Frangos Peri Peri — Restaurant in New York

We probably caught them on an offnight, a regular old Wednesday night. Had just come from Miracle christmas bar nearby, looking for a cheap quick chicken platter.

The first thing we noticed was the overwhelming odor inside, like a lived-in locker room, very strongly of body odor or old garbage, and with the heat cranked up, it was an olfactory assault. Flies were buzzing around the sticky tables, and the whole place was empty at 6:30pm, this should've been our first sign to leave.

Listen, I'm really not trying to not sound like a Karen, I love all kinds of food, and have lived in the city a long time, I know restaurants can look a certain way and still serve banging food, so we persevered. We pushed through, admitting the chef may be a genius if the dining room is this uninviting and the reviews are so good! like the best chinese food places have the dingiest windows, and all that.

Despite the emptiness, smell and flies, I ordered chicken tenders (25) and she ordered a small chicken and rice (13). two diet cokes (10). $50+!!!! We were flummoxed, we could barely choke the order out through the smell, and felt like we just got fleeced before the food was even made for us.

A concerningly short amount of time later, the food came out. When I tell you we each took a few bites, admitted everything tasted like the strong smell, and that we had both lost our appetites. The tenders were just four mushy chicken breasts coated in sauce, grilled and plated in a row, nothing else. Can't knock it if that's what they call them, but a $25 order of chicken tenders looked like it was meant for catering, not one person, that mistake could be on us. Giving credit where it was due, she eventually admitted the rice was good. And she felt bad for the kid running the counter, which is why we didn't fight for a refund or make a big scene. As I was packing the leftovers, she whispered to me, "why are you even bothering packing it we aren't gonna eat it." We gave it to a homeless guy on the way home.

With barely any of our food eaten, we sheepishly asked for boxes right away, we could not longer stand the body odor smell and the flies landing on the sticky old sauce bottles. The food was inedible, we were genuinely so confused. We got tricked by all the nice reviews, it had brought our magical Christmas evening to a screeching halt, and she cried on the subway ride home about it.

Spent too much at Miracle, so we tried to get a cheap bite, and ended up paying sit-down restaurant prices. I saved the night with a nightcap and Christmas carols on blast, but this terrible experience cost us big time.

tl;dr: don't believe the reviews, listen to your head and your heart if its telling you to leave! But also the seasoned fries...

Sulaiman/Sulliman thanks for your recommendations, wouldn't have been the best final night in NY if it wasn't for what you told us.

This was something new to me, peri peri was definitely something I've wanted to try and Nandos has never been a thing near me so I am comparing this to burgers I've eaten around places.

I got here a bit late at night but they were happy to accommodate us and really pulled through when they gave recommendations that were to die for. A friend got what I called the Sulliman special which was fries with dark chicken and a whole lot of sauce, I got the Sunset Sandwich with the Peri Peri fries, another friend got the Beef burger with mashed potatoes, and finally brother got a Halloumi Sandwich.

Where do I even begin, straight honest I want to share a picture of me having eaten half through the burger and showing off the chunks of meat but maybe that's not the best idea.

They took a whole leg and thigh and dipped it in the mango n' lime peri peri sauce I choose and fire grilled that, it was stripped of meat and slammed straight onto the bun. The smells coming through those doors was making the wait ohh so harder. The bun could have been slightly better but the brioche was good, kept the cheese and chicken in as best as it could.

The chunks of meat, dark meat is the tastiest, it had picked up so much of the sauces flavor that you tasted it when it broke apart in your mouth. The nice chunky parts could easily be chucked into your mouth or what I did was left it on the fries and tossed it together with the 6 OTHER SAUCES! you can bet yourself I took like 4 of the sauces and mixed them together in the fries and fallen chicken and forked my way through that!

Having lived in places where it's hard to find good family owned restaurants it brings absolute joy to my soul that a buisness such as this is doing good especially during such covid times.

Expand to Massachusetts if yall ever get a chance. We could use Peru Peri or any other Halal options you guys can bring.

This will be going on my favorites list, will definitely come back again.

For appetizers I'd personally recommend the Peri peri fries or mashed potatoes as I've seen it and the serving sizes are good, I gave half my fries to my brother who kept eyeing them and still had enough.

Definitely recommend choosing one of the bottom three sauces with a combination of one of the top three sauces for whatever item you get as the top 3 are spice while the bottom 3 are flavors with maybe just a touch. Honestly just go for any 2 bottom sauces and try your heat levels when they bring over all 6 sauces for you to plop onto your food like hot sauce. Definitely a...

I've tried this place three times...in hopes that maybe it's just my palette that's different... all three times their food was just not edible to me due to overseasoning of some sort (either it was too sour or too salty or too spicy)

The service attitude is okay. (I don't want to ruin a business by giving them one star because I know it's difficult to have a family owned business... but also, damn.)

The atmosphere is a bit off as well... there is a strong trash odor immediately before you enter the establishment, and then it becomes faint and lingering once you're inside. Another observation I made was that the soda machine was dripping as well, which required a cup to sit underneath the spout to catch it, but that's neither here nor there, because I'm sure soda machines, or rather machines in general-tend to malfunction every so often.

To my prior experience, the food takes about an average of 20+ minutes for a platter type dish. I waited about 10 minutes for my kebab this time, which was a reasonable wait time.

The food: honestly bad. I have never gone more than 5 bites. I thought maybe it's because I have a particular palette, but the food here tends to be too sour or too salty, or overseasoned in some way, and the quality of the meat is questionable as well. In particular, I ordered the chicken kebab with garlic and herb flavoring today and received this mushy, spongy chicken kebab that was too sour and the meat was just honestly very questionable. I have attached the pictures of it as well.

Please just do yourself a favor and pick a different spot.

Edit* changed to 3 stars because owner replied, I didn't call or anything but I am editing based off their response, which most likely I did receive the vegan version as they said, which was just an honest mistake...