El Principe Restaurant

One of the best yellow rice and beans I’ve ever had! Great food, cheap prices. Tiny little place but great for take out. Very nice staff.

I know the place is a hole in a wall, but the food is amazing! If you are looking for authentic Dominican food, well seasoned and doesn’t break your wallet? Then this is the place to go.
My only wish is, that the place was a bit larger and accommodated more people.

Excelente comida llevo 13años de chef y aquí es unos de los restaurantes latinos q mejor se come y la atención es de primera gracias

All the girls working here are sexy.
All wife material. They need to shave their arms and eyebrows down though. And they don’t speak English well.
It’s always packed here. Such a tiny place. Very hard to find legal parking and the front door doesn’t open all the way.
Oh and the food is great.

The Príncipe family is so kind and welcoming. The atmosphere is like family and the peril, mavi, and fritiras are delicious! A cornerstone of the community.

This place has VERY tasty food, and my favorite drink. ¡Jugo de parcha! (Passion fruit Juice).
The staff only speaks Spanish though. Which I like because I get to flex my Spanish capabilities, but can be scary for others.
Also, not a lot of vegetarian options here. I’m not a vegetarian, but I am a veggie enthusiast.
I’ve never tried the deserts here, but I’m willing to go out in a limb, and say they’re pretty tasty too!
I say stop in if you’re in the area. You won’t be disappointed!
¡Buen Provecho!

Great place. pretty awkward if you don’t speak spanish but the service is great

Went here on my lunch break. Had a plater of pernil (slow roasted pork) which was actually very tender and spiced nicely. I just wish the skin was crispier. It was that rubbery, tough skin. The rice and beans were good and they give you alot of it. Lastly I had a little salad with a vinegar dressing which breaks up the saltiness of the rest of the platter, which is pretty damn salty, but what do you expect from Spanish jawn in the hood? One big negative, and this is big, I found a piece of cellophane wrapper in my salad. Not good at all. Also, if I didn’t bring my co-​worker that speaks Spanish, I would’ve had a little trouble ordering. The staff’s English is very poor.
Pros: good (hood) Spanish food, fair prices
Cons: cleanliness is suspect (plastic wrapper in salad), also no ingles spoken here

Small place with decent Dominican food. Service is ok, although I think most people do take out, specially for lunch. I had the mondongo, which is Dominican style tripe cooked in a heavy broth, and my friend had some chivo, which is goat served stew like. They were both pretty decent. Side orders were fine, with rice and green salad. For dessert, the arroz con leche was a good complement to the meal.

When you walk in, the steam table is packed with Dominican cooking, featuring stewed meats and enough pork to make me believe that Heaven gets its catering from El Principe.
Speaking Spanish definitely helps when ordering. If you don’t, just make sure you are really good at pointing.
The ladies hacked away a portion of artery death meat, known as chicharron in Latin American cooking, and sent it my way for $ 5 (more pricey when compared to the pounds of other meats they serve up cheap, but luxury has its price). These are just the porkiest bites found in nature. I couldn’t bring myself to eat the pure fat parts, but the skin and the fat clinging to it got the job done. This wasn’t just some sexy looking skin that didn’t deliver once you bit into it; the crunch was perfect, just the right amount of teeth required to tear it apart.
4 measly dollars gets you a big serving of stewed chicken. One poke of your fork and the meat is off the bone.
I didn’t think much of the beef, but guess what– it too was awesome. It was totally moist and drenched in a savory oily juice (like the one the chicken comes in) that made me feel unhealthy just looking at it. Yum!
Behind the chicharrones was even more pork, a gleaming pork leg with a few lonely strands of meat falling off it. I wanted it as the star of my platter and the ladies told to wait while they got a new leg from the back. That was a thing worth waiting for.
The $ 8 large combos, like the roast pork platter, come with repollo (vinegar-​lemon cabbage salad) and white rice or yellow «moro» rice. A platter makes a great lunch; good luck finishing it all.
Of all the meat choices, it is really hard to pick my favorite. I would probably stick with the roast pork, followed by the above mentioned beef. Other choices included goat, stewed pork, roast chicken, oxtail, salt fish, and liver.
If you are getting the roast pork instead of one of the meats that come with gravy, ask for some gravy on your rice. They are even nice enough to give you a container of sauce if you aren’t eating right away.
Smaller platters are available for $ 6.
If you are in to mushy things, be sure to ask for mangu. You won’t find it on the steam table, but they will bring you a plate from the kitchen. This was my first time having this Dominican mashed plantain dish, though I have had mofongo (the Puerto Rican, pork heavy version) quite often. It was different without the pork bits, but I found myself piling more on my plate. The mild mushy stuff tasted comforting and matches up well with any of the sauces from the other platters.