El Cristo Restaurant

An all-day Cuban diner on Calle Ocho, serving café con leche at 9 am and pan con bistec until 1 am on weekends.

Vérifié octobre 2026

For anyone who wants a cheap, filling Cuban plate in Little Havana at nearly any hour. It's a no-fuss diner, not a destination dining room, and the menu goes long rather than refined.

What to order

The pan con bistec is the sandwich the menu calls famous: grilled steak on toasted Cuban bread with grilled onions and a heap of potato sticks, listed at $9.99 on the online menu. The Cubano and media noche sit at the same price. For a full plate, ropa vieja, vaca frita and palomilla each run $12.99 and come with two sides, so pick moros and sweet plantains and you're set. Hungry pairs can share the Bandeja El Cristo at $19.99: ground beef, roast pork, white rice, black beans, yuca and tamal. Online prices can lag the register, so treat them as a guide.

Breakfast to last call

Doors open at 9 am every day. The kitchen runs until 11 pm Monday through Thursday, midnight on Sunday and 1 am on Friday and Saturday. Mornings mean bistec a caballo (palomilla steak with two eggs), perico ripeado or a build-your-own omelette, and the omelettes and wraps come with café con leche or American coffee. A cafecito is listed at $2. After dark, the same sandwiches share the table with a $9 mojito, a Cuba libre or a Hatuey. The site's posted hours differ slightly from Google's, so check before planning a 12:30 am run.

Bringing a group

There's a whole dinner-for-two section on the menu, which tells you how people eat here. The Cuban seafood platter, with shrimp, lobster tail and mahi-mahi or salmon, is listed at $74.99. El Trio Habanero pairs churrasco, chicken and shrimp for $64.99, and the Cuban-style seafood paella is $44.99. Start the table with the Picadera Cubana, $18 for fried yuca, tamal, pork chunks and green plantains with garlic and cilantro sauces. Flan, tres leches and rice pudding run a few dollars each. It holds 4.3 from about 2,300 Google reviews: reliable more than revelatory, which is the point.

Bon à savoir

Entrees include two sides, but steamed veggies, mashed potatoes and crispy green plantains cost extra.

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