I wanted to love this place, and was looking forward to eating here. Unfortunately, it proved to be a huge disappointment.So many challenges:- This restaurant is physically attached to the bakery beside it. In fact you have to go in the other restaurant door to even order. So it's basically all one restaurant.- All parties of four or more people have a mandatory 18% tip added on to the bill. I understand when restaurants do this for large parties where there's a lot of service taking place, but I've never seen one do it for only four people. And on top of that, there was absolutely no service. They just dropped off the food at the table and left. Never checking back to refill drinks or for any other reason.-I don't feel like the food was a good value. The half chicken and whole chicken are quite expensive for what they are.- Timing was a problem. Dishes were brought out without their sides, and in our case sides ended up being the last thing to appear 10 to 15 minutes later.- We weren't provided silverware. We asked for it, but multiple people were forced to eat their meals with their fingers because we didn't get it. There also weren't nearly enough napkins provided.That's enough. As much as we like to support small businesses, this was a bad enough experience that we won't be coming back unfortunately. Wish I could recommend, but I can't. Perhaps if you want to try the chicken the best idea is to make a takeout order. Because you definitely don't want to eat at the restaurant.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 4
Service: 1
Tyler Harris
May be permanently closed?Went for the first time today when they should have been open. Door was locked; lights out. Entered the adjoining Gourmet Bakery Cafe (La Francesita) where they strangely didn't seem to know anything about their roommates.
linh ha tran
The authentic Portugal's piri piri chicken!
Ivan Crespo
Excellent place. The food is delicious and the staff very friendly.
dehas1
Waste of time. The employees just leave so you might not even be able to get food during the work day.
El. (Cubanwizard)
This is a complete disappointment, burn, hard, dry, the day before chicken. I can only hope they will get their act together before it is too late, great idea bad
Victor Pinheiro
I bought 1.5 chicken with straw fries. I asked them for the chicken to be well done. When I got home, the chicken was raw, red blood stains, all over so it went into the trash. I called and the young lady said she was very sorry. I was even sorrier because 50 dollars went into the trash. Fries were good though
Les. (Cubanwizard)
This is a complete disappointment, burn, hard, dry, the day before chicken. I can only hope they will get their act together before it is too late, great idea bad execution
Narcisa P.
Very disappointed. The chicken was not fully cooked. If you are looking for charcoal grilled chicken with flavor look somewhere else. We reached out to the restaurant to let them know what happened so they wouldn't serve raw chicken to another family and they told my husband that all their chicken comes out that way.
Hannah Schneider
The service is amazing and their lemon sugar crepes are perfect!
I went in and was greeted in the most courteous way and the service here is exemplary. Also the chicken salad here is amazing!! I highly recommend this place!
Phil Thy
We just ordered for the first time and WHOLY SMOKE (pun intended) was everything amazing!! We got one and a half chickens and fries and were blown away! The chicken is so moist and the seasoning and smoke flavors pair perfectly. I wasn't hungry until I tried a piece, then I ate half a chicken! There's more on the menu than pictures posted previously, but that's all I could get a picture of because the wife, 3 kids and I tore all the food up!
Ryan Bates
Incredible service and amazing food. We'll definitely be back.
Juan
It was or first time at Costa and OMG the chicken was so delicious, moist and tender, I can’t remember when was the last time I had a chicken like this! We’ll definitely be back.
Michael M.
Amazing chicken! Sweet potato fries are great also. But that chicken was some of the best chicken I've ever had!! No joke! Crispy skin and fall off the bone moist meat with a nice smoke flavor.
I wanted to love this place, and was looking forward to eating here. Unfortunately, it proved to be a huge disappointment.So many challenges:- This restaurant is physically attached to the bakery beside it. In fact you have to go in the other restaurant door to even order. So it's basically all one restaurant.- All parties of four or more people have a mandatory 18% tip added on to the bill. I understand when restaurants do this for large parties where there's a lot of service taking place, but I've never seen one do it for only four people. And on top of that, there was absolutely no service. They just dropped off the food at the table and left. Never checking back to refill drinks or for any other reason.-I don't feel like the food was a good value. The half chicken and whole chicken are quite expensive for what they are.- Timing was a problem. Dishes were brought out without their sides, and in our case sides ended up being the last thing to appear 10 to 15 minutes later.- We weren't provided silverware. We asked for it, but multiple people were forced to eat their meals with their fingers because we didn't get it. There also weren't nearly enough napkins provided.That's enough. As much as we like to support small businesses, this was a bad enough experience that we won't be coming back unfortunately. Wish I could recommend, but I can't. Perhaps if you want to try the chicken the best idea is to make a takeout order. Because you definitely don't want to eat at the restaurant.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 4
Service: 1
May be permanently closed?Went for the first time today when they should have been open. Door was locked; lights out. Entered the adjoining Gourmet Bakery Cafe (La Francesita) where they strangely didn't seem to know anything about their roommates.
The authentic Portugal's piri piri chicken!
Excellent place. The food is delicious and the staff very friendly.
Waste of time. The employees just leave so you might not even be able to get food during the work day.
This is a complete disappointment, burn, hard, dry, the day before chicken. I can only hope they will get their act together before it is too late, great idea bad
I bought 1.5 chicken with straw fries. I asked them for the chicken to be well done. When I got home, the chicken was raw, red blood stains, all over so it went into the trash. I called and the young lady said she was very sorry. I was even sorrier because 50 dollars went into the trash. Fries were good though
This is a complete disappointment, burn, hard, dry, the day before chicken. I can only hope they will get their act together before it is too late, great idea bad execution
Very disappointed. The chicken was not fully cooked. If you are looking for charcoal grilled chicken with flavor look somewhere else. We reached out to the restaurant to let them know what happened so they wouldn't serve raw chicken to another family and they told my husband that all their chicken comes out that way.
The service is amazing and their lemon sugar crepes are perfect!
Restaurantji Recommends
I went in and was greeted in the most courteous way and the service here is exemplary. Also the chicken salad here is amazing!! I highly recommend this place!
We just ordered for the first time and WHOLY SMOKE (pun intended) was everything amazing!! We got one and a half chickens and fries and were blown away! The chicken is so moist and the seasoning and smoke flavors pair perfectly. I wasn't hungry until I tried a piece, then I ate half a chicken! There's more on the menu than pictures posted previously, but that's all I could get a picture of because the wife, 3 kids and I tore all the food up!
Incredible service and amazing food. We'll definitely be back.
It was or first time at Costa and OMG the chicken was so delicious, moist and tender, I can’t remember when was the last time I had a chicken like this! We’ll definitely be back.
Amazing chicken! Sweet potato fries are great also. But that chicken was some of the best chicken I've ever had!! No joke! Crispy skin and fall off the bone moist meat with a nice smoke flavor.