About - Borinquen
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Offerings
- Comfort food
- Late-night food
- Quick bite
- Small plates
Accessibility
- Wheelchair accessible restroom
- Wheelchair accessible seating
Atmosphere
- Casual
- Cozy
- Trendy
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This was my first visit to this restaurant and possibly my last. The server we had barely spoke English so we had to ask the other co workers to help with ordering of our food etc . Some of us ordered the steak jabritos plate others ordered steak mofongo And for drinks It's a BYOB restaurant. But FYI we were informed by the sever you can only bring beer to the restaurant. So some had beer others had water. The food came shortly and it was mediocre to me. So we really didn't order anything else just paid the bill and left. It wasn't a terrible experience but I just dont know if it a place I would want to go back to.
As a Puerto Rican, I really wanted to love this place. Our service was very sweet! However, I made the mistake of ordering a pollo sandwich instead of lechón. I’m didn’t want to give her the trouble of switching, so I thought I’d just enjoy the sandwich instead, but once I tried, I did not like it. I told our server that I did not like it, cause I took a bite off of it already. She said once the food has been bitten, we can’t swap it out and that I would have to pay for an EXTRA sandwich. I NEVER been to a restaurant, that has ever done that to me, before. I totally understand that this is a small business, but this is the easiest way to loose customers. I took one tiny bite, and was still charged for something that I did not like. Hate that I had to write a review like this, but I was incredibly so dumbfounded. Doesn’t help that the lechón wasn’t great either, but wayyyyy better than the pollo.
I love Borinquen, it was my introduction to the Jibaro sandwich, but recently I ordered 5 Jibaros meals and the sandwiches were pretty flat and not very filling. Most other spots in the Chicago area that sell this sandwich is much Fuller and larger overall. The Puerto Rican rice is still a wonderful and so is there a hot sauce I bought a bottle of it. I was just under impressed with the sandwich this time.