Cubana Cafe

Stroll your little ones to Cubana Cafe. The owners are eager to please the Park Slope Parents. The owner assured me that he will be installing a baby changing station and a little ramp for strollers and wheel chairs. The food is delicious! They plenty of high chairs and love to cater to babies!

Subject: Re: Cubana Cafe

Kalechipper wrote: Stroll your little ones to Cubana Cafe. The owners are eager to please the Park Slope Parents. The owner assured me that he will be installing a baby changing station and a little ramp for strollers and wheel chairs. The food is delicious! They plenty of high chairs and love to cater to babies!

You just lost half of the posters here...

I highly doubt the posters 'I've" lost would go to Cubana Cafe during the same weekday hours I would go but with all the jobless jobbies out there, I wouldn't be surprised. Make way for Mama and Baby!

Kalechipper wrote: I highly doubt the posters 'I've" lost would go to Cubana Cafe during the same weekday hours I would go but with all the jobless jobbies out there, I wouldn't be surprised. Make way for Mama and Baby!

You clearly are unaware of the large funemploment club on brooklynian. There are also lots of people who work non-traditional shifts or telecommute and often dine during the daytime (I used to be part of the latter.)

I guess we'll be dining together then.

Subject: Re: Cubana Cafe

Kalechipper wrote: Stroll your little ones to Cubana Cafe. The owners are eager to please the Park Slope Parents. The owner assured me that he will be installing a baby changing station and a little ramp for strollers and wheel chairs. The food is delicious! They plenty of high chairs and love to cater to babies!

I want my babies to learn that Cubans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, all the Latins?! yup....interfrigginchangable.

Ate there last week. Had the stuffed poblano chile even though I knew it wasn't autentico. It was good and not overly expensive. The staff freaked out when I answered a cell phone call -- and I love that! Srsly. Awesome. I just needed to step outside. That's what I should have done in the first place.

Got a cuban sandwich for my friend to go. She said it was delicious.

It's nicer than the Pollo rotisserie we normally go to across from Bogota. We love Bogota but it gets really crowded.

My mom is coming into town next week from Miami and she's got... um... really strong breakfast requirements that include Cuban coffee and Cuban bread.

If that can't be found, Colombian coffee and bread. She *might* be ok with Dominican, since she lived in the DR for two years.

If that can't be found, she's going to be cranky. Last time she brought a coffee sock and made coffee on the stove. Sigh.

Carneviento is near my house. Never had breakfast there - what are they?

From the sound of it Cubana Cafe isn't overly authentic, but solid. I mean to try it sometime soon. Double Diamond, an alternative for your mom is El Gran Castillo De Jagua on Park and Flatbush (prospect heights side). Cheap, solid food (cuban can be hit or miss). It is mostly Dominican, but an option for you.

I just had castillo tonight (and have eaten it 4 times in the last few months) and I can say- avoid the rotisserie chicken. I know it looks tasty but its actually pretty terrible. Everything else I've had has been good (the pork mofongo is insane good, the chicken is only fair, the rice and beans is awesome as well.) Just an aside...

MOD NOTE: point of order, everybody:

"El Gran Castillo De Jagua on Park and Flatbush" is properly referred to as "Carneviento" or, if you're feeling more formal, "El Carneviento."

somebody who's not supposed to be frantically grading papers can dig up the original thread.

they are from all accounts not truly, authentically cuban, but awesome nonetheless. great food, great cafe con leche. can't vouch for the bread.

sweet tea wrote: MOD NOTE: point of order, everybody:

"El Gran Castillo De Jagua on Park and Flatbush" is properly referred to as "Carneviento" or, if you're feeling more formal, "El Carneviento."

somebody who's not supposed to be frantically grading papers can dig up the original thread.

they are from all accounts not truly, authentically cuban, but awesome nonetheless. great food, great cafe con leche. can't vouch for the bread.

Oh man I just read the Carneviento thread. That is freakin hilarious and should have entered the daily PS lexicon by now.

Getting off the subway at 7th and Flatbush? Watch out for El Carneviento.