The Media Noche at Margon is similar to their Cuban sandwich, only on a sweet potato bread, something like a Cuban brioche. And it's only four bucks!
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Cubanos (or
mixtos as they're called in Cuba and Miami), with their meaty/tangy blend of roast pork, ham, cheese, and pickles, have a pretty secure spot in the list of top 10 sandwiches of all time. It can be pretty tough to find a great one in Manhattan, but Havana Central does it up right.
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Some restaurants open to fill a clear need—and some restaurants strike a note so right that they seem as if they were needed all along. I didn't know that 14th Street needed a 24-hour Cuban diner, polished but homey, Latin-and-American, with cheery yellow walls and remarkable desserts and
Maná and
Juanes as the soundtrack. But now that I've been, it seems the most logical idea in the world.
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For years,
Clinton Restaurant—on the corner of Houston and Clinton Streets—was a favorite for cheap Latin food on the pierced lip of the Lower East Side. And despite a name change last February to "
Pinalito City," the core of the restaurant remains the same, even if prices have not. Pinalito specializes in Cuban and Puerto Rican cuisine, though there is a menu of Mexican and Tex-Mex fare with chimichangas, fajitas, chalupas, and the like. It's tasty enough, but the South American foods are where they excel.
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Any establishment launched by the same team behind Death + Co., Mayahuel, and The Bourgeois Pig (amongst others) is one I'll pay a visit. So when the
Cuban-sandwich-shop-
speakeasy-Rum-Bar complex known as Cienfuegos expanded to include a full sit-down restaurant, it made the top of my list.
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In this great city of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around New York. Got a sandwich we should check...
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Editor's note: Both of our East Village denizens, Kathy YL Chan and Nick Solares, had a lot to say about the brand-new Carteles Cuban Sandwiches. So we'll let them both have at it! [Photos unless otherwise noted: Nick Solares] NICK:...
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Even in my wildest dreams, I couldn’t call El Unico a “find.” Indeed, the only word that comes to mind describing it is “legend.” And the meta-legend—the legend that begat all other El Unico legends—is that this is both...
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All this turkey talk serves to remind me how much I love the turkey sandwich at Sophie's Cuban. The meat is ridiculously tender and the tomato gravy moistens it up quite nicely. I think this week, to make it...
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Like all serious eaters I strive to find deliciousness in every morsel that passes my lips. Sometimes that doesn’t happen though, resulting in disappointment. And sometimes the disappointment is so strong that the wrong must be righted immediately. The...
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