| |  | El Castillo de Jagua Restaurant | | | “Homestyle Dominican cooking represents a vanishing part of the LES on quickly metastasizing Rivington Street.” —nymag | | Cuisine: Caribbean, Latin American |
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| | | | | | Fried chicken tends to taste awesome, no matter what form it takes. Even McDonald's chicken nuggets can rate highly on the scale of deliciousness. Yup, those nubs of reformed chicken mash have the capacity to hit the spot sometimes. Maybe more so if you're drunk. Mm, crispy chicken nugs. El Cas... Read More | | | | | | I am a bazillion posts behind, but need to stop and tell you sandwich over at El Castillo De Jagua on Rivington Street. Shann and I just came back from Sunday night dinner here and we're still floating in blissful ecstasy as a direct result of their cubano sandwich. I've had many an awful cubano ... Read More | | | | | | I'd happily eat any kind of gelato, whether good or bad. At least, if given the choice between mediocre ice cream and mediocre gelato, I'd pick the gelato. I suppose the best decision would be to choose neither and save my taste buds for a more worthy cause, but it's just a hypothetical situation.... Read More | | | | | | WIN. I hadn't eaten the cuban sandwich from El Castillo de Jagua in over a year when I tried it again about two weeks ago. Thankfully, it's still an awesome combination of a pile of pork topped with a slice of ham, gooey cheese, and tart pickles in a mayo-smeared roll, grilled and pressed to a cris... Read More | | | | | | Last Monday Lee Anne came back from her "European Tour of Magic and Cool Stuff Like Eating Chocolates and Sneaking Into a Parisian Hostel's Closet." She went to Barcelona, Bologna, Paris, London, Switzerland, and probably other places...maybe the moon...okay, probably not the moon. But i... Read More | | | | | | A quick post before I head out, went out earlier for lunch with YM and Mark at one of my favorite spots El Castillo De Jagua. Then stopped by The Rivington Club and Freshness office to chill out for a bit, luv chilling with the boys! I finally unloaded my luggage from LA and painted my nails purple... Read More | | | | | | [I interrupt this Parisian patisserie love-fest for a semi-brief New York fooding update.] I've been to Otto, the popular reasonably priced member of Mario Batali's restaurant empire, a handful of times in the past few years for its super thin-crust pizza. Do they make my favorite pizza in the cit... Read More | | | | | | As varied as my eating habits may be, there are few select food items that I oft return to over and over again. The chicken curry funn at BoKy, Pinisi's red velvet cake, the cubano at El Castillo de Jagua, and the pizza bianca from Sullivan St Bakery. None of them share much in common aside from th... Read More | | | |
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