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If you like authentic latin food, casual atmosphere, and friendly staff, look no further. I've been to Cafe con Leche countless times and simply love the food and everything else. If you want upscale, try Son Cubano. If you want anything more authentic than this, go to Miami or Havana. Overall, you can't go wrong here!

This is my neighborhood restaurant, I walk by on a daily basis. The food is great when your looking for that Spanish goodness, but the waitresses are not. They are slow, apathetic, forgetful, and clearly have no concept of efficiency. The language barrier may play a factor, but everytime me and my boyfriend get there we are dumbfounded at how the service is.

This place is awesome! Try the nachos.

Best version of this dish i have ever had. The made from scratch hot sauce is spectacular!

Their pork (pernil asado) and fried chicken are almost comically bad - so dry, so flavorless, so unpleasant that one may begin to suspect he's being the victim of a practical joke. Alas, no, that is apparently what they serve at this cafe. Their rice and beans are barely better - bland, bland, bland. However, if I lived in the neighborhood, I'd probably drop by from time to time for the third dish we chanced upon in that restaurant - the oxtail stew. Honestly made and inexpensive, it doesn't rise above adequacy, to be frank, but a good, old-fashioned oxtail stew is hard to find in this city of fads. Side it with passable plantains (the sauces are nasty to tolerable), and you can have yourself a decent meal for around ten bucks. And, though we didn't try it, I'd risk suggesting trying their other stews and soups - perhaps that is what their kitchen staff know how to make. If you do, please tell us of your experience here on menupages.

This place is a small cute place for some rice dishes and side of beans. I tried the monfongo... I thought it was alright but my mom and brother really liked it. I preferred the smashed plantains with shrimp in garlic sauce and I thought the meat empanada was better than the chicken. They have outdoor seating and it's a nice neighborhood so it's a nice place to go for a lazy afternoon or evening.

We live in the area and we have been wanting to try this place for quite some time. We excitedly stopped by one night, and found it to be basically, our least favorite restaurant experience in NYC. The food was just plain old bad. The atmosphere was alright, waitstaff fine, although they took quite a while to bring us drinks, but neither one of us finished our food and had to suffer our way through it. A restaurant is never considered good when you and your boyfriend decide on the way out that you wish you could have a do-over.