"Similar to your grandparents’ 2004 Hyundai Sonata, Madroño will never let you down. The Nicaraguan restaurant is mostly quiet, but they’ll get appropriately rowdy for the fun grandparents. For birthdays, they blast “Las Mañanitas” and throw streamers on your table—but only if that’s what you want. If Grandma Betty just wants to celebrate with a teeny sparkler on her Pio V (outstanding rum cake), they can do that, too." - mariana trabanino, virginia otazo