Flor De Mayo

Location: 484 Amsterdam Ave., Btw 83rd & 84th
Cuisine: Spanish, Chinese
Phone: (212) 787-3388, (212) 787-0200
Prices: About $15 per person
Credit Cards: All major

Food: 9
Service: 8
Value: 7
Environment: 7

Visits: 1 (eat-in)

I've been wanting to try this restaurant after hearing about it from a few friends, so I finally got to check it out. I had the Lomo Saltado, which is sauteed sliced steak with potatoes, tomatoes & onions over fried rice. All of the ingredients tasted great together. The steak was tender and juicy. The potatoes were interesting because they were french frie-shaped, so the dish was made up of strips of steak, potatoes, tomatoes & onions. The portions were large. I was able to finish the whole thing because it was about 8pm and I was hungry. It's definitely larger than a normal meal.

The service was pretty good and fast. They were almost a little too fast... to the point that I thought the food was nuked! But the taste, temperature and texture told me it wasn't. The environment and restroom were clean.

Flor De Mayo also has their lunch special prices on Saturday. This ranges from $6.35-8.35.

Unrelated to any of the ratings... the restaurant's Spanish name is the same as it's Chinese name! That's something I always notice because there are a lot of Chinese restaurants where the Chinese characters mean something totally different that the English name.