Amory Restaurant

Order takeout here all the time. Food is good. A few times they went overboard on the salt (chicken, beans) but still good. I love that their beans are garlicky.

Love to eat at the armory restaurant is close by my job!

Authentic Dominican grub, served with a smile. Not even the slightest bit sexy, but if you’re looking for ambiance, go to Ten Tables. Recent change in ownership has made a big difference

Preface: I hate giving bad reviews to mom&pop restaurants, but *shrug* (expletive) happens.
I’m Dominican and dominican food is my source of comfort. I will eat ‘La Bandera Dominicana’ (rice, beans and meat) Mon-​Fri and still crave it on Saturday. So when i moved HALF a block away from Amory Restaurant i was delighted. Friends warned me that the food was meh… in retrospect i wish i had listened.
My journey began on the Orange Line… as usual it was late & i was famished. When i arrived home 30 minutes late, STAAARVING and with 20minutes to get ready for an event i sprinted to my comfort. It was awful. Eating was painful to my jaw and spirit.
The stewed beef (carne guisada) was Teflon-​Tough. I busted out the steak knife to cut a piece that was an inch long. Unfortunately, i lacked the steel jaw required to chew through it. Rice was ‘alright’. I don’t expect much of white rice, it’s the filler — the chicken to the pig. The huge disappoint of the night were the beans. Some cooked others were hella hard. The sauce was waaaaay to salty (and i love salt). When you combine tough meat, salty beans & filler rice. It became a disappointing (barely consumed) meal. PoOp to you, Amory Restaurant!
If you are looking for a deeeeelicious Dominican meal, i recommend El Embajador.

my friend and i were starving and this was the first place we saw, so we stopped in for some dominican grub.
like angel s said, there’s no menu, you just gotta ask whats cookin.
we had chicken which was really really tasty in a tomatoey sauce.
and you can’t forget the staple item of beans and rice which were good. they weren’t like OMG, but also they weren’t as bland as olivia c describes them as either.
and platanos which were a little dry cuz they’re already cooked, but overall fine.
anyway it’s pretty cheap, tasty, and filling and the people are nice enough.

When I moved here my older suburban friend said that he heard that Amory Restaurant is supposed to be real good and that he’s been meaning to check it out for years.
He must have been confusing Amory Restuurant with the other actual great authentic Spanish places in Jp; ie. Oriental De Cuba, Tacos El Charro–
Amory Restuarant is a bodega with a pot and not enough Sassoon. That said, it seems to be a staple buffet take-​out stop for the local cousins.
The beans an rice are aight. Authentic beans and rice made by the kings and queens of beans and rice shouldn’t be just alright! no flavor! no spice! nothing nice! I think their Dominican spaghetti and meatballs is wierd, yo! They do have spanish soda and juices, which you can’t find everywhere, like coconut and mango, which are interesting + they have pretty good flan (very sweet custard) w/​lots of cinnamon in a plastic drinking cup for $ 1!

I must note that the people in there are muy friendly and warm and make me wish I paid more attention in spanish class. But, Amory cooks are not really accostumed to outsiders and they practically gave me the stuff for free to try to get me to come back! The cooks are thoroughly confused if you don’t order meat and act offended. «are you a vegetarian or something??» But I understand it to mean they want me to enjoy the main course. It’s really funny actually; they don’t know what to charge you for just rice and beans as if its never been done before so they look at each other in disbelief and consult prices.
Gossip: My neighbor orders Amory Restaurant’s meats and steaks and gives it to his 3 barking dogs… My other neighbor tried to shut down Amory because of the unproperly ventilated constant fried smoke cloud hanging over her house…
Do not stop here. Do not collect your $ 4. Do stop next door for your bodega needs.

Hm. So, I live across the street from this joint. Big ups to neighborhood businesses, but there’s a reason I’ve probably only dined here 1x. There is no menu, cuz it’s kind of like you gotta be in the know about what to order. The rice is good. The chicken scares me a little. It’s really bony. Beans are fine. Empanadas are edible. Well, that’s all I know that is on the menu. Bottom line, unless you’re starving like marvin while you’re in the hood, don’t go out of your way.