Sabor Latino

I was here for Taco Tuesday with a group of friends. We got there at 6 and there was plenty of room but by the time we left by ⁸³⁰⁄₉ it was packed with a line. $ 1 tacos — what else is there to say? Soft tacos with meat, onions and cilantro (which I got and enjoyed) or hard shell (not like taco bell — but like a soft shell that was grilled hard — a bit of an odd shape) with beans, cheese, lettuce and meat. Coronas were $ 2/2.50 and my very low tequila strawberry margarita was delicious and probably filled with calories but not much tequila. I’ve heard their full menu is really good, but Taco Tuesday wasn’t that bad either — I’d come back.

Came in on Taco Tuesday today, it was fairly busy. We had a 30 or so minute wait to get seated. Which is okay given the date and it being during dinner service. My only issue with the seating was that there were visibly tables open and and no one was seating us nor the party in front of us.
Once we were seated it took another 10 – 15 minutes to see our waiter, which was a little excessive I felt. We put our drinks and food order in all at once to get it out of the way. The table behind us that was seated after us got their food and drinks before us. Which is always a little annoying as a diner. Another downside is that you get one basket of chips and salsa for the table to share, and if you want more it is an extra cost.
With that being said, I ordered almost one of everything on the menu as far as dollar tacos goes. All of the tacos were actually pretty tasty. They come with varied toppings based on what type of shell you get. But, you can also add extra toppings for an additional cost. Which is cool, because most places are a set taco and style. Once the food came, we ate, the check followed it was all downhill then.
The restaurant was clean, staff was kind, just a little slow… but the food was worth the wait. I rated it a ³⁄₅ and my friend gave it a 4… so we gave Sabor Latino the benefit of the doubt on Unilocal!With a ⁴⁄₅.
Best combo–
Soft shell fish taco with tomatoes and grilled jalapenos, or pastor/​carnitas with pinto beans and pickled jalapenos.

This place keeps impressing me. Keep walking north on Main Street and visit Sabor Latino. For lunch, I deviated from the special and tried Pastelillos and Alcapurrias San Juan. Both fried but fantastic! Spicy pork filled, made in House. Great flavors. Bonus! They have horchata! Open all day. Great happy hour specials. Must try the mojito.

love this place! great food. love their tacos. the service is authentic but good!

The food was moderate. The positive is that it did come out hot. My server and my perception of the service overall is that they have a lack of care for the restaurant. Never cleaned off tables, they all just hangout behind the bar. The shape of the restaurant and condition is very poor.

Tonight I walked in, sat down and a tired waitress walked over and tossed a menu on the table. I waited ten minutes for her to return and take my order, then walked out. Won’t be back. The place is kind of dumpy, too.

My name is Kristine K, and I have a new addiction — Sabor Latino. First, you do not come here for décor or service. And, as to abolish any preconceived notion, this is not your Americanized spicy «Mexican» food. Sabor Latino is DELICIOUSLY mild, yet complex dishes most typical of Venezuela and Cuba. So, if not familiar with this cuisine, what can you expect? Probably the most properly cooked rice that I have eaten since living in Costa Rica, and rich, slowly cooked shredded meats. The garnishes are simple — delicious beans, shredded lettuce, and tomato, usually supplemented with another regional starch. The food is truly a delightful and authentic departure from other restaurants in the area. Attend with an open mind and palate. You will be happily surprised!

I’ve been here several times. Famous for their Taco Tuesdays.
The bad part is, their tacos just aren’t that authentic or tasty; they’re pretty greasy. Sabor Latino also skimps on salsa. There’s several really good Mexican restaurants in Ann Arbor, but sadly none of the good taco places are located downtown.
I don’t eat here anymore, a couple little things finally made me cut ties: 1) the waitress not knowing what «al pastor» was and pronouncing it as «Pastor», and 2) being one of the many people that had my credit card stolen from here.

I feel that the food is pricey for what it is. Also I don’t like that on the weekends the menu is different. I wanted tacos and there is no option for tacos on the weekends: S. I ordered the Colombian empanadas, they were like OK, they need more flavor, something was so plain about them.
If they had Argentinian empanadas, that would be amazing.
I liked the flan, that I give it 5 stars it was good.

This place is dirty, poor employees are so stressed out, and they steal your credit card.
They have great food though, chips were stale.
Cash only tho. They will steal your credit card info for sure.

Why 2? Why not 1 star? Good question. Service is so slow that I left and went to another restaurant. Place was dead. I guess a good soccer match was on or something.

AVOID THIS PLACE!
Besides the crappy food, there’s a larger reason to avoid this place that others here have mentioned.
Someone here is stealing credit card numbers. I came here with a party of 10 people and literally 9 out of 10 received fraudulent charges within a week, all of them at similar locations. The 10^th person cancelled her card before getting a fraudulent charge, to be safe. One person in our party had a card that he only used one time at this place, so there’s no doubt in my mind that the cards were stolen here.
We went to the management to let them know what was going on and they did not seem to care or take our concerns seriously. Either they don’t care or they’re in on it.
Consider yourself warned.
Superior Mexican alternatives in town that won’t steal your credit cards (and that I’ve been to) include: Isalita, Chela’s, and T-​Maz.

Your credit card number will be stolen (high likelihood, anyway) and you’ll get some nice fraud charges when you’re alerted by your Visa customer service rep. Don’t do it. Or pay cash.
I know of quite a few people that have had the issue and Sabor needs to get this figured out. Really bad form, since it’s been going on for months.

I was hesitant to come here after reading bad reviews. However, my friends convinced me to join them for Taco Tuesday.
I absolutely LOVED my experience! On Tuesdays the tacos are only $ 1 each and they tasted pretty good. I would suggest getting hard shell because these come with more toppings. (I love the cilantro!) For choice of meat, i like pastor (marinated pork) and chicken. I didn’t like fried pork that much. Overall, I would recommend the $ 1 tacos.
The free chips and salsa was ok… nothing spectacular.
I also explored other items in the menu. I tried pabellon criollo ($ 14). This dish comes with shredded beef, black beans, rice, and fried plantains with melted cheese. I did not like the beef – it was too salty. On the other hand, the fried plaintains with melted cheese was absolutely DELICIOUS! The cheese balanced the sweetness of the plantains perfectly! I ended up ordering more of these. The fried plantains with the melted cheese is not listed separately on the menu and is only served in the dish «pabellon criollo.» However, if you tell the server that you only want the fried plantains from the dish, they can do that for you.
I also tried the plantains they sell on the menu. It was $ 3.50 and very mediocre. I only recommend the fried plantain with melted cheese from the pabellon criollo dish.
The fried icecream and the churro were delicious! The churro was served warm and fresh.
The downside was that it was very crowded and the service was VERY slow.

I was severely disappointed by the mediocre meal I ate at this restaurant. I ordered what the menu called an Iced Mojito. Thinking I was getting a refreshing minty drink I instead received a blended green disaster. It looked like blended grass and the waiter even said upon setting it down in front of me that he had never had one like that before and laughed. Don’t even get me started on the service. He was pretty worthless. He came to our table maybe twice, to take our order and give us our bill. Someone else delivered our food.
The complimentary chips and salsa were also hilarious. A huge basket of chips and about 3 tablespoons of salsa and you have to pay $ 1.50 for more. I ordered the taco salad with steak, yuck. The steak was partially tough and partially mushy and incredibly over salted. And I love salt. I couldn’t eat the entire bottom half.
When we finished eating what we could of our food, our waiter didn’t come for 20 minutes so we had to pull him away from chatting behind the bar to bring the bill. He brought the wrong bill which was double the amount of what we ordered.
So once again, we had to go up to the bar to tell him it was the wrong bill. The set up in there is awful, the wait staff is inadequate, but luckily the prices are low like the quality of the food. It’s safe to say I will not be returning here or recommending it to anyone.
We did not leave a tip.

This review is for Weekend Brunch only!
They don’t open very early.
The décor does nothing for me
They have a skeleton crew
but…
The coffee has cinnamon in it :)
The Waiter/​Waitresses have always been very nice.]
It is never busy for Brunch
The Breakfast menu is Incredible (my opinion)
Eggs done correctly, roasted pork, crunchy pork, fried plantains, black beans, Guacamole, rice, chips salsa, hot sauce, corn tortilla, horchata and plenty of stuff I have never heard of .
I never knew they had a weekend Breakfast menu, now I will walk right past the broken egg to this spot for a lazy sunday breakfast.

I used to love this place. I’m not sure if they got new cooks or what happened, but lately it has been really bland and gross. I’m not a picky eater at all and I ended up leaving half the food on my plate. I got fish tacos and the fish was tasteless and covered in flour, and the tortillas were bland and soggy. I was starving and in a hurry so I covered it in hot sauce, which made it edible but still not great. This is the third time in a row I’ve had a bad experience with the food, which I guess is my fault for continuing to go back — but it used to be so good and I kept hoping the bland food was a fluke.
Service is hit or miss — I’ve never had really great service here, but about half the time it’s competent. The other half the time is horrible. I shouldn’t have to repeatedly track my server down across the restaurant to ask for a refill on water, the bill, etc. after waiting 10+ minutes for him to come check on my table.

I am glad that I waited to try this place several times before writing a review. After five visits, with three of them being simply atrocious and two visits that bordered on the feeling of blah, I have come to the realization that this place is far better in theory than in practice.
Focusing on the last visit of Tuesday, which resulted in a total waste of time and required my lunch-​time nourishment to be sought elsewhere, I will never step foot into this place again no matter how many co-​workers plead and no matter the price-​inducing special they advertise.
Lets begin the food review with the very simple, yet seemingly impossible task of ordering a beverage. I asked for a water with lemon and an iced tea. The water arrived with no ice and I was told they were out of lemons. About ten minutes later the iced tea arrived and was pretty much a glass of brown sludge with a sour taste and smell. When the waitress finally came back she stated «I told them the tea was bad, sorry.»
After ordering the soft tacos with a side of rice and receiving three hard tacos with both rice and beans, I advised the food runner that I must have gotten someone else’s order. A small debate ensued that resulted in my being told that I was wrong with what I though I ordered, and that I received the correct order. HUH??? Well, ok, if you insist.
When our original server finally came back to the table she apologized and offered to have the correct order made, by then nearly forty-​five minutes had gone by and I was needed in court.
When the bills finally came, my bill was for full price. One bill was for the wrong amount, and another bill was oddly divided into three separate bills. Bizarre.
When mixed with the other less than pleasing experiecnes I am confident in stating that I will never return here again. Never. The food is typically cold, orders often incorrect, and the owner/​manager clearly could not seem to care any less about quality and customer satisfaction than s/​he does now. There are too many fantastic places to eat in downtown Ann Arbor that deserve the business than to waste time and money eating here.

Went here with my fiancé, his mother, and my teenage brother.
The restaurant was pretty empty, but the service was totally incompetent. We couldn’t tell if our server was training, didn’t care at all, or actually was Mr. MaGoo. He spilled water on the floor, ignored our requests for additional water, never came to check on us, and wasn’t familiar with the menu. He did, however, do a lot of hanging out by the bar.
One basket of chips and salsa is complimentary, regardless of how many people are at the table. For two hungry guys at a restaurant with slow service, that would be an issue if the chips were warm, salted, or more appealing. Since that wasn’t the case, it wasn’t an issue at all.
I ordered nachos, which were pretty cold. The beans were not spiced at all, but the temperature was the main issue. The fiancé got tostadas. He ordered them with no tomatoes, but of course it came with tomatoes. Since our waiter was completely MIA, he just picked around them. His mom ordered the chorizo and banana/​plantain appetizer, which she found extremely spicy (this was the only item that had any spice at all). My brother ordered a burrito, also without tomatoes, but this was also not honored. The meat was completely cold, and the rest of the ingredients were tepid. It also fell apart as soon as he tried to pick it up.
Unless something major changes, with both the menu and the service, I wouldn’t return.

I’ve only been here on Taco Tuesday.
$ 2 jose cuervo shots. $ 2.50 coronas. $ 1 tacos. You can get full & tipsy with tax & tip for less than $ 20! Don’t be fooled– $ 1 tacos are bare minimum, so if you want to add basic taco toppings (i.e. tomatoes, lettuce, jalepenos, onions, etc), you need to pay $ 0.50 5o $ 1.50 extra.
Tip: chicken is a little dry. I love the beef tacos. Hard shell tacos come with more toppings than soft tacos.