El Nuevo Carribeño - New York

The pernil lunch chicken pastelito were delicious. The rice w/ pigeon peas that came with the lunch was just like back home in Puerto Rico. I will definitely order from El Nuevo Caribeno again and again.

The Pernil Lunch Special smelled funny today. i had piece and had to throw it out because it had a strange after taste. this usually is not the case but the last 2 times the pernil hasnt been very good,

The staff is very professional and friendly the food is excellent as well as the service and they have a wide variety of cusine try there tres leches cake for desertFood: 5/5

They have a lunch special that they serve all day, the portions of small. So you can't share. The regular meals in the manual large portions that you can share, the food is delicious well-prepared. The service is outstanding, and the atmosphere is always busy but lively. I'm glad that I could post this because I've been there twice, on my birthday with my daughter had a great time and just recently with a friend. We all enjoyed the food here and the atmospheres great ?

This USED to be one of my favorite restaurants in my old neighborhood. I've been eating there for many years. The food and service has always been good BUT I went there for dinner with my husband on 6/23/23 and Carribeno fell off completely!! The service was bad because of this young waitress they had working there. We had to keep reminding her about what we had ordered. She brang the wrong soda over, then she brang out our meat and had us waiting for a while for our rice while she talked to other customers. When she finally bought the rice over SERVED SUPER MESSY!! Rice all over the edges of the plate and deep indents in the center as if it was done purposely or like if a child had served it. And when I looked to see who was at the counter serving the rice, it was another super young girl. We had to wait another few minutes for the beans which had more sauce and very little beans. And by the time the beans came the steak was already getting cold. The place wasn't even packed! About four tables were occupied. When it was time for the check, we had to keep reminding her can you please bring the check like three times. Its a shame because the Carribeno I remember, the experienced waitresses paid attention to detail, they were attentive, they were very professional, dressed neatly in their black shirts pants, shirt tucked in etc. This girl had one flap of her gray blouse hanging out of her pants, she just looked like she didn't care about her appearance or what she was there to do. Its going to be a long time before I go back. This experience left a bad taste in my mouth. If I ever do go back HOPEFULLY these kids won't be working there anymore. VERY DISAPPOINTED!!! Its not the same great place it used to be.