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In Reply to: RE: Anyone interested in seeing Cuba? You should go soon. posted by free.ranger on December 19, 2014 at 08:53:47
was on El Camino Real in Palo Alto. Jose was a large bald Cuban gentleman who fled Cuba with his mom in the 1950s. Once in America, his mom taught him to cook and cook he could and cook he did.
He had the only Cuban eatery that I knew of in the Bay Area and since it was only 2 miles from where I lived I went there often for his out of this world cooking.
He made empanadas in several ways, chicken, beef, pork and my fav, lamb. These were the favorite on his menu, he also did Argentinean style pizzas with amazing toppings, not at all like Round Table!
On weekends there was live Latin music and the local Latin women came to eat and dance and flirt and was it ever good.....
Jose closed down when his rent doubled, I often ran into him at the various drinking joints in Palo Alto. A great conversationalist and a kind man with an eye for the ladies. He often spoke of opening a new Jose's and was making empanadas at his home and selling them thru a local grocery store.
He never did open another Jose's which was Palo Alto's loss...
If the food in Cuba is like his cooking, then it is worth going...
Edits: 12/19/14Follow Ups:
"If the food in Cuba is like his cooking, then it is worth going..."Unfortunately not. The food is adequate but bland (spices are hard to come by) and most travelers are not going for the food. Now the rum, music and women are a different story!
Edits: 12/19/14
I like the street stories. The level we live at.
Headlines are mostly horseshit.
old but interesting none the less @
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