Habana Cuba Restaurant — Restaurant in San Jose

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I used to live in Key West and miss the Cuban food. Like, a lot. Sadly when I'm in a place and see a Cuban restaurant I rarely look at the menu because I can no longer eat eggs and, up until today, my favorite thing was the perfect Cuban sandwich on the perfect Cuban bread. I am SO glad I scrolled through the menu.

Today I discovered the Tamal Cubano (insert three hearts here)!!! This is located in the back of the SoFA market. Ordering is fairly easy, it's all done and paid for on screens set up outside their window (there's a search feature at the top if you already know what you want). You give them your name and cell and you immediately get a text to confirm they received it. They shout your name AND text you when it's ready for pick up.

Man, it was just as good as I'd hoped. I ordered it with the carne asada and YUMMMMMMMO. Sweet plantains are also one of my favorite foods in the world and these did NOT let me down!!

There are quite a few options in the SoFA market, so if Cuban doesn't strike your fancy maybe one of the other places does (honestly, I don't remember what they are because I went right to the one thing I was looking for). Clean and a decent amount of seating, assume no one parks themselves for an extended period of time.

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This food establishment is located in the SoFA Market food court. We came here on a Sat afternoon, there were plenty of seats both inside and out. I was really looking forward on trying this restaurant being that I am a fan of cuban cuisine. We tried several dishes spending about $60. We ordered the tamal cubano with lechon, sandwich cubano, ropa vieja, rabo encendido and flan. The ropa vieja and rabo encendido came with white rice, black beans and platano maduro. The flavors of both dishes were okay, though the oxtail was soft and tender. Sauces were thinner and more on the blander side. The tamal cubano wasn't my favorite, I felt the lechon lacked flavor. I did enjoy their cubano, the flavors were good except that the bread (although it looked toasted) was soft at first bite. I was definitely missing the crunch factor. Sad to say that their flan was the absolute worst flan I've ever had. If I knew what insant flan tasted like, I would assume that it would taste just like that. The flan was more gelatin vs tasting like it was made out of eggs and milk. It was bland and the sauce tasted like it was watered down caramel. Never would I ever suggest their flan to anyone. It was quite disappointing. All in all, I don't think I'll be eating at Habana Cuba in the future, a very big...

Uploaded photos of dishes they offer and they had fried pork chunks a very popular Cuban dish , I ordered it off of their photo they go we no longer carry pork chunks I explained that from their Facebook page and their Google review I found the picture of the dish that I wanted and I drove all the way there to eat it and it's the one that they removed from their menu. So being we are we're already there we decided to order off the menu we asked our waitress can we please have some pressed flat bread and butter bread that is served at all Cuban restaurants she replied we don't serve bread sir I said could you ask the Cuban Cooks to please make me some Cuban press bread and I'll be happy to pay for it but you have to have press bread to eat Cuban food she come back and said they said they didn't know how to make it then I realized I really was in a fake Cuban restaurant and dismissed ourselves from the table before our food come. The restaurant look very nice inside but if you think you're going there to eat Cuban food you will be...