Looking for a place for a bite and decided to check out Tio Pio. Noticed they had a special deal for a free soup when you ordered a sandwich, so went for Roast Pork Sandwich and Lentil Soup. Definitely tasty, but the drawback here was a couple tables needed to be cleaned and the loud group of kids hanging out, sitting there and not ordering, while constantly vaping. Also, wouldn't necessarily calling it cheap eats for what you got, but that being said you may want to try Tio Pio out. read more

Tio Pio - Tio Pio E 14th St - Roast Pork Sandwich and Lentil Soup - Empanadas Near Me - New York, New York

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Stopped by during my lunch break and immediately got a franchise vibe from this place. I was hoping to buy pernil by the pound, but that wasn't an option, so I ordered it as a meal with maduros. The pernil itself was solid--above average with nice crispy skin--but the maduros were just okay, nothing special. I also tried the tres leches cake, but it was disappointing. They added cinnamon for some reason, which didn't help, and it lacked enough tres leches, making it a bit dry. I didn't even finish it. The meal came out to $28--not outrageous, but definitely not cheap for what I got. If I were to come back, I'd skip the sides and dessert and just get a portion of the pernil. read more

Tio Pio - Good pernil with crispy skin.. maduros okay. - Empanadas Near Me - New York, New York

Good food, the space is clean, service is amazing. Will definitely come back. I ordered sautéed shrimp w/ garlic, spinach and guacamole as a meal, and a cappuccino to go. Definitely would like to try other items on the menu. read more

Hearty food that will be about 2 meals- good deal for some tasty food! I got a roast pork chop with 2 sides (came out to about $16 including tax, in cash) You'll pay an extra 4% if you pay with a credit card (per a little sign by the register) You can choose your sides, like beans, rice, plantains, fried plantains, roast veggies... I opted for rice and plantains. Everything was very well seasoned and delicious. The pork chop was very well done but not that tough, and just so flavorful. read more

The chicken was SO GOOD. This is a new go to takeout dinner for me. I had the half chicken with yellow rice and veggies and it was a huge portion and delivered relatively quickly read more

**charge 4% on Creditcard, if u want to avoid that, bring cash** A good restaurant for lunch by union square. Mainly Spanish/Mexican food. I ordered a grilled chicken sandwich. It's ok. But I think I should have ordered the pulled pork. I'll come back and try other things for sure. Self service order and you can eat in. Some tables and chairs. Quiet area. No one bothers you. I love this for my lunch break! read more

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Was walking by and decided to stop in. The staff was very friendly from the gentleman who was preparing our plate to the woman at the register. Food portions were big and everyone was very hospitable. I appreciated being asked if we wanted the door closed since it was quite windy and we were right by it. read more

This spot delivers tasty dishes with welcoming service. I found the workers' attention to customers impressive. Their flavor profiles stay with me. The service quality was superior and the restaurant sits in an ideal spot. This spot has special attributes. read more

I had passed this place a million times and today I finally decided to give it a try. Everything was amazing! We had the burrito bowl with pork shoulder with pineapple sauce and guacamole as well as the Tio Pio salad with the homemade lemonade (made with a hint of horchata). Everything was delicious and the portion sizes were great. I actually went to the cashier to ask what was in the lemonade because of how delicious it was. Will definitely go back! read more

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(ENG) Bonjour everyone, this review is only a reflection on my experience getting food from this location for the very first time, so take it with a grain of salt. I am using an app called TooGoodToGo. I use this app to help me save money when I'm traveling as a professional documentarian and a photographer. What I am about to tell you, you made want to think twice. When I was using the app and then operating this app for quite some time, I was expecting a lot more food in this! Time below, it was to be equally to $18 dollars for $4.99 and I'd receive this. A lunch box, Let's be honest, in New York City do you think this is worth $18 worth? So I went back to this location without using the app and order a half chicken rice plantains mixed salad or for $12.95 And it was a lot of food. So my question is to this location or to this business establishment, are you practicing the right practices when you comes to advertising your food at the right price on the app called TooGoodToGo. By the way I'm doing a report on this app and trying to figure what restaurants are giving away the right amount of as it advertising on the app. IT was not advertised correctly, I'm also a YouTuber Please don't take this the wrong way, I'm looking out for the people and the people must come to understand that if they advertise with a program to help save food waste, they they should stand by their advertising. So let's talk about the food shall we, chicken was super dry and the rice has no flavor no salt but, the plantains were pretty good. Other than that I will never eat from this location ever again. (FR) Bonjour à tous, cette critique n'est qu'une réflexion sur mon expérience d'obtenir de la nourriture de cet endroit pour la toute première fois, alors prenez-la avec un grain de sel. J'utilise une application appelée TooGoodToGo. J'utilise cette application pour m'aider à économiser de l'argent lorsque je voyage en tant que documentariste professionnel et photographe. Ce que je vais te dire, tu m'as donné envie d'y réfléchir à deux fois. Lorsque j'utilisais l'application et que j'utilisais cette application pendant un certain temps, je m'attendais à beaucoup plus de nourriture ! Dans le temps ci-dessous, il devait être égal à 18 dollars pour 4,99 dollars et je recevrais ceci. Une boîte à lunch, Soyons honnêtes, à New York, pensez-vous que cela vaut 18 $ ? Je suis donc retourné à cet endroit sans utiliser l'application et j'ai commandé une salade mixte de plantains de riz demi-poulet ou pour 12,95 $ Et c'était beaucoup de nourriture. Ma question est donc à cet endroit ou à cet établissement commercial, pratiquez-vous les bonnes pratiques lorsqu'il s'agit de faire la publicité de vos aliments au bon prix sur l'application appelée TooGoodToGo. Au fait, je fais un rapport sur cette application et j'essaie de comprendre quels restaurants offrent la bonne quantité de publicité sur l'application. Il n'a pas été annoncé correctement, je suis aussi un YouTuber S'il vous plaît, ne le prenez pas mal, je cherche les gens et les gens doivent comprendre que s'ils font de la publicité avec un programme pour aider à réduire le gaspillage alimentaire, ils doivent s'en tenir à leur publicité. Parlons donc de la nourriture, le poulet était super sec et le riz n'a pas de saveur, pas de sel, mais les plantains étaient plutôt bons. A part ça, je ne mangerai plus jamais à cet endroit read more

Tio Pio - Unsalted and no flavor food - Empanadas Near Me - New York, New York

I enjoy eating there often when I eat people come into beg making me feel unsafe . The staff is very respectful

Was served as soon as I walked in. I ordered the stew beef with rice and beans. Everything was fresh. Huge portions and delicious. I also got the ice tea. I ate in. The space was clean and small . I've been a fan of this franchise for a minute and glad it's still good. Consistency is everything read more

Great place for healthy takeout! I ordered the Whole Rotisserie Chicken & Steamed Vegetables Side and they were very good. I ordered pickup through grubhub and it was ready in 20 minutes. Would recommend if you live in the area. read more

Tio Pio - Whole Rotisserie Chicken & Steamed Vegetables Side - Empanadas Near Me - New York, New York

My husband, daughter and I came across this establishment and it was an amazing experience. The background music was great, but the food and customer service were top notch. It felt like home. The food was perfectly seasoned and customer service was amazing. My husband and I are definitely coming here again. I highly recommend this place read more

Good service and really good food. Good delivery service... fast and food always hot. If your looking for good Spanish food, check them out read more

It's 'buffet' type. Good food, the roasted chicken was tender and so well seasoned. Good portions, nice selection and affordable. I'm glad they're in the neighborhood. read more

This was my first time coming here and I was not impressed. The roasted chicken was bland thank god it comes with a green sauce that helps with the lack of flavor. It wasn't too dry but definitely needed more seasoning. The combo meal came with your choice of rice (white or yellow) and beans. The beans tasted odd I couldn't figure out what it was I was tasting but they were lacking in flavor as well. I think the best part of my meal was the side of sweet plantains.. kind of hard to mess that up though. There are so many much better Spanish food options in the city nearby. I recommend this not being your first choice lol. read more

#2 yellow rice, red beans, meat and sweet plantains were very tasty. The meat was very tender, it's beef, very tasty. The sauce was excellent. Overall for $19 including a diet coke it was well worth it. The only thing that was missing was bread. I had flan for dessert. The texture was a bit hard for flan but tasty. Creamy, I could taste the egg and the other ingredients. I enjoyed the atmosphere, although I was the only eating in ( they do a big take out) it was calm and the green paint on the wall was soothing. I'd return again and hopefully soon!! read more

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Those who have reviewed this have no concept of good latin food. Esto es de fianbrera. This is classic workers food the type you vet at any local hole in the wall in-the DR or Puerto Rico. The beans are very good, rice fluffy as expected. The beef guisado y good. Tasty and savory. Chicken well grilled. Give this place a good try read more

Tio Pio - Carne guisada y arroz - Empanadas Near Me - New York, New York

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Very nice spot to eat very good buffet, very profesional, I'm vegetarian the fact the I don't eat meat they respect that they give a lot of food it so good read more

Tio Pio - I'm vegetarian and this is the place perfect to eat Spanish buffet they so delicious Highly recommend - Empanadas Near Me - New York, New York

Over priced and mediocre. . The food tastes like hot buffet food at best. I would not come again.

First and foremost I want to say that I'm blessed to be of Puerto rican decent, and that clearly means that I know Latino food. Whether its Puerto rican, Dominican, Chinese Cuban food. What I'm saying is that as a Latino I should be able to enjoy Latino food. So here it comes. We had take out, my wife brought me a Pork chop, yellow rice and 3 small what appeared to be sweet plantains, she had a supposed BB tasteless quarter chicken. and potato salad. Let's start with my dish, there was no flavor to the really hard and chewy pork chop, the rice was yellow and very bland, really tasteless, the supposed sweet plantains were overcooked and tasteless, more on the blackened side, the beans were flavorless that in it self is sacrilegious. My wife's order of the BB chickenwas in itself super bland, and the potato salad was also tasteless. As I said I'm a very proud Puerto rican, who knows about good Latino food. Latino cooks cook with love and flavor, this meal was just plain pathetic. I spoke to the manager a young Lady who was very nice to me and heard me out, she was nice up until she said the word "odd" as if I were mentally challenged and lying , and she made come to the conclusion that I was being heard but not listened too, so that comment of being odd made me think that I was being patronized and not being taken seriously that I politely informed her that she should hire a Grand mother from the BX who knows how to cook a good mouth watering Latino meal. So these lengthy thoughts are going to make Tio Pio a one time dining expirence at the 14 street Tio Pio. This sad meal just completely destroyed my Latino palate, never again lesson. But thank God my dogs don't care they just ate this dog food up. None of then became sick. Lmaoooo P.S. I told the young Lady that its like eating hospital food TASTELESS. ANGEL G. read more

Delicious vegetables, plantains, potatoes and smoked chicken. Got dinner for two and our expectations were surpassed!

Small place with delicious reasonably priced food and big portions. Delicious sweet plantains. The pork was tender but lacked flavor. Beans were fine. Pork with 2 sides was less than $15. read more

I would say that the people who work there are really pleasant, which I do not find often. However the chicken from the Stewed Chicken needed some Latin spices, the Bananas were not fried plantains they were bananas. Spinach which I though were collards and was happy to get but she let me know they were spinach they were fine but sooo oily. The beans were like pork and beans. I saved the food (Freezing it) cause I do not like wasting food and will have to doctor it up with some sofrito and sazon, green pepper, some onions, or something. If they just get some Latin sauces to add to the food and change up their beans to kidney or pinto and add some tomato sauce or something and fry up some real plantains and add some Recaito, this store could be a winner. The person who said that they need a grand mother there to over see this was correct although I will say the people were very pleasant. read more

Great food, great service. The staff is very friendly. I have also ordered by telephone. They provide speedy delivery service. I love this place. read more

Today is March 17th. Yesterday my coworker let me taste the fish from this establishment. It was tasty . Now today on my way to work I went in to pick up dinner since I work evening shift now when she let me taste the food I ask her how many pieces of fish she received with her meal, she said 3 pieces. Today I bought a fish combo . It came with 2 side orders white rice and 1 piece of fish ,and it came up to $21.64. after I walked out of "TIO PIO" I said to myself that the last $21.64 YALL GET FROM ME If it was tasty then would've been a different story. read more

I love this place. Delicious plates of rice, beans, chicken, & plantains. Great value and the service is very kind. Definitely worth a stop!

This place has really good healthy and fresh food as long as you don't come before closing. Really like this place it's my go to! Just sad it doesn't deliver to our area. A little pricey but good portions. It's around $17 for what I get. Grilled Chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, and a diet coke can. I like that I can workout at the gym next door, then hit this place after.! read more

Will definitely return. The place is clean, serves fresh and delicious smoked chicken. My first time and will be returning for more.

I ordered a grilled chicken sandwich with lettuce and tomato and a chicken noodle soup, and it was horrible. The bread tasted old and the chicken was dried. The chicken noodle soup was so bland all they did was put 3 very tiny pieces of chicken cubes and water. The noodles were soggy. Terrible, and they are expensive. Not worth it. read more

We've been wishing for hearty, delicious Latino food that was all over the nabes when we moved in three decades ago but has been priced out or driven out by this endless pandemic. So glad we thought of trying this new place out tonight. The whole chicken with rice, beans and platinos was delish and we will definitely be back to sample lots more. Portions were ample and we have a bit of leftovers. Also happy to support a very local business! read more

Went to try this place last night and honestly very disappointed. Food was average and didn't even end up finishing the food. Would not go back. read more

Got a half chicken plate with plantains and veggies. Super fast service, would come back here again

this was really bad food...the chicken was flavorless, the plantains and rice were dried out...the mash potatoes were runny and loose and had a sour flavor...took one bite and tossed the rest...they threw in enough plastic cutlery for a family of 5 which is extremely wasteful...I have eaten similar cuisine in the area that puts this place to shame...not sure how long this place has been around, but unless they up their game, it won't be too much longer! read more