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ALL BOTTLED UP: Sabor a Cuba
The spot: Sabor a Cuba, a quaint, two-room operation in Ravenswood, serves up authentic Cuban cuisine near the Brown Line "L" tracks over Wilson Avenue. The Famous Sandwich Cubano, with tender pork loin, ham, Swiss cheese and pickles resting on toasted French bread ($4.75; $8.75 as a dinner plate, which includes white rice and black bean soup), is a bestseller. Skip the bread altogether with a jibarito, a steak sandwich served between two large, fried plantains ($5.25; dinner plate $9.25). Seafood lovers will dig the enchilado de camarone, shrimp served in a Cuban-style Creole sauce ($11.95).
The bottle: What goes better with hearty roasted Cuban meats than sweet, minty mojitos? Pretty much nothing. The U.S. trade embargo has made it impossible to purchase authentic Cuban rum (legally) in the States, so unless you've recently been to Canada and smuggled back a bottle of Havana Club, the Puerto Rican variety is your best bet. Pick up a 750-milliliter bottle of Bacardi light rum ($11.99) just a few blocks from Sabor a Cuba at Rayan's Discount Liquors (1532 W Montrose Ave. 773-728-7765). BYOM- as in, bring your own mixers: sugar, limes, crushed mint leaves and club soda; the restaurant does not supply them for you. --Emily Hiser Lobdell, Metromix special contributor
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