Paseo — Restaurant in Seattle

First time coming to this place. A colleague suggested said they had the best sandwich (cuban/caribbean) sandwiches and I figured I would try them since I’ve been craving cuban food and let me tell you AVOID going to this place. The $65 parking ticket I got was NOT worth this sandwich. First of all their parking signs are not very well instructed. The restaurant color them are pink and there were sign saying “paid parking” and there was also an open lot. I saw a few cars parked there so I figured I could park there however, because I wasn’t sure about it and wanted to avoid a ticket, I went in just to ask if I could park there I was literally there within seconds came out at 1207 and I had a ticket issued at 1207 for a $65 fee. I tried looking for the person issuing tickets to see if I could get this fee waived since I was inside only for seconds to ask if I could park there or not but he was nowhere to be found. I think he hides somewhere and when he sees a car parking as soon as the people go inside he fines them. Anyways, so since I couldn’t find he/she I moved my car where the restaurant staff said was okay. It was literally within seconds that this person gave me this ticket. Now, I get my food and the sandwich was not even good. The steak tasted funny if you can even call it steak, there was only that much cheese and the size and chunkiness of the onions. I ended up just eating the bread by itself scraped off everything else because I was really hungry, annoyed about the ticket and I spent appx $18 for that sandwich. I was left with a funny taste in my mouth not sure from what. But definitely not the place to come get food. Definitely not in my repeat list. I ended up eating bread with ketchup for lunch and with a $65 ticket fee. Oh and when I left there were a bunch of other people with tickets on their windshield who parked where I did too, I’m guessing the assumed the “paid parking in pink signs” belong to the restaurant yet the person nowhere...

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT HIRE THIS RESTAURANT FOR CATERING SERVICES!!!! They assured my sister that they were well-equipped and well-prepared to cater her wedding, but they completely dropped the ball multiple times. In fact, the servers at her wedding looked completely lost and clueless the whole night. she paid for 1 wine glass + 1 champagne flute at every place setting. They forgot to set them out. they were late setting up the buffet table, requiring the DJ stall for time while all guests were already seated and waiting for them to finish setting up when they were finished setting up the buffet table, they only used ONE side of the table for the buffet line. This worried me because I could see it would take over half an hour for 160 guests to get their food if there was only ONE line. I asked them to open up the other side so we could form two lines and move twice as fast, but they said they couldn’t do it. I asked again and the truth came out: they had only brought one set of utensils. I asked them to search for more utensils because it was frankly unacceptable; eventually they found more and opened up a second line but by this time most people had already (slowly) gotten their food. when it came time for speeches, they were supposed to pour the champagne. However, since the champagne flutes weren’t on the tables already, one of the servers had to pour the champagne at the bar, and then pass out the glasses individually. It took FOREVER for him to do this and delayed the wedding timeline significantly. Also, he poured the champagne into WINE glasses instead of the champagne flutes. It was a comical sight servers were extremely passive in cleaning up; dirty plates were still on tables well over an hour after guests had finished eating.

All in all, Paseo’s catering services were a huge headache and very significant source of stress during the wedding. Had I not corrected them multiple times it would have been worse. I do not recommend...

First the good: taste and texture. Exceptionally well made roast pork and concept. Tasty but also a great mix of textures with the jalapeños and romaine and the onions are excellent.

The bread is stellar

The Yucca fries are legit and the accompanying aioli pairs perfectly.

That said

I understand that a Cuban Sandwich is inherently a bit messy but this is unacceptable.

1. if you are going to cut a sandwich like this, cut it all the way through. If o have to do the work just leave it whole. As a matter of fact, this sandwich would have been easier to eat if it had been left whole.

Too wet for a sandwich. Drain the pork a little! At some point it's gonna negate the quality of the bread.

2. if you are going to wrap a sandwich like this, do it properly. If the sandwich is falling out of your wrap job before I even try to pick it up, you did it wrong.

3. half the ingredients fell out in the bag. If I have to clean my hands between every bite it's too messy. That's not a sandwich.

Which leads me to:

4. INCLUDE NAPKINS IN YOUR TOGO ORDERS. The server handed me the bag of food and pointed to napkins but silly me made an assumption that SURELY THEY WOULD PROVIDE NAPKINS IN A TOGO ORDER THEY KNOW IS MESSY. alas I was wrong.

That's terrible service.

So while the food tasted pretty darn great, the experience was exceptionally disappointing. Go here and sit at a table to eat with a fork to minimize the mess; but bring sanitizer, wet naps, and an entire roll of paper towels with you just in case.

Also good luck...