Ispalina - Boca Raton

Excellent food (quality quantity). I recommend the snapper. Ambience was mediocre for a couple reasons. I had dinner here on a Friday night around 7pm, and there were only a couple other people there. Also, it’s located in a shopping center, which doesn’t create a remarkable ambience. The waiter was attentive, but after we finished eating, it definitely seemed like he was urging us to pay the check and leave.

Lovely atmosphere. Service is outstanding. Special thanks to Dario. Excellent choice of wines. I had a bottle of “The prisoner” California. Food is delicious beautiful presentation. Wonderful evening.

We were so excited to try this new restaurant because of all the reviews. It was Friday night and restaurant wasn’t too busy. There was two of us. We wanted to try out because we were planning on bringing our family of 8 the following week. The waiter was rude from the beginning. He seemed overwhelmed and impatient. We ordered our meals and our appetizer and salad came out fine. We waited over 50 minutes for our food. Not once did he come by to ask us if we needed anything or acknowledge that the food wasn’t there. Finally it came mine was hot and my partner’s was not. He never brought the side of vegetables. I asked another server to ask him to come over but he avoided us. We ate and asked for check and had to go to front and pay. The owner came out and asked if everything was ok and we told him no. They never apologized for anything or cared about us having a terrible experience. All the owner said they were down a sous chef, that had no bearing on the terrible service the waiter provided. I mentioned he lost a customer and table of 8 for this week.

This was a horrible experience I would NEVER recommend this place. As a matter of fact, I would let people know NOT to go there at all. I had been there once before willing to try a new place. My friend made the reservations under her name Leslie Comar Tudela. We were the only ones in the restaurant. Very quiet the manager Dario was very attentive. That experience was good it made me suggest this restaurant to NEW friends that we had never gone out with before. As you are aware, the reservation was for Friday, November 18th 7:00. This time it was much busier. Dario did greet us remembered me. Felt good. Everything from that moment went downhill. We were the first of the four. No one acknowledged us for a few minutes. No big deal. When our friends arrived NO one came over to acknowledge us for at least 10 minutes until I raised my hand waved. The waiter Luca hardly spoke English (Italian) We asked for more water as he had poured 3 not four. I asked for a glass of red wine. Oberón. No one else was drinking except one of the other person asked a coke. The wine took about 10 minutes to get. The coke took more like 20. Almost forgot we ordered it. Ok now….we ordered dinner. No appetizers or salad. The gentleman who ordered the Coke was served his chicken meal first. No other entrees were served to the other 3 people dining. Then his wife got her meal while her husband sat eating alone so his food would not get cold. She ordered Salmon specifically with no sauce. Her fish came with sauce her Asparagus was cold. She sent it back it quickly appeared without the sauce. Most likely wiped off. Again asparagus was cold. My boyfriend I still were not served our dinners. I finally got up, went to the kitchen to ask where our food was. Dario was there very stressed and rude to me. He said to go sit down he was short a cook. Not my problem. My friends were already done with their meal when we FINALLY received ours.

It was a wonderful experience! I will definitely be back and am telling all my friends about this restaurant.