The Cuban Sandwich Crisis!

It has been a while since my last post and for that I am sorry.  Life has been busy for me, school, my wife and baby(It's a Girl), Scarlett(maybe).  I have ate at many different establishments since my last posting of about two weeks ago but deep inside none have been worthy enough to get a mention, until now.  The Oakwood Cafe, a nice, as my wife puts it "cute" little restaurant, in downtown Raleigh.  On first glance one would never think this is a Cuban/Argentinean restaurant, in fact it looks like a breakfast place that 70 year old men go to talk about the economy and bash Obama.  We go inside, we are met by a blonde woman, I could see in my wife's eyes "oh great, Americans trying their hand at authentic cuisine".  Then the blonde starts in on her spit fire Spanish and upon listening to her you can really hear her accent.  My wife orders the "Cuban Sandwich" a staple for most.  I order the Picadillo beef platter.  As an appetizer we order the Yucca root with mojo sauce, it a stable in Cuban cuisine.  We dig in "outstanding"  the yucca was prepared with seared outside drenched in Mojo.  We get our lunch, hers was a steak Cuban sandwich with so outstanding prepared meat.  Mine was served with Black beans and rice, the meat was marinated with olives and you could really taste the spices.  This meal was an outstanding staple in Cuban cuisine.  We will return!  After our meal, actually during we enjoyed a cup of Cuban coffee.  Man, they really know how to do coffee.

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