El Meson De Pepe is a restaurant offer authentic Cuban cuisine. It is located right by Mallory Square at Key West. Other than just serving food, it also sells many Cuban related items in the restaurant. It is quite a large restaurant with both indoor seat and patio seat. In the evenings, it also has live music played outside of the restaurant.
We went to El Meson De Pepe for lunch around noon. The restaurant was half empty and it seemed that the restaurant was usually busier at night. We chose the indoor seat that day because it was extremely humid and hot. We really need to be in a room with air conditioning.
We ordered a Bistec Palomilla A La Plancha and Caballo Grande. Before the entree was served, flat bread was served on the side. The bread was quite good and had garlic taste to it.
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The Bistec Palomilla was like a Cuban style steak. It was a 12oz sirloin steak served with fried onion on top. The steak was cooked perfectly which still retained the juice and kept the meat tender. It was quite good. The fried yuuca was really good too, it was even better than fries.
Caballo Grande had a combination of 3 popular Cuban style meat. It included ground beef and sliced beef and pork. We didn't like this dish as much as the meat seemed a bit too salty to our taste.
As we finished our food, a young lady dropped by and asked to take photos of us. We were fine with it. She later came by and gave us a small print of the photo. She said we could buy large print of photo for $5 but we passed this.
El Meson De Pepe offered authentic Cuban food experience. We enjoyed most of it. What we are thinking of trying next time is the Cuban Sandwich with the flat bread.
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