I have eaten at most of the restaurants in this area except this one because of the lack of pictures of the food, no website and no menu to look at. Two things will happen today which is restaurant of the week and a Steve stop by. The place is nice looking with a tropical colorful theme. The have a steam table at the counter with some pre made goodness as a visual come on and get something. I ordered the rellenos de papa and the pork jibarito with PR rice. I will admit like the other reviews service was slow for me being the only person in the place and a good 10 minutes before I heard my sandwich sizzling on the grill. The rellenos de papa is basically a ball of mashed potatoes with a ground meat filling fried to a golden brown. This was bland and needed seasoning but still good with a thin crispy shell. The Puerto Rican rice was also bland with pigeon peas but cooked perfect Al Dente and not mushy. The pork jibartio was very good with a nice garlicky flavor. It's this crispy plantain fried nicely, hearty roast pork, cheese, lettuce, tomato and a very garlicky mayo and I mean fresh garlic flavor. This version was the tastiest, meatiest and biggest pork jibartio I have had in town. I enjoyed the food and like other reviewers I'm not going to take stars away for the slow service because I have never been to Puerto Rico and for all I know this is how service is in Puerto Rico. I have a known good place specific foods like pizza, burger etc etc and I think this will be my pork jibartio place because of the garlic Mayo. read more

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During the worst of COVID this place took a downturn but they are back up on top. Typical Puerto Rican service, so it's friendly and slow. Unlike other Boricuan restaurants, no one here speaks American English, but that doesn't even slow me down a little. When I've got a taste for chuletas, I'll figure out a way to get them on my plate. Besides, I wouldn't want to eat in a Puerto Rican restaurant where they could only speak English. So because my Spanish isn't very good, I end up ordering more of the different fried dumplinas, pastilillos, and empanadillos than I can eat because I'm never completely sure what's in them. You'd think I'd remember, but it doesn't matter, almost as good reheated the next day. Be careful, it's a dangerous intersection for pedestrians. read more

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Beautiful restaurant with beautiful people amazing service wonderful food just the best experience you could have walking and you feel like you're back in Puerto Rico thank you so much I will be in from time to time to get the best food ever. read more

Shalom Puerto Rican Restaurant - Puerto Rican Near Me - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Nope!!! This is NOT how bacalaitos or pastelillos de carne molida are supposed to look or taste! The bacalaitos are way too big and fried way too long. They are greasy and taste like salty fried batter. You can't taste the fish or any seasoning besides salt. The pastelillos are damn near burned. I am so disappointed. The waitress was pleasant but they definitely need another cook! Yuk!! read more

Shalom Puerto Rican Restaurant - Pastelillos de carne molida - Puerto Rican Near Me - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Been sitting here for over 45 minutes or more waiting on drinks and haven't gotten anything yet! Order my food for them to tell me they ran out of rice smh ok fine sub it for something else but you know as long as it takes to get our drinks they could've made some more rice! Stop taking care of Togo orders and take care of people who are sitting here and waiting to be served ! Definitely never coming back I don't know how the food taste but will let you know if I even get served ! read more

Shalom Puerto Rican Restaurant - a woman holding a baby - Puerto Rican Near Me - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

This food was horrible. I am full blooded puerto rican from humacao, pr. So I know what real , Sabor of Puerto Rican food is. We ordered 1 acapurria, it was cold and no taste , then ordered Carne Frita con arroz blanco y habichuelas, also a plate of chuleta Kan Kan con arroz blanco con habichuelas. It has no sabor. Very bland, Carne frita wasn't even fried all the way like the real puerto Ricans make it. And there was no seasoning on beans or meat. And chuleta was mostly all fat. Then had to wait forever for our drinks. Very bad experience. Definitely will not come back. read more

este restaurante es lo mas cochino que hay en milwaukee. servicio pecime la comida cryda y hasta con moscas.. fui a este negocio y termine intoxicado con la comida. y lo mad peor de todo es que dicen ser cristianos y los empleados son bien arogante . es de lo peor la ciudad deberia de clausurar permanentemente.. verguenza boricua es lo que estas personas dan read more

The service was beyond horrible and only 8 people were in the restaurant at the time. The beans, jibarito was horrible. The waitress was talking disrespectfully about customers , and had a rude approach taking our orders, the cook lady came out and was looking like she wanted to punch someone in the face, making weird angry faces. That i ended up telling my family let's get the heck out of here now and told them they're rude. I think they had drama amongst each other as well. My brother in law is well known in the Hispanic community and recommend the restaurant, ( my brother in law hasn't been there in awhile) we are on vacation and it was a horrible experience. However, the mofongo was good but the rest HORRIBLE. None of us , including my family that lives here will ever return.. read more

The food was salty and the coffee was old ,,bad experience. I usually try to give positive reviews but this one is not my favorite. Poor costumer service . read more

The food definitely did not disappoint we loved the fried plantains and sweet plantains as appetizers. My sandwich was amazing and my husband liked his pork chops and my son loved his octopus dish. The flan made me do a happy dance after the first bite. But what really stuck out was the service. Felix was so attentive, so helpful with making decisions on what to order and just incredibly sweet and hospitable. I can't compliment him enough he was the best! read more

As a person of Puerto Rican roots I have to go on record and say I can truly appreciate a restaurant that sells this type of food. I hope one day we as people can look past the stuff that holds us back from having multiple restaurants. We have dozens of Mexican restaurants but only a couple of Puerto Rican ones. Nothing against my other Latinos, at the same time I would love to see expansion when it comes to our Ricans. The food is amazing and hope it stays this way. read more

Felix has got this Down!!!! 8 years in Business tells you something. A big Menu, from sandwiches to Sea food, Eat in or take out. Located in Milwaukee's Silver City area== 35 & National ave. The Decor & Music add to this Island feel. I've had pastrami sandwiches from NYC (Stage Deli, Nathan's) to ORIGINAL SAMS, in San Francisco & this Is the Best [Loaded With spicy tangy veggies & cheese]. Easy access, no stairs & wheel chair accessible. Try the PIKE Hot sauce! Well, if you can't fly to the Island for dinner Drive here, you won't regret or forget! Buenos Noches. Viva Shalom read more

Bad customer service and the food was old and stale. It was a bad experience all around. The staff was talking about the customers in Spanish. read more

Rude ass, inconsiderate ass people. So to start off, rarely do I write bad reviews for any restaurants. even when the service has not been all that great I still take the time to write a couple of positive things. This place is definitely not getting anything positive from me. I came 40 minutes out of my way because I've been here once before and I thought the food was pretty good. I grew up in Chicago and this is the closest I've gotten to Chicago Puerto Rican food around here. They weren't too busy but as soon as I walked in they told me to go sit by the front counter and I sat there while they were waiting on customers and taking payments but not one of them took the time to acknowledge me until about after 10-12 minutes after I sat down and that's only when I finally got fed up and asked if I had to do anything special to place an order. Then one of those workers there made it seem like it was my fault that I didn't speak up or anything because she thought that I was waiting on an order already. like I said I don't really like giving negative reviews but this place definitely deserves one and I don't think I will ever return nor will I be making I recommendations on this place to anybody. read more

This is the best Puerto Rican restaurant in town, food was absolutely delicious, service was great & I truly recommend it to anyone especially if you've never had Puerto Rican food before. I got the mofongo with chuletas fritas which is a mashed plantain with a few ingredients to give it taste such as garlic, pork rinds etc.... & chuletas fritas are fried pork chops. The amount of food you get will fill you up guaranteed. If you like Puerto Rican food I highly suggest you go to a place where they make it right & this is that read more

Came here for dinner on a Monday evening. Was hesitant to come as I had bad experiences at this location but with a previous name. However, it was the only spot open on Monday as sofrito Vega was closed by 6pm and another spot is closed Mondays and I was craving Puerto Rican food. Anyway, we were greeted as soon as we entered and selected our seating. Our waiter was very welcoming, attentive and knew the menu quiet well. He was very helpful when deciding what to get. We ordered ground beef pastelillos (empanadas) to start. And I ordered the bistec en salsa with white rice and habichuelas (generous serving) and delicious. My bf was very hungry and got the jibarito sandwich with arroz con gandules. He loved the jibarito as he got 2 big ones. However the rice lacked flavor ( but I have yet to have good arroz con gandules at a restaurant, we did tell our waiter after and he said they are working on it). To drink he ordered the passion fruit juice which was delicious (a bit sweet but still yummy). We also ordered the tostones with garlic sauce which were crispy, fresh and cooked to perfection along with great flavor!!! We ordered dessert to go and selected flan (they have 2 options cheese or vanilla) we picked cheese and let me tell you it was definitely a piece my bf and i were fighting for the last bite. The waiter told us the owner makes it! Must get! We will be back soon & glad we tried Shalom. read more