Was hanging out in Durham and decided to check out this spot. I got the vegetarian Cuban sandwich which I have not seen at many other places and the yuca fries. The sandwich itself was okay. Was very salty and the flavor seemed off slightly but overall decent. The yuca fries were a good choice with the dipping sauce that comes with it. The space inside is spacious with plenty of seats when we went. The staff is friendly and helpful with any questions you may have. You can also order online to go. For parking, you can park on the street or deck parking. Prices were slightly higher than expected but appropriate for downtown Durham. Overall, a cool restaurant with a variety of options. Unsure if I will come back but recommend trying it if you are in the area. read more

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Cool way to celebrate a birthday.... Have a food truck cater the party! The Spanglish crew served up some delicious Latin cuisine. Started with the pernil mallorca melt... mouthwatering pork roast, slow-cooked & fork tender, on sweet-ish mallorca bread with melted cheese and a spoonful or two of the pork juices. Excellent. Next, a Cuban sandwich. The same pork roast, this time with as slice of ham, Swiss cheese and sliced pickles, slathered with mustard on pressed mallorca bread. A great rendition of a Tampa-style Cuban but missing that Cuban bread. Also tried a trio of empanadas. The beef is a hearty mix of chunky beef, well spiced, juicy and tender. The chicken is chunks of white meat, with slivers of carrots and other vegetables. A little more bland than the beef, but still flavorful, moist and tender. Each was ensconsed in a traditional half moon pastry and fried deep, golden brown. Not at all greasy, these were crunchy, savory and delicious. Honorable mention to the s'mores empanada. The same half moon pastry, stuffed with chocolate, marshmallow and graham cracker, then deep fried. WAY better than your standard cookout s'mores; these were decadent and sweet. The perfect dessert to top off the meal. Be on the lookout for this food truck. Really good food - fresh and delicious. read more

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I was impressed with the menu. Quite a few choices. I had the beef empanada and mofongo with Meat and plantains. Empanada was good. Mofongo was well done. My one recommendation: the mofongo is served with a mayo/ketchup mix on the side. I'm not a fan of that. I was hoping for a more typical broth (I guess I can order that separately). Next time I'll try the shrimp mofongo. Friendly service. read more

Great service got my food fast and it was delicious there had a lil line but did not take to long to deal with me

Gotta put a caveat here: I grew up in the Bronx eating Puerto Rican and Dominican food on a daily basis from friend's parents, friends, local cuchifritos - you name it, so while I'm giving Spanglish a 3, if you're not looking for super authentic, consider this a 4-star review. I'll start with the good. The desserts, sauces and empanadas are all on point. The beef and maduros empanada especially stood out, but the Pinky and the Bean was amazing as well - perfect combos of fried, crunchy dough on the outside, and moist, sweet and savory flavors packed on the inside (Abuela's chicken was pretty bland, though not dry). The vanilla flan was more like cheesecake, but I enjoyed it more than my wife did, who was expecting a more classic flan. But the real star of the dessert tray was the tres leches coquito - amazing. Wish I had four of them. As for the sauces, all packed with tons of flavor and definitely homemade. This is where you can see the real love shine and make me wonder if we just ordered on an off night, because without these amazing, powerfully-packed sauces, most of the food was just eh. These sauces rescued it, though - especially the ajo(mojo). For starters, the mofongo was dry, crumbly and didn't have enough garlic or pickled onions. Kind of felt like it was day-old mofongo. The stuffed avocado was just an avocado sliced in half and topped with ropa vieja - total low-effort there. BUT, the ropa vieja was really, really good. You can taste the beer braising liquid with each bite - definitely recommend that. My puerco fritas was pathetic. I mean, really, really pathetic. Maybe 9 or 10 half-inch cubes of rubbery fat. Totally not enough for a meal, even if I wanted to eat them. The rice and beans were decent, but definitely lacking in the flavor department (ajo sauce to the rescue!). My wife's dish (I forget the name now and don't really care to look it up, but it came with mofongo, maduros, rice and beans and some pork) suffered most of the same setbacks - plus they left her maduros off. Hers did come with some kind of sweet BBQ-ish sauce that was, once again, off the charts good. So there was some salvage operations going on. The queso fritas were really good, especially in the mayo/ketchup yellow sauce (think Alpaca) but the fried pork belly in maple sauce was just bleh. And really not much for the price. Overall, we were pretty underwhelmed. No real food value, no real quantity value. Not sure if it was an off night, or this place isn't as good as the Durham spot (since that one seems pretty epic from the review), but we won't be going back/ordering again. Shame because there really hasn't been a go-to place in Raleigh for quality authentic Hispanic or Latinx food, especially since Oakwood Cafe shut down. read more

So I'm boricua from NYC and know good and well what crispy pork chops should be like. This ain't it. They fried the pork chop to hell and back. It was so tough and leathery I couldn't even eat it. And it wasn't even seasoned! Like come on. You can get a good crisp on a chop without cooking it beyond being edible. The beans have no flavor too. It's like sazon or adobo or garlic or sofrito don't even exist. The maduros were delicious though, but it's really hard to mess those up. The tres leches cake is delicious too, but I paid too much money to be served bland pork jerky. Couldn't even enjoy the fat. No amount of hot sauce could help. Just sad. Folks this ain't comida criolla. read more

What a great addition to the Raleigh food truck scene! My boyfriend is Puerto Rican so we were extremely excited to try Spanglish. Their tostones were the best ones we have had. They come with a delicious dipping sauce that just goes perfectly. I ordered the pork-u-pineapple empanada. There was something about the flavor combination in the meat that I'm still craving today! The crust of the empanada was perfect. I can't wait to try more of their food!! read more

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My boyfriend and I went to the Lazy Daze festival and decided to try this food truck for lunch. I ordered the Mofongo, which is chicken chimichurri with a side of mashed plantains. My boyfriend ordered two chicken empanadas. Both of these dishes were delicious, but once again boyfriend won the best dish battle. I would definitely try this food truck again since it was fresh and delicious! read more

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Amazing sandwich and empanads. I prefer the Columbian ones still but this was a great place. Will go again.

Pros, food quality, had Cuban sandwich and it was delicious. Cons, size of sandwich was underwhelming for the $10 price. Left me hungry. Also menu board prices it $9 but the guy working the truck charged me $10. When I told him of the discrepancy he didn't offer to correct the charge,not even an apology. Nor did he correct the menu board. I was hoping he would to support that it was an honest mistake but he didn't and I checked it later read more

This food truck is awesome! They were recently at a concert I attended at Koka Booth. I liked that you could get just one empanada and you didn't have to go for a whole huge meal. The line wasn't too crazy and they were working their butt off trying to get everything out as efficiently as possible. I liked the dominos they give out for your order numbers, neat little touch! I got the pork and pineapple empanada, my husband got that one as well as the beef and the buffalo chicken. All were tasty but the beef was the clear standout. Seriously, so freaking good! I didn't go with the beef because I thought it sounded plain, boy was I wrong. So good, highly recommend! The next time I see this truck I will definitely be getting a beef empanada as well as trying some of their other dishes! read more

I've had empanadas in various places in the Triangle, but this is the only place I've found so far where you can get empanadillas, savory turnovers done in Puerto Rican-style with Puerto Rican flavors. As someone of Puerto Rican descent who has had plenty of street food on the island, when my order came out I knew I had hit the jackpot. It looked exactly how I had remembered it with its bubbly crust. And I was not disappointed after digging in; they were delicious! The empanadillas I had were the classic beef, the "abuela's" chicken, and an NC-PR fusion, the pineapple East Carolina BBQ. I found the beef to be the most flavorful. Although the pineapple/pork was interesting (you've got to try it at least once), I'll probably get 2 beef and 1 chicken when I go back. In addition to their staple menu item, they offer other puerto rican classics such as pernil, arroz con gandules, mofongo, and tostones. The tostones are a good order, and they have mayo-ketchup available. They don't skimp on the size or over-garlic them (two pet peeves of mine). I can't speak to the other dishes, since I didn't get to try them. They also carry Malta India! A nice touch was that instead of just a number, we got a 6-4 domino to hold for our order, waiting for "6-4" to be called. Very cool! read more

Spanglish - Empanadillas, tostones and Malta - Food Trucks Near Me

I am puerto rican born and raised and have been here in nc for about 5 years, this trucks food is the only place in the triangle and is to be considered legit puerto rican flavors and combinations. I had the mofongo with pernil and my wife had the Cubano sandwich can't forget the classic puerto rican drinks ok cola and Malta India. I've had the food once and my wife twice spot on both times. read more

I've had empanadas from other places... and one restaurant ___ will not mention their name but got me where I didn't want to try or waste money of empanadas. but during food truck rodeo, came across this and wanted some tostones and decided to try one empanada. HEAVEN. I had Pork-u-Pineapple Empanada. It was cripy outside with "juicy" filling. if the line wasn't so long, I would have ordered more but had other food trucks to try as well. Tostones was ok. wish they were more crispy. Definitely plan on trying their other empanadas in the future! read more

Rare gem. Its not common to find puertorrican food, especially mobile! They have done an exceptional job with the empanadas, chimichurri chicken, and rice. They even have ice-cold Malta India! (Boricuas will know) :o) Its funny, because I was introduced to this food truck by my friends who are locals; they can't get enough of it. read more

This place has delicious Puerto Rican food and amazing service. We ordered the Cuban sandwich and the mofongo de pernil. The Cuban sandwich was AMAZING! The bread was toasted perfectly, the meat was insanely flavorful, the cheese gave it a sweet creaminess. It was a perfect Cuban sandwich. The mofongo was authentic, mashed plantains, garlic and the pernil flavor was so incredibly delicious. Please do your tastebuds a flavor and eat here. They will thank you. read more

Spanglish - Cuban sandwich to the left, mofongo on the right. - Food Trucks Near Me

Limited options for Vegetarians. We tried Mofongo without meat and it was okayish. read more

Not only is this one of the most impressive looking food trucks in Raleigh, it is also one of the tastiest. They showed up at my office building for lunch and I got the cuban sandwich w/plantain chips, and a guava pastry. Whenever I order a cuban I expect well spiced pork, but this far exceeded my expectations. I'm definitely keeping an eye out for this truck in the future. read more

Spanglish - Best Cuban sandwich of my life - Food Trucks Near Me

Good food mofongo could have been served hotter. A bit on the pricy side. Portions are decent

They catered lunch at my work this week and the food was incredible. I had a chicken and rice bowl with chimichurri (sp?) sauce that was super flavorful and the side of pinto beans were also great. I highly recommend. read more

I've been hunting them for a while because I don't live near their usual route after hearing great stories about them. I tried it today for the first time and I can only say one frase: "SIMPLY AMAZING". I was transported back to Puerto Rico with their taste and highly impressed with their gourmet style. I will hunt them down again in the very near future :-) read more

Tried this spot for the first time today. I ordered the tripleta and my husband ordered the Cuban. I thought my sandwich was good. His was really bland. Waited 20 minutes for 2 sandwiches. It was just ok! read more

Oh wow. This was so good! This truck was at a country store by our house and we decided to check it out. My son and I got the chicken empanadas and they were delish. Then I took a bite of my husband's pernil (spelling?) and decided to fight him for it. It was SO good. The only thing I wasn't crazy about was the plantains but that's more of a person preference than a judgment about them. I definitely plan to track this truck down again! read more

I've had Spanglish at two separate events. Each time their food has been fantastic. The flavors are amazingly authentic and remind me of eating at home. Growing up in a Puerto Rican family all I can say is the food doesn't get more authentic than this. I will be looking forward to following around this food truck and eating there every chance I can get. read more

Tried an empanadas at the Dogwood Festival in Fayetteville NC today and it was excellent!!!

Basing this review on just the two dishes I tried. Mofongo with pernil (roasted pork). The pernil was good. Not too garlicky and nicely seasoned. The mofongo, was not good. It was just mashed plaintains and it was all soft. Usually mofongo has some crunch as it is initially fried. Missing some seasoning. I Didn't care for it. We also had the Arroz con gandules with pernil. Again, the pernil was good but the rice was dry and not that flavorful. Both dishes came with a type of slaw that I really liked. read more

Best Puertorican food truck in the Triangle. Everything they serve is delicious, great flavors plus they make their own bread and guava sauce which is amazing. read more