Bazaar Mar by José Andrés

Went for Christmas Eve dinner. Stephanie provided excellent service. The food was very good for the most part, but with the tasting menu, there was just too much of it. The salmon, chicken, and Key Lime beach dessert were all amazing and I'd order them if I went back. The atmosphere was good, but let's be honest, it's still in a mall.

bazaar mar located inside the shops at crystals is a stunning oasis where you can enjoy the freshest fruits of the sea prepared just how chef Jose Andres loves them. dishes were beautiful, inventive and bursting w/ flavors that will just make you smile! menu showcases the finest fish from around the globe w/ a variety of preparation options including grilled in a wood-burning oven, baked in salt, fried, or sashimi-style and then served table-side. went w/ my family of picky eaters but absolutely loved everything! can’t wait to go back and try the tasting menu

We had the Bazaar Mar Experience tasting menu and it was fantastic. Such an impressive range of flavours and creativity with seafood and the quality was first class. The service from our server John was excellent. The only minor complaint is that due to the open plan nature of the restaurant it’s quite easy to be reminded that you’re eating in a shopping mall, which takes a little bit away from the ambience of the place.

Extraordinary experience truly is an understatement.... My fiance and I were blown away by the hospitality, food, service, attention to detail by the chefs and all of FOH and simply was an all around world class dining experience. Our server John, Sommelier Roy and GM Edgar, truly exemplify the definition of hospitalitarians... They explained literally everything with such precision and detail with so much passion and transported us to a wonderful culinary expedition..... Bravo 👏 to the whole team, we will most definitely be back very soon.

I’m not sure what happened on 12/4. So much went wrong. We opted to order a whole bunch a la cart because we wanted to taste everything and the tasting menu wasn’t enough. We really enjoy Bazaar Meats so was very excited about Bazaar Mar. The biggest issue was the seasoning or lack of in this case. Most tasted bland, although lots of fats/butter/oil. The dishes started out okay with the olives. The tuna come was tiny, and not much flavor. The pillows with tuna on top was filled with something so dense and mushy at the same time, the texture made me gag. I couldn’t tell if it was mashed up raw fish. The lobster croquettes were delicious and tasted like lobster bisque in a crunchy shell, the elote felt like a joke with not much to the corn part of corn, just seasoning on a stick, maybe their best was the raw shrimp on the thai salad cup - it was flavorful. the tuna with the quail egg was mostly sauce. There was no balance of flavor on this dish, the raw scallops with grapes was another completely bland dish - it’s only so much bland raw seafood one can eat. we left half of it, they were out of one of the po’boys and our dinner reservation was at 5pm. the fried oyster po’boy was fine but the ratio of bread to oyster was too much and what you mostly taste is the bread, the ceviche is the prettiest dish and was flavorful, the butter on top of uni was ridiculous in how much butter was on each - probably about 2.5 tablespoons of butter per bread on top of a little uni. You couldn’t taste the uni. it was just all butter. I scraped off the butter and the server took off the charge. So, we ordered some veggies to go with the whole grilled fish, they brought them out one at a time without the fish. The bowl of potatoes with a green and red dipping sauce. The tiny potatoes were very good on their own but the sauces were pretty bland. (We’ve eaten at many restaurants in Peru, and Bazaar Mar misses it completely. We’ve also had lots of sushi all over the country and in Japan, and I’m surprised at these dishes, even without comparison to any other place- Jose Andres is so very well respected and does much good work in the world, that we were completely disappointed how they failed.) The carrots were flavorful but they were very crunchy. The mushrooms looked delicious but it was just drenched in butter… a bit of garlic and salt would have made a difference. The biggest disappointment was the whole fish. As soon as they brought it, it was so stinky, I asked them why. Both the server and the person agreed that it smelled bad. Fish smells foul if it’s old and past prime. This should have never happened at a high caliber seafood restaurant on a Wednesday at a 5pm dinner reservation (which is the time Jose Andres suggests that we go for dinner). We sent the fish back and didn’t want a replacement because if that’s what they’re sending, I didn’t want to think about other freshness of what we’ve already eaten. The server gave us a free dessert- The key lime beach which was good. He also brought out a small pound cake with a candle because it was my birthday. The funny thing was, the pound cake was an edge piece that had dried out so much that i couldn’t get a fork in it. It was all very funny in the end. We definitely think this new restaurant needs to rethink their food. The reason for the 3 stars on food instead of 2 was the 2 drinks we got. We don’t drink alcohol and we don’t like non-alcohol spirits but really enjoy mocktails made with spices and juice. Many restaurants have a mocktails list that’s not based on non-alcohol spirits but Bazaar Mar didn’t. However, the bartender made us two drinks when we mentioned to the server about having a ginger based drink and a fruit based drink. It wasn’t on their menu but they should.

Perfect in every way! The service was impeccable, the food is gorgeous, and we loved every bite, and the place is beautiful! The drinks are excellent. We loved both classics and creative house specials. They have an extremely thoughtful wine menu and the sommelier is a master! He was knowledgeable about all regions and made perfect suggestions. I can't recommend more highly!

Fantastic dinner as always with a Jose restaurant. The only thing neither of us liked at all as the house made fish and pork sausage with the tomatoes toast, it was bad and so fishy smelling and overpowering taste but everything else was amazing especially that first pic the street food inspired dish I believe can't remember the name we wanted more of those tho

What an amazing overall dining experience. Our waiter Nik was thoughtful and attentive. To our surprise the restaurant had only been open for 6 weeks so luckily most of the kinks had been worked out. We opted for the tasting menu with wine pairing which was just amazing. Our sommelier Jeremias was super sweet and enthusiastic with the pairing. He opened several bottles for us to try out tonight that he was also testing. Overall 5 stars and experiment lasting over 3 hrs. It’s a must Jose Andre restaurant to dine.