Anywhere there’s a large Puerto Rican or Dominican community, you’ll find a cuchifrito shop.
Sometimes skirting a fine line with the Health Department, the Bronx has dozens of these take-out places.
And BarelyLegalRestaurants.com rates them.
The name comes from "cochino" and "frito,"
the words for "pig" and "fried".
And fry pig they do. Fried tongue and pork ear and pork tripe, (the lining of a pig stomach) share the window with fried chicken…
...and the classic papas rellenas
(pork-filled potato balls).
Mofongo is a staple, too, a Caribbean classic made with fried and mashed green plantains mixed with garlic, olive oil and fried pork cracklings (skin).
This place, La Isla, near the Elder Avenue stop on the six, has a constant line of hungry customers. The flow never relented the day I was there and the counter ladies worked their butts off.
La Isla earns a rating of only one star,
very good for a shop like this.
I’m going back! Who's with me?
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