Step away from my crispy fried pork!
Written: Sep 25 '00 (Updated Oct 02 '00)
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Pros: excellent food, service, and prices
Cons: If you are looking for Tex-Mex, this isn't it!
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| JasonNYCity's Full Review: Gabriela's |
This is a review of Gabriela's second location, Amsterdam Avenue and w75th Street. There isn't a place to review this location so I'm writing it here.
This restaurant is NOT Tex-Mex. It is authentic Regional (Guadalajara?) Mexican food. The food here is excellent and affordable.
Atmosphere: The hostess and one of the waitresses danced to the Latin music whenever they passed each other. Sounds like a fun place, no?
Service:
The waitress was friendly and attentive and fast. She was also a sweetheart and a cutie but I guess that is besides the point.
Drinks:
Try horchata which is a delicious drink made with rice, cinnamon and vanilla. This is not the same horchata that they make in Spain (with the chufa nut.)
They also have a variety of fruit shakes and juices.
Their margaritas are very good. My friends had frozen strawberry margaritas which they said were good, but mine was not frozen or fruit flavored and was excellent. It was nice and tart and very strong.
The food:
The shredded pork dish that they make with orange juice and spices was good, but the crispy fried pork was amazing! I have to go back for that fried pork dish! My friend with the beef and chicken fajitas said that they were good, but I saw him snatching pieces of fried pork when he thought nobody was looking. They serves beans and mexican rice with both of the pork dishes we ordered. The salsa verde and guacamole were both good. I hope that you hot sauce lovers like habanero (my tongue, my tongue is on fire...and I like it) since that was the sauce on the table.
The bottom line is that the food here is very good and not expensive ($11-13 for most dishes although the fajitas were more.) I was very impressed with the place.
Recommended:
Yes
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