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| - Very easily the most authentic Cuban restaurant in Las Vegas...and if you want to gamble on it, in Nevada. My Cuban family is EXTREMELY picky about Cuban food, and claim that nobody can cook as well as my grandmother - but I must confess, some of these dishes were even better than hers. Oh hell, she thought so too! The ropa vieja was sweet and tender, the yucca with the perfect amount of lemon juice and garlic (too many places leave them oily), and cafes con leche that are better than some places in Miami. If you're a vegetarian, you won't really find anything to eat (the congri has pork, the vegetarian sandwich is less-than-stellar...), but meat eaters will be very happy!
It's only downfall - and for this level of flavor, it's minor, is that Florida Cafe is located in a not so stellar location inside the HoJo's (the Howard Johnson).
[edit: and as for Linette's comment below, I just have to say (as a fellow Cuban-American) that I disagree! We always run into random relatives and such here, all born and raised in Cuba.)]
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