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| - We went here around the holidays last year. I am very familiar with Cuban food and this place is mediocre, to put it kindly. They would not survive in Miami. Visit there and you'll see.
For starters, they use low quality ingredients yet charge full price. The steak that we ordered did not even have grill marks and the fillet was very skinny. One could find a similar quality steak in a Mexican restaurant for 1/4 to 1/3 off and they'll stuff you with fixings (e.g. chips and salsa), which compensates.
I ordered a salad and all of the greens were iceberg lettuce and it was very pale, almost white. They could have thrown in a few pieces of romaine, butter and/or green leaf lettuce(s) to add some life and color. I'm not asking for escarole or French leafy greens. Even buffets do better for less. What I paid for was mainly the meat in my salad. That's so disappointing because even my homemade salads are better than this.
Though I don't eat bread, my relative told me that it tasted okay, but she's had better. She had to ask for real butter because they gave her margarine. The waitress stated that it was butter, but my relative explained the difference between margarine and butter in Spanish. That's when she got the point. The meat and accompanying sauce was very flavorful. That's why I didn't give them 1 star.
I get the sense that they nickel and dime everything because they're on Las Vegas Blvd. Technically, the Strip has not yet begun in this location because it is still considered a part of Downtown. This only means that the badlands are only a few blocks away. If drive around at night, you'll see what I mean. Location is everything.
The service was okay, but the waitress tried to overcharge us (not a lot of money); so not cool.
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