Rick B.
Yelp
Me and friends tried Las Flores, BGC Uptown.
The food was disappointing. My friends & I all thought that if I scored the food alone best out of 10, neither of us would have gave it more than 5. I felt like it was 4 myself.
The actual foods ordered were a special that included a grilled salmon with grilled vegetables. This looked pretty good but the taste was disappointing. Another meal was beef or steak tacos which comes a set of four. These four tacos were the smallest tacos I've ever seen. About an inch anand topped off with a quail egg on each. Again, "pass" on these! Not worth trying. Additionally, we had a "catalones." This was a pasta I've had at other restaurants and those places were much better. Finally, the drinks we had were cocktails one called a "hula" made with vodka, which was too strong it tastes like nothing else was added. The 2nd, "tropic" which was too sweet that it seem like there were no other ingredients and a simple "gin & tonic" which had about 25 pieces of black pepper corns in it. Never seen that before but I asked the waitress and she said that drink was normal to have those. So the foods I'd give a 4 out of 10. Although one of my friends gave it a 0 and the other gave it a 5.
Then there was the service which was good at first. The hostess did seat us right away and found a very nice booth. We gave our order but my friend notice it was taking a while before me and saw others being served who had arrived after us. My friend also when ordering ask the waitress to bring out all of our foods at the same time, which probably doesn't need to be said and any restaurants who's been trained properly. However, we patiently observed our order being brought to our table one plate at a time. When asked about that, the waitress said that chef was just busy and placed it out this way.
We had several members of the staff visit our table to inquire about everything and we told them accordingly. I do want to say, there was one staff member, a guy, looks like he was a manager because he wore a suit, was very professional, and even caring about our order and was helpful, even bringing refills for water. He was the most professional and helpful member of their staff. Although the others I'd rate a 5 out of 10.
Overall, I do not recommend this restaurant and would prefer the food cart across the street before trying them again. By the way, one of my friends also works in a restaurant as a waitress and really thought the service was bad.
The ambiance was actually good and could be a good place to go for lunch or dinner for the Uptown area. There was music playing which with the noise made it somewhat loud to hear each other. It's not as big on the inside but it did offer a few seating options outside before entering. Unfortunately, doesn't work if the food is bad, I probably won't go there for drinks or it's bar which could only seat 3 people.
That's it! Maybe others will have a better experience.