I've been at La Casona for probably 20+ years. Amazing place for Puerto Rican-style cuisine. Whole fried snapper, mofongo, morcilla, and so many more yummy dishes. Friendly staff. Great desserts. A casual design filled with typical PR items. Highly recommend read more

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Excellent, friendly, professional but most of all, delicious! I have been coming for years. Culturally, authentic Puerto Rican cuisine! Excellent grilled chicken! I highly recommend. (Fyi ... I was unable to upload a photo.) read more

Been coming here for years now and I love some authentic Puerto Rican food! One of my favorite dishes I always get is the chicken mofongo this is always on point! If you like mofongo this is the place for you! I also tried the fried pork chunks this last time I visited but this dish missed the mark for me. The pork was super tough and although it had good flavor I would probably not get this dish again as it's a hit or miss some days the pork is amazing and some days it's chewy and hard. I l love the different flavor Flan here and my top is the Flan de Queso it's so creamy and the perfect ending to my meal everytime! Overall really enjoy dining at La Casona when I am in the mood for Spanish cuisine! read more

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Where to start?? First make sure you get the right building. There is a restaurant on the corner with a name very similar. The food was amazing! The service was excellent. She was able to help us make excellent choices! The restaurant is beautiful! We had the mofungo and yuca, rice and beans and cod fish fritters!! The sangria is delicious! We cannot wait to go back and sample more of this wonderful menu! Clean table s and bathrooms a parking is ok and the make all the classic meals k ordered empanada s to go and desert and..... eco was amazing the flavors were good just like my grandma used to make!!!!!!!!!!!finnaly a real Puerto Rican restaurant!!!!'steve and paula will definitely be back....little pricey but everything was cooked fresh so it's was worth it!!!!! read more

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We had another large party to celebrate family being in town visiting the 98 year old patriarch. Our server was amazing and had fun with grandpa. She got our large order perfect despite it being ordered partially in Spanish partiality in English, partially in really bad Spanish, and partially being ordered by menu item number. She was great! The food was great as always and it came out at the perfect pace that allowed us to visit and share dishes. read more

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The service was a little slow, but friendly. We enjoyed our food very much. Authentic Latin food.

Excelente y exquisita toda la comida los recomiendo al 100% nuestros platos fueron varios y todos deliciosos, el pescado en salsa blanca de vino con camarones acompañado de ensalada , arroz y Trifongo, super delicioso, otro plato delicioso Trifongo con carne, tambien el churrasco super bueno , la sazón es deliciosa y los precios también son muy buenos ... Así que los recomiendo y cada vez que regrese a esta area de Tampa regresaremos a comer y los recomendáremos.. Mis felicitaciones para el Chef que nos indicaron que ya tiene muchos años haciendo estos deliciosos platos... 100% Recomendados . read more

Everything I ever had at La Casona has been delicious . I really enjoyed the baked fish in sofrito

very good food and service! definitively will recommend. Had the mofongo relleno de pulpo y carrucho, excellent! their appetizer empanadas are very small but rich! read more

La Casona Restaurant - Mofongo Relleno de Carucho y Pulpo - Puerto Rican Near Me - Tampa, Florida

Sinceramente hortible hoy no fue el mejor dia en este lugar , hay que destacar que los precios son altos comparados con otros lugares latinos similares , una simple yuca con mojo 8.99 , en otros no oasa de 6 dolares .. el servicio no es bueno realmente muy muy lento solo 2 meseras y el lugar lleno , los drink demoraron , los aperitivos casi no llegan , los platos principales los trajeron mal en 2 ocasiones, el pargo frito demoro mas de 1 hora , por encima pusieron la propina en el recibo como garantia ee servicio excelente , creo que el dueño del restaurant deberia tener en cuenta que el buen servicio hace que uno regrese ,, necesita trabajadores .. con mi familia no regreso nunca .. revisar sus precios .. y su servicio .. en fin no nos gusto read more

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Good place for lunch or dinner, no recommendations needed. Small cozy place along with a nice atmosphere, just casual wear. Variety of food choices to choose from but our favorite is the Mofongo with seafood so delicious and tasty. Filling just for one or share for two if you order an appetizer as well. Try the empanadas crabmeat too. read more

La Casona Restaurant - Mofongo Relleno de Camarones - Puerto Rican Near Me - Tampa, Florida

We have been frequenting this establishment for over 10 years without a complaint until today. I ordered Carnitas of pork with a salad, a child's shrimp dinner and another order of Carnitas with mofongo for my husband. The restaurant was busy but they had plenty of waitresses to cover the floor. We placed our order with an Asian lady that not only did not have command of the English language, she also couldn't speak Spanish which 99% of the customers who frequent there speak. We waited over 45 minutes for our food with no explanation why the wait. My pork was so overcooked that the meat was a dark burnt brown and it was dry like cardboard. When we told the waitress she looked at the plate and said "you ate half we will charge you half or we can make you some to replace". Honestly I consumed 2 pieces hoping for it to get better and it didn't. I have never heard of such a response in my life and if I didn't have my 93 year old mother with me I would have made an epic scene, Mother's Day saved this lady! By the way when the bill arrived for $82 for food that was not consumed, and no deductions, we were so annoyed, that we paid and didn't leave a gratuity; something I have never done in my whole life! It was a miserable experience. read more

Amazing Authentic restaurant! Spotless clean interior and restrooms Food was very filling Very flavorful Classy interior with cultural theme Very enthusiastic and polite server Highly recommend! read more

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The one waitress was friendly the location and ambience was very nice. We order the following I will list the issue by the foods Alcapuria - good fair little overcooked Maduros - fair Chuleta kan kan came out hard and unable to eve chew the food - I tried but gave up The vegetables - soggy like they came out of the freezer bag and was even warm Salad - straight from the fridge -stale taste My uncle Masitas Fritas - rock hard he tried and couldn't even cut one The yellow rice - was warm to cool Sangria - was good Ice tea - good I ask for the check So after I informed the waitress of the issues I told not to worry I would tip just the same it's not her fault You would think that after leaving all the food some one would come and chat with us ...(manager) ? Nope that was the most disappointing of all And they gave me the full bill 88,20 See receipt below For proof Anyways my uncle is from the island and well let's just say we have been hitting all Puerto Rican places around but this one sadly will Not have my business again Again the service and ambience is nice and maybe it's just the meats they have a tough time With Good luck read more

La Casona Restaurant - The receipt - Puerto Rican Near Me - Tampa, Florida

Stopped into this restaurant in Tampa and the smell outside just brought be back home. Authentic Puertorriquena food. Nothing beats homemade red beans like momma used to make. Had the pork chops with white rice. Also had the stuffed shrimp tostones. Everything was delicious and service was excellent. Will stop by again if ever in the Tampa are. read more

El mejor restaurante boricua en el area de Tampa. La comida nos la trajeron recién echa y caliente. El sabor demasiado de delicioso, me hizo recordar a mi hogar. El servicio fue de excelencia. Volvería cada vez que este en la Florida read more

I've been here several times and each time the food is outstanding. We had the steak mofongo & shrimp mofongo with empanadas. I haven't tried anything other than the mofongo, but I would say that's their specialty. The portions are huge and enough for two meals. The service is a little inconsistent though. Sometimes it's superb and sometimes it's a little slow. But, I come here for the food and I don't think you'll regret giving this place a try. read more

La Casona Restaurant - Mofongo Relleno de Camarones - Puerto Rican Near Me - Tampa, Florida

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Could be better, overpriced bad customer service. Order pork chunks online that comes with two sides, selected beans and an upgrade to Tostons paid $23.00 arrived for my food and was told that the beans that i selected are not included. the menu states it beings two sides for $17.00 manager would not speak to me. it's not about the $ as i paid $8.00 for an overpriced dessert it's about the principle. read more

La comida estaba malisima Muy salada y super seca la carne. Debi haberme ido cuando lei en la primera pagina que si la comida sale mal No es culpa de ellos ya que le ponen mucho tiempo a q este bien . read more

Plenty of parking available free. Great service. Prices fluctuate from $15-$25 depending on the item. Mofongos are soft and tasty. The cartucho and octopus mofongo was great. read more

La Casona Restaurant - Mofongo pulpo y carrucho - Puerto Rican Near Me - Tampa, Florida

La Casona Restaurant still is the House of Mofongo! There are many puertorican restaurants in Tampa but La Casona still the best when it comes to Mofongo and alcapurrias. read more

La Casona Restaurant - Mofongo con Camarones en salsa criolla. (Mashed green plantains with shrimp and creole sauce.) - Puerto Rican Near Me - Tampa, Florida

I have a number of Puerto Rican friends and every so often I ask them for good restaurants. One that's popped up more than a few times has been La Caison on North Armenia Avenue. They mentioned that this would be the place they'd take their serious dates, grandparents or bosses to because the food is expertly prepared and the ambience is one that emphasizes tradition. There is also a dress code so don't expect to be seated if you're wearing a tee shirt and have bare feet. I decided to go around 3 PM, too late for the lunch crowd and too early for the dinner patrons. Perfect timing. The seating arrangements follow true to the six feet of separation and the waitperson was wearing a mouth and nose covering. Although the interior is a bit small it is colorful. To your left as you enter, for example, there is a framed prominent family crest flanked by two original paintings, each depicting a Puerto Rican woman preparing food to cook. I included these in an attached picture because they give a true representation of the cooking - all down home and professional. I ordered one of their specials - a porgo frito or fried red snapper. It normally comes with sides of pink beans and rice but I requested platano fritos (ripe plantains) and a salad instead. The fish was tenderly done with each forkful smoothly separating the filet into bite-sized pieces. The experience was, to the best of my imagination, like getting the inside of my head and mouth massaged to the point where I could easily imagine myself sliding out of my seat. It was warm but not hot and very pleasantly digestible. The platanos, although not fried in butter, were moist and warm. I had no problem eating them and, in fact, had to convince myself to slow down. Their salad is a basic one with leaf lettuce, tomato slices, a few thin onion rings and some sliced green olives which you can drizzle over with their house peach-based salad dressing (no strong sugary flavor). I got a bottle of Prosecco to accompany my meal although they carry a good variety of wine and beer. read more

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Me and my wife have been to many places where you can have mofongo. But this is hands down the best mofongo you can have in Tampa. All dishes we've tried so far are great. The service is not the greatest but the food overcomes that. I get the mofongo relleno de bistec en salsa. And my wife gets the mofongo that is filled with shrimp. Restrooms are clean all the time. They always will ask for you drivers license when paying to prevent fraud for people who do not pay. Overall this is a great place to have some good food! read more

Great Puerto Rican food! A very classy date night. Their Mofongo is delicious and their desert is even better.

This restaurant is recommended by my client. He grew up from Puerto Rico and he has indicated the food is close to his mom cooking. The Spanish music play in the background with lively atmosphere. This the first time I try Puerto Rican restaurant in USA. I have Puerto Rico cuisine at Puerto Rico before. I can said the restaurant at La Casona has interesting Puerto Rican menu. It include traditional Mofongo. Mofongo is a fried plantain-based dish from Puerto Rico. It is typically made with fried green plantains mashed together in a with broth, garlic, bit fried pork belly. It can be filled with vegetable, meat or seafood. This restaurant open since 1999. It have Spanish base customer. Today we have the seafood Mofongo and churrasco. The seafood Mofongo came with half of the lobster tail, shrimp, salty fish, muscle. I was impress of my Mofongo serve with a bit wine base seafood broth. When you bite the olive they have cook with it, the wine juice came out and it is tasty and left wine fragrant in the mouth. This normally different than the Wikipedia description to prepare it. The broth base mix with the fried green plantain neutralize the salty of the broth. The two materials balance each other is the beauty of cooking. Good chef skill. The churrasco is ok. It can be better. Churrasco is Argentina food. Most of the time the Cuban restaurant prepare this dish better than anyone in Miami. You have choice with rice and bean or salad and sweet plantain. The service is good and friendly. However, the close out and bring the check is slow. This restaurant customer tender to speak louder due the natural of the Spanish customer. Food is good portion. Most of time you will have enough to take home for the remained meal. read more

La Casona Restaurant - Seafood Mofongo. Got to try it. - Puerto Rican Near Me - Tampa, Florida

Came to find this restaurant through Yelp, prices are fair. Food quality superb, I ordered the churrasco con mofongo, a negative note , No kids menu, if you want to experience a real PRican dinner . This is the place, we ordered cheesecake guava and cheese flan both tasted like back in the island. read more

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The place is very nice, a great place to take your wife or your favorite girl. The staffs are friendly, and the food great, you will not be disappointed. As soon as You walk in, the aroma of Puerto Rico fills your heart, it's a must see and experience. read more

Great food, great service and a nice overall restaurant. I had the Masitas Fritas and they were awesome. Great place to bring a date. read more

La Casona Restaurant - Puerto Rican Near Me - Tampa, Florida

Loved it!!! First the service was great and very polite. And the food was fabulous!!! Recommend!!!

Awesome food, great atmosphere.The waitress is so amazing, such nice manners! We will definitely come back!

Went to the La Casona restaurant for Mother's Day dinner. It turned out to be a big mistake, which is unfortunate since I have eaten here many times without any issues. Our waitress couldn't speak English nor Spanish, and she was terrible. My wife and ordered the cubed fried pork, the pork was over cooked, which made the meat dry and hard. I was starving so I fought through it, but my wife tried but after 2 or 3 pieces couldn't. We called the waitress over and told her the meat was overcooked. She then said my wife had eaten half and that she wasn't going to give us a full refund but would take half off. I told her she hadn't eaten half it was a couple of pieces. The waitress insisted so not to cause a scene and totally ruin our diner, we agreed half would be fine just remove the plate. We had my mother in-law with us and didn't want to upset her either, so we finished with desert. When the bill came she didn't remove anything from my wife's diner. Instead of getting upset and going through an uncomfortable confrontation we payed the bill. During diner the waitress forgot items to bring and didn't stop to refill our tea and water, another waitress saw our frustration and had to refill our glasses and she was so uncooperative with how she handled us was very frustrating. That waitress killed what was supposed to be a pleasant Mother's Day dinner. read more

I don't really want to give any star I was here for 3 hours because they just have one server. The server was great and so friendly, my review is not because of her. My bad review is because I order churrasco and they brought me something else which I eat because I was too hungry. My family had the same issue with their food and they also eat what the server brought because if not we all need to wait longer. When the check came they charge us a lot more because they said we order steak in salsa and not churrasco. The person in charge blame the server and said that she will need to pay for that, which it was not her fault because she wrote churrasco and I took a picture of the order that she placed. We won't let her to pay for something that it wasn't her fault. The chef, cooker, or who was in the kitchen made a huge mistake and they don't even made an arrangement. We ask for the manager or person in charge, but the Chinese lady said that the manager was absent. We finally ended paying more than $300 for food that we won't order. Specially the mofongo with 3 shrimps and 4 small pieces of churrasco in salsa, but they said that that it wasn't churrasco (no sense) which cost $34 and we didn't order that. I just want to let you know that this place is in a new administration and this administration don't know how to manage a restaurant. Because of this disrespectful and abusive situation the restaurant loose the guest that were in the entrance waiting for their table. They saw the abusive situation against customers and against the server. I want to apologize and give thanks to the server who I believe is from Uruguay or Argentina because of her accent, she was so nice and I wish her the best... Once again, DO NOT VISIT THIS RESTAURANT at lease with this administration. Attached is the order placed by the server and is exactly that we want and we didn't get. read more

La Casona Restaurant - Puerto Rican Near Me - Tampa, Florida

Casona is a small, modest restaurant located in a working class neighborhood in Tampa. They serve traditional Puerto Rican food. The atmosphere is quaint, tastefully decorated with scenes of Puerto Rico throughout. It's clean, organized and friendly. They keep up their standards. While every time I have gone they've been completely booked or close to it, you won't find screaming hordes of people. You won't find tank tops, cut off shorts, etc. I appreciate that in a restaurant. Is it fine dining? No, but it's nice to go somewhere that standards are maintained and required. There are plenty of food trucks for great food if you want to eat out in cutoffs and tank tops. The service is always pleasant, after a few visits they treat you like family. Sometimes it's a bit slow, but never to the point of being aggravating. But what makes Casona good is the quality of its cooking. Consistently good, flavorful food. You know you will get a great meal when you come here. It's a place where you take your parents and family when they come to town to visit because you know they won't be disappointed. The mofongo is a stand out here. The pernil is always moist and delicious. The rice is always fluffy and flavorful. The seafood dishes are nicely cooked using fresh ingredients. Their frituras (fritters) are always fresh and cooked to order. Have a hangover, try one of their excellent soups or sancocho (Puerto Rican stew). You'll feel better in no time! Casona gets four stars because they know what they do well and they stick with it. read more

My Yelp friend Sam has been trying his best to educate all of us about the deliciousness which is Mofongo, and I've been sampling the dish at many different Puerto Rican restaurants around the Tampa Bay area. In case you're not familiar, Mofongo is the gold standard of Puerto Rican comfort food, and very likely their national dish. Mofongo is a fried plantain-based dish, typically made with fried green plantains mashed together in a pilón (which is a wooden mortar and pestle), with broth, garlic, olive oil, and pork cracklings or bits of bacon. It is usually filled with vegetables, chicken, crab, shrimp, or beef and is often served with fried meat and chicken broth soup. During yesterday's marketing research trip along Armenia Avenue, Rich D and I agreed to add La Casona to our mix of restaurants because they offer all kinds of delicious Puerto Rican goodies, but truthfully we were both so stuffed that I decided to come back to La Casona for lunch today. La Casona is located along Armenia just a few blocks north of Hillsborough Avenue. The building looks bright and cheery, and it has it's own private lot which was filled with cars. Inside you'll see a number of 4-top tables and a large bar area. As with many other Latin restaurants, the weekend crowds are made up of tables of families coming together for their mid-day meals. The signage around the restaurant advertises La Casona as "El Pabellon del Mofongo" or the place for Mofongo, and that is why I went there today. The menu offers a delicious mix of appetizers, salads, asopao (or The big honkin' one-pot wonder bowl of soup), fish, seafood, meats, rice dishes, and the mofongos. I ordered Mofongo Relleno de Cangrejo which was stuffed with crab meat and a sautéed mixture of a creole sauce of tomatoes, garlic, onions, peppers, and white wine, and then covered with more lump crab meat. The stewed sauce was poured over the mofongo, and it provided an amazing dipping sauce. It was spectacular! To that I added a small side of Yuca Al Mojo which was chunks of melting rich boiled cassava smothered in tangy garlic sauce. What a delicious meal, and I am very excited to go back to La Casona next month for our Latin food crawl along Armenia. read more

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I finally found a truly authentic Puerto Rican restaurant in the bay area. The food was very close to the dishes my grandmother used to make. I felt like I was back in Old San Juan. I started with an order of camarones de la Casona. The sauce and shrimp was super yummy. It was served with toasted bread which was perfect for dipping. I also had the asopao con mariscos which was totally amazing!! It's described as a soup, but don't let that fool you. It is loaded with cod, shell fish, shrimp, scallops, and lobster. The lobster tail totally blew me away. It was so tender and had absorbed the wonderful flavor of the asopao. It's more of a rice stew than a soup. I could barely eat it all. In fact, I took some of it home with me and shared it the next day with my mother. She loved it too. My mother had the arroz con pollo and sweet plantains. It was full of white meat chicken which is great if you like white meat. My mother prefers dark meat. She'll ask for it next time. She also thought that the rice was too salty even though she liked the flavor of the rice. Other than that, she enjoyed it along with the side dishes. We will definitely go back again. I'll bring my Nuyorican family here the next time they're in town. There is no doubt they will like it just as much as I do. read more

I've been here numerous times and this is probably the best Puerto Rican food in this area. The mofongo is absolutely delicious, I highly recommend! read more

I cant believe how much I ate! Holy jumping Jupiter's! The food was amazing, service was great, the environment was entertaining and provided for conversations. The restaurant was clean! I just cant say enough. We ordered empanadas, alcapurrias de cangrejo, morcilla, arroz con pollo, bistec encebollado, arroz amarillo con frijoles and finished it off in PR style with a great cup of cafe con leche! We'll be back! read more

BEWARE...this restaurant takes driver license numbers when paying with credit cards. The waitress asked for my ID and I thought it was to verify that the credit card I was using belonged to me...NOT!!! The b---- wrote my driver license number and personal information on the merchant copy of the receipt and asked me to sign it and leave it at the store. Hell no! I think she must have thought we were idiots! I took the merchant copy of the receipt containing my information and said oh hell no, you're one crazy chic if you think I'm going to give you my personal information. read more

Amazing food and excellent service! I come here twice a week. Staff is so friendly and the food is authentic Puerto Rican Cuisine. I walk out 15 pounds heavier from ordering the entire menu. read more

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The food was delicious. I ordered the Pollo Relleno a La Casona. I literally got made fun of by everyone at the table because I was scraping every last bit of sauce I could get off my plate. So good. We also had a group of about 15 people. Our waitress was new and spoke little English and we only had 1 person who is fluent in Spanish. And yet the service was pretty amazing. She worked really hard and made sure we were all happy. The owner also checked in on us from time to time and things were great. It's not really expensive, but it does have fairly small portions for what you pay. read more