Almost every item at Chocobar Cortés has chocolate as an ingredient. Some are subtle, such as the first-rate Chocoburger, featuring chocolate in the ketchup. Other dishes are extremely chocolatey, like the must-order Chocolate Grilled Cheese. 📷: scoboco
For nearly 93 years, the Cortés family has been making chocolate in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, creating a brand that's as widely known on those islands as, say, Hershey's is here in New York City. Especially famous for their hot chocolate, they opened their first restaurant in 2013 in Puerto Rico's Old San Juan, an all-day cafe with a full menu of savory and sweet dishes.
Last week, after multiple pandemic delays involving the construction of the actual building in which it resides, the family finally opened their second Chocobar Cortés, on Alexander Avenue in Mott Haven. Here they serve a mix of savory and sweet — with a menu that's suitable for breakfast, brunch, lunch, snacking, drinks , or dessert — and based on a feast I had earlier this week in the friendly, vibrant space, it's one of the best new restaurants anywhere in the city right now.
Platters and sandwiches involving steaks, chicken, and roasted pork are all slightly chocolatized as well, with a bit of cocoa in the meat's rub. And one of the best things I ate involved no discernable chocolate at all, a Mallorca Iberica sandwich of salty serrano ham, strong manchego, and a slathering of guava butter pressed between the namesake Purto Rican sweet bread, which the restaurant has specially made by the local South Bronx bakery Il Forno. This is sensational comfort food.
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