Casa Adela

A Lower East Side institution, the specialty at Casa Adela is rotisserie chicken. Authentic PR food in an unpretentious environment, serving rice and beans even your PR mother will approve.

This tiny Puerto Rican storefront on Avenue C served the best roast chicken in the East Village in the 1970s, and it serves the best roasted chicken in the East Village today.

This tiny Puerto Rican storefront on Avenue C served the best roast chicken in the East Village in the 1970s, and it serves the best roasted chicken in the East Village today.

This authentic Puerto Rican family restaurant is located in the heart of one of the original Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Manhattan, the Lower East Side (now often known as Alphabet City). The specialty at Casa Adela is rotisserie chicken, and the aroma of garlic and roasted poultry is in the air walking by this quaint restaurant. Owner Adela Fargas makes fresh-fruit milkshakes and juices...

Avenue C is also known as Loisaida, and Puerto Rican cuisine still reigns there with Adela Fargas as queen. Since 1973, she's been cooking up rotisserie chicken so tender it falls apart on the fork. The kitchen dishes out pernil (shredded roast pork) and beef stew with mugs of soupy beans to pour over fluffy rice. Between the blaring Spanish soap operas and whirring blender churning out frothy...

We specialize in Authentic Puerto Rican Cuisine like Arroz con Gandules, Pernil, Mofongo,Pasteles, Alcapurias, and We have the best Rottissierie Chicken in Town.