Food Adventures of Big Tony Ragu: Alpine Village Cafe Con Leche mixing their signature drink

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When you think of salsa, great Cuban food with strong coffee your probably thinking about the Cafe Con Leche truck owned by Gabriel Martinez and Chef Frankie. This truck is the 1st of its kind and will be offering online ordering soon to make it easier to get your Cubana food on.

Chef Frankie is responsible for the Cuban inspired menu, which is awesome! We sampled a few of the menu items such as the Cuban sandwich, a traditional sandwich made with fresh cuban bread grilled to perfection with jamon, slow roasted pork that you can break with your tonque, swiss cheese, hardy mustard, and crunchy pickles to top it off, make it a lip smacking good experience. The Manolo-Pan con Bistec, steak sandwich was palomilla style- Mention palomilla to a Cuban and his eyes will light with pleasure. Like so much grilled fare, palomilla (pronounced "pal-o-me-ya") is a poor man's dish that has been elevated to gastronomic indulgence. The term refers to a thin, flavorful steak cut from the bottom round (la bola in Spanish). Because bottom round can be rather tough, the steak is cut thin (about the width of your baby finger) to make it seem more tender. (muy Sabrosa), with grilled onions, crushed gourmet potato chips added a nice crunch, sweet tomatoes, swiss cheese, and Chef Frankie's creamy with a hint of heat special sauce to complete this work of art. I would change the name to El Delicioso! The last item we tasted was the Pastelitos de Guayaba y Queso, which is guava and goat cheese baked in a lighly browned empanada shell, yes they make there own empanada's too.

Simply incredible are the skills of Chef Frankie. The Cafe Cuban drink brings me back to my traditional Italian roots of sitting around the table drinking strong espresso coffee with my grandfather. Agradecimiento Cafe Con Leche! Please enjoy the videos for an inside look at the owners behind the food of the Cafe Con Leche Cuban mobile truck or go to see full story at Food Adventures of Big Tony Ragu: http://sn.im/104xej

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• Cafe Con Leche
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• dinner under the stars
• Alpine Village
• food trucks
• big tony ragu
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• Torrance California
• gourmet dining
• manolo
• cuban
• Guayaba y Queso

[bigtbone4u]

I appreciate your comments but your incorrect Subkitten1. Actually the Cafe Criollo: Generally made in an Espresso machine or with a cloth colander (un colador de tela), Cafe Criollo comes out very dark and thick. SUGAR!! is then whipped with the first few drops of Cafe to produce a creamy foamy top we call espumita.

[chrisjamesregan]

Oh i want that...

[subkitten1]

im sorry, but my espresso looks like that without sugar. and the "espumita" is really called the 'creme' of the coffee and a proper espresso shot MUST have that straight from the brew. it has nothing to do with sugar. you can go to any coffee shop and ask for an espresso, and as long as the grind is right and the port is tamped properly you will get that creme on top. lame.