Asia de Cuba

Asia de Cuba is one of my favorite restaurants in NYC!

Located in midtown's Morgans Hotel, Asia de Cuba is a trendy Latin-Asian fusion sharing-style restaurant in an elegant, marble and alabaster setting.

This two floor restaurant has the bar and lounge area on the 2nd floor with the dining area on the 1st floor. In the middle is a long 20 seat illuminated alabaster communal table. A floor-to-ceiling hologram creates a dramatic backdrop.

This place is great for a date or for groups! Staff are friendly and knows the food they serve!

The food is exceptional.

For a start, try the must-have calamari salad that exudes the exotic latin and asian flavors in the mixture of banana, cashews, and chayote, lightly coated with sesame orange dressing or the mouth-watering pan seared jumbo sea scallops with sweet and sour plantains that is succulent and seductive.

For entrees, I recommend my favorites with the perfect latin-asian mix: pan seared ahi tuna with wasabi mashed potatoes or honey-rhum glazed pot roast of pork with shanghai bok choy and enoki mushrooms.

It's pricey. Starters are from $19-31 and entrees are from $26-55, but they are large portions meant for sharing. Each dish serves 2 to 3 people, and are enlarge to accomodate the number of people in the group so the price of the entree increases as well.

They also offer a 3-course prix-fix lunch for $29 per person or early prix-fix dinner for $39 per person.

Asia de Cuba is without a doubt one of my favorite restaurant's in New York City. The fusion of Asian and Cuban food is simply divine! Of course you are going to have to pay a fortune to sample any of their delicacies, but you can trust me when I say that it's definitely worth it!

The restaurant is set in the Morgan’s Hotel on Madison Avenue. It combines Asian flavors and cooking techniques with home-style Cuban cuisine. Dishes are dramatically presented and meant to be shared. The exotic cocktails are a delicious compliment to the food. The centerpiece of this Philippe Starck designed restaurant is a 25-foot long communal table overlooked by a two-story holographic waterfall. The dining style is considered "casual elegant." And there are several vegetarian options on the menu.

Asia de Cuba restaurants (www.chinagrillmgt.com) can be found all over the world. I have had the good fortune of dining at the ones in New York City, Los Angeles, and Buenas Aires. While each is fundamentally the same, there are some slight differences that make each restaurant unique. I have yet to be dissapointed by my experiences with Asia de Cuba.