De Rican Chef Holland — Restaurant in Virginia Beach

I had a catering order from here for my daughters graduation party, i believe the girl that handles the catering is the daughter of the owners which is very sad because she is the worst of them all I actually never had anyone in that establishment act the way this young lady did , since the first time i called her attitude was like i was bothering her, and she had no time for me , the questions that i had she was bothered by them, in addition to being so rude and nasty to me she changed me for straws and plates when i was buying a 300 catering service , and she made sure to tell me that was nothing for here business she said my order was so little that she put it in the back back of her list that she didnt think twice about my catering she said it just like that " lady we are use to thousands dollars orders not like yours come one" very nasty little girl, not professional at all, It made me feel like she is the daughters owner so her head was floating in the air gassed up that she was something special, never again ordering from this place , the portion were so small my poor mother had to scramble same day to go make food for the party because 300 just got me two little containers from this establishment just horrible , yawl please look somewhere else before coming to this place at least to the catering side, i had dinner here plenty of times and i had a diff experience of coarse that little girl was not part of it, thank GOD , i love luigie the bartender is the most amazin person in that building love him . just be careful...

My family doesn't come here too often, but came tonight because the restaurant advertised a paranda starting at 7pm. We arrived around 7:10pm and the stage space was empty with the regular restaurant music playing, but we didn't think anything of it. It was super packed, but it came as no surprise to us as the paranda was supposed to start at anytime. We figured service would probably be slower because of this but didn't anticipate there being 30-45 minutes at a time before our server would appear. Food came out at a decent time (maybe around 20 minutes after ordering) but that was after previously waiting a longer time for drinks, then waiting around 40 minutes to be able to flag down our waitress for water refills, and later on it took over 30 minutes to get our change from paying for the bill. The irony in the slow service on account of the paranda was that the paranda hadn't even started by the time we left at 9:30pm (2.5 hrs after advertised time of it starting. There was a musician outside on a smoke break after carrying some of their things in, but by the time we left, nothing happened beyond the regular restaurant music playing. A few other tables in our section left as well because of the same frustrations. If they'd advertised the paranda not starting until 10pm (or whenever it did start after we left) that would've been fine, we'd have just gone at 10. But to advertise 7pm and 2.5 hours later it hadn't started still is ridiculous, especially considering the poor service as well. It was definitely our last time...

Decided to go to Rican Chef with the family because we all agreed to have some puertorican food by the way it's was on a Saturday I don't know if it was because it was full or it's just like that but we waited long to be seated our server was Wendy F . She was nice but didn't pay no mind to the table I had to call her for everything to bring to the table hot suace , more drinks littery our drinks were empty and she would just kept walking around back and forth I had to ask her twice for refill . The appetizer was good we had the picadera. My family order a pastelon it was good a pernil it was OK not great the baked chicken had no color to it it was pale white it dint even looked good and I order bacalao guisado worst bacalao ever I even try to eat it since I love bacalao but it had a weird after taste the bacalao was like so dry it was like out bacalao that it will be on the freezer for months . The sad part I could even eat my food I told the waiter even show her how dry the bacalao was and she said "oh ok let me let them know " I was expecting she would come and say do you want something else or maybe get me a better cooked bacalao but she just walked away and never came back just to asked you ready to check out we said yes since she didn't say nothing I said we'll maybe she won't charge me for it like she saw the whole food was there . But no she charge me for everything knowing her self we couldn't eat the food just well the pale baked chicken and the bacalao. That's it for me never again not even...