Café con Leche

This recently expanded Ecuadorian eatery bills itself as a panaderia, or bakery, and a picanteria, too.

Arrive with an appetite and the staff will make you a savory plate like chuchucara (above; $10), an intriguing if somewhat dry mélange of roast pork, french fries, plantain, fried hominy, lettuce, onions, and oversize boiled kernels of corn. If you're keen to try roast cuy (platter, $30-$45, depending on the size of the rodent), here's the place to find it; for the less daring, there's "rottis chicken."

Follow your entree with an excellent alfajor ($1.25), two crumbly biscuits joined by dulce de leche and topped with powdered sugar. Or try the morocho (small; $2), a smooth, sweet drink that blends white corn with milk and cinnamon and that carries a payload of raisins and whole kernels at the bottom of the cup. One stray clove slipped into mine.

Café con Leche
102-03 Roosevelt Ave. (102nd-103rd Sts.), Corona, Queens
719-458-5393

Comments

[jeff]

nice pick up. I've been trying to find some cuy guinea pig around. hornado ecautoriano has them but you have to order in advance 3 days plus. I will definitely have to check this out. thanks for the scouting.