Café Mamajuana - Burlington

20230506 E-mailed Cafe Mamajuana on Facebook inquired about their hours, and they responded I open sporadically and mainly cater! Thanks for asking. Just keep following and we post when we open for the day a few days ahead of time hopefully you get lucky

Cafe Mamajuana is a hidden restaurant in the north end that teleports you out of vermont. The menu is unique and well thought out- its no wonder they were nominated for a james beard award! I got the Pescado Frito (fried red snapper) after seeing that they finally had it back in stock and was thoroughly impressed. The fish was perfectly cooked, and tasted incredible. The staff were so friendly and happily chatted despite being busy, all in all i had a great experience. Cant wait to return and try some of their creative specials!

This place was amazing. I was visiting my cousins for the weekend and we split a bunch of tapas between us for take out one night. We got the papas rellenas, tostones, arancini dominicana, guava BBQ and jerk chicken, and 3 empanadas. Everything came with its own different dipping sauce, all of which were great. We also got the Mama Juana cocktail — a traditional Dominican brew — which came in a tiny plastic bottle, but was strong enough that divided up between the three of us it was enough.My favorite was the guava BBQ and jerk chicken. Spicy jerk seasoning on the drumsticks, guava BBQ sauce that I could eat on its own (and ended up slathering on the rest of my order), a pineapple salsa, and something pickled, maybe jicama?Overall, our order was lacking green, so if you’re on a veggie kick this might not be your vibe.

Arroz con frijoles was mushy rice with flavorless canned beans. The platanos were cut too thick, and the pernil had absolutely no flavor. I took three bites hoping it would magically get better, but nope that was it for me. I don't like giving low stars, but the ancestors are not having this. Maybe it was a REALLY bad day.I may try again on my next visit to Burlington with the hope of a better experience.

I was exited to try this place because I love empanadas the cheese empanadas are out of this world they where great but when we tried the chicken ones they where so cold like they gave us old empanadas from the day before and didn’t even care to heat them up. I don’t know if the staff was having a bad day but I felt like it was an inconvenience for them to have us there. I will definitely give it another try the yuca is incredible too but they need more quality control with the empanadas it’s not so appetizing to bite into cold pink chicken.