Literally the best Puerto Rican food in Florida. Hands down! I stop by every time I'm in Tampa and they never disappoint. Want to not be disappointed with you Hispanic cravings, this spots where it's at. read more

I got the arroz con gandules and while it was moderately tasty, it was clear that it was reheated. My husband got the arroz con pollo, which also showed signs of being a reheated food. We also got the tostones, which were under-cooked. We also got the alcapurrias which they had made with a mixture of a little joutia and a lot of ground plantain, which is a very cheap way to make them. Also not very much meat in the alcapurria and the masa fried coating was too thick. It was disappointing, to say the least. Don't cut corners on your food! read more

Yummy! Clean establishment, friendly staff & good food!...this is my place when I need my puertorrican fix..beans are just like my "abuela" makes. The mofongo is flavorful, not greasy at all. In fact, none of the the food was greasy. Arroz con pollo although a bit different from what I'm used to was still delicious!! Even my wife loved it! (and she is picky). Next time we go, we are taking the kids. My little one is going to tear up those silky and delicious beans!! What are you waiting for? Stop reading this review and head to La Casona!!! N O W ;) read more

My oh my what a surprisingly wonderful place. The service was excellent the food amazing and the ambiance took me back to my favorite place in the world my little nook In a crook PR. We started off with the alcapurrias and ahrip de Casona was excellent. My husband and his uncle had a mofongo de camarones they said it was the best they ever had. My son had a shrip in garlic sauce and I had the chxn in garlic sauce simply amazing. The toatones were fresh everything was truly out of this world. This place is one of those places when in florida you have to come to visit. 15 Stars we will be back soon! read more

La Casona Restaurant - Puerto Rican Near Me - Tampa, Florida

Very good and authentic Puerto Rican restaurant. The mofongo (plantains) with camarones (shrimp) is delicious; accompanied by medalla beer or sangria. The tres leches for dessert one of the best I tried. Service is good.and prices are reasonable.Will come back. read more

Fantastic meal again La Casona is awesome. We had the shrimp appetizer to start with Sangria to drink. Both incredible and a must have. We then had the paella and their pork chop special. The pork chop was the best pork I have ever eaten. The service was awesome! read more

This is an authentic Puertorican restaurant from the menu right down to it's employees! The food is excellent and authentic. I go there to enjoy the mofongo and al I can say is that I've tried eating mofongo at "popular places in Puerto Rico, Miami, New York as well as here in Florida and hands down, time and time again this place serves the most delicious mofongo I've ever tasted... The rest of the menu is more of the same great food... I'm so glad they're located within driving distance to me! read more

another awesome meal & service was excellent!¡!... we had pizza de tostones & pork-chops read more

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My co-worker took me here for lunch and the food was unforgettable. SO STINKING GOOD. I had the paella and didn't leave a single piece of food on the plate. The plantain fritters are also pretty spectacular! read more

La Casona Restaurant - The seafood paella...WOW!!! - Puerto Rican Near Me - Tampa, Florida

Best Mofongo in Tampa, hands down. Had the seafood mofongo with lobster, clams, crab, in a creole sauce. Excellent. Great service too, and nice ambience. Well done. read more

I used to enjoy this place for PuertoRican Farr. Looks like the place is closed permanently now. Tried calling to see what's going on. No answer read more

We ate there twice before, delicious, good service and a very pleasant experience. A few weeks ago, we ate there again. We ordered an appetizer that never came. Our waitress was nowhere to be seen. Finally our server came with our seafood mofongo, which was very salty and not prepared too well. Still no appetizer. Very disappointed and will not eat there anymore. Grateful Tampa has many other restaurants. read more

There's no words to describe this restaurant other than DELICIOUS! We had the mofongo and also fried snapper..AMAZING!

Went to La Casona after a few years. We order the food to go and I was dissapointed with the shrimp and mofongo. The shrimps were tiny and not like I remember went they first open a few years ago. I brought a co-worker for the first time and she order the fried pork chunks and onions. She told me the meat was very dry and tough and the onions were kind of raw. The chicken broth was good but just not enough amount for the price. She also order a "canoa" from the appetizers ($7.00 each) and was surprised by the size... small and kind of burned. The only thing that we enjoyed was the mofongo, but even I remembered a bigger amount. I'm not planning on coming back and I'm not recommending this place to anybody as me and my co-worker were very dissapointed with the quality, quantity and price of the food. read more

Very clean place, authentic Puertorican food! My only complaint is that just before I had my last bite I found that the pork that I ate was undercook, really dangerous! Hope I don't get sick! read more

My wife & I had mofongo and a rice with calamari plate. Both were to die for. Best meal I've had in a very long time at a restaurant. This place is a hidden gem. read more

Possibly the best Puerto Rican food in Florida, and better than most places in Puerto Rico too. (I'm from PR.) The mofongo is excellent, I had it with the fried pork chunks and they were a bit salty but crunchy, moist, and delicious. Sangria is great too. read more

Visited again today with a group of 10 Yelpers on our second Armenia Ave crawl. We had notified the manager, Kelvin in advance and he personally greeted us warmly and offered a sampling of 3 varieties mofongo, and it was a first taste for many in the group. We also ordered and shared several other dishes....all were great.....and washed them down with tasty cinnamon-accented sangria. Service was very attentive but with a family feel. We and others in the group are sure to return. read more

Mofongo too greasy , full of sauce (too much), service not great , waiter demanded to write down my license number on a piece of paper and credit card upon payment I told them i don't feel comfortable with this practice and he said that's their policy , I ended up paying cash , won't go back read more

Closest thing to home when it comes to food! Alcapurrias were fried to perfection and the beef seasoned very well, had the crab mofongo and it was splendid. What stood out the most was the phenomenal service, really felt at home here. read more

Well , my review is based on only on the wait and service .. Because we didn't get to try the food .. We waited about 15minutes before we were even approached by the staff.. They said 10 minutes , well we waited another 15 minutes .. Before i seen that the people that were waiting before us didn't even have drinks in front of them! And i was hearing people desperate to get thier checks to pay. That is when i knew it was time to leave . I wasnt up for 2 hours sit down to eat! read more

My wife and I were recommended this restaurant by other puerto Ricans which live here in Tampa. We found the place to be very nice, we loved the Mofongo with skirt steak. I highly recommended to anyone visiting the area. read more

I'm from PR and this is by far my favorite place in Tampa. The food has never disappointed, exactly like what I would find back home. I recommend the mofongo with crab meat or the asopao. It's small and quaint which ads to the charm. I've taken several coworkers here and they're addicted now. read more

Finally found authentic Puerto Rican food in Tampa which is very hard to find! Its not like abuelas but close! I shall return with friends so they can enjoy it with me, if going lunch time it gets packed. read more

This place is very consistent, food is always excellent but service is always terrible.

This place deserves no stars!!! Having gone several times to this place and had a decent experience I returned now with my 5 month old. When we arrived we got a table at the far end that they said was for 5 people ( we were 4 adults and the baby). We asked for a high chair to use for the baby and never got one. The stair they had was extremely wobbly so I had no choice but to place her on the floor. Once we got our bill I noticed that gratuity was included, when asked why they had included gratuity they said that it was their policy. I said I understood however their menus stated it was with a party of 5 or more. The waiter stated that it was set automatically in their system that the table was registered in their system for a party of 5 and there was nothing they could do. I asked for the manager and he said that she was busy and said that was policy. I told them I was not going to pay tip for my child who is exclusively breast fed let alone didn't even get a proper place to sit. It took the manager (who I believe was the owner) 15 minutes to come out. We stated our issue of not having to pay tip for a baby who does not eat solids, and was not waited on! She stated that they use that table because the car seat fits on the booth, I told her our car seat didn't fit as it was too narrow and we could not move the table since it was screwed to the floor causing me to place her on the floor, she said oh yeah we do nail our tables! ( so she contradicted herself) After several minutes ( another 15) letting her know I was going to pay for my baby she finally credited us back the gratuity the waiter had added for himself. The service was ridiculous and for this reason our entire family will NEVER return to this place! If you have a baby in a car seat please re consider your dining option!!! read more

The food is amazing but the service is horrible. Unless you have 2+ hours for a long dragged out dinner don't go because you will be hangry waiting for food. The mofongos, chuletas can can, fried steak, empanadas, fried pork chunks are always good. We have tried going on different days and times and we still get slow service. The last time we went we placed our order as soon as we sat down and it still took 2 hours and 15 minutes to get our food. They need to hire more servers and cooks. We have started to try other Spanish restaurants in the area because the wait is too much. read more

My family and I have been to La Cason's several times. The mofongo is the best thing on the menu. Normally the restaurant is never really full & we are seated promptly. We arrived and we're DENIED SERVICE!!!! My husband was turned away for wearing a tank top. Mind you it wasn't an undershirt, just a nice tank top. My niece was wearing a spaghetti strap shirt. Nothing too revealing, it's FL for petes sake... Both my husband and niece were denied entry into the establishment and refused service. I truly was so offended. It's not like this is some high end restaurant, it's literally an inner city restaurant. Where do these people get off?! I was appalled and will not return again to support this place. read more

Tried it here again just because the food was still off from the first time we went and happily the service was amazingly better this time. The food was wonderful and I am happy we tried again. read more

For my mothers birthday we decided to give this place a try since she was in the mood for some mofongo. The place is small but it is nicely decorated I'll give them that. We had a large party (16) and were told by the staff it was not possible to sit all together. Although the place was half empty we said no problem, we split up the party. Once we were sitting, it took them for ever to get orders going and when the waiter came back missing drinks. We started off on the wrong foot. The food order finally came and this is when this became the worst dining experience I ever had. The second the food hit the table I notice a foul smell, at first I thought someone had order fish, but no one did. The rancid smell came from a steak someone had ordered. The steak was not just sour, it was putrefied. It smelled so bad, some of us were gagging and wanted to vomit. To make things worse both of the bathrooms were out of order, flooding and leaking water into the dining room. The final blow came when another large party showed up and they actually asked some customers to get up from their table so they could accommodate the arriving party... we were in disbelief. When we question the manager why we had to split our party and others didn't, she became defensive and rude and told us that that was her uncle and she could do whatever she want in her restaurant. The food, the service, and the facility are HORRIBLE, and you should AVOID this place or chance getting SICK and treated like SCUM. read more

Every year we drive down from North Florida to Saint Petersburg to go watch the Yankees well for the past two years every time we go to this restaurant it's closed why are you in business if you're not gonna be open on the days you say you're going to be open very disappointing because I love your mofongo.Just just went down there yesterday 115 2020 no on door says closed due to family emergency they've been close for a while I would close them down on yelp read more

Always had a great meal here. Small but cozy, the staff is very friendly. The food is Puerto Rican Latino. I never heard of this cuisine until my friend tony b. of the travel channel had recommended it to me. I am now a big fan of the shrimp mofungo (mashed plantains with a savory red sauce with shrimps). The empanadas are flavorful too. Stop by for a great meal. Oh yes, the prices are great. Went back a few days ago, still excellent. My wife had the paella, it was great! I will be ordering that for myself too, packed with sea food, rice cooked perfectly. I was so happy when my wife took half her paella home. I enjoyed it at midnight! read more

Do you like Puerto Rican food? Do you want a mouth orgasm? Then visit this place. Food is authentic from Puerto Rico. Stuffed mofongo is delicious. If you have never tried this, this is the place to start. It is basically fried plantains, then put in a "pilon" and mashed together. Then you can fill it with whatever you want, chicken, steak, and fish. Service is a little poor here but that's ok for the superb food you get. It does get a little chilly since they have the ac pretty cool. Also give the paella a try another authentic plate that needs to be in your life. read more

La Casona offers excellent authenticate Puerto Rican cuisine. I've been here many times and I've had just about everything on the menu. The downside is that service is very slow and the owner seems to have an attitude with his customers. If the service was better I would give this a four, but the food for the most part is delicious. read more

So my wife picked this place and to be honest I wish she had not. The staff was great. The food was a different story. All of the food we had was way to salty. I don't want to be mean so I will sum up this experience as a can miss. Maybe in a few months we will give this place a second chance. read more

Last time I ate at La Casona (and it's been about 2 years now) I ordered the Pollo relleno a la casona and it made me incredibly sick. I had ordered mofongo in previous ocassions and it was good. Service was very slow too and it seems it hasn't change based on recent reviews I have read on Yelp. read more

Visiting from NYC, found this place while hungry and driving. Stopped in with a party of 7. Very filling portions, made-to-order, left full with barely enough room for the coffee we ordered before we left. Definitely a place to go to if in the area. read more

So disappointed. This was my go to place in Tampa. Last time, our waitress seemed very annoyed and sarcastic when asked why we couldn't make a small alteration in our menu and I don't tend to like that. To make matters even worse, I got what seemed like an onion salad, sprinkled with tiny pieces of octopus. The owner brought me some more, but I declined, I was already annoyed by the waitress. The waitress brought the menu without even offering desert. I love flan, and at that point, I settled for none. Too bad...I sent so many people there in the past. Not anymore. read more

Excellent food. Gave 4 stars instead of 5 because we did have to wait awhile for the food. Maybe they should have another person in the kitchen! read more

Love this place.....Was craving fried fish and their whole Red Snapper fried with rice and beans is simply the BEST..........Everything about it was perfect!! My husband ordered Mofongo with Lobster and let me tell you that it was AMAZING he said...it has plenty of lobster not like other places.....Love it read more