A new feature of my blog will be reviewing bargain food treats and restaurants. This will be less about the hottest new thing but instead neighborhood favorites and food discoveries.
Today's review is Little Cuba in a dreary little strip mall near I-285 on Chamblee Rd. We recently relocated my office to the Koger Center so we have been looking for lunch places close by. What a delight to discover Little Cuba. I had really been missing my pressed Cuban sandwich since Little Havana burned down.
Well, Little Cuba is even better with delicious home style cooking and a neat, interiour for lunch dining. The staff are all welcoming and helpful with the menu. They have a number of lunch specialities named after I Love Lucy characters including the "Ricky", half Cuban sandwich (very big) with a side of black beans, yellow rice and crispy fried plantains. They usually have two lunch specials, the Ethel 1 and Ethel 2. The Cuban sandwich is the standard, pork, ham, cheese, mustard and green pickles, pressed hot. The beans and yellow rice are the best. While served separately they are best if you pour the beans and broth onto the rice. Another favorite is the pressed pork sandwich which has delicious thin slices of marinated roast pork on cuban bread, pressed hot. They also serve crispy fresh potato chips.
This place merits a once a week visit for lunch.
Little Cuba
3350 Chamblee Tucker Rd.
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