Never physically been here but I order from Uber eats pretty often. My usual order is a mofongo and depending on my mood is what protein I get with it. Ive tried the chicharron, chicken and cheese mofongo. The sauce that comes for the mofongo is absolutely delicious and flavorful, I cant get enough of it. In my opinion its actually what makes the dish. Its some kind of gravy. Each and every mofongo is delicious, you cant go wrong. Highly recommended! read more

Tropical Spanish Restaurant - Spanish Near Me - New York, New York

This place has a great selection of delicious Dominican food for very reasonable prices. It's definitely more of a takeout spot but they do have some tables and outdoor seating. The chicken here is so good! I've also had the sancocho and was impressed. They have a separate area where you can get fresh juices. Overall, the quality of the food here is really good and the service is friendly. read more

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that's just unacceptable. Isn't always like this but I hate when restaurants have off days. Consistency in the food would be nice. read more

Tropical Spanish Restaurant - Tostada de Queso Hero - Spanish Near Me - New York, New York

This was my favorite place I went to in NYC!!! I loved it! It took me a while to decide what I wanted because everything looked so delicious! I had the oxtails, maduros, beans and rice and it was sooo good! The staff waited patiently while I mulled over my decisions. The restaurant even has a side where they make juice that I unfortunately didn't get to try! I'm a tourist and I don't always get to eat amazing Dominican food but I was so happy I got to taste it. The restaurant has enough seating and tables for everyone and we were able to sit and look out the window. If you're in New York definitely try out this gem! read more

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-I was asked by the waitress (blonde older lady with a net on her hair), If I was my younger sister in laws grandmother? -I was given a $14.00 lunch special of 3 pieces of the small tip of the oxtail, when I said, I was sure at least one peace bigger is available, she said "take it or leave it." - She brought two salt packages and threw them at the counter when I asked for salt, prior to haven eaten already 4 tostones. -She brought the change and hovered at our table, when I asked her if she was planning to also mop, she snatched the $6.00 tip on the table asking if it was for her. Unpleasant experience, yet grateful that I did not react, which was apparent with the intention of the server. The prices are unbeatable, I paid $28.00 for a lunch special and two small chicken soup. I suggest you DO NOT STAY AND EAT. TO go is awesome. As far is service is concerned, you get what you pay for! read more

Solid, low key restaurant in Washington Heights near the entrance of the 157th & Broadway station. The food is prepared and ready to order when you step in. The best deal is the Quarter Roasted Chicken with Rice & Beans, and I often get my chicken with veggies & plantains instead for the same price ($7.99). At times the chicken is dry depending what time of day you order (minus a star for a little inconsistency), but it's usually good when I go. Outdoor seating is available, and Covid safety measures are in place. Stop by and continue to support local restaurants! read more

Tropical Spanish Restaurant - Quarter Chicken with Rice & Beans ($7.99) - Spanish Near Me - New York, New York

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Delicious basics such as oxtail and pernil and roast chicken. Lots of neighborhood folks get their daily meal here. Very reasonable prices. Steam table selections. read more

Mangu. Mangu. Man-GUUUU. Tres golpes. That's all I have to say. It is my absolute fave. This is the spot. Right here. Oh and the chicharrón. Woowee. Thank you tropical. read more

Just finish ordering breakfast from this place the phone service was sweet but the pricing was not. I order 1 hero egg, bacon & cheese $ 6 1 hero egg, sausage, & cheese $ 6 1 order of fries $3 1 passion juice $ 3 1 mix oranges & milk 4 Then they charge me tax !! Not only the price was too high the sandwiches hardly had anything inside. Not calling this place again. When the delivery came in it was $25 like really! read more

Tropical Spanish Restaurant - $25 for this breakfast super over priced. - Spanish Near Me - New York, New York

Consistently delicious and reasonably priced Spanish food. Delicious pernil, chicken, chicharron, and soups. Their coffee is also strong and superb. read more

Always a great option for lunch or dinner. This establishment always has so many options to choose from, and everything looks good. You can dine in or order takeout. The sooner you get here the better. The food is always fresh and the staff is friendly I always order half a chicken with yellow rice and red beans. The food portion is good for about 2-3 people. The empanadas are delicious too. I always say I'm going to try something else and I come here but I always stick to what I know. Maybe stewed chicken next time. read more

This place is no-frills, but they recently renovated so it is clean, has comfortable seating and is inviting. More important however, the food is EXCELLENT, cheap and comes in generous portions. They always have the regular Dominican staples but for lunch and dinner offer a large selection of different pasta, seafood and meat dishes. Thry also offer the typical Dominican "lonche", which is a "special" that comes as a full meal at a set low price. Their delivery also tends to be fast. read more

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Great basic Dominican food. Inexpensive. Really friendly staff. Love it! You can stay vegan or vegetarian there and they have a juice bar that's decent if you don't insist on cold pressed etc. This place is not pretentious. It's Dominican home cooking. read more

I've been to plenty Tropical Spanish restaurants and this by far is the worse one ever! I ordered a quarter chicken (dark meet, leg and thigh) but they instead bought me a breast and wing that was drier than the dessert. It was so tough, burnt and hard to eat! It was like eating a brick! I also asked for hot sauce and they put one weird tasting hot sauce in the bag. I would 100% not recommend. read more

I mean I am Dominican so if i crave Dominican food than I want to taste something that surpasses regular Dominican cooking. The beans were actually good though like you can tell they just don't add water to it . I had pollo a el Horno with rice and beans. It was good I cant complain chicken is chicken you cant really fuck that up ... now here is the thing the most important part of the baked chicken is the mojo . I love me a good mojo and this place really did not cut it for me. I have no idea if its me or if its true every restaurant mojo taste different to me , every mono is not like the other. When the mojo is good i love to eat it with my rice my beans and omg my salad ... man if you guys have not tried that once , look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself why ? So Back to the point mojo needs work but food was good. Also , i ordered so i dont know what the place looks like. read more

THE WORST SERVICE I HAVE RECEIVED IN DELIVERY. I ordered a sopa de pollo and rice on the side and requested for that delivery to be made at the front door of my mother's apartment, since I was not around to do it for her. Mind you, my mom is disabled and has difficulty walking and going down steps due to surgery. The delivery man associated directly with this restaurant was RUDE when he called. He was YELLING at me because he got to the apartment building entrance and told me that no one was opening the door. I asked him politely to wait for my mom to open the door at the entrance. By the time my mom got downstairs, he left and I called him to know where my food was. He then told me rudely he left to go and make another delivery. My mom proceeded to go back up to her apartment. Afterwards, he told me that he was going back to my moms building to deliver a second time. My mom was already struggling to go down the first time but she proceeded to go downstairs the second time. By the time my mom went downstairs the second time, he was not there. My mom refused to accept this horrible service and wanted to cancel the order. I didn't blame her. I proceeded to call the restaurant because I ordered delivery directly from them and a woman picked up the phone. I told her the situation and the woman blamed me for not being there on time to receive my delivery, that the guy waited extremely long to deliver to my mom. THAT WAS NOT THE CASE. My mom was going downstairs, having a disability, but did not take more than 10 minutes to get to the entrance of the building. My mom wanted the order cancelled and they woman told me that she could cancel the order, without a refund. After not receiving my moms meal, I must pay for a meal not received? ABSOLUTELY NOT. The lack of respect, patience, kindness and understanding for my mothers situation is ridiculous. Regardless if my mom was disabled or not, no customer should have to deal with such nonsense. read more

It was all unfortunate. Like finding roaches in the rice, unfortunate. You think you're about to enjoy a meal but, hahah, nope. I discovered them through Seamless and tried their roast chicken at first. Not as good as Malecon but decent enough to order delivery. Is what I thought until I experienced their malicious customer service. It wasn't NYC old school rude. That, I can take. This was, imma yell at you in Spanish AND English because I've had a shitty day and I will take it out on you, yell at you in Spanish because you won't understand a word I'm saying, horrible. Delivery person also texted, "bye" when they didn't deliver my food. Weird. Very weird. Like, hilarious but weird. Don't order from them unless you enjoy abuse as a side to your somewhat DRY partially tasteless chicken. Ok, their beef empanadas are not bad, but why risk it? read more

Oxtails were excellent as well as the empanadas and smoothies! My favorite was the blackberry/banana Very friendly and clean here and good prices read more

Great food , I've been there many times. Recently they have hired new staff and they don't listen. They made my order wrong twice and got mad that I kept asking them to change it. Then over charged me out of spite. Simple solution is to just listen to the customer. Other than that, very cozy and great food. read more

Before purchasing the sweet plantains make sure that they are well cooked. The sweet plantains should not be cooked or cut the way the green plantains. Sweet plantains are not supposed to be so thick. read more

I am so sorry, but Gordon Ramsey needs to visit them and teach them about pride! You don't serve people crap! How can you charge or serve people horrible, over cooked, dried out steak! There is no way they have a REAL chef cooking this pepper steak!!!!! Maybe it's friends, family members, etc. I am in a service industry(artist) and love what I do! I do everything from the heart! I wouldn't serve, let alone charge people for this so called pepper steak! Threw it away! Such a waste of money!!! read more

OMG, If you are in Hamilton Heights near the Hudson area, this is a place to eat! Their Rabo (oxtail stew) was to die for...the servers, owners and cashiers were extremely happy and hepful! read more

I love this place everything is delicious but if you don't go there early enough they run out of food. Everyone there is very nice, if you like Dominican oatmeal you will love it! read more

Being Dominican myself I have learnt to be cautious of Restautants, bodegas and any business owned by mis compatriotas since they usually practice the same custom like back in DR charging customers "al ojo". I just ordered a plate of chicharrón de cerdo con yuca, the lady weighted the chicharrón and the scale valued it at $5.86 and then added a small portion of yuca. The guy at the register, even though the lady told him how much the chicharrón was valued by the scale, he charged $9.00...was the amount of yuca worth $4.00?? I feel like I paid for everybody's yuca consumed today at that place. When am I going to learn not go give my money to business like this. In the meantime this place is being erased from my list. read more

The food here is very good. We frequently order the family meal with rice, beans and roasted or fried chicken. It's cheap and feeds a family. The food behind the counter is very good too. read more

This place is amazing!!! I had rice w red beans and salmon for lunch. One of the best meals ever.

Love that there are now smoothies, juices, shakes, green juices and more. Definitely something that is needed in the area. Their Spanish pastries are also great: the quipes and empanadas, good price too. I've seen the meal options as well, decent portions. Would recommend giving a try. Oh, and dessert options, great red velvet! Friendly staff too. Only issue is debit card limit is $7 or something like that if you don't have cash. I'll be back for more smoothies and goods soon! read more

Friendly, quick, reliable good food all the time. Whenever I've come in here the workers were all very patient explaining the different options to me. Everything I've ever ordered was delicious, especially the oxtail stew. read more

Food is good, love the sandwiches but very dirty. They touch everything with their bare hands, found hair on my chicken, lady dug her acrylic nails in something I was going to buy at the moment, had to leave! read more

Wrote this in November, 2010 under another Yelp profile: Moved to the neighborhood a few months ago. Walk by this place almost daily and rarely saw many people in there -- an important marker of whether a place is worth trying. Recently on a Saturday mid-day, walked by with friends and saw the place was more "hopping" than usual so decided to try it but I was sceptical. I was more than pleasantly surprised. Impressive array of homestyle food, already prepared and served cafeteria style: meat stews, casava, beans/peas & rice, and simple but fabulous stewed okra & tomatoes (never had okra, or any green veg except green salad in Dominican joints, so that's why I'm not sure exactly what type cuisine this is). Generous servings and VERY inexpensive, even compared with similar restaurants in this neighborhood. We did take-out. There are a few tables, but the ambience is similar to take-out Chinese places -- eat in only if you really have no place else to take your food! This was Latino comfort food at its best. I'll definitely go back. read more

Great hangover breakfast. They were very generous with the mangu. I personally didn't care for the mangu, I thought it was bland. I made sautéed onions to improve the taste, it helped a little. The service was great and delivery was fast. read more

I went for the buffet. It was only $8 and very fast, but the result was approximately 85% rice, which seems excessive to me.

The soup I had made me sooo sick, now I feel like I'm going to throw up. Then I went to la libertad restaurant right across the street to have a chicken soup to make me feel better and it was amazing. read more

Came in here tonight with my friend and neither of us are familiar with the cuisine so we told the woman working and she helped us so much. She explained what everything was and gave us plantains and croquets to try! So friendly! The food was packed in the container and it was so cheap as well! About $13 for a meal and I got two meats rice and beans! She got the chicken veggies and lentils. Both were amazing! I highly recommend this place! We will be back. read more

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First time here today. I have recently passed by it a few times and it looked busy. The exterior is also inviting, with large windows, a buffet setup and a clean updated dining room. I had the rotisserie chicken and the seafood linguine. The chicken was delightful. It was the basic Latin rotisserie chicken you can find up and down Broadway. I have had others that were dry. Here, it was moist, juicy and the spices were on point. The linguine was good. It had a nice sauce, which I could've used more of. The only seafood was shrimp, therefore it really should be called shrimp linguine. There were a few pieces of onion and red and green bell pepper, which I could've used more of. The ratio of Linguine to sauce to shrimp and veggies needs to be adjusted, making sure each serving has a nice amount of each. Overall it was tasty. My bill came to $22.86 which I guess is good for one chicken and an entree. I will go back for sure or have it delivered. read more

Tropical Spanish Restaurant - Rotisserie chicken and seafood linguine - Spanish Near Me - New York, New York

This Place is a GEM! Food is serve DAILY! and they cook for you wherever you want! The Chefs work in front of you very attentive and cordial, also the staff are very friendly that makes me come back there...even when I order on the phone for delivery (just moved to the area) they are so courteous. Love that treatment! Because, food taste better from a friendly environment! Right? They serve BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND DINNER! They have the best Coffee in the area...(sorry Tazso...) This place in home cooking Dominican Style and I'm not from there but this place taste like mommy's cooking! The Roasted chicken and the Chicken soup are Amazing! They made fresh soups daily and salads too. No need spanish to order, just go! and prices are so cheap! they accepts Credit Cards and have an ATM inside as well. Love it! eat there every day! read more

If you want Dominican food in Washington Heights, this place is awesome! I stumbled upon this place looking for something close the subway line and it's just right across the street. The food is freshly made and feels just like home made food. They have a wide variety of options like chicken, fish, and even exotic meats like ox tail. The portions are hug so you can get food in a to go container to take home and the price is amazing. They give you a lot of portions. The staff is incredibly sweet and hard working. The red rice is so tasty, and the plantains, chicken and tilapia. This is a great place to stop by and pick up food to take home or also to eat at the restauraunt. The restauraunt is small, family feel, but still very nice. I am so glad I found this place. Whenever I am in Washington Heights I plan to pick up some food to go. They also have tons of container sizes so this is a great place to order food for parties and catering as well because they cook sooo much! Awesome place! read more

The food was really good, and affordable. The portions are large. The people are very friendly. I will definitely go back to this restaurant! read more

The food here is always good ! The service is excellent it's always friendly a smile really does go a long way . I live close by but I didn't come here immediately I went all the way to la Barca on 163 because I was craving their pernil they didn't have any and the women weren't the same that work during the week , these were super rude they ignored me for like 10 mins till I left .. Still craving good Dominican food I decided to check if I could get some pernil here since I've had the food before I know it's good fingers crossed I walk in and the smell it's self made me so happy everything looked good but I was there for the pernil which they had I got a lunch order I also got a slice of lasagna and a order of Maduros all that for 15? Super good ! The lady who took my order was super nice smiling the whole time . I got my order to go but I'm sure if the service is that good for takeout it's excellent for dine in too. Like I've mentioned before food is always good no complaints pernil craving satisfied! read more

This place is terrible !!!! Ordered my food thru seamless the restaurant calls me tells me they are out of what I want and I can't get a refund... like are you serious??? They lady I was talking to was rude and disrespectful and hung up in my face. I will never order from this place again and I advise others to not waste their time. Very disappointed in the service at this place read more