La Caridad reopens.
When I lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at W. 78th Street and West End Avenue, I was lucky enough to live a block from the Cuban-Chinese restaurant, La Caridad 78.
When the 52 year old La Caridad 78 closed in 2020, it was another loss of things that are New York. The closing was even noted by Florence Fabricant in the New York Times.
I remembered that Ruben Blades, in 1991, said that La Caridad’s black beans were the best in the United States (though he added, “You can’t get really good black beans in the United States. There’s not enough taste with black beans in restaurants.”)
On my last trip to New York, I was happy to see that the younger generation of one the original owners, Miguel Yip, convinced him to reopen.
In this interview with UWS Corner Talk, the day after the opening on November 28, 2023, Miguel Yip said, “People who come to La Caridad know what they’re eating. Good Stuff, I guarantee…”
