This was the new restaurant of the week check in and a bookmark so I stopped over for lunch. No…read morefood is off limits for me so I like it all and I really like Puerto Rican food because it's a different style of comfort food compared to us comfort food. The place is small and the waitress didn't speak any English so a nice patron came to my rescue and translated my order, he asked me if I wanted everything on my sandwich and I said yes the was it's supposed to be and don't dumb it down for the Caucasian because I came here for the real deal food. I ordered the Tripleta sandwich with Puerto Rican rice. The Tripleta sandwich is roast pork, steak, ham, ketchmayo, cheese, lettuce and tomato on a roll of some sort. This $10 sandwich is a monster by the way. My first impression is all I taste is pork which I fine because it's good so I open the sandwich and all I see pork with a razor thin random ham piece and no steak at all. Regardless the sandwich was fu#king delicious piled/overflowing with tender pork. The hoagie roll was a great bakery artisan style French bread with a nice thin chewy crust, like my last review the bread really makes or breaks a good sandwich and they nailed this one. The Puerto Rican rice was also fu#king delicious, seasoned nicely and cooked perfectly just past Al dente but far from mush. I eat at so many restaurants and my memory gets hazy over the years but I really think that this was the best Puerto Rican restaurant I have been to and also it's probably what I ordered ala carte vs an entree on the menu.

This Puerto Rican style restaurant is closed. Considered trying it. Searched website to preview…read moremenu and it is no longer open.

I have eaten at most of the restaurants in this area except this one because of the lack of…read morepictures of the food, no website and no menu to look at. Two things will happen today which is restaurant of the week and a Steve stop by. The place is nice looking with a tropical colorful theme. The have a steam table at the counter with some pre made goodness as a visual come on and get something. I ordered the rellenos de papa and the pork jibarito with PR rice. I will admit like the other reviews service was slow for me being the only person in the place and a good 10 minutes before I heard my sandwich sizzling on the grill. The rellenos de papa is basically a ball of mashed potatoes with a ground meat filling fried to a golden brown. This was bland and needed seasoning but still good with a thin crispy shell. The Puerto Rican rice was also bland with pigeon peas but cooked perfect Al Dente and not mushy. The pork jibartio was very good with a nice garlicky flavor. It's this crispy plantain fried nicely, hearty roast pork, cheese, lettuce, tomato and a very garlicky mayo and I mean fresh garlic flavor. This version was the tastiest, meatiest and biggest pork jibartio I have had in town. I enjoyed the food and like other reviewers I'm not going to take stars away for the slow service because I have never been to Puerto Rico and for all I know this is how service is in Puerto Rico. I have a known good place specific foods like pizza, burger etc etc and I think this will be my pork jibartio place because of the garlic Mayo.

During the worst of COVID this place took a downturn but they are back up on top. Typical Puerto…read moreRican service, so it's friendly and slow. Unlike other Boricuan restaurants, no one here speaks American English, but that doesn't even slow me down a little. When I've got a taste for chuletas, I'll figure out a way to get them on my plate. Besides, I wouldn't want to eat in a Puerto Rican restaurant where they could only speak English. So because my Spanish isn't very good, I end up ordering more of the different fried dumplinas, pastilillos, and empanadillos than I can eat because I'm never completely sure what's in them. You'd think I'd remember, but it doesn't matter, almost as good reheated the next day. Be careful, it's a dangerous intersection for pedestrians.

Yum yum yum!! Some of the best sandwiches on the south side & the desserts are mouth watering.read more

Great food, bakery items on point and owners friendly and love the smalll cafe ambiance. Food takes…read morea little longer because they cook it to order which I love. Be patient.

I did a carry out order and was greeted right away. Very laid back atmosphere. Not very crowded…read more Nice place to to sit and have a drink. Parking around the place is street only.

I had a yummy cubano which turned out so large that I ate half of it at the restaurant and ate the…read morerest of it over the next two days. My husband had mofongo con carne and tamarind both of which were new to him. Positive response.

The food was very good. I definitely recommend anyone who wants to try different cultural food…read more...to go here! The food they cook is Puerto Rican Barbecue. I got the Piggy Mixto with crazy fries (pictured). I also tried their Nutella frappe, which was both refreshing and delicious.

Very disappointed. Not worth the trip. Just left there. The tostones were awful. Not worth the…read moreprice. Half pound of lechon and side of tostones with parcha was $30. It was over priced. Definitely not going back!

This place reminds me of when I was little growing up in Puerto Rico and going to a friends house…read moreand their mom cooking some food and inviting you to dinner. Best food ever!

Food wasn't bad. Service could've been better. They lost their liquor license so no alcoholic…read moredrinks. We had two menus. One had the original prices. The other menu had white stickers with jacked up prices.

A I really love getting into the off beat neighborhoods and trying the little neighborhood places…read morelike today. I stumbled on this Puerto Rican place and I wanted to try it because I don't really see true Puerto Rican places at all come to think of it. I have not had Puerto Rican food since I was a boy eating at my friends house and I can only remember that rice was always on the dish. The place is across from the El Ray food store on 13th St with plenty of street parking. The neighborhood looks a little worse for wear but that is where you can find some of the best ethnic/real food. If there is such a thing as Puerto Rican dive than this place is it with all the artificial trees and roosters all over the place. There is plenty of old green booths and tables on old linoleum floors. Up front is a hot table with empanadas, blood sausage, pork, plantains etc. The older man and woman were very helpful in assisting me with picking out a dish that would be a good representation of Puerto Rican food. The menu has so much that I really don't know what it all was but I probably would have liked all of it no matter what I chose. I chose the Bistec enpanado which is thin breaded steak, Puerto Rican rice and fried plantains with a side of ground beef and cheese empanada. When the plate hit the table it smelled amazing and was plentiful so there would be left overs to relive my lunch again. For the first time I liked the plantains because they were not hard but fried with the texture of a thick slice of cheese. The rice had great texture/flavor and was fluffy with individual grains, no sticky mushy rice here. The breaded steak was very tasty but I can't nail down the flavor profile which bugged me. The empanadas was crispy/golden tasty but they were skimpy on the ground beef and cheese filling because 3/4 of the inside was air, see my pictures. I really liked all the flavors from the dish but I think the nicely seasoned ground beef and cheese empanada was my favorite with the crispy golden she'll. Overall for my first real adult experience with authentic Puerto Rican food I liked it even though the style is not super flavorful with bold tastes or flavors/spices. I would definitely like to get back and try some more of the menu, maybe the roast pork or the cubano sandwich.

Love this place.. Never a bad meal or experience! The hot case is a great go to for a snackread more

This location was the previous home of La Morovena, which was also a Puerto Rican carry-out only…read morerestaurant. La Morovena moved to 8th & Greenfield, and El Rincon Criollo now serves here. I ordered an alcapurria, which is a mix of plantain and root vegetables pureed and filled with meat, potatoes, and seasoning, then deep fried. It was pretty good and larger than I expected. My entree was mofongo, a large ball of mashed green plantain which is deep fried and filled with seasoning and bits of chicharron, with bistek encebollado (steak cooked in oil and onions). The mofongo had decent flavor and a substantial amount of chicharron, which helped counter the otherwise disappointingly soft texture of the mofongo. The steak was tender and the flavor was solid. I would definitely go back to try other menu items, or one of the daily specials.

What I like about this place is that it satisfied every Puerto Rican desire to feel at home in this…read morecold ass winter. Great service!

primera vez comprando un sandwich de pernil, y en verdad Great, gracias por su servicioread more

Restaurant is really hot inside, but food is really good. Staff is helpful for picking good food…read moreand giving suggestions. Service is pretty good too. Food is fresh and made to order

Caribbean Jaacs opened this year not far from where I work and is probably the only Jamaican…read morerestaurant in the Milwaukee area I haven't tried yet, so I stopped in to pickup a lunch order to go. My order consisted of jerk egg rolls and a jerk chicken plate with rasta mac and sweet plantains for the sides. The jerk egg rolls were good, but I don't think they're my favorite in the Milwaukee area. One of them had a large piece of green pepper in it, so I assumed the other two would as well, but I didn't find it in the others. Other than the green pepper in the one egg roll they were filled with just chicken and cabbage, so not a ton of varying flavors. The rasta mac is mac and cheese with some diced peppers mixed in. The peppers added a little flavor to the mac, but were also easy to pick out for those that don't like peppers. The plantains were probably the best I've had. They were a little mushy instead of hard, which I liked, and their sweetness was apparent. The jerk chicken in the plate came with half a chicken and relied on rub instead of sauce, which worked for me since that's how I prefer jerk chicken. I do think there's room for them to go a little heavier on the rub without making it too hot for most people.