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Hi:
I am trying to reach out to the community and get some feedback. I have read in the forum many times of people reaching out and asking for restaurants that would serve “Latin Food” not Mexican but traditional Puerto Rican, Cuban , Dominican & Caribbean food. I am interested in offering a service of “Latin food” “door to door”. The menu will be very affordable and it will consist of a combination of “Latin, Creole & Caribbean flavors”. It will have traditional dishes from “Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. It would be a full delivery service for lunch and dinner. I am trying to figure out what would be the best area to begin. I have been considering the following areas; Ballantyne, Providence, Matthews, Pineville or closer to the city. All feedback is greatly appreciated. !!
Uptown. All the food around here is so common and bland. In South Florida you would call Floriditas, Grannie's or any other Latin food restaurant/cafeteria and they would deliver to your office. I don't see that kind of service here in Charlotte. Rarely do my co-workers order "delivery" food. Even Starbucks would deliver coffee to our office in Brickell!!!
Might work. I see "roach coaches" (an old name for mobile canteens in the military) all over town and off of the sides of the roads selling specialties. Looks like lots of others may have had your idea as well. Good luck, but like everything else, competition is tough.
Uptown would definitely give you your biggest lunch market during weekdays. I would love a place like this even if it was a roach coach/delivery service. Transplants always get slammed for saying this but I haven't found enough ethnic places that I like around here.
I would go with University City! As a matter of fact, there's an open restaurant storefront at the corner of Mallard Creek and Mallard Creek Church- I think you'd clean up!!
I live in Indian Trail and my husband is Dominican. The closest Dominican restaurant is Punta Cana it is on South Blvd. I don't think that Dominicans are really cooking the food there. My pollo guisada sorry for the spelling is better. Anyway, we would love to try your food. Good Luck!!
Ballantyne please! Mostly b/c that's where I'm moving to in the next few months. Need to find a good Cuban restaurant (and also a Colombian one)!
My wife works at a Colombian restaurant , Pollos Marios on Ablemarle rd, also have been to the one in Pineville on 51 and there's a new on on South Blvd as well, all recommended.
I like how South Blvd has a bunch of things together- but I would go anywhere in CLT for good Puerto Rican food...!
Punta Cana is good and similar in many ways to PR food but they should really spoon out the oil slick on top of their guisos like home-cooks do, lol... I would think that you would be most successful in areas that are the most easily accessible and well-populated? Matthews and Pineville seem too far out of the way...
Hi:
I am trying to reach out to the community and get some feedback. I have read in the forum many times of people reaching out and asking for restaurants that would serve “Latin Food” not Mexican but traditional Puerto Rican, Cuban , Dominican & Caribbean food. I am interested in offering a service of “Latin food” “door to door”. The menu will be very affordable and it will consist of a combination of “Latin, Creole & Caribbean flavors”. It will have traditional dishes from “Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. It would be a full delivery service for lunch and dinner. I am trying to figure out what would be the best area to begin. I have been considering the following areas; Ballantyne, Providence, Matthews, Pineville or closer to the city. All feedback is greatly appreciated. !!
My neighbor, an attorney from Puerto Rico, said that the only really good Cuban restaurant is out South Boulevard. Forgot the name of the place. He also said the the "Havana Restaurant", I believe that was the name, was really bad as ownership has changed.
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Anyway, we would love to try your food. Good Luck!!
