A Michigan restaurant is opening its first out-of-state location in New York this month, bearing Cuban burgers and tropical milkshakes. Frita Batidos is opening in Williamsburg at 334 Kent Avenue, at South Fourth Street, on Wednesday, October 29.
Chef and owner Eve Aronoff Fernandez opened Frita Batidos in Ann Arbor in 2010 and eventually expanded into Detroit in 2019. Before this, she ran the since-closed French restaurant Eve, also in Detroit.
New York’s Cuban food scene is small but includes a bunch of longstanding restaurants, such as Guantanamera and Victor’s Cafe, both in Midtown West, along with a handful of Cuban Chinese places such as La Caridad 72, the revamp of shuttered legacy restaurant La Caridad 78. However, there doesn’t seem to be a destination going all-in on fritas until now…