La Bruquena - Chicago

We were craving some Puerto Rican food, we came to the try out La Bruquena 1st time trying it out. I was not disappointed. The food was great. It wasn't greasy. We had some Tostones a Jibarito meal (it was small then other places) but the flavor was great, had it with white rice and a couple ofDrinks.

Food was OK. Service was good. There was no AC when we visited. We ordered the pulpo salad, pollo guisao, and masita frita.

Heard great things about this place and decided to drop in to see if I would be transported to PR. It was packed for the outside patio but the inside was empty. Very narrow but tons of space in the front house and back house for larger parties. We were sat but it took a while to be noticed and served let alone given water and a menu. When we finally received all that, we had been sitting close to 15 minutes. Our sever took our orders and I wanted to try their jibarito meal $12). Took maybe another 20 minutes to bring out our food and as you can see, the meal is very small. Not worth the $12 but I will say it was tasty. I left hungry but my tastebuds were satisfied. Not sure if I'd return because I wouldn't want to spend all that time waiting but I'd recommend trying it once.

Never again it was the worst service ever. The food was nasty. We didn't get water or our drinks two hours later. And an automatic service gratuity for 3 people like really all the tax's to my god

Disappointed, I was so excited to go eat at this restaurant on the day of the Puerto Rican parade 6/10/23. What a HUGE disappointment, the food was horrible and extremely expensive. They served us on paper plates. The topper was NO WORKING Restrooms. WTF is that about. They were not prepared for the festival at all. Extremely disgusting!!! Never ever would I or my family go to this **** place again!!!