Q'tal Bar and Grill — Restaurant in Kearny

I was not very happy with my experience dining here, but at least there were a few pluses. To start, we were seated pretty quickly which was nice; I got the Shrimp Mac, and my friend got the half roasted chicken. While I was not too happy with the portion of Mac N cheese, it did taste alright. There was not really that much shrimp, but I appreciate the fact that they took the tails off. I can’t stand when places leave the tails on the shrimp in any circumstance. I would rate it as overall okay, but the Mac had no panco bread crumbs on it. The menu states that it includes this, and in the picture, this is what it looked like before my first bite. As you can see, no bread crumbs. What they did do right was the bread with the assorted dips. This was actually the best part of my meal; keep serving that ricotta with the bread as it is delicious, unfortunately bread and dip is not enough to get me to come back. The main issue with this restaurant does not start with the food, but the service. This is some of the worst service I received in a while at a restaurant. I had to call the server over after a while just to get our drink orders in. It was not even that I was running out of patience, but I was really thirsty and it should not have taken this long. After ordering the drinks, it took so long for them to bring that I had to remind them. They brought out the drinks finally, and that is when we ordered our food because I was not letting them leave again for another wait. You guessed it, the food took forever to come out. I look at the tables around me and see that people who came in after me are getting services first, and there were like 3 birthdays in the outside area which probably delayed the service. Eventually I was getting tired of clapping and wanted to go back to this place doing regular restaurant services. I know I sound like a grouch, but I am all for birthday celebrations. Enjoy yourselves but the staff should not forget about the customers around the beloved birthday people. We also are humans who are there to eat and drink; we came there with a purpose too. If people want private birthday service, they should reserve the restaurant for themselves because we completely felt forgotten. When the food FINALLY came out, I said we want the check right away because I knew that was taking forever as well. Of course in the instance where I received the worst service I can recall for months, they add their own gratuity tip. Oh don’t flatter yourselves please.... That was just the icing on this unpleasant cake known as my dinner. The food was not bad, but I do believe my food should have included all of the elements on the menu. They also charge 3:50 for soda and did not do free refills. I had to ration my soda throughout the meal especially since it took the food three times as long to arrive as it took for me to eat it. I was disappointed; this was definitely a failed dinner and I doubt we will...

Terrible customer service!!!! a female waiter ran after us and asked her to leave Suggested a tip (Suggested is it Not Required!) I'll tell you in more detail why we left and didn't leave a tip (although BEFORE THAT THE WAITER always gave a tip). We came for dinner, we really liked the food here, but! the waitress checked my ID for a very long time and looked at me so suspiciously, after that I felt so uncomfortable, as if I were not 27 years old, but as if I were a schoolgirl, then when I asked to bring me White Sangria, waitress : "Do you want white sangria ,right ?” I said-“yes please” then after a few minutes she asked again - "is it red or white sangria?" I said again - "white please" she left and after 5 minutes returns and says - "what kind of sangria did you want?" My husband answered her - "white!" OMG! After checking my ID for so long and after 3 times she finally brought me white sangria, I started to feel embarrassed! Oh yes, at the beginning when we arrived she asked if we wanted water? My husband said -“no thanks” And she asked again - "maybe do you want water?" (BUT SHE DIDN'T TELL US FOR WHAT WATER TAKED EXTRA MONEY), in the end she brought us water (along with our Cola and Sangria drinks), we didn't even drink this water, she brought a check where they ask to pay $ 7 for water! ok, that's not a problem! you just need to warn customers that you charge money for water. I paid for everything that we ordered, but I decided not to tip! yes! because I didn't like the service of this waitress! and therefore I did not consider it necessary to leave a tip! when we started to leave, the waitress shouted after us "excuse me, where is my tip? and started showing us that we have to pay her 18$ and she demanded them from us as if we were obligated to pay her) terrible waitress!!! Worst service I have ever received! I left there with a lousy and nasty feeling after...

What a lovely place with amazing food and probably one of the best service I experienced. Our server Mayara (I hope I got her name right) was exceptional. It definitely showed she’s a people person and very wholesome. She ran through the menu and offered great suggestions which we ended up loving. The space is very clean and modern and coming in you’ll get a couple of 2 ppl tables and a nice blue light bar. There’s a wall separating two spaces so on the other side there’s a bigger room where they started playing live music. I imagine The separation is great to make one space very bar - ish while still giving the other that restaurant feel.

We had the jackfruit croquettes (vegan) and absolutely banging! And the star of the night was the crab and shrimp dip with cracker which was such a treat to have. Very creamy and served warm.

We also shared the Salmon with passionfruit sauce and mashed potatoes. The mashed potatoes was absolutely smooth and velvety and so delicious. The broccolini was a nice crunchy mix-in and gave a good clean balance to the dish while the roasted tomatoes gave a slight tart. I wish the passionfruit tartness was played out better in this dish I think they could do better.

the presentations of each dish was beautiful so big kudos to the kitchen staff. We ended the night with the chocolate molten cake and the added almond crunch was a nice touch along with the vanilla ice cream. The cake itself was a tad over cooked but that’s an overall common error in molten cakes. So no foul there.

The drinks could overall be better I think presentation wise they are beautiful. We loved 1 of the 2 drinks we had. Enamorados was amazing while the purple rain lacked some complexity.

Another big point was the house made bread. A very good portion was offered along with butter, dipping...