Baru Doral Resto-Bar — Restaurant in Doral

Let's just start by saying this is the first time I'm ever been to this location or this restaurant/bar. The place isn't bad at all , they have a decent lay out , safe for the most part especially during the covid time. Most tables are about 6 feet apart and they take your temperature everytime you come on and out . That bering said the tip 18% is already included in the bill that you will pay before you leave which is one thing I don't like. I like having the option of giving the tip depending on the service you provide. Our waitress wasn't let's say as good as she needed to be to deserve an automatic 18% tip. First drinks where wrong completely , we waited about 15 minutes before anyone can help us. The guy the was cleaning the tables now that guy deserved the tip. He helped us and was very attentive of what we needed and his customer service was immaculate. The music was okay a lot of salsa but then again it's in doral , it was very expensive and the drinks weren't even worth it to me. They seemed to water down and pricy at that. 12$ for tito's and cranberry that tasted water down and it didn't taste like tito's vodka that's just my opinion. All in all I would t go back to this place or recommend it to any of my friends. To me customer service is key in any business. I've had better experience at Flannigan's spending half of what I paid at baru and excellent...

I couldn't enjoy the atmosphere and music because the bartenders kept trying to scam a few bucks from me at each round of drinks ( i was paying cash) and they wouldn't give me a receipt! Then i was getting different amounts of change each time i paid for the same drinks and then on the finals round they shorted me a lot and wouldn't give me a receipt! So i asked for the manager. When he got me the receipt he started with, "Baby..". I told him not to call me baby and the did the math with him and showed him my change (i was right). He then started with, "Baby..let me explain.." I told him to stop calling me baby and he smiled. Then i told him that non of the bartenders speak English and while I do speak Spanish fluently, i naturally revert to English when i have to explain something. He then looked at the security guard and said (in Spanish) "sorry i don't understand her" just to mess with me.

So between the fighting for a receipt at every round of drinks, getting short changed at each Round plus the bartenders telling me what i owed without a receipt (which was more than i owed), the manager calling me "baby" and then everyone pretending they dont speak English + ALL THE MEN IN THE BAR WERE 40+YEARS OLD.

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Complete rip-off, will never go again.

Was there before quarantine, I thought it was a good place to take my date. Got surprised at the door with a new $20 per head entrance fee, CASH Only. Unless you're an elderly couple who still uses dollar bills, you have to use the in-house ATM which charges $7. So you're already $50 in, and you have not even had one of their overpriced drinks yet. Honestly, if I wasn't with my date that night, I would have told them to flip off, and gone somewhere else.

Baru is nothing special. A below average sports bar. The floors are sticky and have weird holes, so it's hard for girls to dance with heels. The music is a copy-paste selection of songs that could be compiled by a monkey with an MP3 player on shuffle. This place is an obvious scam. An average sports bar trying to pass itself off as a nightclub. They want to make sure they can rip you off for as much as possible the first time, because I sure as hell will never go to this place again or recommend.

Wish I could give a negative score. Complete...