Río Cristal Cuban restaurant built its fame atop a mountain of French fries.
For 46 years, its faithful followers kept coming back to a strip mall in Westchester, where the late Pepe Acosta buried a thin, tender Palomilla steak beneath a buttress of hot, crispy French fries — a tropical steak frites.
The restaurant outlasted his passing in 2014, but it could not outpace COVID-19.
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