Ernest W.
Yelp
SUMMATION: Very crowded and popular, dangerous parking, poor food, non-existent service. Very disappointing experience.
NAME: Kaplash
TITLE: "Kaput" [Yelp, Parguera Pirate review #565 [1], submitted 17 February 2016]
MY RATING: Terrible (0.9/5)
TELEPHONE: (787) 826-4582
HOURS OF OPERATION: 11 am-11 pm every day
LOCALITY: PR-115 Km 6.6, Barrio Caguabo Alto, La Tosca, Anasco, Puerto Rico 00610
DIFFICULTY LOCATING: easy
OCCASION: Friends insisted that we go [2].
PARKING: On either side of a busy highway
VIEW: On a bluff above the ocean. We were crammed into an alcove with no view.
AMBIANCE: riot
BAR: full service
WAITSTAFF: Almost non-existent. We had to run one down for everything. They were really busy, but I would have expected one would come by our table, at least once, even if only by accident?
APPETIZERS: A mix of stale, fried foods. Despite their reputation, their empanadillas were not very good.
SERVING TIME: awful
BATHROOMS: dirty, no paper towels
MADE IN USA: Plates made in China
DANGER: Parking is on either side of the street of a major road, with much walking in the road, and heavy traffic zooming.
PROBLEMS:
(I) Dangerous parking
(II) Poor food
(III) Non-existent service
(IV) Unpleasantly loud, boisterous, and crowded
NOISE LEVEL: very loud
REVIEWS: rated Very, Very Good, 4.33/5, 46 reviews (TripAdvisor, Kaplash); Very Good, 3.80/5, 15 reviews (TripAdvisor, Restaurante Kaplash); Very, Very Good, 4.50/5, 1 review, 3 mini-reviews (Yelp); Very, Very Good, 4.3/5, 385 mini-reviews or votes (FaceBook); Very Good, 8/10, 47 mini-reviews and votes (FourSquare)
HISTORY: This place has a reputation for great seafood empanidillas.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Plus thousands of unnumbered, critical article and book reviews for hundreds of journals. TripAdvisor 22,000 points
[2] After driving through the dangerous traffic jams, which these 5 adjacent restaurants caused, for many years, I was very reluctant to patronize one. I tried to keep my animosity from affecting my review.