This afternoon Abi and I took a quick trip to Cuba, we hopped on the G Train, got off at Fulton Street and found ourselves in Havana!
We went for lunch at the Habana Outpost - on the corner of Fulton Street in Brooklyn - and it was fantastic...
I'd seen this place over a year ago, when there was some event going on and I thought it looked so fun and colourful and had wanted to know what it was, so today was the perfect time to explore further and go in.
Outside, there's a load of tables and chairs set up underneath big rainbow coloured parasols, there's an area to get drinks to the left and the red hut at the back is the kitchen...
As you walk to the back you see the beautiful big wooden arched door with wrought-iron patterning on it, which looks like it was saved from a delipodated Cuban town house or something (that's what I made up anyway!).
Inside, there's not much other than the desk to place your orders and pay, a couple more tables and a graffittied cash machine, but there's not need for much else inside because everyone just wants to sit outside and enjoy the amazing sunshine and listen to the great music...
The DJ was playing some very summery and relaxing tunes - a lot of Bob Marley, and a brilliant version of Adele's Rolling In The Deep (I Shazamed it, it was apparently the Jamie XX Remix if you're interested!).
The menu was fantastic - you can build you own meal, so you pick you meat (pulled pork, steak, catfish...) and then choose whether you want it in a sandwich, in a burrito or just as a meal with rice, then you can pick your extra sauces. They also do Quesadillas and Tacos, which looked delicious, but what we were after was corn! We can't seem to eat enough corn on the cob at the moment.
Once you've ordered your food inside and got your drinks, you then go and sit outside in the sun, listen to Bob Marley and wait for the guy in the kitchen to come to his little window and shout your name out.
The food was absolutely DELICIOUS! We both had sandwiches, Abi had steak and guacamole and I had the catfish and we both, of course, had corn, which was so sweet and perfectly grilled, with just the right amount of charred bits (when we do corn in our oven, we charr it on the hobs before eating, to make it look like it's been BBQed).
Another thing that I loved about the Habana Outpost is how green they seem to be. They had a whole roof full of solar panels outside (it's a real sun-trap so it's perfect for it). Also, rather than just have one big bin for everything, they had different sections for people to seperate their rubbish into, so plates and cutlery into one, glass into another, food into another. They also had great little napkins, made out of recycled paper, that had their branding on and the line 'Save some trees, use you sleeves!'
The whole place was brilliant, from the atmosphere, to the food, to the colourful decoration, to the people working there. It was great and it really made us feel like we were back on our holidays again. I have no doubt that we'll be going back before the summer's over (which by the way, according to the telly, it's still spring!?!).
I'd seen this place over a year ago, when there was some event going on and I thought it looked so fun and colourful and had wanted to know what it was, so today was the perfect time to explore further and go in.Outside, there's a load of tables and chairs set up underneath big rainbow coloured parasols, there's an area to get drinks to the left and the red hut at the back is the kitchen...
As you walk to the back you see the beautiful big wooden arched door with wrought-iron patterning on it, which looks like it was saved from a delipodated Cuban town house or something (that's what I made up anyway!).
Inside, there's not much other than the desk to place your orders and pay, a couple more tables and a graffittied cash machine, but there's not need for much else inside because everyone just wants to sit outside and enjoy the amazing sunshine and listen to the great music...
The DJ was playing some very summery and relaxing tunes - a lot of Bob Marley, and a brilliant version of Adele's Rolling In The Deep (I Shazamed it, it was apparently the Jamie XX Remix if you're interested!).The menu was fantastic - you can build you own meal, so you pick you meat (pulled pork, steak, catfish...) and then choose whether you want it in a sandwich, in a burrito or just as a meal with rice, then you can pick your extra sauces. They also do Quesadillas and Tacos, which looked delicious, but what we were after was corn! We can't seem to eat enough corn on the cob at the moment.
Once you've ordered your food inside and got your drinks, you then go and sit outside in the sun, listen to Bob Marley and wait for the guy in the kitchen to come to his little window and shout your name out.The food was absolutely DELICIOUS! We both had sandwiches, Abi had steak and guacamole and I had the catfish and we both, of course, had corn, which was so sweet and perfectly grilled, with just the right amount of charred bits (when we do corn in our oven, we charr it on the hobs before eating, to make it look like it's been BBQed).
Another thing that I loved about the Habana Outpost is how green they seem to be. They had a whole roof full of solar panels outside (it's a real sun-trap so it's perfect for it). Also, rather than just have one big bin for everything, they had different sections for people to seperate their rubbish into, so plates and cutlery into one, glass into another, food into another. They also had great little napkins, made out of recycled paper, that had their branding on and the line 'Save some trees, use you sleeves!'The whole place was brilliant, from the atmosphere, to the food, to the colourful decoration, to the people working there. It was great and it really made us feel like we were back on our holidays again. I have no doubt that we'll be going back before the summer's over (which by the way, according to the telly, it's still spring!?!).
It could only happen in New York. Sounds like a very relaxing Sunday afternoon. X
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