El Merengue Restaurant
This Dominican restaurant offers affordable, home-style cuisine in a tropical atmosphere and a sports bar with rum drinks for thirsty diners. Daily specials sometimes include eggs and other breakfast offerings all day for less than $5. For a night in, El Merengue also has delivery.
El Merengue Restaurant
183 Broadway, Suite 185
Newark, NJ 07104
(973) 350-1900
La Esperanza Dominican Cuisine
This little B.Y.O.B. specializes in "Mofongo," or mashed plantain. For less than $15, diners can get it served with shrimp or stuffed with fried pork or chicken. Many of their dishes are made with "sofrito," a mix of Dominican herbs and spices. Naturally, the menu has an array of seafood and fish as well as fruit juices popular in the Dominican, such as papaya shakes.
La Esperanza Dominican Cuisine
477 B Cedar Lane
Teaneck, NJ 07666
(201) 530-0010
restaurantlaesperanza.com
Tu Pais Restaurant
This small Dominican-owned restaurant greets customers in Spanish and takes pride in having what the owner calls "the best prices in the area." The most popular dishes are the national soup, Sancocho, and the plantain special, served breakfast-style with eggs, onions and salami or bacon.
Tu Pais Restaurant
618 Broadway
Newark, NJ 07104
(973) 350-8988
Article Written By Molly P.A. Yun
Molly P.A. Yun has been a professional writer for six years. She earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Missouri, and has been published in a wide variety of magazines, websites and newspapers, from "Bluegrass Now Magazine" to "Delmarva Quarterly," the "Rolla Daily News" to the "Cape Gazette" and "My Community Trend," a weekly paper inserted into "The Philadelphia Inquirer."
