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Top to bottom: mofongo with garlic shrimp,
jibarito sandwich with steak, and pernil (roast pork) with fried plantains and rice. Photo by Chris Kessler.
Island of Platanos
Indulge your dreams of plantains, pigeon peas and roast pork at the Puerto Rican restaurant La Borincana.
The door is propped open and the late-day, late-summer sun brightens La Borincana. Teenagers squeezed into a booth stare at their cell phones. And a patron peers into the glass case that holds many of the specialties for which a Puerto Rican restaurant is known. Whole roast pork, links of morcilla (blood sausage), empanadas, boiled root vegetables, cheese dogs (like corn dogs), and fritters made with cornmeal, potato or root vegetables. Some are filled with cheese, others with ground beef.
