Casona Restaurant

Reviews

• Sania M.

  star star star star star 29 May 2026

  Food is AMAZING here!!! Plus the entertainment!! I HIGHLY recommend this gem in the middle of no where in Hartford if you're looking for a night of dinner and dancing. They have live late music at dinner time on the weekends and salsa/bachata starts around 10pm with lessons. They also have another room with hip-hop and r&b music. So if you feel like a change you can swap between rooms! They also have a separate bar area if you ran there just lay low and hold good conversation. You can find more information on their website. They also have parking at the building if you arrive early enough otherwise you will need to park further away.

• Eric W.

  star star star star star_border 27 May 2026

  Today I celebrated 6 months of being with my girlfriend Tiffany and I wanted to take her some place cool, but not break the bank. Where else do you turn? Groupon! Casona offered a great deal that I couldn't pass up. So we stopped in here before heading to The Funny Bone to continue the evening's festivities.
  
  Appearance/Atmosphere: I just LOVE a business with their own parking lot. Lol. It just eliminates the hassle of trying to find a place to put your car while you shop, eat, have fun, whatever. There wasn't much to the outside, but there were quite a few surprises inside. This place is a restaurant, but it's more-so dedicated to dancing, like a night club. There were 3-4 HUGE, wide-open rooms with wooden floors that are setup for you to dance. You walk in from the parking lot right into the beautiful, colorful bar that has a stage setup for live music. If you continue through you walk into the "Hip-Hop" room where that type of music is played. (Later in the evening of course.) To your left is the "Salsa" room! We were there around 5:15pm so there wasn't much going on in them and we were some of the only customers there.
  
  Service: The bartender was our server as well so she was fairly busy taking care of the bar rail, but was very attentive to us sitting at a high top. I wish I remembered her name, but she was very sweet, funny and got us everything that we needed.
  
  Food: So the Groupon is for 2 tapas and 2 cocktails. I had a Long Island Iced Tea with seltzer instead of Coca-Cola and sour mix. Cutting the carbs where I can. Lol. My lady had a Grey Goose Lemon Drop. Delicious drinks. I'd expect nothing less from a place that's supposed to be a club. For my first tapa I went with their Ceviche Trilogia which is a taste of 3 kinds of their ceviche, each made with a special yellow pepper sauce, rocoto and virgin. It was SO GOOD, lime-y, citrus-y, fresh and the portion was much larger than I had expected. I thought a tapa was a fairly small plate, I was pleasantly surprised. My 2nd tapa was the Picada which were bite-size portions of beef, pork, chorizo, chicken, potatoes and yucca. So savory, succulent and filling! It was huge, definitely not what I think of when I hear "tapa"! Lol. I'd love to try the rest of their menu out. I'm not really into clubbing so much anymore. I mean, I'll dance if Tiffany wants to, but I'd come here for the food!
  
  Value: The Groupon was $29.00 (before the extra 20% off I got) that included 2 tapas of any kind and 2 drinks of any kind. Shoot, 2 drinks in a club can easily run you $30.00 alone so that made this deal even sweeter. I don't know what the drinks would've been without the Groupon, but I do know my Ceviche Trilogia would've been $12.99 and my Picada would've been $11.99. The Groupon basically pays for itself before we even get to the drinks... almost. Lol. Aside from that I'd totally pay regular prices for the food that I had. It was absolutely worth it.
  
  In conclusion, I like the way this place was setup. Restaurant by day, party palace by night. What more could you want? Brunch, but nobody's perfect. Lol. I'd love to come back here to try some of their entrees and definitely check out the night life!

• Jayne M.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 26 May 2026

  HORRIBLE experience. Went to dance/have fun with my boyfriend and people were legitamenttaly TRYING to start fights with us for absolutely no reason. This place is absolute trash. If you're a young white woman be careful. Do NOT come here.

• Sammi D.

  star star star star star_border 19 May 2026

  I came here with my boyfriend for dinner on a Saturday night around 6pm and found the place was pretty much empty. We walked in and the folks inside seemed to be getting ready and setting up the bar area, however we were seated for dinner quickly and our order taken. We shared a pitcher of sangria and ordered entrees, and the food was delicious! However, we were the only people in the restaurant the entire time and we left around 8pm. I will add that everything was nice about the experience however!

• Sho R.

  star star star star_border star_border 5 May 2026

  Today I had parihuela soup. It was mentioned as an aphrodisiac. Taste wise I think it was fine. Not outstanding.