Calle Dao Bryant Park

Kamar Graham

Good food and service. Good table service from Ricky!

Ivan Femia

What an amazing experience. We’ll come back for sure to try other amazing dishes. Thanks!

Yani Ed

Very nice and welcoming restaurant with amazingly friendly staff. I came for my birthday at dinner and then came back for lunch. At dinner, despite the absolute crowds in the place, the waiters never missed a neat and we're always checking on tables. At lunch, it's more relaxed, but the servers continued to be a great asset to the overall enjoyment of eating and taking your time in the restaurant. The overall feel of Calle Dao is open and inviting. It has some neon light fixtures and an old-fashioned looking bar to the side, as well as an inner dining room behind a very beautiful black gate. Bits of Chinese paraphernalia, like the wooden lattice closet, pepper the scenery. They also have an outdoor seating area. Entering for dinner, I came with friends and we luckily got a table quickly, just before dinner rush was in full swing. Now that the pandemic is virtually over for most people, the area's bars and restaurants become hubs of incredible throngs of activity once work is over, so either come a bit early or have a reservation if you have a group. For lunch, it is more relaxed and open, but I recommend coming at later hours, brtwee 4pm and 7pm, preferably, because happy hour foods are worth it. I didn't take any photos of the dinner because I was too busy having fun. But the experience was amazing. I had the char siu pork belly and the table ordered duck bao and tostones with pork, as well as several rounds of sangria and margaritas. The pork was tender, with a sweet sauce. It was so rich that even the small block I got was filling. Duck bao comes with three bao and a leg that you cut yourself to mimic a Peking duck bun. It was nice and crispy. Pork on tostones was the best bite of the night, as the tostones were fried well, and the pork was juicy. Just before dessert, one of the bartenders gave me a free shot for my birthday, and he was very attentive to my liking of fruity drinks versus alcoholic ones. We ordered a tres leches for dessert, and the staff lit the candles and told us the cake was on the house. It was probably one of the best birthdays in a restaurant I ever had, and the staff were 100% critical to the experience. At lunch time, I came and sat at the open door area, just bordering the street. The server was very attentive and energetic. I saw her speaking and being friendly with other patrons, and she helped some of them with directions in the area, too. She gave me the recommendation of yucca fries over tostones, which was a great idea because the yucca fries come with a delicious aioli and a gochujang ketchup, which was probably the best ketchup I ever had. The yucca itself was thick and crispy. It was also very filling, almost so much that I was thinking I couldn't finish my chicken and rice. The chicken was juicy and tender, undersold as just breast on the menu when it, in fact, comes with a nice drumette. The rice has peas and bits of pork mixed in but I couldn't taste any saffron, though it was a pretty yellow. There was also a tomato red sauce and a scallion green sauce on the chicken, both of which were delicious. I highly recommend this restaurant to anyone in the area who wants to have a great time.

Fuzzy Adam Konner

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