As a follow-up to their popular downtown Dominican cuisine restaurant El Sabor de la Isla, husband and wife Luis Tejada and Yesenia Cruz opened D'Mangu Dominican Restaurant in Henrietta, a spacious and vibrantly decorated place with bright orange, green, and yellow paints, and bright and lively art adorning the walls. The menu includes a variety of appetizers, salads, soups, meat, or seafood entrees, desserts, and even specialty beverages. Notable selections are available in every category, including patacones (or thickly sliced, fried plantains), ensalada de pulpo (octopus salad), paella (a traditional Spanish rice dish cooked over an open fire, though made with annatto instead of saffron in Dominican cuisine), bistec empanizado (breaded steak), chicharonnes de pollo (fried chicken pieces), and asopao de camarones (shrimp and rice soup). Dessert selections include bizcochio tres leches (three milk cake), flan, and habichuelas con dulce (a pudding made of kidney beans and condensed milk). The house drink, morirsonando, is made of orange juice, milk, cane sugar, and chopped ice.
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