After more than 20 years of serving Cuban cuisine and culture on the corner of High and Crown Streets, Soul de Cuba will be offering only catering and take out services for the next few days before going dark on Dec. 22.
At last call on Sunday night, the restaurant’s founder and owner, Jesus Puerto, said the reasons for the closure had to do with financial pressures growing out of the pandemic era and changing realities of business at the street level.
Sounding resolute, Puerto said the restaurant’s mission had been accomplished after two decades of providing the Guanabacoa Cuban and Tampa (Florida) based renditions of Afro Cuban cuisine in an environment of culture, history and music…