Boriken Mart

So unbelievably delicious!!! She was setup at Blossom of Lights and her food was amazing! She makes it to order so you do have to wait a bit, but the end result is worth it!!

Went here on a Saturday for lunch and placed an order to go. We were super excited to try out a new variety of food in the area! I don't know if it was an off day for them or what, but the POS system didn't seem to be working properly which seemed to cause some communication breakdowns and made everything slow down. We didn't end up getting our food for about 45 minutes and the people who ordered after us but were eating in the restaurant got their food before us. There seemed to be a lack of organization and it was pretty unpleasant to sit and wait for the food. Most of the people in the restaurant had a kind of uncomfortable look on their face because any disagreement in the kitchen was clearly heard by everyone, and there were many disagreements about timing of orders and location of where people should be in the kitchen. You could hear all of the yelling...

That being said, lets get on to the food! We ordered the Jibarito wagyu beef sliders, the pineapple jerk crispy chicken wrap, the grilled blacken shrimp tapas, a beef picadillo empanada, and a vega baja chicken empanada. The beef sliders stole the show! The sauce and meat with the lettuce and tomato on the plantain bun was really well balanced and very flavorful. This would be a guaranteed order next time! The pineapple jerk chicken wrap didn't have as much jerk flavor as we were expecting, but overall it was pleasant. The shrimp tapas had well-sized shrimp and the avocado sauce balanced pretty well. We did expect more spice since it said blackened shrimp, but there wasn't any heat. Of the empanadas, the chicken was the preferred. They had a nice dough and the chicken adobo had a good flavor. The beef was fine, but was dominated by potato.

Overall, the food was pretty solid and we would definitely go back for the sliders, but it seems that some kinks still need to be worked out. The wait time was too long, but the worst part of it was the amount of yelling that you sat through if you waited in the restaurant. Maybe ordering online and going to pick it up would give you a more pleasant overall picture, but it also seemed that the online orders were causing some of the communication issues in the kitchen, as in the time there we heard of multiple orders having to be remade and they were not always certain about what went to who. We're really hopeful that this gets figured out, because its super exciting to have another variety of food in Wausau! And they are pretty tasty!!

Great food and service owner is super nice and knows what she's doing in that kitchen