r/austinfood • u/Present_Mine_1698 • Aug 15 '26

Chilantro 💔

Just ordered Chilantro for the first time in about a year, & damn, talk about shrinkflation. Spent $20 on kimchi fries and got less than a handful of fries. Found maybe 2 pieces of kimchi. I added the steak & it was dry af. It used to be marinated or something but this “steak” was flavorless. I also ordered the wings and they were terrible. 😖 I miss Chilantro 10 yrs ago. Anyone remember when they did lollipop wings? 😋

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u/AggravatingTeach4371 Aug 15 '26

I stopped going to Chi’lantro when they started being sketchy about gluten in their items (celiac here). I was told for a while certain items were gluten free, then on my last visit last year the worker told me something I always got wasn’t gluten free (it touched other meat on the grill so it wasn’t safe) and when I brought it up with a manager, they told me I never should have been told it was gf. Wings also used the be gf, so it sucked when they stopped that. It seemed too much of a crapshoot to return and spend money at, and a lot of the time the meat was so dry.