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| - This is a hard review for me to write, my experience here was polarizing. I hate to knock a restaurant for mediocre service, but as soon as we sat down, it took fifteen minutes to get drinks, and another table received their food despite arriving after us. This was on a Tuesday night, they were only moderately busy, and they do not require reservations. No excuses, the staff was friendly, but the service was very slow. The papaya juice was nauseating. Maybe it was my palate, but the milk with it tasted rancid. Drinks and service aside, the food is above average. I ordered the 1/4 chicken dinner with beans and plantains. The saffron rice complements the chicken well, and the beans are flavorful and filling, albeit a little too salty. The chicken is excellent, tender and juicy, but not as large of a portion as I had hoped. The redeeming factor is their plantains, sweet and crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. I could eat a bucket of these, they were seriously that good! And the dipping sauces are great too, but for some reason they were brought with the drinks, thirty minutes before our food was brought. Weird. It's hard to find restaurants like this in Charlotte, certainly unique, and overall pretty tasty. Just don't waste two hours of your time eating there, do what the locals do and order it to go.
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