I recently spent a few days in Puerto Rico visiting family and eating lots of food including an island version of the Chicago-invented jibarito sandwich.
Backstory: Humboldt Park restaurateur Juan C. Figueroa started serving this steak sandwich using fried green plantain planks as bread in the mid-1990s at his Puerto Rican restaurant Borinquen.
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- In the intervening decades it has spread to cities all over the country and even back to Puerto Rico, where I found it in San Juan’s old city at a spot called Restaurante el Jibarito or La Fonda del Jibarito depending on which sign at this location you…