What makes this El Atlacatl different from all others? Nothing and everything. You’ll find pupusas – Salvadoran tortillas filled with beans, cheese, and pork – alongside sweet tamales de elote and sopa de res or sopa de gallina. The Moreno family, which owns this location, directly or indirectly owns a half-dozen other Salvadoran eateries across […]
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Step inside the Bird Road location of El Novillo and you’ll find yourself in the re-created courtyard of a Nicaraguan hacienda, complete with burbling fountain and guitar music. That’s the idea at least, and if you don’t find it convincing, let the excellent food and extremely attentive service ease your nerves and remove you from […]
Step inside the Bird Road location and you’ll find yourself in the recreated courtyard of a Nicaraguan hacienda, complete with burbling fountain and guitar music. That’s the idea at least and if you don’t find it convincing, let the excellent food and extremely attentive service ease your nerves and remove you from Bird Road traffic […]
Gallo pinto can mean either spotted rooster or a perfectly mixed rice-and-bean concoction. If you want the former, you are out of luck. But nowhere prepares the Central American delicacy more deliciously than Fritanga Cocina de Do
Good baho is hard to get, if you can find it at all. One reason is that it takes about eight hours to cook the complicated dish. What the heck is it? Essentially beef brisket, mysteriously soaked in a marinade of tomatoes, onions, and oranges, and then wrapped in banana leaves, tossed into a big […]
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Just off Miami Gardens Drive, inside a generic shopping center anchored by a Publix, you will find a golden opportunity to savor deliciously prepared Nicaraguan cuisine. A typical fritanga, La Hormiga de Oro offers cantina-style Nica dishes at moderate prices for dining in or taking out. Six dollars and 50 cents brings charbroiled steak and […]
This colorful Nicaraguan joint is one of those places you visit to feel like you’re on vacation even if you’re already on vacation. Yambo is as much about the atmosphere as it is about food. On the terrace, folk-art knickknacks – miniature guitars, hats, porcelain pots, even a mounted boar’s head – hang from and […]