Lisa E.
Yelp
That's my photo of a whole, fried fish topped with raw onions, and I am surprised that I never reviewed Rincon Criollo after that wonderful weekend lunchtime visit. This week we visited on a hectic Saturday night following Thanksgiving. On a Saturday night there are 3 slots, 4-6 and 8 pm, we chose 6 pm. It was a festive and loud evening, with faster movement than I would hope for, so in the future I may stick with lunch or a weeknight in hopes of a calmer meal.
Menu is huge, most of the choices are unfamiliar to me and the doting waiter was hustling. Which means we wound up making hasty decisions and wound up with dishes that we were not expecting, but turned out to be fine.
The lighting is dim and we are getting old, so a light magically appeared to help decipher the vast menu, abundant with meats.
Spanish Sausages were sliced paper thin and sprawled out on a metal dish and grilled to perfection. Thinking we were ordering pork style chicharron, we were surprised when 4 sizzling nubs of chicken appeared and I still have no idea what they were because the menu identifies "Chicken Bits Crispy Fried but I did not see any onions or garlic sauce. If this is what they were, they were fabulous and i will order them again. Smoked pork chops were delicious. The confusion was apparent when 2 of our dishes were not what we thought to have ordered and were not that great, one was the pork filet..nothing that i would ever order, I thought we were having a roast pork special that looked like a roast in photos but what arrived was a pounded paper thin cutlet, too dry for me and a steak grilled, also arrived paper thin, dry and left untouched. Next time we will order better and take our time. The gregarious waiter was really not listening to me, but rather yes, yes ing us.
Carafe of red Sangria, complementary kaluah shots with a marachino cherry,
some coffee, a very sweet Tres Leche cake and a stunning Happy Birthday song, lights and dance and we were on our way before the 8 pm seating arrived.. looking forward to returning again soon