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Tags: Cuba, Cuban, Cuisine, restaurant
Knowledge is Power!
HAVING been scrupulous in observing my government’s ban on travel to Cuba, I don’t know what the country’s restaurants look like. So why did Sophie’s Cuban Cuisine, a takeout or sit-down lunch place that opened on 40th Street earlier this year, strike me as inauthentic?
Too clean, for starters. Vendors of top-notch ropa vieja are supposed to be grimy and dim, with a patina built up by decades of steam and frying grease.
Sophie’s, with its high ceilings, yellow walls and Technicolor travel posters of Havana before Castro, flunks that test.”*
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