than attentive the entire dinner, our food took a long time and when it arrived, it was Lukewarm. The server was disrespectful to my husband who complained twice to the hostess and manager. We asked for the bill and he walked right past us, therefore, we went up to the manager to pay. The manager was apologetic again and said we did not need to pay. We were willing to pay but wanted to withhold a tip. The manager said he would take the bill. Three people who loved this place are not to eager to return. read more

I visited this place several weeks ago with a friend who said their nachos and drinks were great. I was certainly not impressed with their service. The food was mediocre, the hospitality was lackluster and the waitress was not attentive. Our food arrived over and hour late, our appetizers were also late. The chips and cheese....... the CHEESE! Was horrible. My head was throbbing because the cheese was high in sodium. I ordered the steak and it was sitting in a pool of oil. I was so nauseous the next day. The waitress seemed to be annoyed anytime I asked for silverware, beverages and an ETA on our food. I will never go there again read more

Happy Hour is only for outside sitting FYI! Something their website does not mention. The Food & Drinks are Great! Ceviche is amazing.

I ordered the Lomo Saltado: My dish arrived hot, plenty of onions, fries, meat, etc. Very tasty - five stars ***** read more

Azucar Restaurant Bar and Grill - Lomo Saltado - Latin American Near Me - Silver Spring, Maryland

The prices here are ridiculous! $150 for two pitchers of margaritas. It's ridiculous. Don't dine here. We spoke to the manager and she was unwilling to resolve this. When I mentioned she was losing 4 customers she didn't care. We're never coming back! read more

So since the last time I've been here, I've tried a couple more items on the menu. Plus, they've opened a new section to the restaurant. Now they have dancing on weekends and I think karaoke once a week. The places a huge, has lots of parking, and is well decorated. The service is also super friendly. New items that I have ordered include the bistec cubano, bistec a la criolla, stuffed shrimp with crabmeat, zarzuela andaluza, and a side of platanos maduros. The bistec cubano is nice and tender, has a delicious bitter marinade to it, and comes with platanos. The bistec criolla comes with a salad, lots of peppers and onions on top of the steak and an excellent flavor. The stuffed shrimp was good, but not amazing. They were large shrimp with lots of crabmeat but the sauce didn't blow me away. I only tried a little of the zarzuela andaluza, but I thought the sauce was really tasty. The platanos are a must everytime I come here now, along with ceviche and papusas... the main orders have to be switched up because it's too much food if I get it all, haha. read more

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Probably one of the lower rated restaurants that I have ever been to. I don't get why when I enter with my husband either the old lady or the other female waiters always speaks in Spanish to us.. it makes no sense to me. I barely speak it and just because my husband does doesn't mean you need to assume. Like treat every customer equally. You wouldn't be speaking in Spanish to a white person if they came in. They only make eye contact with him and never with me.. it's the weirdest thing in the world. Even when I reply in English it's like they are mad about it. I don't know why they have waiters that barely speak English let alone don't know the drinks. I was there and asked for a Bombay Sapphire with sprite and the waitress didn't even know what a Bombay Sapphire was and told me they didn't have it and then had the Josh (who is in fact the best waiter/bartender/ I think manager there) come to the table and he asked me what I wanted. I told him and he was like yeah we have it. He wasn't sure why she was confused. Get this, then she came back to the table and was like oh you pronounced it wrong. I did not, I have been drinking this for 12 years. She told me it's pronounced MUBUMBUY and I was like it's pronounced BOMB-BAY not MUBUMBUY. She literally had the nerve to tell me that when she didn't know what it was? Nice coverup but no. I'm part Indian, I think i would know how to pronounce BOMB-BAY. It's Bombay. Its not hard. It's ok to learn but don't play off like it was my problem. Then she went to the other table and the guy order a jack and coke and she didn't know what Jack Daniels was... she had to go ask Josh again. Like all she did was try to speak Spanish with my husband and ignore me because she didn't speak good English. Like literally Josh shouldn't do her job because she's useless... I would also like to say this place used to be great. But they got cocky and now the food quality went down, the service went down, I mean I wish this place was like it used to be. read more