Little Havana Fruits

[FloridaGreenMan]

Last weekend we drove down to Marlins baseball game in Little Havana in Miami. I left early since I wanted to have dinner in one of the really unique places in Miami. It's called Palacio de Los Jugos (Juice Palace). This place is open 24 hours a day and they serve Cuban and Latin comfort foods like Cuban tamales, roast pork, rice dishes of all types,  Cuban & palomilla steak sandwiches, empanadas, Guarapo(fresh squeezed cane juice), Mamey and Soursop shakes and thick Cuban coffee. This place is a landmark and is always packed. Many famous chefs including Martha Stewart and Andrew Zimmern have filmed episodes here. It's not really pretty and you eat outdoors on picnic tables but the food is excellent. For us fruiters, the attraction is the huge fruit bins all over the place. They had fresh locally grown Mamey Americana, Guavas, Jocote (Purple mombins) Mamey Sapote, Mangos, Apple Bananas and even Soursop!. Prices for fruit were reasonable by Miami standards. If you are in Miami , you gotta come here for the full latino experience. I did not hear much English spoken by employees or customers but I imagine that some of the employees must speak it. It's the closet thing to traveling to Central America or the spanish Caribbean.
Miami....it's almost like being in the US!


 

A boxful of delicous Mamey americana


Local bananas and mangos


Lots of Mamey sapote


Some HUGE and expensive Homestead Guavas. These are all bagged on the plant and free of pests. I have been to the farms that grows them!

[bsbullie]

Last weekend we drove down to Marlins baseball game in Little Havana in Miami. I left early since I wanted to have dinner in one of the really unique places in Miami. It's called Palacio de Los Jugos (Juice Palace). This place is open 24 hours a day and they serve Cuban and Latin comfort foods like Cuban tamales, roast pork, rice dishes of all types,  Cuban & palomilla steak sandwiches, empanadas, Guarapo(fresh squeezed cane juice), Mamey and Soursop shakes and thick Cuban coffee. This place is a landmark and is always packed. Many famous chefs including Martha Stewart and Andrew Zimmern have filmed episodes here. It's not really pretty and you eat outdoors on picnic tables but the food is excellent. For us fruiters, the attraction is the huge fruit bins all over the place. They had fresh locally grown Mamey Americana, Guavas, Jocote (Purple mombins) Mamey Sapote, Mangos, Apple Bananas and even Soursop!. Prices for fruit were reasonable by Miami standards. If you are in Miami , you gotta come here for the full latino experience. I did not hear much English spoken by employees or customers but I imagine that some of the employees must speak it. It's the closet thing to traveling to Central America or the spanish Caribbean.
Miami....it's almost like being in the US!

I love authentic Cuban food...that place looks awesome.  Bet they make a yummy Medianoche and Lechen Asado    Washed down with a mamey shake and a cup of fresh squeezed cane juice.  What are the green fruits next to the americanas ?

Martha Stewart and Andrew Zimmern are not famous chefs, they are tv personalities that focus shows on food.

[FloridaGreenMan]

Last weekend we drove down to Marlins baseball game in Little Havana in Miami. I left early since I wanted to have dinner in one of the really unique places in Miami. It's called Palacio de Los Jugos (Juice Palace). This place is open 24 hours a day and they serve Cuban and Latin comfort foods like Cuban tamales, roast pork, rice dishes of all types,  Cuban & palomilla steak sandwiches, empanadas, Guarapo(fresh squeezed cane juice), Mamey and Soursop shakes and thick Cuban coffee. This place is a landmark and is always packed. Many famous chefs including Martha Stewart and Andrew Zimmern have filmed episodes here. It's not really pretty and you eat outdoors on picnic tables but the food is excellent. For us fruiters, the attraction is the huge fruit bins all over the place. They had fresh locally grown Mamey Americana, Guavas, Jocote (Purple mombins) Mamey Sapote, Mangos, Apple Bananas and even Soursop!. Prices for fruit were reasonable by Miami standards. If you are in Miami , you gotta come here for the full latino experience. I did not hear much English spoken by employees or customers but I imagine that some of the employees must speak it. It's the closet thing to traveling to Central America or the spanish Caribbean.
Miami....it's almost like being in the US!

I love authentic Cuban food...that place looks awesome.  Bet they make a yummy Medianoche and Lechen Asado    Washed down with a mamey shake and a cup of fresh squeezed cane juice.  What are the green fruits next to the americanas ?

Martha Stewart and Andrew Zimmern are not famous chefs, they are tv personalities that focus shows on food.

Last weekend we drove down to Marlins baseball game in Little Havana in Miami. I left early since I wanted to have dinner in one of the really unique places in Miami. It's called Palacio de Los Jugos (Juice Palace). This place is open 24 hours a day and they serve Cuban and Latin comfort foods like Cuban tamales, roast pork, rice dishes of all types,  Cuban & palomilla steak sandwiches, empanadas, Guarapo(fresh squeezed cane juice), Mamey and Soursop shakes and thick Cuban coffee. This place is a landmark and is always packed. Many famous chefs including Martha Stewart and Andrew Zimmern have filmed episodes here. It's not really pretty and you eat outdoors on picnic tables but the food is excellent. For us fruiters, the attraction is the huge fruit bins all over the place. They had fresh locally grown Mamey Americana, Guavas, Jocote (Purple mombins) Mamey Sapote, Mangos, Apple Bananas and even Soursop!. Prices for fruit were reasonable by Miami standards. If you are in Miami , you gotta come here for the full latino experience. I did not hear much English spoken by employees or customers but I imagine that some of the employees must speak it. It's the closet thing to traveling to Central America or the spanish Caribbean.
Miami....it's almost like being in the US!

I love authentic Cuban food...that place looks awesome.  Bet they make a yummy Medianoche and Lechen Asado    Washed down with a mamey shake and a cup of fresh squeezed cane juice.  What are the green fruits next to the americanas ?

Martha Stewart and Andrew Zimmern are not famous chefs, they are tv personalities that focus shows on food.

Andrew Zimmern is a trained chef and he's pretty famous...look it up. Martha is a rich ex-con foodie!

[bsbullie]

Last weekend we drove down to Marlins baseball game in Little Havana in Miami. I left early since I wanted to have dinner in one of the really unique places in Miami. It's called Palacio de Los Jugos (Juice Palace). This place is open 24 hours a day and they serve Cuban and Latin comfort foods like Cuban tamales, roast pork, rice dishes of all types,  Cuban & palomilla steak sandwiches, empanadas, Guarapo(fresh squeezed cane juice), Mamey and Soursop shakes and thick Cuban coffee. This place is a landmark and is always packed. Many famous chefs including Martha Stewart and Andrew Zimmern have filmed episodes here. It's not really pretty and you eat outdoors on picnic tables but the food is excellent. For us fruiters, the attraction is the huge fruit bins all over the place. They had fresh locally grown Mamey Americana, Guavas, Jocote (Purple mombins) Mamey Sapote, Mangos, Apple Bananas and even Soursop!. Prices for fruit were reasonable by Miami standards. If you are in Miami , you gotta come here for the full latino experience. I did not hear much English spoken by employees or customers but I imagine that some of the employees must speak it. It's the closet thing to traveling to Central America or the spanish Caribbean.
Miami....it's almost like being in the US!

I love authentic Cuban food...that place looks awesome.  Bet they make a yummy Medianoche and Lechen Asado    Washed down with a mamey shake and a cup of fresh squeezed cane juice.  What are the green fruits next to the americanas ?

Martha Stewart and Andrew Zimmern are not famous chefs, they are tv personalities that focus shows on food.

Last weekend we drove down to Marlins baseball game in Little Havana in Miami. I left early since I wanted to have dinner in one of the really unique places in Miami. It's called Palacio de Los Jugos (Juice Palace). This place is open 24 hours a day and they serve Cuban and Latin comfort foods like Cuban tamales, roast pork, rice dishes of all types,  Cuban & palomilla steak sandwiches, empanadas, Guarapo(fresh squeezed cane juice), Mamey and Soursop shakes and thick Cuban coffee. This place is a landmark and is always packed. Many famous chefs including Martha Stewart and Andrew Zimmern have filmed episodes here. It's not really pretty and you eat outdoors on picnic tables but the food is excellent. For us fruiters, the attraction is the huge fruit bins all over the place. They had fresh locally grown Mamey Americana, Guavas, Jocote (Purple mombins) Mamey Sapote, Mangos, Apple Bananas and even Soursop!. Prices for fruit were reasonable by Miami standards. If you are in Miami , you gotta come here for the full latino experience. I did not hear much English spoken by employees or customers but I imagine that some of the employees must speak it. It's the closet thing to traveling to Central America or the spanish Caribbean.
Miami....it's almost like being in the US!

I love authentic Cuban food...that place looks awesome.  Bet they make a yummy Medianoche and Lechen Asado    Washed down with a mamey shake and a cup of fresh squeezed cane juice.  What are the green fruits next to the americanas ?

Martha Stewart and Andrew Zimmern are not famous chefs, they are tv personalities that focus shows on food.

Andrew Zimmern is a trained chef and he's pretty famous...look it up. Martha is a rich ex-con foodie!

I know he has culinary training (as do a lot of individuals but that doesn't make them a famous chef let a lone even a chef at all) and worked stints as a chef and running a restaurant.  He also was a drug addict, thief and a homeless person at a point in his life.  With that being said, I still would not consider him a famous chef.  A famous foodie, yes.  In comparison, Anthony Bourdain is a foodie like Andrew Zimmern but I WOULD call Anthony a famous chef.

[murahilin]

To add to the off topic ramblings of this thread, wikipedia says that Zimmern is a chef and that "He later gained wide acclaim during his four and a half year tenure as executive chef of Cafe Un Deux Trois in Minneapolis's Foshay Tower"... I think that may make him a chef.

I am going to make a new forum group especially for you Rob. It will be "Forum Antagonist". Lol

[bsbullie]

To add to the off topic ramblings of this thread, wikipedia says that Zimmern is a chef and that "He later gained wide acclaim during his four and a half year tenure as executive chef of Cafe Un Deux Trois in Minneapolis's Foshay Tower"... I think that may make him a chef.

I am going to make a new forum group especially for you Rob. It will be "Forum Antagonist". Lol

you might as well make me the mod of that group 

I never said he wasn't a chef, I said I would not consider him a "famous chef". 

[ianmaguire]

They opened a Palacio de Los Jugos in Homestead over a year ago...I need to check it out and see if compares....I kinda don't think so but I'll report back

[JF]

Last weekend we drove down to Marlins baseball game in Little Havana in Miami. I left early since I wanted to have dinner in one of the really unique places in Miami. It's called Palacio de Los Jugos (Juice Palace). This place is open 24 hours a day and they serve Cuban and Latin comfort foods like Cuban tamales, roast pork, rice dishes of all types,  Cuban & palomilla steak sandwiches, empanadas, Guarapo(fresh squeezed cane juice), Mamey and Soursop shakes and thick Cuban coffee. This place is a landmark and is always packed. Many famous chefs including Martha Stewart and Andrew Zimmern have filmed episodes here. It's not really pretty and you eat outdoors on picnic tables but the food is excellent. For us fruiters, the attraction is the huge fruit bins all over the place. They had fresh locally grown Mamey Americana, Guavas, Jocote (Purple mombins) Mamey Sapote, Mangos, Apple Bananas and even Soursop!. Prices for fruit were reasonable by Miami standards. If you are in Miami , you gotta come here for the full latino experience. I did not hear much English spoken by employees or customers but I imagine that some of the employees must speak it. It's the closet thing to traveling to Central America or the spanish Caribbean.
Miami....it's almost like being in the US!


 

A boxful of delicous Mamey americana


Local bananas and mangos


Lots of Mamey sapote


Some HUGE and expensive Homestead Guavas. These are all bagged on the plant and free of pests. I have been to the farms that grows them!

Great pics Noel! that place has been around forever...great food but pretty greasy.

[fruitlovers]

Sounds like a neat place. Thanks for posting.
I think i would skip all their food, except for the fruits and shakes! 

[FloridaGreenMan]

They opened a Palacio de Los Jugos in Homestead over a year ago...I need to check it out and see if compares....I kinda don't think so but I'll report back

I have been to some of the other branch "palacios" but this one is the best.     

[fruitlovers]

They opened a Palacio de Los Jugos in Homestead over a year ago...I need to check it out and see if compares....I kinda don't think so but I'll report back

I have been to some of the other branch "palacios" but this one is the best.     

Where in Miami is it?

[FloridaGreenMan]

They opened a Palacio de Los Jugos in Homestead over a year ago...I need to check it out and see if compares....I kinda don't think so but I'll report back

I have been to some of the other branch "palacios" but this one is the best.     

Where in Miami is it?

Flagler Street and 57th Ave. That's 8 blocks north of Calle Ocho (SW 8th street).   
 

[Jackfruitwhisperer69]

Hi FloridaGreenMan,

I really enjoyed all them pics  The guayabas look very crunchy and the mameys also look very delish

Thanks for sharing

[FloridaGreenMan]

Hi FloridaGreenMan,

I really enjoyed all them pics  The guayabas look very crunchy and the mameys also look very delish

Thanks for sharing

Glad you enjoyed them!

[lycheeluva]

allow me to weigh in. completely beside the point, but I would much rather eat andrew zimmern' food than bordain's. I watched about 5-6 episodes of Bordain before I could no longer stomach the sight of his arrogant pretentious emaciated face. zimmern on the other hand has entertained me for several years and he strikes me as a genuine sincere foodie who loves peple and food in equal measure. zimmern may not be a famous chef but I would invite him to my house for dinner any day of the week. bordain on the other hand, in my opinion, is a prize winning douche.

i realize nothing to do with anything anyone has been talkig about but just wanted to vent!

[adiel]

Noel, great pictures.  Thanks for posting.  I agree that is a nice place to get a good fruit juice or milk shake. 

[Jackfruitwhisperer69]

allow me to weigh in. completely beside the point, but I would much rather eat andrew zimmern' food than bordain's. I watched about 5-6 episodes of Bordain before I could no longer stomach the sight of his arrogant pretentious emaciated face. zimmern on the other hand has entertained me for several years and he strikes me as a genuine sincere foodie who loves peple and food in equal measure. zimmern may not be a famous chef but I would invite him to my house for dinner any day of the week. bordain on the other hand, in my opinion, is a prize winning douche.

i realize nothing to do with anything anyone has been talkig about but just wanted to vent!

I totally agree with you...Anthony is a jerk I like Andrew's show He's very entertaining and  sometimes he cracks me up   

Vent away...   the forum is here to hear

[HMHausman]

allow me to weigh in. completely beside the point, but I would much rather eat andrew zimmern' food than bordain's. I watched about 5-6 episodes of Bordain before I could no longer stomach the sight of his arrogant pretentious emaciated face. zimmern on the other hand has entertained me for several years and he strikes me as a genuine sincere foodie who loves peple and food in equal measure. zimmern may not be a famous chef but I would invite him to my house for dinner any day of the week. bordain on the other hand, in my opinion, is a prize winning douche.

i realize nothing to do with anything anyone has been talkig about but just wanted to vent!

Sorry to continue this disruption.  Funny, I thought it was just me that couldn't stomach Bourdain.  I really couldn't put my finger on why, but I never liked him as a host on a TV show.  Now that I read this, I know why......Gerry's description is right on.

Harry

[MarinFla]

allow me to weigh in. completely beside the point, but I would much rather eat andrew zimmern' food than bordain's. I watched about 5-6 episodes of Bordain before I could no longer stomach the sight of his arrogant pretentious emaciated face. zimmern on the other hand has entertained me for several years and he strikes me as a genuine sincere foodie who loves peple and food in equal measure. zimmern may not be a famous chef but I would invite him to my house for dinner any day of the week. bordain on the other hand, in my opinion, is a prize winning douche.

i realize nothing to do with anything anyone has been talkig about but just wanted to vent!

Sorry to continue this disruption.  Funny, I thought it was just me that couldn't stomach Bourdain.  I really couldn't put my finger on why, but I never liked him as a host on a TV show.  Now that I read this, I know why......Gerry's description is right on.

Harry

I think it is probably because he (Bordain) is a bit on the crude side, smokes too much and seems to like the grittier side of things...definitely could ruffle a few feathers!
BTW Noel those pictures are really nice. I might have to take a road trip there one day

[lycheeluva]

allow me to weigh in. completely beside the point, but I would much rather eat andrew zimmern' food than bordain's. I watched about 5-6 episodes of Bordain before I could no longer stomach the sight of his arrogant pretentious emaciated face. zimmern on the other hand has entertained me for several years and he strikes me as a genuine sincere foodie who loves peple and food in equal measure. zimmern may not be a famous chef but I would invite him to my house for dinner any day of the week. bordain on the other hand, in my opinion, is a prize winning douche.

i realize nothing to do with anything anyone has been talkig about but just wanted to vent!

Sorry to continue this disruption.  Funny, I thought it was just me that couldn't stomach Bourdain.  I really couldn't put my finger on why, but I never liked him as a host on a TV show.  Now that I read this, I know why......Gerry's description is right on.

Harry

so happy to hear im not alone in the universe and that at least 2 other people share my feelings about bourdain.!

[zands]

I think it is probably because he (Bordain) is a bit on the crude side, smokes too much and seems to like the grittier side of things...definitely could ruffle a few feathers!
BTW Noel those pictures are really nice. I might have to take a road trip there one day

In the last few years Bourdain got married, had a child and stopped smoking. He is no longer emaciated. His immortal remark was calling (famous chef) Alice Waters, "Pol Pot in a Muumuu" due to her efforts to get healthy food into public schools. Michelle Obama probably got the idea from gardening and locovore advocate Alice Waters who has been to the White House a few times

[NewGen]

I gotta visit that joint. The fruit bins, while not full of tropical stuffs (I understand many tropical fruits are not yet in season), are worlds better than what I saw in Puerto Rico a couple weeks ago. I love soursop, fresh or in a shake. My tree will probably fruit after I'm dead, it's only about 1.5' now.

[fruitlovers]

I think it is probably because he (Bordain) is a bit on the crude side, smokes too much and seems to like the grittier side of things...definitely could ruffle a few feathers!
BTW Noel those pictures are really nice. I might have to take a road trip there one day

In the last few years Bourdain got married, had a child and stopped smoking. He is no longer emaciated. His immortal remark was calling (famous chef) Alice Waters, "Pol Pot in a Muumuu" due to her efforts to get healthy food into public schools. Michelle Obama probably got the idea from gardening and locovore advocate Alice Waters who has been to the White House a few times

That's not a probable. That is a definite. It was Alice Waters and a bunch of organic gardening associations behind that push. Michelle had never gardened before reaching the White House and she confesses that.

[fruitlovers]

They opened a Palacio de Los Jugos in Homestead over a year ago...I need to check it out and see if compares....I kinda don't think so but I'll report back

I have been to some of the other branch "palacios" but this one is the best.     

Where in Miami is it?

Flagler Street and 57th Ave. That's 8 blocks north of Calle Ocho (SW 8th street).

Thanks for the address. Moderators, can i suggest this place be included in places to visit in Florida if it's not already in there? Seems to me like a historical landmark for people in love with fruits and culture.

[zands]

That's not a probable. That is a definite. It was Alice Waters and a bunch of organic gardening associations behind that push. Michelle had never gardened before reaching the White House and she confesses that.

I looked into it and you are correct. It's a good example to have a White House garden. They also have beehives. The man who set them up is a White House carpenter (always busy working on that old pile) who kept bees at home. Laura Bush never publicized it but she was also into local, organic, sustainable foods for the White House kitchen.


http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/01/15/34854/laura-bush-organic/
Yesterday, the Chicago Sun-Times’ Lynne Marek profiled the role of the White House executive chef, writing that to work for a president, a chef must “have strong culinary skills” and “be willing to check ego and politics at the door.” Quoting former executive chef Walter Scheib, Marek notes that First Lady Laura Bush has been “adamant” about eating organic food:

    Both Clinton and Laura Bush were focused on the nutritional value of food, with Bush adamant about using organic products, Scheib says.

In a blog posting, Scheib wrote that Bush was “adamant that in ALL CASES if an organic product was available it was to be used in place of a non-organic product.” The fact that the first lady was “adamant” about organics at the White House is commendable, 

[fruitlovers]

That's not a probable. That is a definite. It was Alice Waters and a bunch of organic gardening associations behind that push. Michelle had never gardened before reaching the White House and she confesses that.

I looked into it and you are correct. It's a good example to have a White House garden. They also have beehives. The man who set them up is a White House carpenter (always busy working on that old pile) who kept bees at home. Laura Bush never publicized it but she was also into local, organic, sustainable foods for the White House kitchen.


http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/01/15/34854/laura-bush-organic/
Yesterday, the Chicago Sun-Times’ Lynne Marek profiled the role of the White House executive chef, writing that to work for a president, a chef must “have strong culinary skills” and “be willing to check ego and politics at the door.” Quoting former executive chef Walter Scheib, Marek notes that First Lady Laura Bush has been “adamant” about eating organic food:

    Both Clinton and Laura Bush were focused on the nutritional value of food, with Bush adamant about using organic products, Scheib says.

In a blog posting, Scheib wrote that Bush was “adamant that in ALL CASES if an organic product was available it was to be used in place of a non-organic product.” The fact that the first lady was “adamant” about organics at the White House is commendable,

Didn't know about Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton pushing for organic food at White House. Interesting, though the title of the article you post about Laura Bush is:  While Bushes Feast On Organic Food But Undermine Same Opportunity For American Families.
You might also be interested to know that the Chemical lobbies pushed very heavily against the use of the term "organic" for the White House garden.