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Cuban at Hugo's Spanish Restaurant
Hugo’s Spanish Restaurant
931 South Howard Avenue
Tampa, Florida
Price: $5.87
Let’s dispel two common myths about the Cuban sandwich: First, the true version contains more salami than a Saturday night at Mons Venus; Second, it was born in our favorite Gulf Coast stripper haven of Tampa. Although most think that, due to its enormous Cuban population, this masterful mix of pork products had to surely come from Miami, the truth is that the sandwich was invented by the mix of Spanish, Cuban and Italian immigrants that flooded Tampa's Ybor City neighborhood in the early to mid 1900s. It was originally constructed as a cheap taste of the motherland for workers during the Great Depression by combining roast pork, ham, salami and Swiss cheese packed into long, thin loaves for easy rationing and topped off with pickles and mustard.Today, Hugo’s is the perennial choice for the top Cuban. Order it “pressed” (heated from the outside-in Foreman grill style) and “all the way” (with tomato and lettuce) and you may never settle for a sandwich with less than three types of pig meat again.
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Mar 20, 2010
