809 Take Out - Swiftwater

Best Latin food in the Poconos area hands down. Friendly staff too! I'm from NYC so I'm spoiled with the best food that the city has to offer. I love to go the Poconos and now I have a good spot for my Latin food when I'm out here. Thanks 809 Take Out! Joe from NYC .

This place is the bomb!!!! Never a bad meal. The people there are very helpful to tell you about each meal if you are unfamiliar with ethnic food. Turned my family and a few friends into them. Fresh food everyday. Doesn't look like much outside but totally worth the stop. Any resort folks in need of some good food it's a great place.

LOCATION? LOCATION? LOCATION? So after reading not so great reviews from local eateries while staying in Mount Airy Casino, we decided to order in and give 809 takeout a shot. Excited at the fact that website says they deliver, we called to place an order. It was a Saturday night approximately 7pm, my husband called and a spanish speaking gentleman answered. My husband began speaking English and gentleman states I don 't speak English. No problem I speak Spanish fluently so I took the phone and inquired about one of the combos I saw on the menu posted on yelp. The guy says oh you are looking at the menu for 809 takeout right? I said yes isn 't this 809 takeout? He then explains that he recently purchased the store and it is no longer 809 takeout it is now La Parrada Latina. He says he used to be the cook for 809 takeout and assured me the food was same great quality I had read about. We were starving at this point so decided to go ahead and give it a shot. I ordered the pork chop combo and 1 stuffed potato appetizer. I proceeded to tell him where we would need the food delivered to, he paused for a moment and said sorry no delivery tonight. I said but the site says you deliver, he says we do but not tonight. I 'm here by myself. He told me he was only like 10 min down the road. My husband agreed to go pick up the food. Here is where the fun really begins. I hung up the phone at 7:40pm. My husband walked out of the room at 7:45pm. He wazed the address which said it was only 8 min away from the casino. 20 min later my husband calls me and says the address listed is a vacant location. So I call them back and asked him to please give me the exact address so I can GPS it. He says it 's the same address as 809 takeout. I explained to him in Spanish of course that the address listed was not coming up on GPS. Again he says it 's the same one. I googled the address while on the phone with him and 105 Rt 611 Swiftwater pops up. I asked him if that is the correct address, he says yes. I call the husband back and give him this different address, husband calls me back 20 min later and says that address is for a liquor store. My husband is talking to the owner of the liquor store and that gentleman has no idea where this place is either. Ok so now we are both pretty upset. Once again I call the restaurant and explain to the guy that the address is not right. I was very frustrated at this point my husband is driving around in an unfamiliar area, everyone he asks has no idea where this place is. The worst part is the guy at the restaurant had no clue! I asked for some sort of landmark, the name of a business that he could give me to help pinpoint the exact location, and he just couldn 't do it! Just kept saying it 's at the same place! 845pm after driving up and down Rt 611 my husband calls me back and says forget it, I 'm coming back to the hotel we will just eat at the buffet. I called the restaurant back and said forget it we couldn 't find the place. Then he says oh we will just bring it to you. I said what do you mean, you said there was no delivery tonight. He said we are closing in 15 min, my delivery boy is back. Really! I didn 't even know what to say to him, he quickly said yes my guy already left with your food. I quickly called my husband and told him that now the food was being delivered, keep in mind he hasn 't coming back yet from this wild goose chase . Wont go into details as to his initial response, as this is a family friendly website. After calming him down he said fine I 'll just wait for him downstairs. The delivery guy called my cell at 903pm, and said he was in the lobby. My husband walked in the door at 9:10pm with food. What a disaster! We got takeout food an 1and 1/2 hours after placing order. Now I am well aware that yelpers rely on yelp for food reviews, but I feel that it is important that I warn my fellow yelpers about this to avoid any one else sharing our fate. Food was ok. Pork chops were dry but did have flavor, despite the fact that they were cold. No microwave in room. Black beans were ok too, just not used to getting black beans from a dominican restaurant and prefer the red beans. The stuffed potato appetizer was very greasy, though the ground beef was seasoned well. I don 't know that my food review would have been better had I tasted the food within 20 min of it being prepared. But an hour and a half later it tasted worthy of 3 stars. Final note on actual address: The actual address is 2177 Rt 611 Swiftwater PA. We found this out as we were driving back home to NY. As for landmark, it is located near the Pocono Cheesecake Factory. (You will see bilboard ads all over) Really wish someone would have offered us this information!

I found this place on Yelp during our trip to the Great Wolf Lodge, I didn't think it was going to be anything great but was pleasantly surprised when it was great food! Service was good fast and efficient. Place was clean. The rice and beans w/olives was so delicious, I couldn't stop eating it. The renejo de papa was heavenly! My pernil sandwich didn't stand a chance! We will definitely stop there again when we are in the area!