Latin Cabana

Great place for any time of the day. The special of the day is always good and is a lot of food, good if you are hungry... Don't forget to ask for your batido (smoothie) as well, I always go with the banana one...

Great tasty food and fast. Great service as well.

Great service. Great location. Great food.

Wow. Should have written a review sooner.

The food is simply outstanding. Second to none. The pricing is ridiculously low for the quantity and quality of the food served. They offer daily specials featuring pernil, beef, chicken, and others. I've only had pernil though. It's just too good. Now that I think of it, the dishes remind me of an old friends Spanish grandma's dinners. Now, I eat healthy, but the tostones are fresh and crispy, not too greasy. The coffee is delicious and low-priced.

The waitress and waiters and completely polite and attentive, too.

At Latin Cabana, $20 is enough to feed a couple off of daily specials, and give them the leftovers, too. This place is no joke. Bring extra for the well deserved tip! It's cash only, but they have an atm right inside.

OMG OMG OMG. LATIN CABANA. Let me count the ways...the food here is orgasmic. I've been here a few times and tried their empanadas (pretty good, not Mama's Empanada standard, but still good), tostones (fantastic! not pressed too much so that it becomes a potato chip like thing (although they sells those as well, made on-site of course) but nicely sized and thick tostones, just the way I like them :D.

The white rice isn't burnt or overcooked, another one of the gripes I sometimes have with white rice in Latin restaurants - just add a pinch of salt and you're golden - also they have an olive oil/vinegar sauce on the table that also tastes amazing if you put it on the rice...or on anything really.

Their yuca is boiled to perfection and simmered in a traditional garlic sauce that's not too powerful (so I like to dip it into a garlic mojo, which they make differently to what I'm used to seeing as I'm half Puerto Rican and half South American and used to a creamier garlic mojo versus a more oil based one) but it's still tasty stuff and great with tostones, meat, rice and of course - boiled [or fried] yuca.

The pernil here (which thankfully is a part of their daily special EVERYDAY) is off the charts delicious. Flavorful, perfectly seasoned, slow cooked, pulled pork heaven that's been slow cooked in lime/garlicky goodness. SO FREAKIN' GOOD and tastes deliciously HOMEMADE.

Also, I also always ask for their garlic mojo (Mojo is essentially a work for Latin watery yummy sauces that normally use olive oil as a base, think aoli but less buttery) and I use it on my rice, meat, beans, tostones, empanada, sandwich or whatever I get because I think garlic tastes good on anything and I'm not a vampire...so I take advantage.

If you come here for your first time and like pork - DO IT. If you come here for your 13th time and like pork - DO IT. If you don't like pork (but are not allergic to it!) then - DO IT, you won't regret it. It's fantastic.

My boyfriend has had their large Cuban burger and he loved it, he's also had their sautéed chicken (it's a Wednesday daily special) with yellow rice and red beans and he was quite happy. He's actually the reason we've eaten here a few times as of late!

My first encounter was simply 2 take-out empanadas on my way to meeting him at a movie theater. Super happy we've actually gotten to eat here and experience their actual food. They even have traditionally Latin-Caribbean, Mexican and Colombian sodas that are fruit flavored, carbonated but sans caffeine or artificial sweeteners like corn fructose - my kind of sodas! :D

Prices here are also crazy reasonable and the portions here are HUGE. The two times I've ordered the daily special I was unable to finish at least half (see my pictures!) and both times I had my excess food wrapped to go and both times other people ate my other half...guess it's that good folks.

There's also a lot of social media promotions for this place (not needed, since they're already cheap - but hey, discounts never hurt anyone!) - look on Scoutmob, foursquare and even our darling Yelp . What I did learn (at least with the Scoutmob/foursquare 50% off promo) that you want to mention this to them BEFORE you order.

They tried to give me a little trouble last night, but I respectfully reminded them that the coupon said nothing about when to mention and he honored it without a problem. I'll do it correctly the next time and assume perhaps a smaller serving? Which I'm sure would still be more than enough.

Latin Cabana is also a preferred Seamless partner (whatever that means, lol) so they deliver (which I have yet to do, but probably will someday in the very near future) and has a cute space which works perfectly for a casual date (especially with them being a hop, skip and a jump away from the Kaufman Astoria movie theater!), group get-together, informal family dinner or alone noms.

I really can't say enough positive things about the food here. GO, go eat here soon!