El Montanero Bakery & Restaurant

Reviews

• Leidy G.

  star star star star star 12 September 2026

  I love the food here. Service is awesome. One of my favorite Colombian restaurants in NY. 12 years coming here and counted

• Marina S.

  star star star star star_border 8 September 2026

  Do you want meat sweats? Because the Plato Montanero is how you get meat sweats.
  
  El Montanero is a small restaurant and bakery serving pastries and cakes up front and massive portions of Colombian food in the back. We (4 small girls) made the mistake of ordering a dish per person, when we probably could have shared one or two and still had leftovers.
  
  Case in point: the Plato Montanero. Unless you are a bear, haven't eaten for two weeks, or are a competitive eater, there's no way a normal person could take this down by themselves. It's a MASSIVE plate of rice, beans, a full steak, egg, sausage, chicharron, arepa, and half an avocado. All. On. One. Plate. I think all of us cried a little when they came out and realized the horrible mistake we had made.
  
  But on the plus side, everything was absolutely delicious. The steak was incredibly flavorful, and the rice and beans were cooked perfectly. The chicharron was a little fattier than I was expecting, but still great. I loved the juicy sausage, and you can never go wrong with a runny egg.
  
  I think I tackled like an eighth before admitting defeat (and then had leftovers for a full week). But now that I've learned my lesson, I'd definitely come back here for more.

• Paul C.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 5 September 2026

  Tip cheater's.
  While the food is good and the attention is ok. Their place is extremely sneaky when it comes to give a tip for their services. In New York is not mandatory to provide a tip when given a bad service or good but rather an option as well as a courtesy. When they provide you with your bill at the end of your meal.....look carefully as you will see them forcibly adding a 15% to it.... They don't even tell you or ask you.....which makes it worst is that when you receive your credit card statement to be signed.... They also include a tip collum, so in the eventuality you didn't check your bill (As most of as do not) they basically double tip themselves!!!!!!
  
  Horrible experience.... Extremely sneaky.... Shame of an owner!

• Jackie G.

  star star star star star_border 1 September 2026

  I was on mission to find good Colombian food.  From moment I walked in I felt like I was transported to a different destination. I had churrasco with cheese and yucca frita on top  accompanied with the side of rice and beans beans. The dish was phenomenal! For beverage I had Mango Milkshake. Everything was really good. Only thing that wasn't so great was the service. Feel like they were under staffed. Felt bad for waiter running around trying to take orders, serve and clean multiple tables at time.

• Yanelsi F.

  star star star star star 23 August 2026

  This place is great
  I come here every time I can with my friends and the food is delicious plus the servers are nice. No complains at all!