The casual Cuban restaurant draws inspiration and recipes from the business owners’ family roots in the eastern Cuban city of Holguin.
The Habana bowl made with yellow rice, black beans, sweet plantains and salad is a popular menu item at Habana Express, a new Cuban restaurant and bakery in Pleasant Hill. The casual Cuban restaurant draws inspiration and recipes from family roots in the Cuban city of Holguin, says co-owner Aylin Alvarez Torres, who runs the restaurant with her husband, chef Dayron Huerta Pino, and cousin Jose Rodríguez Bacallao. The family moved to the U.S.
The most popular dishes at the restaurant include a Habana bowl with ropa vieja, yellow rice, beans, plantains and salad — the restaurant also offers build-your-own bowls — and the Cubano sandwich , Alvarez Torres says.As for Alvarez Torres’ baked goods, there are savory croquettes filled with ham or chicken, mini tarts filled with coconut, guava or cheese, and Cuban pastries filed with guava, cheese, beef or coconut .
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