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Cuban food in NYC

50 Cuban restaurants in New York City, listed by borough.

Order ropa vieja, shredded beef stewed in tomato and peppers, or lechón asado, garlic and citrus roast pork. Both come with moros y cristianos (black beans and rice) and maduros, sweet fried plantains. A Cubano sandwich, ham croquetas and a café cubano or cortadito make the quick version.

Manhattan has most of the city's Cuban restaurants, from Midtown and the Village to upper Broadway, where a few Cuban-Chinese restaurants survive from the families who left Cuba after 1959. Sophie's Cuban is a lunch chain with many branches. Brooklyn has a small cluster in Carroll Gardens, Williamsburg and Clinton Hill. The region's historic Cuban center is Union City, across the Hudson in New Jersey.

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Manhattan 34

Brooklyn 7

The Bronx 5

Queens 4

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