Please note that the meal was complimentary. However, the opinions expressed in my blog are 100% my own!
Astoria surely has some great gems that should not be ignored, and Don Coqui, a Puerto Rican restaurant is one of them. I discovered it last Sunday when we went for a tasting for dinner. This huge place is a restaurant and lounge with multiple rooms:
A first one, small, at the entrance, with a nicely furnished bar:
The lounge with its impressive lighting:
The two dining rooms that can cater approximately eighty guests each:
They set the mood with not only Latin music, but also a blue lighting in the dining room that kept the lounge-y feel.
Don Coqui opened in February 2011 in Astoria (they have several locations such as The Bronx or New Rochelle that is their flagship). The restaurant got its name from a small frog that makes a sound like "coqui, coqui", that is quite a funny anecdote.
The menu, crafted by Executive Chef Jack D'Angelo, had so many mouth watering dishes that I admit that I was not sure what to order; so we followed the advice of our server, Andres, who was very knowledgable about the dishes, describing them in detail.
I started by ordering a drink. I chose the mango Mojito that was delicious, refreshing and original.
