MISS METROPOLITAN JUNKIE

This place is a far stretch from the higher-end Puerto Rican restaurants like Sofritos, Jimmy’s NYC, and Sazon. It’s a no-frills, homely restaurant with all the traditional fried dishes you would find in the close to extinct cuchifritos’ style of restaurants.

We visited Jimmy’s on what felt like the coldest day of the year so far in 2018. Behind a huge snowstorm that nearly crippled New York City, we had to cancel our annual plans to visit Atlantic City as Greyhound halted service and it was not safe to drive through a reported artic cyclone that […]

Delicious Puerto Rican cuisine served at a restaurant conveniently set at the head of City Island.

Discover authentic Puerto Rican cuisine nestled in the heart of Spanish Harlem. Enjoy rice and pigeon peas or should I say arroz con gandules – full of flavor; each bite takes your mind to a small town in Old San Juan which hosts a restaurant that is iconic to the town where the cooks use traditional, local […]