Herbario Restaurante — Restaurant in Medellín

The restaurant looks very nice when you enter. Unfortunately, to the right of the bar, there is an extremely ugly corner with a lot of things. This destroys the otherwise tidy and great ambience. The service was a total disaster, inattentive and cleared the plates while we were eating, the empty bottles and glasses were ignored and left there for a long time. The cutlery is very cheap, bends when eating and lies carelessly on the table. Our seat was very tight at the next table and had more of a fast food feel than a fine dining restaurant. The food was a solid job. The napkins are placed on the table on a butter plate, which looks very cheap. The flora flora gin was the highlight of the evening. Despite the conversation with the boss, the tip was not canceled for the time being. This is evidence of inattentive service. The restaurant itself describes itself as gourmet cuisine, if you consider the evening, the way there is very, very long in many respects. All in all we were disappointed. We became aware of the restaurant through Christian from airbnb, an extremely bad host who offers cooking classes together with the restaurant. Hands off it's all more appearances...

We stopped by late in the evening without reservation on a weeknight. We were seated immediately and our waiter greeted us in both Spanish and English. We were offered both a Spanish and an English menu, and enjoyed looking at the menu options. The menu prices are higher than we expected (based on our previous week of food experiences in Medellin), but after tasting the food, found it to be a great value. The food was quite delicious and we we're only disappointed that we did not find this restaurant sooner.

The waiter worked with us and the chef to ensure each item would not confict with food allergies in the party. We were not exceptionally hungry, so we had two appetizers, a soup, and a dessert. The dessert turned one of us, who strongly dislikes lemon desserts, into a lemon dessert fan. All food flavor and presentation was high-quality, and the waiter took extra time (as it wasn't too busy) to have conversation with us, which we appreciated.

We will definitely be returning to Herbario...

The Good: it’s not a pretentious place but the dim lights and good music with the right volume creates a great atmosphere. Service is good, they offer suggestions and show knowledge of their menu which is nice cause we had lots of questions. The Bad: unfortunately Herbario didn’t meet our expectations. The chicken was nicely moist but the peanut suace had a very strong dirt flavor and the mashed potatoes had a weird lemon flavor on it (that they could not even explain). They fixed it by changing the sauce for a BBQ and fresh mashed potatoes. 2 of the 3 meats were not properly cooked. It was or over or undercooked, one of the dishes was returned 2 times until they finally got it done right the third time. Overall the taste of the food was ok nothing really special and honestly not good enough to make me come back unless I want a good dessert. The Mango Flan and the Gulupa Ice Cream was absolutely delicious that’s something that would worth a...