Favorites: Kuba Kuba’s Kuban roast pork

Mere blocks from VCU’s Monroe Park campus sits a Fan fixture: Kuba Kuba. Equally enticing to college students, Fan residents, and diners from everywhere in this fine town, Kuba Kuba serves a wide selection of authentic Cuban dishes. Bring a friend, and share an order of the Kuban roast pork ($13.95). You’ll receive a bowl piled high with tender mojo-marinated pork, earthy black beans and rice, and those lightly sweet nuggets of fried, smashed plantains known as tostones. You’re sure to have leftovers anyway, so be sure to save room for some tres leches cake.

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