Watched a TV show last night about the Columbia Restaurant in Tampa.
Their Cuban sandwich looked really good. Apparently they have been serving this sandwich since 1915 or earlier. Every time they showed someone taking a bite out of one, I could tell it was a very tasty sandwich.
The bread looked just the right thickness and hardness.
Has anyone here eaten a Cuban sandwich at the Columbia Restaurant? Was it as good as I think it is?
Apparently there is a long standing dispute with the folks located in the southern portion of Florida about how to properly make one. Salami or no salami...I'd have to try it both ways.
No salami
Roast Pork, ham and Swiss been like this forever from Cuban places that I have are for decades here and abroad at restaurants, cafes, panaderias
The medianoche (midnight)sandwich is the same but the bread is a mallee egg flour roll. As the name implies, it was meant to be a late night sandwich after dancing drinking etc.
Yellow mustard, buttered bead (not outside) and few dill pickle slices
Both are pressed flat.
Of course it is the garlicky roast pork that makes the sandwich.
Salami turns it into an Italian Sub.....
That looks good,
my favorite will remain the classic Club Sandwich, potato chips and a quarter slice of garlic dill pickle on the side.
That looks a lot like a chorrey ham you used to be able to get at Vegas on SR50.
(It was) The best Cuban food in this area.
I have had the pleasure of eating there on several occasions....I have probably eaten over a 1000 cuban sandwiches, the cuban bread (made in Tampa) is what makes the sandwich....yum yum...
I was there just last August. My wife had the Cuban. I had ropa vieja (sp?).
The food was very good as was the sangria. But the best thing was the atmosphere, the building, the service, the history. A high point on our trip to Florida.
One great thing about living in the Virgin Islands is that when you go on vacation, everything is so ridiculously inexpensive.
The bread did look especially good.
They are doing something right to remain in business so long and still keep it in the family.
You have to respect that.
A couple days ago I had something like that in a place called Exquisito Restaurant in Little Havana. It was tasty, but way too much meat for me. I should have ordered one of the Cuban rice dishes like my wife had.
You got that right!
Now all we have is "Cubans on the Run", "Black Bean Deli" (very good), "Cubans r US" and of course those tasty Cuban sandwhichs at all 7-11's ugh.
Have a great Thanksgiving!
Bill
Went they make the bread, they put palmetto leaves in the soft batter and let it cook with the leaf in it.....yum yum...and of course remove the leaf when cooked...
The Cuban sandwhich was my lunch staple for many years as a young surveyor. I have eaten at the Columbia many times. We use to get a foot long around Tampa in a brown paper bag for $1.00. No salami. Also stuffed potatoes which is a meat covered in potato and deep fried and the develed crab. I love Cuban food.
There was a place on the causeway near the shrimp docks that we would stop at in the morning on the way to the job site....they had the best breakfast sandwich....cuban bread with bacon (or sausage) and fried egg....grease dripping everywhere....making me hungry...
rberry5886, post: 346511, member: 232 wrote: There was a place on the causeway near the shrimp docks that we would stop at in the morning on the way to the job site....they had the best breakfast sandwich....cuban bread with bacon (or sausage) and fried egg....grease dripping everywhere....making me hungry...
That is the only positive aspect of larger cities... the food.
No Cuban food around my area 🙁
