Dominican restaurant offers popular Latin American food, owner shares American dream

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Nulvin Jimenez is simply a concern proprietor and an immigrant. She moved from Venezuela to the United States years agone to unrecorded her American dream.

Her restaurant, Tu Casa Latin Food, opened much than 4 years agone and offers immoderate of the tastiest and astir fashionable dishes successful Latin American cuisine.

Jimenez moved from New York to Indiana much than 20 years agone successful hunt of amended surviving conditions. She started selling nutrient retired of her ain room and now, with her family’s help, she opened this restaurant.

“I conscionable emotion that we’re capable to bring this to our community, and I conscionable emotion however divers we are,” said Jimenez’s son, Jose Castillo-Jimenez.

Castillo-Jimenez says sometimes he’s successful the room oregon he’s serving food, but it’s the clip helium gets to walk with his ma that helium cherishes the most.

“It’s a peculiar enslaved that we tin stock unneurotic due to the fact that beingness gets busy. We turn up and … we bash our ain lives, but this benignant of conscionable brings america backmost together,” helium said.

The edifice offers nutrient from places similar Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Colombia, but it’s a sheet of nutrient called El Pabellon, from Venezuela, that’s his favorite.

“You tin enactment the condiment of the shredded beef. The shred of beef has this large stewed herb condiment connected it with peppers, and the shredded beef is cooked for a mates of hours and it’s similar steamed and past they navigator it,” said

“It’s the beef, nutrient with mofongo. The platanos — they’re truthful delicious. Me being a Mexican, I truly urge the Dominican food,” Felipe Flores, an Indianapolis resident, said.

“If you person a imagination retired determination — if you’re Latino, if you’re Hispanic, nevertheless you place — conscionable spell for it. Nothing is impossible,” Castillo-Jimenez said.

Jimenez says she hopes to grow her concern successful the future.