I had heard good feedback on Paladar Cubano from my friends that had tried their food, so it's been on my To-go list for a while.
Yesterday was the perfect opportunity - the first day of spring, very warm (~70 degrees) and sunny Saturday. And I was VERY hungry.
The food truck (and a eat-in tent adjacent to it) is located right off the HWY 99 near Greenlake, which is promising because there is another food truck (el Camion )on the same street up north near Home Depot. Are those used car dealers, cheap motels and pawn shops on the Aurora ave going to be replaced with the global gourmet food vendors? Highly doubt it but everything starts with dreams :-)
Anyway, the food. I was told the service was kind of slow, but the general rule is that if you decide to get served Latin American food, you have to be ready to deal with different time zones, Cuban time, in this case. Our number was #46, when the order for #37 was called. The wait was about 30 + minutes.
Instead of eating in the tent with no sunlight coming in, we decided to drive down to the Golden Gardens to have a picnic lunch on the beach. The sandwich we ordered was Pan con Lechon (shredded roasted pork with grilled onions and green aioli(?) sauce on cuban bread) $5.50. Very tender meat with very flavorful but not overwhelming flavor and right amount of grease and fat (in my standard :-)). The green sauce (we couldn't figure out excatly what it was but some kind of green aioli I guess) was a perfect match with the meat and sauteed onions. This sandwich is probably not one of their best sellers but we loved its simple yet rich pulled pork!
The side order of ham croquettas would be ideal with ice cold beers because of its salty and creamy filling. It's my kind of food :-)
Paladar Cubano
8953 Aurora Ave North
Seattle, WA 98103
Open Mon-Sat 11:30 am to about 6:30
or when we run out of food!
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