M & K Spanish Restaurant
M & K Spanish Restaurant
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
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On the way to Staten Island on the job and colleague kept going on and on about this place. In fact she raved! No exaggeration she said she thinks about their pulled pork at nights and couldn't wait to get back so this was our first stop as we got into SI.
What a build up she gave and as I walked through the doors the smell that greeted me made me silently pray she knew what she was saying. People! I urge you, ignore that smell. Mind you it isn't a foul smell but I guess the mixture of so many different meats and food made me a bit queasy. (She later admitted the same).
Pork lovers get the pulled pork with whichever rice tickels your fancy. I had the rice and peas while she opted for the yellow rice. After tasting both she said the (brown) rice and peas won.
The pork, no let me pay it the respect it deserves…SIR PORK she did not do you enough justice! We were allowed to tell the server which parts of it we preferred and my personal feeling on pork is if it ain't fat it's beef. Lean pork? Naaaah. Lol. So I chose my skin, not the fatty parts below and a bit of lean.
It was soft yet firm, juicy yet dry, spicy but not overpowering, well marinated. Pork haven I tell you! And they packed our containers! I had breakfast AND lunch from this meal the following day! Maybe I'm a bird eater because mama ate all hers. Lol.
Please, if you're a pork lover like I am, see beyond the look of this shop. It's a bit too run downy for my taste because after all it's FOOD you serve here but judging from the accents and language I take it it's an authentic Spanish joint. We obviously did takeout.
Two stars are ONLY for the pork meal and one for the nice servers.
The End
Staten Island is a virtual cornucopia of all different types of wonderful ethnicities all close to one another in fact on top of one another is more like it. Spanish restaurants run rampant and I'm happy to have found this place.
A ton of Oxtail over Spanish rice & beans with a bunch of plantains for $8. Rice & beans cooked perfect under the juicy finger licking bone sucking Oxtail in a delectable non spicy auburn sauce. In fact nothing on the menu is over $9. Lots of platters heating & ready to be devoured. All your traditional Spanish/ Dominican fare. Multiple soda & juices available.
There are five 4 tops, cafeteria style. And as expected nothing in regards to ambience in a kinda seedy part of town, not that that ever stopped this big white boy before lol. Spanish music playing softly in the back ground. So unfortunately NO not a date night venue.
Cheap, ample & about as tasty as it gets perfect for lunch. Oh yeah definitely worthy of a quick pop in for the budget minded that dig authentic Spanish cuisine. Cash only, BYOB bonus.