Bar Mercado

Wow. This place beat my expectations. It was a beautiful restaurant and the food+location only made it better. Everything we had from the spicy margarita to the dessert was amazing. I can’t believe I didn’t get a picture of the Tres Leches but we ate that too quickly to even pass for that. Best tres leches I’ve ever had and I am Hispanic 😂 Not pictured was the tuna ceviche, drinks or dessert. Update: went back and got the Peruvian chicken and got a picture of the tres leches...yeah it was just as amazing as the first time and i didn’t share this time.

My husband and I went here for date night and had a great time, hold the flies. 😂😂 Other than that we enjoyed ourselves a great deal. Great food, great service, and wonderful atmosphere. Margaritas on point, we ordered a carafe. I would suggest lining the floors and wall with bamboo or wood. That is all.

I called to see what time lunch ended and was told 4:30. The person answering the phone failed to tell me that they stopped seating at 3:00pm. I was disappointed to arrive at 3:13pm to be turned away after driving 50 minutes. When I arrived, I told the hostess I'd called to verify the time. She just apologized that she didn't tell me about the seating. I had my heart set on a Mercado Bowl. Please let people know this info when calling or at least do something to compensate my time coming over here. Update: Thank you to Tarina for responding to my review. Thanks so much for accommodating my guest and I on another day. We appreciate your customer service and swift action. We enjoyed our lunch! The Mercado Bowl and empandas hit the spot! Our server, Matt was great!

Finding a vegan friendly restaurant is difficult, especially a restaurant that is vegan friendly and has non-vegan food (for my boyfriend). Bar Mercado & Recess have merged so you receive a menu with both options!! We came here Monday November 22,2021. If you did not know they do $5 house margaritas on Monday! They are flavorful, strong, and good. Ordered vegan friendly appetizers on the Bar Mercado side. Appetizers: Avocado salad, cauliflower, and chicken empandas (my boyfriend order 3 because he said they were really good). He also ate my appetizers (which he never eats anything vegan) and he loved the avocado salad and cauliflower (and he does not like cauliflower), but that was the most flavorful cauliflower we have had at a restaurant. Ordered vegan friendly entree on Recess menu. Entree: Tom Cruz (VEGAN BOWL ) that has good flavor, its like a Spanish bowl, coconut rice, beans, corn, impossible chorizo , vegan cashew chipotle cream, kale, and red onions. (check the Recess menu). My boyfriend ordered from the Bar Mercado side, and he ordered a chef special which is not on the menu. Dessert: Tres Leche (Bar Mercado Menu) *NOT VEGAN FRIENDLY* It is vegetarian. My boyfriend loved the cake, if you don't know Tres Leche is 3 milk cake, they topped it with coconut and a jam. presentation was nice and it smelled good! Overall: We will be back, not only was the food delicious but our service was top notch. AMAZING SERVER name Cliffton! He was extremely knowledgeable, nice, outgoing, patient when explaining the food, and constantly was checking on us even though he was serving several other tables. We told him he is the best server we have ever had. He is clearly a hard worker with an amazing personality. ASK FOR CLIFFTON AS YOUR SERVER IF YOU GO(: Photos include: strawberry margarita, avocado salad (vegan), chicken empanada, cauliflower (vegan), tom cruz bowl (vegan), tres leche. *CHECK OUT MY IG OR TIK TOK FOR VIDEO FOOD REVIEW : EILEENGISELLEE * (:

Updated Review: I was very impressed with how seriously the restaurant management took my previous review. I spoke on the phone with the general manager and she assured me that she would speak with her team about my concerns. She invited me back to try some different menu options. When I returned, I decided to try a vegetarian dish, as I now know they do not have white meat only dishes. I got the Superbowl with broccoli and enjoyed it! The ingredients in the bowl are pretty plain but make a nice combination. In the future, I would be more likely to come by for lunch than dinner. Again, I appreciate how the management values customer satisfaction! Previous Review: We had dinner at Bar Mercado on a Saturday night after calling ahead to put our name on the list for the patio. We appreciated the option to do this rather than have to first go to the restaurant and wait for an hour. Overall, our group enjoyed the food. The tapas we ordered were the grilled shrimp, corn on the cob, and empanadas. My friends really liked the short rib empanadas but were not as into the veggie one. The shrimp was too spicy for me, but my boyfriend enjoyed it. For our entrees, we got the skirt steak, the pollo asada plate, and the mercado bowl with chicken. The 4 entrees came out at different times, which is frustrating for a group because then people with their food have to wait for the rest of the food to come out. Again, overall everyone enjoyed their food, but there was one big disappointment for me. I asked two servers to confirm that the braised chicken was chicken breast. They guaranteed that it was, but when my food came, it was clearly not only chicken breast. When I asked my server about it, she kind of brushed it off and said there might be other parts of the chicken in it. Obviously I’m picky about chicken or I wouldn’t have asked about it before ordering. I didn’t want to make a big fuss, but it was disappointing that she didn’t offer to check with the kitchen again or get me another plate of chicken that was actually chicken breast, even though I was clearly upset. I enjoyed the small part of the chicken that was white meat and the rest of the dish, but this experience did not make me want to return to Bar Mercado.

Pretty expensive for what it was for brunch at least. The service was great the patio is really nice but the pitcher of mimosa is 35 dollars which is quite a lot and then my paella 🥘 was huge but the freshness of the chicken and shrimp was not the best. Overall it was ok but I was expecting a little more from this place.