Cafe Cello

I can’t order my roasted pork, cause deliver over 3 portions. It’s so sad! But café is good!

Great small place to grab some authentic Latin food o. Portions are huge cheap and delicious. My new favorite place for lunch in midtown.

The Cuban sandwich was very good. You see them tear apart the meat for every sandwich and plate. Very juicy and delicious.

Nice little Spanish restaurant across from my hotel. I went here for breakfast and had a basic western omelette because I was in a rush. Decent menu with a lot of different Spanish foods. Good spot if you’re around Midtown.

From outside it looks like they only serve breakfast. Me and my friend went inside because they have a picture of roast pork on the outside. Inside they actually have a variety of food. We ordered the roast pork. The skin is not crispy on some parts but the are parts that are really crispy. The meat with a little fat is very tasty. You can choose sides but I chose rice which is parboiled white rice which they put a little salt. This roast pork taste the same as they do in the Philippines. The pice is good since I only paid around $ 10… Not bad for food price in NYC!

Want a hot sandwich lunch? You will love it here great food great value and only a stones throw from times square.

Get the ROAST PORK with the pork skin along with rice and beans!!! Their food tastes great. Love going to this place for lunch.

Great selections of grilled chicken Caesar salad and Spanish food. Small place very fast service in a convenient area.

I was recently turned onto this place by a co-​worker. First time out I was slightly impressed with the Ruben Sandwich and it was good. Second time I tried the chicken stew with white rice, I was FLOORED… So today was my third time out and this time I tried the beef stew… OMG…just like mom’s. This is my new favorite spot for lunch during the work week. It’s dangerously good.

This place is the best kept secret in midtown. I usually order delivery from this place and even at the busiest hour their delivery doesn’t take more than 45 minutes. Their roast pork is hugely popular. I usually order the fish with rice and beans and it’s to die for especially with the green sauce. Their plantains is the only one that is not at par. Overall a great place to get some proteins and rice

We ordered a Cuban sandwich and a Steak & Cheese. Both were terrible. The Cuban was more like a pork fat sandwich, it had so much fat in it, grossed me out. Also, if it had cheese, I couldnt detect any. I thought Cuban sandwiches had pickles too, but not this one, just flavorless. My partner’s steak & cheese was dry and flavorless. I am not getting the great reviews posted here, I would never try this place again.

This place is pretty great. I’ve been coming here for nearly 13 years and (speaking as a Cuban) the roast pork has been consistently good. They even have the crunchy chicharron skin — all for an affordable price!
ProTip: The dude that runs the music here (whom I call ‘El Musico’) is pretty hilarious. I’ve seen his stereo set slowly grow over the years and take over the back part of the café but honestly I don’t mind. Dude is clearly very knowledgeable about music and plays everything from tejano jams to Creedence (and everything in between). El Musico rocks!

I love this place, I really do.
I go here every morning for my coffee and breakfast fix, and I go there enough that they know exactly what I want (I love being a regular).
When I decided I had to try their non-​breakfast food items, I instantly wondered why I hadn’t before. Popcorn Chicken? Amazing. Roast Pork? Even better.
They’re also incredibly efficient and get me in and out quickly. I’m so glad I found this gem close to work. Highly recommended for breakfast or lunch.

Roast Pork? Roast Pork!
When I feel like having roast pork piled on rice and beans, I come here. When I feel like having roast pork in sandwich form, aka, a Cubano, I come here. Basically that’s what I come here for. The roast pork. Always juicy, and always with a healthy serving of pork skin. There’s a bunch of other stuff too, but if it doesn’t contain ingredients starting with «roast» and ending with «pork», I’m can’t bring myself to order it. There was that one time when I had a super-​late lunch and they had RUN OUT OF ROAST PORK [lightning flashes, thunder booms, woman screams] and I had to make a last-​second substitution, which resulted in tripe, which was merely OK. Rest assured, I’ll never make that mistake again, the roast pork sings a siren song, and I am helpless to resist.
I guess what I’m trying to say is, go to Café Cello, get some roast pork in you.

Having a roast pork pulled apart in front of you to put on your plate with some of the fried skin, sweet plantains and rice & beans is awesome. They recently went up on their prices so what once cost $ 7…then $ 7.95…is now $ 8.95.
the servings are plentiful and the service is very quick. I’m talking in and out in 2 minutes.
Everything I have eaten here is tasty (Steak and onions, chicken tenders, beef stew, Cuban sandwich, Fried chicken). It is kinda sad that this small deli makes better pernil than the Sophies spanish restaurant around the corner.
Really good flavor but $ 10 for lunch adds up quickly.

The roast pork at Café Cello is easily the best in Midtown. The staff behind the counter always hooks it up with extra pork skin and gravy from the meat.
I’d recommend going with the Cuban sandwich, the roast pork platter with maduros or on Thursdays, their weekly special of tripe.
Prices are extremely reasonable for the quality and quantity of food that they provide.

I have chronologed the «qubano» sandwich here in picture form. The meat is very tender and juicy as you can clearly see him pulling it with much ease. They put in thick slices of pickles that will pack a crunch. For some reason the swiss cheese was very powerful on this sandwich. The flavors seemed to keep to there own and stay very distinguished through out.
I suggest you put some cilantro sauce on your sandwich as well as hot sauce. yum
I was pleased with the nice big chunks of pork i found in my sandwich. seriously big chunks.
This place is run by asians?! weird.

quick, fast, cheap and delicious spanish food in Midtown for lunch.
The maduros are on point. the rice and beans are delicious, real caribbean flavor. The pernil (pulled pork) is pulled in front of you before serving, the pollo horneado very good taste.

A nice, cheap place for breakfast and lunch during the work day. I had a very good BLT that was fresh and reasonably priced for mid-​town. Seems to be low key, so it wasn’t crowded during lunch hours. If you don’t like crowds or spending too much then this is your place.

The name of this place will make you pass by and assume its a mom and pop deli but they have a ton of Latin food steamtables.
The roast pork is tender and they give you a HUGE amount, pork skin and fat to boot. It’s fast, cleaner than Margon, but I can’t vouch for the other food. The rice and beans is a little dry.
It’s basically two lunches for 8 bucks. So you can have a nice heart attack two days in a row…
note, sometimes the pork is a little dry so i knocked off a star. still worth a try if you’re in the area though!