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Chabela's

40 Ave. B , New York, NY 10009
nr. E. 3rd St.  See Map | Subway Directions Hopstop Popup
646-484-6750 Send to Phone

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  • Cuisine: Caribbean, Latin American
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Hours

Tue-Thu, 4pm-10pm; Fri-Sat, 2pm-11pm; Sun, 1pm-10pm; Mon, closed

Nearby Subway Stops

N, R, W at 8th St.-NYU

Prices

$7-$12

Payment Methods

American Express, Discover, MasterCard, Visa

Special Features

  • Reservations Not Required

Reservations

Accepted/Not Necessary

Profile

You can’t open a Latin-Caribbean restaurant in this town and expect to succeed without affording the esteemed Cuban sandwich a prominent place on the menu. Chabela’s, in the East Village, has done just that. The rest of the menu, though, skews toward the homestyle cooking of one of the owners’ Dominican mother-in-law and includes dishes like: guinea hen guisada (guinea hen stew), mondongo (tripe soup), berengena guisada (eggplant stew), and chuletas (fried pork chops). For breakfast, there’s the mashed green plantain dish known as mangu served in the traditional manner with eggs, sausage, and fried cheese. — Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld

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Food: 10.0
Service: 9.0
Décor: 7.0
Value: 8.0

Quisqueya in the house!

Anselmo145 from 19993 | Posted on 7/24/09

Overall Rating: 9 (Highly Recommended)
Food: 10
Service: 9
Décor: 7
Value: 8

The wait staff was very friendly and quite talkative. One of the waitress looked like Eva LaRue. She was very sweet. My wife and I were very hungry the night we ate at Chabela's and had to wait quite a bit. One of the girls came over and apologized for the wait and gave us a couple of beef empanadillas on the house. That scored big time points with us! The food was awsome. We're puerto ricans and have only eaten Dominican food at local greasy spoon joints in the Lower East Side. We have never had Dominican like this before! As far as we're concerned, this place is on equal footing with Sofrito's on W. 57th St. If they can keep up in the kitchen, they will definately be very successful.

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