Had lunch with Rich at Cuba Libra in the Tropicana, Atlantic City this afternoon. The place was pretty empty when we arrived. Rich ordered the Miami Fritta pictured above - their version of a burger. Beef, pork and chorizo with spicy mustard, lettuce, tomato and thin little crunchy strips of potato. Served on a toasted Cuban bread. It was pretty good...not at all like a burger actually, but tasty nonetheless. It was well cooked, had that smokey flavor that comes with the Spanish sausage and nicely complimented by the mustard. The bread was fabulous making it an unusual but good sandwich. The little Kennebec shoestring fries were awesome.
I had their version of a Cobb Salad...Roasted pulled pork, plantain salpicon, hearts of palm, grape tomatoes, avocado, bacon, Cabrales cheese, egg and scallions on baby spinach and watercress with a mustard vinaigrette. I'm not sure what I expected but it too was a very tasty dish. The pork and bacon gave the salad the saltiness that a Cobb is usually lacking and the dressing had just the slightest tang to it that played nicely off the avocado and tomato.
When we ordered, they told Rich his burger was going to take fifteen minutes to prepare so to start we munched on their Mariquitas Cubanas which is basically a take on chips and salsa. The "chips" were plantain, malanga and yuca chips and the three dips were a salsa (not chunky, very smooth), guacamole (fabulous with a mixture of avocado, pineapple and scallion) and a mushroom escabeche rillette...don't know what that means but it was quite good with a earthy and smokey quality and the consistency of humus.
Overall, a decent lunch. I'd go there again.
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I had their version of a Cobb Salad...Roasted pulled pork, plantain salpicon, hearts of palm, grape tomatoes, avocado, bacon, Cabrales cheese, egg and scallions on baby spinach and watercress with a mustard vinaigrette. I'm not sure what I expected but it too was a very tasty dish. The pork and bacon gave the salad the saltiness that a Cobb is usually lacking and the dressing had just the slightest tang to it that played nicely off the avocado and tomato.
When we ordered, they told Rich his burger was going to take fifteen minutes to prepare so to start we munched on their Mariquitas Cubanas which is basically a take on chips and salsa. The "chips" were plantain, malanga and yuca chips and the three dips were a salsa (not chunky, very smooth), guacamole (fabulous with a mixture of avocado, pineapple and scallion) and a mushroom escabeche rillette...don't know what that means but it was quite good with a earthy and smokey quality and the consistency of humus.
Overall, a decent lunch. I'd go there again.
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