bri

This restaurant was one of my highlights during my trip to NYC back in December! We booked a reservation and decided to eat in the downstairs part of the restaurant. The service was amazing and the food was fantastic. This was legit one of the best fish tacos I have ever had in my life. The micheladas were also the greatest and I still dream about them months later! I recommend this place to everyone who mentions visiting the city because of how amazing it is. If I didn’t live across the country, I would visit this place daily.

Forum Shah

This was an amazing restaurant and I highly suggest you check it out. Ambiance: I love the vibe. It’s subtle and feels like a cozy local spot mixed with upscale decor. It makes you feel comfortable and also like you’re having dinner at a nice place. It’s a good spot for a date. They have a really nice table tucked away by the windows for 2 people. Food: I really enjoyed the food here. They had so many great vegetarian options and it was nice to be confused about what I wanted. Started with the chips and salsa, 2 of them felt really fresh and were well seasoned. The third was a pico de gallo and tasted like one. The last one was a chili sauce, was spicy but felt a bit too oily for me. The chips were clearly freshly made and were thick and crispy. For appetizers we got the taquitos, delicious. Crispy and didn’t feel over fried. It had the right amount of filling in it and the salsas it came with complimented it well. We also got the fried zucchini blossoms. They were amazing and such a unique take on zucchini blossoms. They were crispy and the filling was a good blend. As my main I got the mushroom barbacoa plate. The mushrooms were really good and well marinated. I liked that they had a different blend of mushrooms and it was smoky and spicy. Happy hour special: they have a great happy hour special from 4-6pm. It’s discounted appetizers: nachos, chips and salsa etc. and also discounted drinks. Service: it was fast and everyone was friendly and helpful. Insta: @TheShahLALand

+8

Karina Ocasio

First things first, the staff here was amazing and extremely helpful! Whenever you visit please ask for Ben, he’s an awesome bartender and gave us the best recommendations during our trip! He set the tone for the night! Drinks were perfect and please order the enchiladas!

Maeve J

Small intimate space with a very cute vibe. The food was great - on point guacamole and the hamachi crudo was phenomenal. Service was great. Will definitely be back.

LOM Lom

Amazing atmosphere. Incredible food. The pork belly tacos are addicting. The vegetarian options are top notch. Chef Carlos is truly ahead of his time. Marcel was such an amazing server. Would highly recommend. 10 stars!!

Nora Hunt

Phenomenal! Some of my favorite Mexican food in the city. Definitely start with the chips and salsas, it comes with four flavors and they are all SO good and interesting. The street taquitos and birria quesadilla are both a must and perfect for sharing or on their own as a main. For dessert, their flan is the BEST flan I've ever had. I love the drinks here as well, personal favorite is the sea salt followed by the sage and the coconut. Vibe is perfection, I can't wait to go back!

MrWoo

I loved the atmosphere of the bar! Overall decoration and the food was amazing👍 great choices of cocktails that goes well with foods and feels very clean✨ the server was nice to recommend some foods and how to eat the meals!

+5

Jennifer McPartland

The ONLY issue with this place is that there is nowhere to put your jacket or bag if you are seated at a high top table. With backless stools, seating arrangements quickly become awkward and uncomfortable when trying to figure out where possessions should go -- especially with winter jackets. Food and drinks while a little pricey were fantastic. Service was spot on. Overall enjoyable evening.

Melody

Was confused on who to speak to in order to be sat, but we managed to sit downstairs which was pretty nice. The vibes were chill, upstairs was definitely busy, as for food wise the birria was really good and I got to try a beer drink that had tajin and chamoy I believe? Pretty good as well. Customer service was friendly too despite attending so many people at once.

The presentation of the food was appealing, but unfortunately, the taste didn't match the appearance. I'm quite amazed that even a Mexican restaurant struggled with something as basic as preparing guacamole; it was so sour that we couldn't finish it. The seating area was cramped, and the loud music made it difficult to communicate with the server or anyone else at our table. I ended up spending $50 plus a 20 percent tip on a meal that was disappointing. The restaurant seemed strategically designed to encourage drink orders, likely due to higher profit margins in that area. Won't recommend!

Yiyi Zhang

Seeyamanana is a decent option for after-work drinks, mostly because it is in a nice, well-located area and the happy hour prices are really good. The food deals during happy hour are excellent, and the guacamole is great. The churros, on the other hand, were extremely sweet and probably too much for most people. Note: happy hour ends at 6pm. The servers were pretty nice overall and friendly enough, but out experience was marred by some ambiance issues. First, the music was insanely loud. This was during a time when our group of eight was literally the only group in the restaurant. We asked if the music could be turned down and were told it could not be done, which felt unnecessary and kind of inflexible given the situation. The bigger issue was a safety problem near the entry staircase. There is a very low ceiling at the end of it and one of my friends hit his head on it and was actually injured. When he mentioned it to the server, the response was basically "that’s just how it is" or something, which came off as very flippant. It was especially frustrating because this could easily be a serious liability issue if someone gets hurt badly. Overall, this spot has great happy hour pricing and some solid food, but the noise level, the hazardous low ceiling, and the dismissive response to an actual injury really take away from what could otherwise be a good after-work spot.

Ekaterina K

I go there once in a while after work. I am in industry as well. Last time a server included 20% gratuity for drinks of party of 2, which never happened before. It felt like racial profiling. Made me feel extremely uncomfortable. I don’t think that owners or managers aware of that.

Kristine Bartley

Food is good, but they charge an automatic gratuity so the staff doesn’t seem to care about service. I asked if I could grab a table for friends and the server said “Sure. you can sit at the table or the bar” then pulled a seat out at the bar for me. I asked if I could sit at the table as I waited for my friends who were 5 minutes away. The server rudely said “Sit here at the bar.” Keep in mind, there were 3 empty tables at this time. I asked a couple of more times, and she finally let me. My friends arrived shortly after. It took almost 30 minutes to get chips and salsa on the table. After about an hour, the server came up to us and said there’s a 2 hour limit on tables so we had to wrap up soon. We were never informed of this, even when I was asking about the table before my friends had arrived. Keep in mind, we had just finished our food and I had only been sitting at this table for 1 hour, my friends maybe 50 minutes. We had about 40 minutes left at our table, and the server threw down our check to get us to leave even though we were planning to order another item. At that point, we were so angry that we left.