La isla restaurant — Restaurant in Holyoke

Fernandez brings quality authentic Puerto Rican 🇵🇷 and Spanish food to Holyoke that compliments the city's diverse ethnic community ! Covid doesn't prevent them from continuing to offer their delicious options ! They work very hard to provide a safe environment so we can feel confident that we can continue to visit our favorite restaurant ! From delicious cold salads...(like their shrimp or octopus !)....to many choices of freshly made fried items... (potato balls are A+ ) ! Their juicy Roast Pork..yellow or white rice ...with beans added if you like...are always available on a daily basis . Chicken , beef and a variety of roots are easily recognized through a large window that protects the food and keeps it hot ! Too many items to list...plus the options change continuously ! As a bonus they post their daily menu on Facebook ! Their attention to quality food, friendly attitude and outstanding customer service completes the picture ! PS...you don't have to speak Spanish to enjoy Fernandez...just liking quality food is required ! I've been a regular customer and friend to the family for many years....I highly recommend Fernandez Family Restaurant. By the way...I'm Italian ! PPS....get there early if you want all their offerings....or us locals will...

I was having the worst day and my friends and I stopped to get some food here, just randomly. I knew they would enjoy the food but I'm vegan and tbh I expected I would end up cooking a meal when I got home.

To my delight, not only did they have vegan options, but they also said if I call ahead, they can make even more vegan options!

I went with her recommendation and forgot to even check the name of the first dish. I think it was camote, which is traditionally served with eggs but totally didn't need them to taste great. And they made a yucca (cassava) that made me finally understand why people like yucca.

La Isla also has 3 types of homemade drinks but I was so eager to get the tamarind, I forgot to check what the other 2 were.

My friends got soup, a meat dish, a chicken dish, and 2 different cake slices. They were thrilled and ate too fast for me to get photos.

This is...

"...modest cafet. for PR food..." I think should NOT B pared w/this new ownership restaurant. Local PR's feared the food would have a DR slant as it is cooked by them? Local whites looked at the prices and said "not modest". Not the distant whites (above the tofu curtain, have to triple these costs to effect them). It certainly IS a cafet.

Food is good. Seems plentiful to this ol guy (we dont eat as much as the kids). I like ALL the Caribe ppl, food, islands. I can bearly tell the foods apart (well, jamaican stands out a lill, not sure I've had Cuban B side 'the sandwich').

Cant wait till I'm able to sail the Is. again (way larger than the Met, as big as usa - Bermuda to Venezuela). Try "The Island" if U like the fair...