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Chilo's

Chilo's

740 5th Avenue, City Of New York, 11232, United States Of America, Broad Channel

Pub • Beer • Drinks • Mexican


"Ok, so the they 're still figuring it out but this place is gunna be great! It has a lot of potential. Beer garden style (large open outdoor space with picnic tables), but Mexican vibe. There 's also some covered/indoor seating but all very open airy. The food is from Chilo 's taco truck and it was great! The frozen Pain Killer drink was SO GOOD. Vacation in a cup! We had the chips with salsa guac combo, both were good flavorful. We wanted to order all the tacos, butwe settled on four: chicken, slow cooked beef, chorizo, al pastor. All very good (though the chicken was probably our least favorite) and they provide lots of fixins. I 'd say the food truck was the standout. I don 't want to complain aboutthe service and logistics, because I think they reopened like a week ago but the system was a little confusing: you order food from the truck directly, fine but the server will come to your table for drink orders. The seating is selfserve though, so I think they had a hard time keeping up keeping track of new customers. In the end, it wasn 't too hard to flag someone down. As far as the vibe the space itself is what they have going for them. There was music playingat the inner bar, but you couldn 't hear it throughout. Bathrooms clean, lots of sanitizer on all the tables staff was wearing masks. I will definitely be back. Great to have another option over Greenwood Beer Garden."

Chilo's

Chilo's

323 Franklin Ave, New York, NY 11238, 11216, City of New York, United States

Fish • Meat • Tacos • Drinks


"Can’t believe that I’m giving this place two stars. We used to love it. Now it sucks. Honestly, it SUCKS. The quality of the food is wildly inconsistent at best, but usually poor. (Today I had a fish taco that was way too brown-hard-and-crunchy on the outside, but still a little bit raw on the inside. How do they even do that? Throw some frozen meat into some too-hot oil? I don’t even know. But it was small, expensive, and it sucked . At 7.50 for a taco that won’t even fill up a small person, you’re guaranteed to spend around $20 at this small-bite taco truck if you don’t want to go home starving. With drinks and tips (you can’t just tip on one order, btw—food and drink are in separate places so you have to tip twice this is now a $35-40 per person place to get “cheap” tacos from a janky old truck. It’s an upside down equation, and it’s really kind of painful. The property is dingy. That’s the best way I can express it. Just dingy. Not bright and happy and uplifting like it used to be in the first few years. Dirty, grimy, sad. The Covid shed dining that takes up the car parking lane next to the building is ramshackle, dilapidated and depressing too, no matter how many coats of bright pink paint they put on it. What a fail, this place. And I used to love it so much. In the beginning, the chef (Chip was always around and he put a stamp of quality on everything. Now you almost never see him, and the people working here seem like they’re just waiting for their shifts to end. COVID was a destroyer of worlds. But these guys took a pretty cynical approach to surviving the challenge— raise prices and throw quality out the window. I gave these guys two stars rather than one star only because I have some nostalgia for how good they used to be, but it’s pretty miserable now. I’m writing this review after four trips to Chilos’s in the last two months. I’m not rushing to judgment. But my judgment is: don’t bother. I would never bring a date here or recommend this place to a friend."