Mango Mercado — Restaurant in Palm Beach Gardens

I really love this spot, I’ve been probably about 10x and had a lot on their menu but today I decided to have the Sandwich of the Day which was so good I had to review it right away. Upon walking in, you smell the freshly roasted chicken and all the spices they use to cook their food and it’s incredibly welcoming. In the picture I uploaded you can see all of the containers and food items in plain site so you have this overall vibe of the freshness. In the back is a market where you can buy food items, wine, fruit preserves, as well as cooked and prepared meals by the store to go. (I’ve had the carrot cake in the past…10/10) The SOD was a bahn mi and it was on a freshly toasted baguette that had a nice smear of chicken liver pate which was contrasted with pickled vegetables and the main part of the sandwich was pulled pork. It was so good I almost ate my own fingers. The coffee was also pour your own, along with all of the utensils and condiments which is nice for a quick informal, but healthy and delicious, lunch. We enjoyed it so much we bought a chicken soup, a smoked tuna salad, and a liver pate to go and enjoyed it for dinner and the following day. I’m lucky this place is located near my office and I will be going...

The butter nut soup was not to my taste- very sweet and too much going on with flavors. The chicken noodle soup was like dishwater and inedible. The tuna salad sandwich was so over complicated and saucy, same with chicken curry salad sandwich. The bread that both sandwiches were with was amazing though. We really wanted to like this place and was so excited because one is opening in West Palm Beach Cuty Place. Honestly it’s like a bad cooking show or cooking contest where they say assemble a dish with these ingredients- and it’s a combination that can’t honestly go together in the real world food palette and sustain. It seems like the combinations are shock value and they don’t hold up. Pickled jalapeños on tuna salad is not a thing. I will say the sliced tomatoes on the sandwiches were full of flavor- which was nice. We left most of the food without eating. Just not worth forcing it down and consuming calories just to eat what you paid for. The chicken noodle soup was bizarrely awful. I don’t know how you get broth that doesn’t have any flavor at all in it. It even looked...

This was my first time visiting this restaurant and I was disappointed from the start. I placed my order online and went in to pick up my order and they handed me a plastic container with my barely 8in "hoagie." My first reaction was "wow.. nice presentation..a 17.00 sub and I don't even get a bag!" From a visual perspective, it looked like a bread sub. The rotisserie chicken was shredded and prob not much more than 3 oz. To make a long story short, I did not even finish the sub..it went in the trash. Also, doesn't come with any side..chips..pickle...something for the money I pd. I know there's inflation but I think these restaurants may be taking advantage of this inflation thing. I won't be visiting here again. I will say that the place was very busy so maybe others have a...