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Chicago Magazine Monday Sep 8, 2008
That pesky anti-Castro embargo makes it tough to legally
procure everything from Cuban cigars to Cuban hurlers
-- but no act of Congress can stop the proliferation
of their finest achievement, the Cuban sandwich. Get
that and then some, at 90 Miles Cuban Café,
opening Tuesday.
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CUBA
LIBRE Even post-Fidel, Cuba might be forbidden country,
but chef-owners Alberto and Christine Gonzalez hope that
after stepping into 90 Miles Cuban Café, the island
won’t feel so far out of reach. In order to get “the
rustic feel of Cuba” that he remembers from his childhood,
Alberto hauled 100-year-old wood from a barn in Wisconsin
and plastered the walls with his collection of pre-Castro
newspapers. But the food is where things really get personal.
On a recent vacation to Spain, the couple fell in love with
“the intimate feel” of the tapas restaurants
they wandered into, and they wanted to create a neighborhood
place of their own. It doesn’t require a trip across
any ocean to guess that their signatures—like pulled-pork-and-plantain
and “Cuban style”-tofu sandwiches—will
be a welcome addition to restaurant-barren Hamlin Park.
3101 N Clybourn at Barry Ave.
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