THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED Cafe Socialista

THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED Cafe Socialista Restaurant Review:

Scenesters don’t necessarily come to this West Village hot-spot for the traditional Cuban cuisine. In fact, dishes like the crispy duck leg empanadas, herb-laced leg of lamb, and snack-like bocadillos (lightly fried sandwiches) take a back seat to the hip and the restless. That’s what happens when Armin Amiri, once a doorman at Bungalow 8, throws his velvet-clad hat into the ring and wrangles a small handful of celebrity investors. But this restaurant and night spot, which evokes 1940s Cuba, is as worthy a dining destination as a see-and-be-scene (that is, if you can get in). The butter leaf lettuce with candied fennel seeds; saffron-accented prawns; and chili-glazed roasted black cod will make you fawn over the food just as much as the gawkers fawn over that celebrity at the corner table.