Gloria’s Café
Prices
Average main course: $11.
Description
Colombian chef-owner Gloria Santiago and her Puerto Rican husband, Jaime, have put their heart into this casual eatery, and it shows. The colorful space is modest, but the food is complex, hearty and belly-busting. The steaming bowl of herb-flecked sancocho, or hen stew, makes for a great lunch, packed with yuca, plantains and corn. For a dinner for two, go with the glistening, brown-skinned rotisserie chicken and the bandeja paisa (country plate), an assortment of tender skirt steak, fantastic housemade pork sausage links, a dense corn cake, crispy chicharron, a hunk of avocado, beans. Cut up the over-easy egg, the sausage and the avocado, add a dash of salt and pepper (Gloria has a light hand with seasonings across the board) and try to get a bit of everything in each bite.
