La Isla Cafe

Great little hole in the wall for some great dominican food. Had a super filling breakfast of mangu, plaintains and sausage. Their pernil also looked delicious. Reasonable price for how much they fill their containers.

My review isn’t based on whether the food was good or not because they never even bothered delivering it to me. And when I called back an hour and a half later they just decided to hang up on me. I’m not sure how people like this stay in business.

This is that hole in the wall place that you won’t find unless you stumbled upon it. The food here is spectacular for the price, for 7 dollars you literally get a big plate of food.
I usually get the chicken stew but their seafood stew is amazing. I mean I can feed two-​three people with that. Its definitely amazing take out but I wouldn’t eat there if I had to.
Side note Its cash only, theres an atm inside

This divey take-​out dominican (i think) place serves some interesting dishes. For take-​out only. There’s a couple of dominican places nearby — compared to Castillo de Jagua on Grand, the food here is much better. Just don’t expect a place to actually sit and eat.
For breakfast, they have some interesting dishes, such as codfish and eggs, these fried cakes of codfish, and other breakfasty items. My usual is mangu (mashed plantains) and eggs (they also have a ham and eggs mixture, kinda like a giant mound of western omlette). There’s usually a line of police and others going to work that are picking up their breakfast.
For lunch/​dinner, their pernil is delicious — luciously succulent and seasoned just right (not too salty). Cuban sandwich is OK though not as good as the bakery on clinton street. Rice and beans are good too. They also have an assortment of weekly specials, stews and other meat dishes, though I haven’t tried all of them, they all seem interesting and not boring.
The one minus (apart from it being not very healthy, but hey, would you expect it to be?), is that the hours aren’t that great. They close pretty early, and I think they are not open on Sunday or only partially open on Sunday.

Quantity and quality combined for four stars! This place offers straight up Latin American food and is usually packed during lunch hours with local policemen and construction workers.
Six dollars for a HUGE platter that includes rice with beans, veggies (your choice of plaintains, yucca, cabbage) and their daily rotation of meats. It’s enough for two hungry people, really.
The roast pork is the best — very very tender and on some days they have paella. Worth a try if you’re in the area.