Knocked it out of the park. A real Peruvian place with superb ceviche (with the cancha toasted corn nuts !), saltados (stir fry with meat onions tomato cilantro and...FRENCH FRIES ! ! ! ). Neighborhood location, lotsa locals eating there. I went twice and had consistently excellent food and service each time. This place is the real deal.
Review Source:I work down the block at Citrix, but once a week,I come here for the very same dish...Roast Pork. The portions are tremendous. I always have a very good appetite, but rarely am able to finish my meal here. The pork is very tasty and well done. Lunches come with beans, rice and fried plantains which are delicious. I always stop myself from munching on the bread they bring to the table first as I don't want to fill up on the "good stuff" It might not be La Versaille in little havana, but it's right up there close to it. For $7 for a lunch special you can't go wrong. The service is always great. Place is usually crowded for lunch, but never a wait. After a meal here, my struggle is staying awake after such a good and heavy meal.
Review Source:While in FL for work, a colleague brought me here for lunch and I was very pleased!!
Upon being seated, they brought out a bread basket with very plain but fluffy bread...what really blew my mind were the two sauces that accomanied the bread. Â SO spicy and SO good! Â They need to jar this stuff up and sell it, I would absolutely ship a few jars back with me to NY, no joke....
As for my entree, they have a whole slew of lunch specials to choose from and they also have itty bitty photos of the dishes which are pretty cheesy, but helpful. Â
I decided to get the chicken in garlic sauce with rice, it also came with a side of chicken noodle soup...random, I know.
The chicken noodle soup was nothing special, there were a ton of tiny bones that I had to keep spitting out which was annoying.
The chicken was pretty good, the sauce was a little TOO garlicky, I LOVE garlic, but I like for the flavor to be infused, this sauce just had a million pieces of chopped up garlic in it, I thought it was rice soaked in the sauce at first, it just had too many garlic pieces, I had to scrape them off the chicken. Â I did dip every bite of chicken in the green and yellow bread sauces though since I loved them so much.
I already really enjoyed the bread, it was sticky, sweet and salty, such a great flavor!
Wouldn't mind coming back to try a few other items on the menu.
This is one of my fav lunch spots....my fav here is the Bistec Empanizado (breaded steak) Ropa Vieja (sheredded beef) all served with rice beans and plantains or soup.....sooo yummy and its a lot of food for $7, also they serve bread and these sauces that are yummy....try the green sauce if u like spicy stuff.....we go here atleast once a week and ive treid almost everythign on the menu...stay away from the seafood....but all else is DELISH!!!
Review Source:I have to downgrade this spot after a couple of recent 2 star experiences. I have eaten lunch here about a dozen times over the past few years, and it really is hit or miss. I have had some great lunches there, but a couple of times the food has been below par. Perhaps it depends on who is back in the kitchen on a particular day, but this restaurant does not consistently come through, and I found the same thing happened at their location in Hollywood. 2.5 stars generously rounded up to 3....
Review Source:I note that there are two Cabo Blanco restaurants on Yelp, being Cabo Blanco Restaurant and Cabo Blanco Restaurant Number 3, but both with the same address, occupying the same premises but two different phone numbers with one noted seafood and the other noted Latin food, but when I phoned I was advised they have the same menu, so go figure that one. Anyway, I'm sure I am reviewing the proper one and frankly think that there is realistically but one.
I was surprised at the size of Cabo Blanco. Upon entering you find a bigger restaurant than you'd initially think, having excellent, quick, helpful attentive service. The food portions are large and, for another surprise, the wine glass comes full; all at not only a reasonable but a seemingly bargain price.
It bills its cuisine as Peruvian/Cuban, but from what I had and saw others having, the food has a distinct Peruvian bias to it. Those large sized kernels of Peruvian corn on what would otherwise be a Cuban dish are somewhat of a hint.
The menu is exhaustingly extensive, far larger than found in most restaurants of such size and there are pictures of their servings on the wall together with pricing to assist you in ordering.
I could easily go four stars for Cabo Blanco with its neat, clean interior and friendly well run operation, but found the flavor and taste of the food not up to the standards of the similar Peruvian restaurants; lacking in balance. As an example, I ordered the Ceviche Mixto which came as a good sized portion containing fish, octopus, squid and plenty of shrimp top with onion topping and what I think was a delicious yam side. I was asked how I wanted it prepared, being mild, spicy or hot. I ordered mild and it came mild, however the strength of the citrus used to chemically cook the ingredients was overwhelming, even overwhelming enough and so pungent as to practically pickle my tongue and mouth, with the more resultant fact of overwhelming any of the flavors of the main ingredients of the dish. No matter what I ate from it, it all tasted citrus leaving me to only feel the different textures of the shrimp, fish, squid and octopus; all balance between flavors was lost.
Wonderful. Hard to tell from the tired little strip mall exterior, but the inside is large (seats over 100), clean and pleasant. We just dropped in for lunch, of which they have a lot of tempting specials for only $7-8. I had the special of goodly chunks of roasted/grilled pork (beautifully crusty, covered with sauteed onions, a little dry inside but tender), with white rice, black beans and fried sweet plantains.
My wife had a hankering for the rice with seafood (basically a Latin paella), though it only comes as a regular entree (ca. $13). and by "entree", I mean the plate could literally feed four people easily! The rice was full of squid, tail-on shrimp and octopus, with some clams and mussels and the edges. Slightly over-salty but still a really nice flavor (that we had again that evening with the leftovers).
To start they bring a bread basket, with slices of baguette that have been squished on the griddle to get them warm and slightly toasty. they also bring a rack with three sauces: a green cilantro chutney, mustard, and a creamy garlic sauce.
All in all a happy experience, and we're looking forward to exploring more of the very long menu.
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