I Like Food — Restaurant in New York

It's a bar, with a restaurant hidden in the back. The only thing stopping me from recommending this place is the atmosphere, but anyways I wasn't there for that, I was there for the I Like Food experience. Straight off the bat I thought I brought my girl to the wrong place. The outside looked sketchy af, theres no advertising that I saw for I Like Food. I really only went in cause I found parking (I'm glad I did). You'll walk into a bar, a VERY VERY old looking bar, but you can see it's potential, tons of space, clean, staff was friendly and took my order very quick. Okay back to I Like Food. Walk to the BACK of said bar (I don't know the bars name, let's just call it IYKYKB), there's a big menu the clearly shows all the items. Nothing on there particularly sticks out but we went with the Pernil Wrap, Churro Fries, and Pizza Rolls. This wasn't Bar food. It's restaurant food (in a bar). The wrap comes with spicy sauce on the side 👍🏽. It tasted amazing, crispy, filling, mouth watering. The Churro Fries were a hit by themselves but then you dip it in the chocolate sauce and 🤯🤯🤯 life changed. The pizza rolls were... Pizza rolls lmao I had to take a second look at the menu, it actually says Totinos pizza rolls 😂😂 glad we got them tho, it came with ranch dressing and we loved it although I hope they make their own when they open up there own business location one day. I see big things for I Like Food 🤞🏼 Fingers Crossed. The atmosphere. Now luckily there's plenty of space but at 7pm the bar started to get half full. The place is O. L. D. with Wooden torn up walls, seats looking half new with rips, tables way too small, and a bathroom only a mother could love. The Bathroom was clean but...... You couldn't tell from a photo. So I took a video, and you probably would still not want to go in but you know what, I'm sure the regulars would want you to stay away. If you can't handle the bathroom then you don't deserve to stay. So all in all get some food, go to the bar get a drink, they'll bring the food TO YOU, it was fast service, they came back and cleaned up the table. I wish I asked the servers name cause he was excellent as well. Shout out to the cooks! Please keep the crew together when you get your own location....

Came in tonight at around 8pm ordered chicken tenders and fries + an extra side of small fries. Person taking our order didn’t say a word to us, fine. Waited for an hour, saw that people who ordered after us got their food, and asked for an eta on the order was told to wait another 10 minutes. All in all waited an hour and 20 minutes for the order only to check back in and be told that orders were taking a minimum of 45 minutes which was not communicated at the start, and is irrelevant when you’ve been waiting an hour and 20 minutes. Typically love this place, the food, and are always willing to wait, but tonight was really disappointing. I let the person taking orders know that simply communicating the timeline from the beginning would’ve been much appreciated. It was frustrating to see sandwich after sandwich and crunchwrap after Crunchwrap come out before one order of tenders with two sides of fries. They mentioned that chicken fingers and fries take longer than sandwiches and other items because they have different stations and only have three friers, again that’s fine, just not sure why an order that was placed long before was not prioritized. Ended up having to get a refund because they could not provide an eta after an hour...

Food was amazing have no complaints you can feel the love being put on the food, bartender on the other hand female with glasses (in particular) service sucked me as a bartender that worked the field for yearrsss I understand and know there is pressure and adreline and can be busy, bartender told me that she can see me I don’t have to “wave my hand” That is very impolite” when I was waiting for the bartender (her) to come to me if I did not wave she would have never come to me this is waiting for quite a while I apalogized (don’t know why) if I came with respect and I supposedly was upset because “I did not tip” mind you I was still eating my meal when I ordered my next round of drinks and that nasty attitude stopped me from enjoying the good food and not even touch the drinks I ordered because being in the customer service business no matter what the cuatomer is always right, Mr. Boss man is these types of workers that go in to work just to work for their tips and only care about theirselves that damage the reputation of a business that you work hard to maintain because is your vision not the workers that don’t have manners while working and providing...