I was excited to try this place out especially because I'm all about mom n pop type places. Its also down the street from my office so I was hoping to find a great new lunch place. First time I went with a co-worker the restaurant was open but you wouldnt have been able to tell from the inside. It was darker than a night club inside and they weren't "ready" to serve only but a few things off the menu. The poor waitress was inexperienced, and surprisingly had very little knowledge of Cuban food and had to keep running to the back to ask questions. We decided to leave and try somewhere else and maybe come back when they were more established. I ended up coming back a few weeks later with another friend and tried the buffet and was less than impressed. Pretty much typical buffet- a bunch of mediocre food with little flavor. The fried food that should have been light and hot was cold and greasy. My dreams of yummy sweet and slightly salted tostones were crushed because of course they didnt serve them on the buffet (really?) and again the place was still not prepared to service patrons. We had to ask for place settings, and there were several dishes with no serving spoons (I wasn't sure if they wanted you to use the same spoon for multiple items, but um no thanks). The one thing that was actually good were the black beans- nice smoky flavor, but unfortunately for me that's probably the last item when I think of Cuban food I actually really care about. Too bad there's not much that's sweet about Azucar.