Don Jorge's Restaurant — Restaurant in Gaithersburg

In short: Terrible food, bad drinks, gaudy decor. The staff is polite, but not exactly great at waiting - every interaction is awkward. The long read: The worst salsa in MoCo - that is for sure. We love us some hot salsa but their tastes like off-brand pasta sauce. The Mango Salad was the most pathetic attempt at salad matching in taste only the plastic flowers covering every single fixture in that establishment. Oh, and the dressing was definitely some stuff from a super mercado - no chance in hell it was made in house, as you would (and should) expect. Lengua a la Portuguese was drowned in brine the chef calls "red wine sauce". Mojito was prepared using 2 (!) solitary mint leaves, 2 slices of lemon (!) and heaps of simple syrup. It was definitely the bartender's first attempt at mojito and it should be their last. Maracuja blah-blah-blah "upscale" Margarita didn't have any passion fruit even in the form of flavored syrup. Not sure if it had any tequila either, though you can taste some Grand Marnier - you have to give them that. Our waiter was wearing black nitrile gloves - it may be hygienic but was highly off-putting. It's definitely not the restaurant policy, since other waiting staff were comfortable with their bare hands. He also tried 3 (three!) times to take away the plate my wife wasn't done with. The bus girl couldn't speak a single word in English which in itself is totally fine - we, like 80% of MoCo population were FOB once ourselves. But for some bizarre reason she was made to ask us some questions that caused a lot of awkwardness for both parties of "conversation". Kudos to the singer who was providing live entertainment - he was the only positive part of the dining...

Okay, so I’m posting this on multiple review sites because I want this restaurant and its owners get the recognition they deserve. I recently worked with them to book a Holiday Party for my work at Don Jorge’s. We had about 80 individuals attending and I was pressed for time.

I worked with Mauricio and Francis to schedule the lunch and they were awesome! I have booked several large events before at different locations and I have to say I’ve never met someone as engaged as Mauricio and Francis. It felt extremely personable. Anytime I had a question or concern, they immediately answered and helped to move things along. I never felt like I was out the loop. This was by far the best part of my experience. I never felt stressed planning such a large meaningful event for my team. I can say without a doubt that Mauricio and Francis made me feel like a part of the family and I truly appreciate that. As for their staff, everyone was fantastic and I felt like all of them could answer my questions. Alex was extremely helpful. He knew the answers to my questions when Mauricio and Francis were not available, which really put my mind at ease. I wanted to again say thank you to all of them for everything they did.

As for the food, it was delicious! Mauricio and his cooks are excellent. We had chips and dip, fajitas, and enchiladas at our party and they were all delicious. I’m not sure what else to say other than the food is well worth any wait you have and rings true to a lot Latino traditional recipes, it reminded me a lot of home.

Don Jorge’s is a great restaurant and I truly hope people take the time to stop by and meet the people and try the great food; it...

I have been coming here with my family since they opened and has always been good. On Valentine’s day we had a horrible experience. We got there and were greeted by a nice young man who did NOT asked if we gave reservations and just asked how many in our party and sat us down(family of 6). 30 seconds later we see who appears to be the manager or older woman in charge scold him for giving us a table with no reservation. She then walks over to our table not introducing herself just asked “tienen reservación?” I politely say no but we were seated and we can leave of its a problem and she storms off. Mind you that should have been our sign to get up and leave because the experience went down hill. After about 10 minutes a waitress finally comes to us to take our greet us, food took a while to come out although they had a set menu and the options were very limited. It look my husband 20 minutes and asked about 4 people to get a refill. And that same lady kept scolding the staff over making sure each person that walks in has a reservation. They had a nice singer which was the only good thing about dinner atmosphere. The crazy part was that the dining room never filled up in the hour and a half we were there for the lady to be acting so dramatic over...