Gustavo Gutierrez was running late one morning, driving while trying to eat a classic New Jersey breakfast sandwich — bacon, egg and cheese with salt, pepper and ketchup on a bagel. But as the chef ...

If you're looking for true Puerto Rican and Cuban flavors, with the ambiance of Havana, The Empanada Sonata at 211 W. Main St. in downtown Murfreesboro is the place to go. The entire wall is a ...

“We didn’t mean to become the ‘Empanada Mamas,'” says Marly Matos with a laugh, but it’s what fate had in store for the concept that she and partner Nina Cruz spun up during the pandemic, when both of ...

The empanada is the economical compact car of the fast food universe - cheap, maneuverable, dependable, long-lasting. Sunday is National Empanada Day, so there's no better time to pay tribute to this ...

Is something always better than nothing? When it comes to new restaurants with unique food, I would almost always say yes. But ever since my first visit to Laz’s Cuban Café on Dupont Road, this ...

The menu at El Criollo Cuban Bar & Grill has sections dedicated to beef, pork and seafood. But time and again, when I drop there for a post-Costco shopping meal, it’s the chicken section I head for.

Before the owners of New Haven’s new empanaderia opened the doors to their restaurant, they were two food truck owners navigating the city streets and stops at local breweries. Maurice Watson’s truck ...

I may be wrong, but I do believe that when I first wrote about the first incarnation of Ay Papa Qué Rico!, not that many years ago, it struck me that this Pan Latin American concept was the sort of ...

We here in JLB land don’t pay much attention to national food days. Sure, we’ll share our favorite slices with you on National Pizza Day in February. And we can’t wait for May when it’s National ...

Mmmm…empanadas. Those little magical pillows of sweet or savory goodness that all Miamians know and love. There are Argentinian empanadas and Venezuelan empanadas ...

Customers are invited to come celebrate, grab their favorite empanadas and see what’s happening at their new location. See ...

More first-rate Cuban food has come to downtown Melbourne. El Mojito, which inhabits the space on New Haven Avenue vacated by restaurants to have included the late, well-loved Island Pasta Company, is ...