Cuban Café Restaurant

Cuban Café Restaurant

OPEN TILL MIDNIGHT - FRIDAY & SATURDAY ONLY!

Cuban Café presents Johnny Blas and his Latin Jazz Quartet. Join us for a evening of latin jazz on Thursdays November 5th, 12th & 19th of 2009.

This evening Cuban Café will be open only to reservations with seating begining at 6:15 pm. and music begining from 7:00 pm ‘til 10:30 pm

WE ACCEPT CASH,VISA, MASTER CARD & AMEX. NO DISCOVER

Wednesday, Thursday & Sunday
Open from 11:00 am. to 8:00 pm.
(Dark Monday & Tuesday.)

5180 Arlington Avenue
Riverside, CA 9254
in Heritage Plaza.
951-785-9400.

Cuban cuisine is a fusion of Spanish, African and Caribbean cuisines. Cuban recipes share spices and techniques with Spanish and African cooking, with some Caribbean influence in spice and flavor. A small, but noteworthy, Chinese influence can also be accounted for, mainly in the Havana area.

Due to historical reasons, the Cuban population was not equally distributed along the island. African slaves were a majority in the sugar cane plantations, but in most of the cities they constituted a minority. The eastern part of the island also received massive quantities of French, Haitian and Caribbean immigrants, mainly during the Haitian Revolution, as well as seasonal workers for the sugar cane harvest, while the western part did not, receiving, instead, European, mostly Spanish, immigration well into the 1950s. This implied that Cuban cuisine developed locally, from the influences and demographics specific to each area.

Cuban cuisine has almost nothing in common with Mexican cuisine, which is a surprise for many visitors from the United States or Europe. It also differs from other Latin American cuisines and food traditions of the United States.