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I've been craving some good latin food for a while. I had read the review's for Havana's cafe and decided to go here after seeing the menu online. We were seated immediately and served water. We placed our orders, I ordered the San Juan Combo, which included several sample dishes from Puerto Rico. After taking a couple of sips of water, the waiters would refill our glasses to the rim, this occurred every single time we took more than one drink. At first it was good, but after a while it got annoying as we were interrupted constantly. \r
When our food came, I sampled it. The San Juan combo has mofongos (the taste was not authentic, it tasted like it had plantains, mashed up with cornmeal), pasteles (those were the driest, tasteless,meatless pasteles I've ever had, even the masa didnt taste right), tostones (those were ok), arroz con gandules (it tastes like ""rice"" that came from one of the Lipton boxes and they had added the black pigeon peas), alcapurrias (first it didnt even resemble and alcapurria, 2nd the masa wasnt the consistency or texture of an alcapurria and last the meat mixture inside was not good, It tasted more like an empanada) and finally it had fried pork (these pieces were cooked a bit too much, were dry and tasteless).\r
After taking a couple of bites the waitress came to use to see how our food was. I explained the situation and she was gracious enough to offer me another plate. I refused as I was already disappointed in my meal, as well as my husband's. She said that everyone has different recipes, to which I replied that I've been to many places where Puerto Rican food is served in a different variety of flavors, including my own household (as I am Puerto Rican) and this plate/flavors is no where near what it should taste like. \r
I think the only authentic flavors were the tostones and the malta drink I had. \r
Service is great, I have to give them that, but that is probably the only thing they have going for them. \r
Pros: great customer service
Cons: Price, food
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