Wonderful comfort food! We had the tostones al moja for an appetizer - delicious with the ketchup based dipping sauce. Next we had the mofongo topped with the camarones en salsa criolla - Wow! This was fantastic! My only suggestion would be less mofongo (it was a huge mound of the delicious mashed plantains) and more shrimp. We also had pernil with rice and beans. The pork was tender, flavorful, and wonderfully aromatic. The rice and beans were good but did not stand out on their own right.
For beverages we had the Puerto Rican sodas: Coco Rico and Malta. Fantastic! The Coco Rico is like a coconut flavored cream soda and the Malta, molasses based, is hard to describe other than it did taste like molasses and I really enjoyed it. Neither were overly sweet.
The service was very fast and very friendly. We almost felt like we were over to their house for dinner. We always like it when the owner or chef comes by to the table and Mr. Rivera did not disappoint. The setting is very spacious and nicely decorated. We'll be back soon!