Beyond its croquetas and fritas, Hialeah isn’t much lauded for culinary excellence. For that reason alone, you might not expect to see La Fresa Francesa here. You could almost hear the collective gasp when La Fresa Francesa opened near a canal that slices diagonally along the city’s southern edge. But Sandy Sanchez and Benoit Rabiat, […]
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Hialeah’s Southeastern industrial corridor rose to prominence during the 1980s as one of the largest and busiest areas of production and manufacturing in Florida. As a result of modernization combined with the effects of outsourcing, the uses that were once prevalent in the area dissipated and this particular area was all but abandoned. Since that […]
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Molina’s is the real deal for Cuban food in Miami. Here, the food is hot, the batidos are cold, and the cafecitos have the perfect amount of espumita on top. A quarter-chicken with plantains, fluffy rice, and hearty black beans is affordable, as is the picadillo, the ground-beef brilliance you must eat to get the […]
Since 1966, family-owned Cuban cafeteria Morro Castle has been Hialeah’s source for good, affordable bistec de palomilla, tostones, and moro. This Morro, which is not to be confused with the other Morro on Seventh Street, fries its shoestring potatoes to-order for its version of a frita Cubana. That’s because owner Leo Villalba prides himself in […]
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