With an ever changing menu, I returned with a friend for lunch. This Cubanesque hole in the wall continues to produce a rather unorthodox menu of for the most part vegetarian, fresh and clean, dishes. I've been to the vast majority of the spoons, forks, knives, chop sticks, and hand to mouth restaurants in the bowl, railroad tie-ins, and I don't believe there is anything like this. Here is my take out (even though this time,I dined in): This isn't really my palate's genre. I don't usually eat from this type of menu. So, truthfully, I may not be the best person to review this place. Yet, maybe I am. For both times it was rather empty, sorta like Mariner Game back in ... well, pretty much every typical "maybe next year" year. Then, again, maybe this actually qualifies me a very good reviewer. I am not sure the Edmonds crowd is ready for such a menu. My advice is to do a few things to spice it up. Again, I think they were going for a Cuban feel. If so, I would push it. I would have Cuban music playing. I'd add plants, props (Cuban themed coasters) images of Cuban (coastline photos) and come up with a Cuban color palette (based on their flag) to accent and attract. The music would turn heads, if done well, the right direction and for all the right reasons. It is not enough to serve great food down in Edmonds. Too many restaurants do that already. People come for experience much more than an experiment) especially at these prices which seemed to have rocketed into a galaxy higher than the interest rates on a maxed out credit card statement. So make it fun. Maybe articles in the food, Cuban trivia, or a top 20 lids you know list about your restaurant to bridge the patrons to the plates while awaiting the entries. For the food for me was much more of an expedient and experience. I had the pickled applizer, homemade soda, and I reordered the Midnight Miami. Simply from the two photos I posted of ordering it the first time and this time, it was almost like an entirely different sandwiches. This time, it was very moist, like the first time, which made it awesome. However it had a burnt, charcoal after-taste, that I don't remember having the first time. This was a bit disappointing to say the lease. This is unavoidable, as to eventually you need to swallow the bites. I would eat what I ate again. Agsin, it isn't my go-to or fallback option. I'm not sure I would pay as much as I did on a typical day strolling through Edmonds. It wasn't overpriced. It seemed fair and in-line with the Ed-Bowl market. My dollars usually pride themselves of being savvy and I think they'd rather flex in other tills. read more