O Imperial Bar & Restaurant
“Their sangria is great too, both the white and the red.”
“Try the o'imperial filet minon, it has shrimp on top of the steak with garlic sauce (like a brown gravy) WOW FANTANSTIC!!!”
“This is a great place for a casual meal or a quick bite and a beer or cocktail.”
O Imperial Bar & Restaurant
Takes Reservations: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
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Key takeaway: one of the best sangrias you will ever find. We went with a pitcher of the red, and it was delicious. Eating the wine soaked apples at the bottom was only icing on the cake. Here are the highlights:
+ Garlic shrimp is a great app choice, super garlicky.
+ Paella is very tasty, flavorful with great quantity of seafood.
+ Huge soft bread served warm.
+ Nice place, old fashioned decor.
+ Good quick service, but you have to ask for water, and they will not re-fill it up unless you ask.
All in all, a quality place for a low-key meal that will fill you up and leave you satisfied. Highly recommended.
friendly, casual Portuguese bar-restaurant with Affordable prices, a pretty good food selection on the menu, and many Portuguese wines , beers, and liqueurs to choose from. The place has a very Portuguese feel. friendly staff. Try some great Portuguese brandy! an easy place to hang out for a long time at the bar , they have TVs with sports, there are some outdoor tables on the sidewalk, a casual neighborhood bar feeling. The food is very tasty!!!
Well………I had an interesting night.
Me and the wife had a date night….meaning no kids.
I suggested Tina Louise, one of our favorites in the area. The wife wants to try something different. I suggest Portugese but did not want to deal with traffic going to the Newark's Ironbound. I come up with Kearny's O Imperial.
As we drive there we witness a woman hit by a car, thankfully not seriously, so we pull over to help and are there for about 45 minutes. Sooooo, we finally resume our travel to Kearny.
First off, parking sucks in Kearny.
We finally get in to the bar/restaurant and are seated and we notice the tablecloth is a bit dirty……not a biggie, but it was just something we noticed.
The food took a long time to come out.
Now I understand this is a bar also, but there was a table of 4 senior citizens near us and apparently one guy was drunk. He constantly kept saying out loud, "OHHHH BOYYY". Why the people he was with did not take him out of there was beyond me.
So we finally get our food, and the wife is half way through her picandho (chicken and shrimp dish that was pretty tasty) and we notice a long gray hair in the food. Kind of gross. Its definitely not ours. My wife tells the waiter and he did apologize and I believe he told his boss. They were nice about it, and when received the check, her meal was taken off, which I thought was quite professional. I would have been happy if they took half her meal off.
I had the grilled tuna. It was ok. It came with three broccoli spears and boiled potatoes. My tuna looked a little lonely on the plate, almost like it need a better side dish.
The server we had annoyed me a bit. When I asked him for a refill and later on for the check, he just had a blank stare on his face. I had no idea if he heard me or not because he never acknowledged me…..not even a nod. He obviously did hear me , because he brought my drink and later he came with the check.
All in all, the food was just ok….other than the hair, service was meh, and the atmosphere was loud and annoying.
I think I would have enjoyed myself better at Tina and Louise.