I don't normally review chain restaurants, but I have a special appreciation for Pollo Tropical (particularly this location in Tampa). I honestly feel that their food is always fresh and the quality is incredibly consistent. I typically order a family meal with a whole chicken, the regular white rice, dinner rolls, and black beans. I feel that the food is truly satisfying/filling for a family of 3-4. The portion size is very reasonable, and I believe that on Mondays they still have their $15 family meal deal which is unbeatable. I also am obsessed with their cilantro garlic sauce, and I think that their plantains are pretty solid. Overall, Pollo Tropical is somewhere that I typically get takeout from and it's delicious each and every time! read more

Pollo Tropical - Half chicken meal ($10) - Fast Food Near Me - Tampa, Florida

Freddy Orozco muy buen servicio los chicos atienden muy bien rápido la comida bastante buena fresca y todo muy limpio recomiendo el lugar y llevar a toda la familia mucha variedad de platos y la salsas increiblemente buenas read more

I ordered the 1/2 dark meat chicken dinner with black beans and white rice and a side of plantains. I received 1/4 white dry poor quality chicken. Beans and rice, plantains was okay. My receipt shows I paid for a 1/2 dark meat chicken dinner. read more

Pollo Tropical - 1/4 of white chicken, and it was dry and poor quality. - Fast Food Near Me - Tampa, Florida

I had high hopes for this fast casual Cuban food chain. But was underwhelmed, Cuban sandwich was very bland and steak bowl had little flavor even with all the toppings. Staff was friendly and service was quick. Prices seemed decent. read more

Pollo Tropical - Cuban Sandwich - Fast Food Near Me - Tampa, Florida

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Acabo de entrar a comer con mi familia y en pasado por tremendo mal momento todo está muy bien asta que me empezaron a dar las órdenes pedí un tropishop L para mi mamá y me lo dieron en s y éramos 2 adultos y dos niños y gasté 100 y pico de dólares y pedí que fuera mi orden solo murlos no fue así me empezaron a mirar cómo si yo fuera una cosa rara el que me iso la orden disiendo que no que yo mo dije L disiendome prácticamente mentirosa de faltas de respeto yo NOOOOOO quería comida gratis cómo le dije al mánager solo lo que pagué fueron 4 órdenes en 100 y pico y aún así me dise que tenía que pagar la diferencia del tropishop que ellos prepararon mal y le dIJE yo acabo de pagar la cantidad ya mencionada después el mismo que me iso la orden mal mirando a uno A CADA RATO me sentí incomoda súper incomoda ya no ahy respeto por los clientes y yo nunca traté mal a nadie pese al mal rato que pase no les importa que que uno gaste el dinero ni siquiera una disculpa de parte del manager oh el empleado que provocó que yo pasara esa vergüenza y nadie hace nada al respecto pk no les importa los clientes yo siempre voy a ese pollo tropical pero créanme cuando les digo que jamás vuelvo a gastar ni un dólar Ahy por la mala experiencia que viví CREANMELO read more

Had: tropical trio ; Side sweet plantains Most yelpers are always hating on Pollo....this one has low rating but nothing compared to other Pollo. To make up for the haters 5*. Plus every Pollo I have been to are loaded with Cubans..... So don't understand the disconnect. Split an entree with spouce. The chicken was a little dry but everything else good. Of course I appreciate anything I can have since there are no Pollo in my home area. read more

Pollo Tropical - Tropical Trio with side orders of Sweet Plantains - Fast Food Near Me - Tampa, Florida

Comida de poca calidad , demora en servicio , pedimos una ensalada y no estaba fresca , el polllo al grill no se veia . Una experiencia mala read more

It's been five years since I've been here and it's taste exactly the same. I got the 1/4 chicken, mac n cheese, plantain and my son got a Cuban sandwich. Everything was delicious. Nice and clean restaurant with plenty of space to eat. Nice staff. Until next time, I will miss you read more

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they are absolutely amazing I love the customer services Ms.Daisy's My Favorite Honestly This Is My Favorite restaurant in the Bay Area!

Food is good but if you order for take-out, check your food before you leave. I've been ordering from them at least once a week for dinner for several months now. I purchase a whole chicken and a half chicken each time as I have big eaters in my home. Today I picked up my order and got only 1 breast piece in the container with the whole chicken, and none in the container with the 1/2 chicken (I asked for white and dark meat with my order). This in not right, and certainly not the first time this has happened. From now on, I will open the take-out bag and check before I leave. read more

Fast service, very nice people in the register, a full meal for family chicken am pork for $30 dollars an great flavor! read more

Pollo Tropical - Register area - Fast Food Near Me - Tampa, Florida

Food was very bland, I was excited for Cuban spices and seasonings. Rice was overcooked. The avocado on my Avocado Cilantro TropiChop® seemed as though it had been previously frozen, the texture was strange. Everyone said the chicken was cooked very well. They forgot a few things on our order, we ordered like 5 different types of sauce and only got the garlic cilantro. I probably wouldn't go back because nothing was very tasty and the orders were wrong. read more

Pollo Tropical - Avocado Cilantro TropiChop® & Sweet Plantains - Fast Food Near Me - Tampa, Florida

Horrible quality of food. I called and was on hold for 20 mins yo speak to someone. No one ever picked up read more

Pollo Tropical - I order the coconut shrimp and this is what I came home to. Under cook and soggy. - Fast Food Near Me - Tampa, Florida

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I just wanted some of the fried plantains they say OK, I go to the window pay for my meal and at the window after I'm handed part of my order I am told that they are out of plantains and if I would like some thing else. I said no I would like a refund, the person at the window didn't seem to understand that I wanted a refund and told me to pull around and that they would take care of it I pulled around to the front of the store and waited for 10 minutes and no one helped me so I decided to leave. I didn't have the time to go inside and ask what was taking so long. read more

I ordered Uber Eats from this location tonight.....The restaurant or the driver, SOMEONE forgot my drinks. When I tried to call the restaurant to inquire as to the location of my beverages, their phone system does not provide an option to actually speak to the restaurant. Unreal.....Not a good DELIVERY experience. In retrospect, I should have said very plainly that the food was AMAZING. It was only the lack of contact that so confounding..... read more

I'm not sure what the issue was with the girl taking orders at the counter but I could tell by how she was speaking to the customers ahead of me that I was going to deal with some attitude. If you don't like your job that's cool. Don't make that my problem or any other customers problem. Find another job. That's bad buisness. And she got my order wrong read more

We went to the Pollo Tropical on Hillsboro Ave 30 minutes before closing. Just spent a whole day flying home and were starving. We both thought Taco Bell but said let's go and have a nice meal. We walked in and the restaurant was filthy! They closed down the dining room already, so we said we would eat in the car on the way home. The counters were filthy! Most of the food pans were empty and chicken piled 3 feet high on the back grill because they were cleaning the grills. We said we were starving, and we were already there so we went ahead and ordered. Biggest mistake ever!!! We got our bags of food and asked if we could get salsa. We were told they were out. The food was all cold and dried out. We should have gone to Taco Bell and gotten fresh food and would have been half the cost. read more

Cuando fui a usar el retrete avia una jeringa llena como de mierda asi y cosa rara y me toco usar el baño de las mugeres, cuando sali avian dos señoras esperando para usar el hinodoro y me vieron salir, ese dia pase pena no solo como hombre si no como persona read more

Great food thank you for your service. The staff were very friendly and helpful. Whole Chicken

Owner messaged me to send order number and will issue partial refund, i did and no response yet

Hit and miss for us, this place. Went here on a recommendation from an acquaintance, who raved about the 1/2 chicken with two sides. Then we went for a late dinner and this is the rundown: - Balsamic tomatoes: juicy and flavourful, recommended. - Plantains: burnt. Looked and tasted like they had been sitting in the bay for a while. Not happy with these. - Red beans: decent enough. - Black beans and brown rice: decent, but barely warm. - 1/4 chicken: we had high hopes for their chicken, but it was dry, barely warm, and tough. Disappointing on this visit. - Sugarcane bread roll: dry and tough = waste of space. Now here's what we liked: - Friendly and helpful staff - Clean dining room and self-service sauce station: fun! Would we go back? Unlikely. read more

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Stopped today to pick up lunch for me and a friend. Wanted to put this review on their web site on the receipt but not the proper info was on receipt to do that so thought to put it here. I got a Cuban and the 1/4 chicken dinner. Figuring early lunch chicken shouldn't be too dried out yet. Cuban was soggy but good. The chicken was so dried out was uneatable. Only ate the rice and beans and threw the rest away. Not even sauce could save it. Also got the key lime pie and new dessert of guava parfait. Both of those at least was good but they didn't have to do anything to them. Hadn't gone for quite some time. Guess it's going to be another long time again. So tired of over cooked chicken. read more

Poor training for cashiers Bread was stale Order was incorrect and charged me wrong price A mix of other items inside my salad dressing Overall the worst experience I have ever had a pollo tropical read more

Never gets my order right then when I try to get it right they get an attitude like I'm wrong. Never again!!!

Went to the Hillsborough location today for lunch, the place was empty and all the employees were huddled in a corner talking . One of them saw me standing there and yelled out for someone. 7 minutes later a young lady comes out to take my order while everyone just stood there letting me wait. The place was dirty with the trash I s overflowing . I was going to take pictures and then decided against it . thought I would just never go back to this location, this isn't the first time they just stand around and do nothing . The food was great as always but this location has been going downhill for some time. Carrollwood is always clean and the employees there put us first and never leave us hanging while they gossip read more

Always great service tru the drive tru. However inside on a Saturday it took 30 mins to get a simple order. And soda machine was a mess. The tables and floor were dirty and everyones orders took too long to come out read more

The food was great and also the costumer service as well. There is this one Hispanic tall guy I would like to shout out, he made me and my families first time at pollo great. You can tell he's a hard worker and cares about the customers. Keep up the good work! read more

This place. Literal heaven. I got the chicken wrap, and my boyfriend got the 1/2 chicken. The only thing I could complain is the wrap was kinda small. But it was so delicious I didn't even care. Literally everything in our meals was SPECTACULAR. I literally licked my fingers clean. Their sauces?!?!?! Literal explosion of flavors in my mouth. 10/10 would recommend. Will eat here like every night. read more

DO NOT ORDER CATERING FROM HERE- Placed a near $200 order on their website from this Hillsborough location on 5/20/ Called and confirmed with the store on 5/25 and they had everything and would deliver on 5/26 at 11 am. This was for an important board meeting lunch for 15. I received a text on delivery day saying they would deliver at 11 am. Well that came and went and they have not answered there phone since 11:15 am when we started calling asking where it was. They picked their own 3rd party delivery service. Six hours later someone from customer service 800 number called me back to offer to refund my $200- GEE thanks- The store is still not answering there phone. DO NOT RELY ON THIS COMPANY FOR CATERING. Hillsboroigh Avenue Store 10084 in Tampa, Fl. read more

I placed an order (order number 243882) and the employee there forgot to include my drink. I asked here to add it but her reply was we are not allowed to add new orders at the window? This sounds wrong and she seemed that she was having a bad day so i didn't say anything because i know myself. Here employee id numer is 156211, is this correct? read more

The food was Hot. I can say that. But it took 45 minutes to get my food. and I was not thrilled by everything i saw happening in the kitchen. read more

bad. paid extra for delivery and they didnt provide the correct items or even include sauce. waste of money - not going back

I ordered a kids meal with an apple juice they said they only have coke and sprite. I took a coke. Got to the window they are pouring from a liter bottle into a glass at the window for everyone to see. I still took it and tried it. The coke was flat. I just gave it back cause like really. They could of just not sell that or give people a can. Do better guys! Food is good and healthy for my daughter. read more

Worst experience. All I saw was a bunch of dead chicken right in front of me. Considering the franchise's name, I shouldn't have been surprised. What tick me off was how the people working in the kitchen didn't have hairnets. It seems so unsanitary to me. The rice was bland and wasn't even filled up to the top. Let me not talk about the sweet plantains. If you have high blood pressure or some kind of stomach issues, I suggest you stay away from this plantains. The are lacking in costumer service too. I just want to add that people need to understand this is not to be compared to real Spanish food. Big disappointment. read more

Pollo Tropical - Fast Food Near Me - Tampa, Florida

The food was d-i-s-g-u-s-t-i-n-g The yuca was mushy, the pulled pork had 1 teaspoon of cold bbq with 1 teaspoon of coleslaw, the macaroni cold and stiff and the quesadilla was frozen. Completely nasty. Don't waste your money. The worst part was there was 15 people standing around yapping it up and the manager walking around doing nothing. This is the worst location. The one in Carrollwood is 10x better. We ate it and threw it up. Drank the flat soda just to get the taste out! read more

I'm usually a big fan. I have their app and I am a loyalty rewards member. However, today I thought I would try their new Cuban sandwich plus I had free Testones in my reward app. I went through the drive through and ordered. When I got home, my Cuban sandwich had some weird burnt something (see pic) on the bottom bun. It looked discussting so I threw it away. read more

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A co-worker and I lunched here. Their specialty is cooking half chickens on an open flame grill. How that make it tropical is beyond me. It just tastes like grilled chicken and although one gets the impression that you will somehow experience a Caribbean type meal but nope. This place is more Mexican than anything else. I had the fajitas, not bad, the guacamole really helped. Co-worker got the Pulled Pork, looked ok, he liked it. Look, want a quick lunch that's better than burgers mystery meat tacos and fried yard bird? This is a good choice. Lots of people agree. About noon you could hardly get in the place. read more

I ordered two tropichops one with no corn and add lettuce, and the other regular with everything on it. The lady messed up the order two times and threw away the food, but then I looked at the receipt and it didn't say no corn so she added corn and that's why she threw them away, but by the time we got our food there was like a chicken wings worth of chicken on my plate, and she forgot to add beans and lettuce on one of them. She seemed she didn't know what she was doing and she just gave us the beans and lettuce on the side. But my biggest complaint is that there was barely any chicken. Furthermore, it was mostly rice and barely anything else and now I'm hungry an hour later. I will never buy a tropichop again now that I know that its that small I'm a grown man I don't eat child sized meals. next time if I see someone I'm with get a tropichop I'm going to ask to take a picture of it to show on here. read more

Rating for Hillsborough Avenue location ONLY. Pollo Tropical is my all time favorite "fast" food chain restaurant. I love that if offers tasty, healthy options. I used to visit it years ago when I lived in Ft. Lauderdale, and was thrilled when they finally decided to give it (another) shot in the Tampa area. You'll notice that "fast" is in quotes, because unfortunately it depends on which location you visit. Last night I walked in, waited in line without moving, then walked out. It seems like this location on Hillsborough Avenue is always understaffed. I usually try to go to the location on Waters Avenue - they have a better grasp on how to keep people moving along. read more

This chain has been growing in the Tampa Bay area but this was the first one in town I think. Its the only one relatively close to my house so its my usual location to go when I want a TropiChop. This is fast food cuban food. Since we have such great Cuban food in my area, I usually do not make the trek here very often. The specialty at the restaurant is the TropiChop which features rice, beans, vegetables and a choice of meal. You can also order the meat with sides in an entree. Although chicken is the highlight, the preparations vary offering a wide variety of options ranging from salads to sandwiches and of course the bowls. The restaurant serves beer and has dessert on the menu. They also have a sauce bar that lets you customize your entrees to fit your taste. The cilantro garlic sauce is MY FAVE! Check your mail because there are always coupons for this place. They also have a rewards program now that offers specials and discounts via the email. read more

Pollo Tropical - 1/4 Chicken Meal - Fast Food Near Me - Tampa, Florida