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| - upon walking in on a saturday evening, my party and i were told that there was dress code policy. no jeans!!! but b/c we were there so early for dinner, the manager/owner (?) allowed us to dine there. i noticed she purposely placed in a corner where we would not be seen and away from the stage area.
since its a cuban restaurant, we had to start off with some crisp sugary mojitos, that were small and damn expensive??? our appetizers, consisted of Yucca Frita (pan fried yucca...a potato relative) and Bacalao (fried shredded salt codfish chunks the size of small cookies). for entrees, we had masitas de puerco (crisp garlic chunks pork meat), and a tilapia grilled in a creamy buttery garlic sauce. i ordered the lechon asado (slow tender roasted pork marinated in
spices and citrus juice). overall, the food here is pretty good, but a bit small and overpriced. i think the service was a bit pushy to. i couldnt stand how often they kept asking if we were done with our plates. it wasnt busy! were they trying to kick us b/c of the dress code? the bar lounge area had the island feel with a faint blue glow around it. the place was a bit cold, so our food cooled down a bit too fast. i also noticed that they did not offer tap water and assumed that we wanted bottle water. the place does have a lot of promise. aside from the weird/bad service, i will come back. this place has live music (Darias and his Orchestra (The Bongo King)), and possibly salsa lessons on friday and saturday, where i would love to take my lovely and favorite dining companion? teri c., how about a date???
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