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| - My fiancé and I were trying to find a new place to try and while looking through Yelp we came across Barroco Grill. Reviews were good and the pictures looked good so we decided to head over to Lakewood. Parking was nonexistent (as in most Lakewood restaurants) so we parked on a side street. As we walked up, I got a cozy vibe as the place reminded me of a little house. As we walked in we noticed there was a front part of the restaurant and then a hallway to the back part of the restaurant. We didn't make reservations so we were told a 20 minute wait. We were offered a spot at a small "bar" like area in the back but we declined as we preferred a conventional table for our meal. The place was packed so we thought this has got to be good; boy were we wrong.
We were seated in 10 minutes at the front part of the restaurant at probably at the worst placed table in the whole restaurant. The table was wobbly, chairs uncomfortable and we were located right next to where customers pay for their meal or where patrons who are picking up their to-go orders. Also my fiancé was seated directly in front of where the servers grabbed patrons plates, it was a miracle she didn't get bopped in the head.
To be fair our server was friendly when she greeted us and with it being a Colombian restaurant & our first time, I was pleased she went over the menu with us beforehand but after we ordered she basically vanished until we received our bill. She explained that the cheesy corn was "the bomb" in her words and to get arepas's for our first time. Our cheesy corn came in about 15 minutes which came with arepa fries. I truly don't understand how so many people enjoy this dish. A bowl of what tasted like crappy velveeta, canned corn and unidentifiable meat mixed together served with cornmeal triangles really was to be blunt, gross.
After eating about a 2 bites of the appetizer each,20 more minutes went by when our server stated that our food would be out shortly. After 20 MORE minutes of waiting our arepa's arrived. The arepa's are like a cheese pita pocket sandwich. Mine was called the Reina Pepiada (chicken, avocado, roasted red pepper and feta). More like flavorless chicken, nonexistent avocado or pepper and feta more on the plate than in the sandwich. The arepa tortilla tasted like hard glue paste. Truly a miserable sandwich, my fiancé agreed that hers was terrible as well (I maybe ate 10% of mine). Even my side of fries were lukewarm and soggy.
I normally do not give 1 star reviews (I have only one other time) but this place truly deserves it. I won't say for sure that I got food poisoning but I was stomach sick and barely moved from the bed the rest of the weekend. The server was a ghost, we were surrounded by other customers the entire time because of our seating arrangement and paid 50 dollars for 2 crappy pita sandwiches, soggy fries and some crappy cheese corn. I would have 100% gotten a better meal at Taco Bell for a fifth of the price. Skip this place, not because of the lousy food and service but because I don't want you to get sick like I did for 2 days. I wouldn't come back even if they comped me 100 free meals. This may have been one of the worst restaurant experiences I've ever had.
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