La Costena Market

What a gem! The taste of a Latin mother’s kitchen! Haha! Really good!!! Highly recommended!

This is my second home! I loveee the food rice and beans and chicken empanadas bunuelos etc etc great Colombian good selection. Friendly staff very quick service and it tastes Reallllly good you wont be dissappointed!!!

Highly recommend the pork chops rice and beans and the empenadas!
Food is delicious!!!

I love this place, have been eating from there for at least 8 years. Their food is always consistent in taste. They have different soups and meats everyday, that’s why I make sure I order from here whenever I get homemade Spanish food cravings.

I always get breakfast here and this time got lunch and breakfast items. The food is good and cheap!
The beef empanadas are very good however its more of a mash of potato and ground beef, not just beef — still good tho. I want to include that about 3 years ago I ordered a tray of cheese empanadas for International day at my job and the empanadas were pretty much empty. I have never gotten a cheese empanda here for myself tho. During my last visit I got 2 beef empanadas, a cheese arepa, chicharon, pernil, arroz moro, and beans — all for about $ 13 and fed 2 people. SO GOOD. Customer service is good and quick.

great food, I come all the way three towns over to Hackensack just to eat their food… roast pork is to die for. pig feet stew I never had is great and there oxtails only go there now no more West Indian spots

I always go, empanadas are good, love the pork with coco rice !! The corn arepas with cheese are delicious, I always see the owners there, very a tentative people.

Great food and great service. Also a good price! Got a good amount of food for myself for only $ 7

Best empanadas ever. Get ‘em while they’re fresh out of the oven and let the ridiculously soft, buttery crust melt in your mouth. Friendly staff, and the store is well stocked with kitchen staples and fresh produce so you don’t have to schlep to a full-​on grocery store when you just need a couple ingredients for dinner. Haven’t tried their lunch specials yet, but I’m about to remedy that.

2.5 stars for nice people with mediocre food.
I’m so disappointed. La Costena came so highly recommended that I was psyched to finally have a chance to get there while it was open… but the food quality was just not great.
The lunch dishes are served cafeteria-​style from a very limited menu. Given my few options, I got the beef stew with yellow rice, and a cheese pastry. The rice was well cooked and unseasoned, which I believe is traditional. However, the beef stew lacked any flavor. Although the potatoes were cooked to perfection, the beef was dry and one of the 3 small chunks I was given was a piece of bone, devoid of meat. There were really no vegetables in the mix, and the sauce was just bland. I had high hopes for the cheese pastry, but it was similarly bland and really not good at all.
Service was nice (both women with whom I spoke were bi-​lingual — big help!) and fairly fast. Parking can be a problem at peek hours.
If you’re really craving this kind of cuisine, give it a shot… but I wasn’t impressed.