I love eating lunch here! I always get the same thing -- sandwich de ropa vieja (shredded beef, #63). The sandwich is delicious and comes with fries. The servings are also really substantive. I usually only end up eating half the sandwich, and take the other half back to work. (This is sort of dumb because I don't think the left over sandwich tastes as good.)\n\nAlthough I've never had it, my peeps from work have also had the Cuban sandwich, which they really liked. Other must orders include tostadas cubanas (toasted bread with butter -- sooooooo not healthy, but soooooooo not relevant or important when you're having some) and maduros (sweet fried plantains). \n\nThe service is admittedly slow; the food takes times to come out and the waitress may not be back for awhile to refill your drink or for you to ask for the check. But, as someone else pointed out, it doesn't matter because the food is damn good and makes up for it.\n\nAlso, the location looks sketch but is totally fine. The restaurant is located inside the Howard Johnson lobby facing LV Blvd; the HoJo is a bit dilapidated. Parking is limited either along the driveway to the back parking lot, or the back parking lot. Once you park, you then have to walk along the driveway (short walk) to the HoJo lobby. Easy! \n\nAlthough it was not entirely clear, last time I was there, I saw an open lot to the right of the HoJo on LV Blvd that had a Florida Cafe banner. I think that may be a parking lot for the restaurant, but it looked like the lot was unpaved. \n\nOverall, the restaurant is really good and definitely worth a visit. It's brightly decorated and has good music playing. I especially love the ambiance. Almost every time I've been here, I've heard Cubans speaking spanish while eating lunch near my table. To me, that's a grade A sign of a place with good Cuban food.
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