El Rey De Las Fritas traces its frita back to Cuba, where Victoriano "Benito" Gonzalez and his wife Angelina "La Gallega" Gonzalez were making them until 1968. They arrived in Miami in 1973 and opened the first location in 1979, building a menu around a single idea done several ways.
The signature is La Original Frita Cubana: a ground-beef patty seasoned with a family spice blend, topped with finely cut onions and homemade julienne fries, wrapped in Cuban bread. From there the menu branches into the Frita Especial (cheese), the Frita A Caballo (fried egg), and the Frita Suprema, which stacks fried cheese, sweet plantains, and a fried egg onto the same base. It's counter-style, no-frills food, now spread across several Miami locations including the original Little Havana spot.
Mercedes and Yamil Gonzalez, Benito and Angelina's children, now run the business their parents started, and the frita itself has become something of a reference point for the dish in Miami-Dade — the kind of place regulars point to when arguing the frita belongs to this city more than anywhere else.
The signature is La Original Frita Cubana: a ground-beef patty seasoned with a family spice blend, topped with finely cut onions and homemade julienne fries, wrapped in Cuban bread. From there the menu branches into the Frita Especial (cheese), the Frita A Caballo (fried egg), and the Frita Suprema, which stacks fried cheese, sweet plantains, and a fried egg onto the same base. It's counter-style, no-frills food, now spread across several Miami locations including the original Little Havana spot.
Mercedes and Yamil Gonzalez, Benito and Angelina's children, now run the business their parents started, and the frita itself has become something of a reference point for the dish in Miami-Dade — the kind of place regulars point to when arguing the frita belongs to this city more than anywhere else.