Gustazo Cuban Cafe

Media – March 2019

sean — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:20:27 +0000

After nearly a decade of serving up vibrant Cuban food in the Boston suburbs, Gustazo Restaurant owners Patricia Estorino and Adolfo de la Vega are opening a second location in Cambridge—and they could use a drink.

Gustazo Cuban Restaurant & Café is now open in Porter Square with menu favorites from the Waltham location, plus an all-new cocktail program created by acclaimed local drinksmith Sam Treadway. Gustazo quietly debuted in Cambridge over the weekend, Eater Boston reports, and it officially kicks off dinner service tonight…Read More

First Look at Gustazo Cuban Restaurant & Café in Cambridge

Media – March 2019

sean — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:18:24 +0000

Gustazo Cuban Kitchen & Bar (2067 Massachusetts Ave., Porter Square) is now open in Cambridge, and it features a more substantial focus on beverages than its big sibling in Waltham: The Cambridge cocktails were developed in collaboration with Sam Treadway, owner of award-winning cocktail gem Backbar in Somerville’s Union Square…Read More

Media – June 2018

sean — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:27:56 +0000

We have been awarded 2018 Boston’s Best!

2018 Winner – 2018 Best Brunch, West

We are excited to be awarded #BostonsBest by Improper Bostonian magazine.

Just off the north side of Moody Street, Waltham’s restaurant row, sits this slice of Havana heaven. During the Cuban eatery’s bustling brunch, crêpes stuffed with slow-roasted pork are washed down with guava-mint mimosas…Read More

Best of Boston 2018 Boston Magazine

Media – July 2016

sean — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 03:08:01 +0000

We are 2016 Boston’s Best Winners!

2016 Winner – Food & Drink

We are excited to be awarded #BostonsBest by Improper Bostonian magazine.

From BostonsBest.com:

While you’re waiting for airfares and red tape to relax enough to make your own trip to Cuba, you can visit Gustazo, a cozy, attractive outpost of the island’s lusty cuisine, perched on Waltham’s town common. Expect exemplary renditions of the classics: a tremendous Cuban sandwich, the rich coconut-milk seafood stew that is mariscada, slow-roasted puerco asado, a delectable ropa vieja of shredded flank steak and a mouth-puckering swordfish ceviche. You’ll have to take the cigar outside.

Media – January 8 2015

sean — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 21:24:08 +0000

Forget winter’s chill at Gustazo Cuban Cafe

IN THE KITCHEN Patricia Estorino spent hours at a ballet barre in her native Havana, not at a kitchen countertop, but you would not guess that from the imaginative dishes she serves at the Gustazo Cuban Cafe in Waltham.

Chef and owner of the restaurant, which moved to Main Street in November from a smaller location in Belmont, Estorino said she began cooking after missing the flavors of home…

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Media – June 4 2015

sean — Thu, 14 May 2015 20:11:04 +0000

Tastes of the world are close to home

Feel like you want to go somewhere but don’t want to go far – now that the weather’s so gorgeous your Facebook friends in Florida are jealous?

How about taking a culinary trip around the world without leaving the Boston suburbs?

We’re talking everything from exotic, Anthony Bourdain-worthy fare to excitingly different dishes with flavors that are both new and instantly comforting. We’ve got them all in the Hub: Nepalese, Taiwanese, Middle Eastern, Peruvian, Thai, Spanish, Ethiopian, Caribbean, Filipino, Cuban, Moroccan, northwestern Chinese, and many more.

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