Where Am I Eating? — La Taza de Oro, in Chelsea
Yes, it's a bowl of Puerto Rican mondongo, the celebrated tripe soup.![]()
It took Harold Turkoman about an hour after the contest went up to identify the origin of the chunky yellowish soup as Chelsea's La Taza de Oro (96 Eighth Avenue, 212-243-9946), one of the city's few remaining Puerto Rican coffee shops.
Excellent work, Harold. Your prize is a cookbook selected from the Fork in the Road stash. Please send your snail mail address to sdigregorio@villagevoice.com, and she'll give you a choice of cookbooks.
Thanks again for playing the contest.
Also, thanks to Harbra for confirming Harold's guess.
The interior never changes at La Taza de Oro ("The Cup of Gold").![]()
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