El Merengue Restaurant poconos

Placed an order for pick up. Paid $26 for an order of boneless chicken chunks, which comes with rice and beans, and I placed an order for tostones. Insanely overpriced, and check out the pic of my tostones, horrible. They weren’t fried correctly, or even smashed correctly. This is the problem with most of these restaurants anymore, they love jacking up the price, but not the service or quality.

Pepper steak didnt have any flavor and with lots of oil. The plates only come with one side. Each extra side is $5+ and the portion is small. La parrillada for 2 people only comes with one portion of rice and beans not enough in for 2 people. The food is not worth the price and is very oily.

Such a cute little place and probably the best food I had while on this trip! As soon as you walk in it’s like coming into a cozy little home. They have a large variety of food to chose from and some of the food is displayed in buffet style so you get an idea of what you would like to have. We had the chicken fingers and fries along with the Costillas guisadas which were amazing! Can’t go wrong with choosing this place as your go to food!

Our visit was on New Year's Day. Parking is very limited. There was only one person serving the hot table and waitressing the tables. She was very friendly and apologized regularly for taking long to service our table. She made every effort to give us good service. The food was not great, unfortunately. We ordered a big platter that said grilled meat, but the meat was very dry. The tostones were also stale and dry. I don't recommend it.

Order picada and supposed to be chicharones de cerdo got pork chops in pieces, no longanisa which is sausage, everything was ok but no chicharones that was the low blow,never again I'll go to salsa King everything is good.