Cocina Latina — Restaurant in Minneapolis

My wife and I were one of the last customers of the night. Place was fairly busy I hoped the food would still come out well prepared. Drunk diners in the booth across and the waiter was still nice and accommodating. Atmosphere was nice and intimate.

Same waitress takes our order and we ordered the Antojito Latino, Bandeja Latina and the Trucha Frita.

The apps came out first and they were great and tasty. 10 min later the main dishes arrive and that was the end of a joyful night.

At first glance the Bandeja Latina and Trucha Frita looked appetizing.

My egg on the Bandeja Latin wasn’t even cooked. I had to scrape off the slimy egg white on top of the yolk. The sirloin was undercooked and pink in most areas. Rice and beans did not have any flavor. The crackling was missing personality.

My wife spent half the time removing bones from Trucha Frita. The fried plaintains weren’t cooked all the way and the salad was mostly for garnishment but would’ve rather not had it on the plate.

Overall disappointing experience. Even my iced water came out warm. Would not recommend and would not return. Not worth the money spent here tonight.

staff seemed nice but the food was really bad. Would never take the time to write a review but this place let me and my wallet down. Hope to save someone a trip to this place. Go to crave or Texas...

First of all, the Food is great, really delicious!! we have been here many times I would say 20x , our favorite drink is the mango shake! And the servers were great as well, however, for the last 3 visits. I would suggest to Train the new hires, almost double charge, wrong order, also don't know what condiments they have, saying no when they actually have it because I know they have it as we have been here many times -- if they are not sure they could always ask their fellow Co workers. No water refill as well, no checking in with us, As I said we have been here many times and have enjoyed our experience and the food. But the last 3 visits were the least enjoyable one, with the Same Server we had, it felt like everytime we go there they would push this new server( the young lad) (I assume) to us because they don't want to deal with foreigners- it was not great. I understand if the employee is new, but it felt like there was no effort taken. It has been irritating, and we have officially stopped going there because now we only have time for dinner Visits but unfortunately it doesn't work well now- I dont want to deal with the same server. Please train your employee for your customers Happiness and for the employees happiness...

This is a good authentic latina resturant It serves food dishes that you would expect to find in northern S. AMERICA like Colombia 🇨🇴 Ecuador🇪🇨 and venezuela 🇻🇪 area. I was very happy to eat food made with Plantain. The flavor of the foods, how its seasoned is like you would get the flavor at a local latina restaurant abroad. It is located in a decent part of Minneapolis, not downtown, but not a bad area to park at and walk. Not that all of this was on the menu but i am a fan of plantain dishes like patacónes, bolón de queso, tigrillo, platano frito ect and i am happy that I was able to order something made from plantain. The restaurant has nice booths with coat hangers on the side, the seat is comfortable. The music was nice, happy and goes perfect with the food and culture of what this resturant is representing. I was able to order a Maracuya drink that You don't find at a lot of latino restaurants. It's a good resturant; the kind of place that you can request something that may not be on the menu and they can figure out how to make it for you, if I plan to eat out again for this kind of food I...