Family Recipes
Crisp iceberg lettuce with julienne of baked ham, natural Swiss cheese, tomato, olives, grated Romano cheese, Lea & Perrins ® Worcestershire sauce and our famous garlic dressing.
During lunch, this dish is cooked in batches, in the style of the Columbia's chef of the 1950s and 1960s. By night, it is made to order Valencia style and baked in a traditional Spanish clay dish, or cazuela.
Adela always liked to make these much
smaller than typical
Cuban devil crabs.
Columbia Hot Sauce makes this appetizer
"hot as the devil."
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No mayo. No lettuce or tomato. No turkey. A true Tampa Cuban is layered from bottom to top: ham, roast pork, salami, Swiss cheese, pickles and mustard. The better the quality of ingredients, the better the sandwich.
Hungry For More?
Dig into the trove of family recipes featured in The Columbia Restaurant Spanish Cookbook by Adela Hernandez Gonzmart and Ferdie Pacheco and The Columbia Restaurant: Celebrating A Century Of History, Culture And Cuisine by Andrew T. Huse with recipes and memories from Richard Gonzmart and the Columbia Family.