Barawine - New York

Came here last night and everything was fantastic! Their restaurant was beautifully designed and the island bar was unusual but amazing and definitely

Came here on a Monday with my boyfriend to get a later dinnerIt's an all around mediocre experience.

Invited uptown on a Saturday nightBe careful, the entrance is on 120th! Arrived before the invitees and tried to secure a table.

My review will cover two elements of my experience. First, the food is quite good. My second opinion is more regarding management. By what would seem like a very strange coincidence I dined there about 10 days ago with two friends. When the checkarrived, we put down three credit cards and asked that the bill be divided as such. Within one weeks time two of us werevictims of credit card fraud. One friend notified me two days later, and obviously was very upset because now her card had to bedeactivated and she would have to wait for a replacement to be mailed. Two days later I received the same dreaded fraud alertcall. My bank card was used in a fraudulent attempt to take three thousand dollars from my account to pay for legal services atsome law firm in Oregon!!! I called the restaurant to express my alarm and deep concern and ask them to investigate. The manager (Abdu or Abdul) was immediately very abrupt with me, and cut me off saying that doesn 't happen here. I asked him ifhe did not find it unusual but he stopped listening me and cut me off again. He never offered to ask any questions of anyone orto have me stop by, he just ended the call. I was very insulted, and after waiting two or three days, I called the restaurantagain and asked to speak to a manager. The woman that answered, said just a minute, before she could step away, I asked her thename of the manager she was going to have take the call and she said Abdul. I told her I wanted to speak to someone elsebecause he was very rude to me on my previous call. She stepped away, and when she came back, she said the owner was in ameeting, but would return my call later that day. Needless to say, it 's been four or five days and I have not gotten a call. Iwill not be dining here again, and it is very concerning to me that this matter was not taken seriously.

We came here on our first night in new york. We were greeted in and offered drinks (the first problem) We ordered a pint and vodka lemonade, we were brought a sprite with no vodka. We then ended up getting the vodka and ordered our food. Steak andfries. The “first” meal came out and I started eating about about 10 minutes still not another plate.. we asked about it andthey assumed we would be sharing one steak and fries… so then we had to wait on a second one being sent out to be eaten. Thesteak itself was lovely but waiting 20 minutes between each person eating it’s crazy? When it came to paying they claimed thecard was not working, 3 different staff attempted to “pay with the card” we ended up taking the card machine ourselfs and itmagically worked! We did not sign for a tip as it was absolutely insane what we went through in the short time we were there andyet they still took a 26 dollar tip from our card? We will not be returning. 170 dollars was not worth what we went though