Lena - Denver

We have celebrated our engagement of our friends and our waitress has released a free champagne! our waitress was so helpful and knowledgeable to guide us what to order. everything was delicious! for 6 people we ordered the small mixto, pan de yuca, pollo asado, ceviche and camarones fritos

The food wasn’t good. Our server was nice and fun, for our order right and somehow memorized our names (6 of us). We went for restaurant week. I haven’t been to restaurant week in a couple years because the food hasn’t been great. They mass order food and probably don’t make a profit. It’s busy and probably stressful for staff. Anyway it wasn’t good and I was hoping it would be because I remember really liking Leña. We ordered the pan de yuca, a previous favorite. They were stale and cold. The half chicken main was dry and overcooked. The cauliflower main was literally 2 pieces of cauliflower. It was delicious but I was expecting like half a cauliflower for it being a main dish. Empanadas were too flakey? Can you imagine... it was like butter wrapped in too little filling. Appetizers were just weird. Like a slab of cheese that I can only describe as steak like. A massive cheese curdle griddled for a slight char. Salad was literally a wedge of Romain with light dressing, so the inner leaves were just leaves. My critique to restaurants is do restaurant week right or don’t do it at all. If you can’t make a delicious 2 3 course meal for 35$ then don’t do it. I’ll never go back and it saddens me because I previously dreamed of those pan de yuca.

Food was fantastic. Must try the empanadas! Good service as always.

Went to Leña for restaurant week and I cannot wait to go back again! From the service to the food, it was all spectacular!

If I could give negative stars on service I would. A negative 5 stars. It took 30 minutes to get our drinks, and shame on us for not leaving at that point. After 2.5 hours our bill was delivered to the table, but not our dessert. This was during restaurant week, but if you are offering a 4 course meal then you should have the staff to support it. And they should not give you the bill before you have all of the courses being offered. We try to support local restaurants both during restaurant week and beyond, but this is not one I'll be going to again.