Mi Salsa Kitchen is a Cuban diner in the Lower East Side. There is live Caribbean music on weekends. People move the tables to the side and everyone dances.
It’s just a diner, like a chinchorro, but this is the natural habitat of Latin music. The cooking is Cuban home food. New York Cubans have really embraced it. S0me of NYC’s top Cuban artists play here just because it feels like home. Mi Salsa Kitchen became NYC’s hot new Cuban spot in 2021.
Mi Salsa Kitchen News
Román Díaz plays Cuban Rumba at Mi Salsa Kitchen in the Lower East Side most Wednesdays from 8-11pm. Díaz is one of NYC’s Rumba heavy hitters. 🇨🇺
There is often music and dancing Thursday – Sundays. In March 2022, announcements are made the same day, so check their Facebook @misalsakitchen for who is playing.
Mi Salsa Kitchen Tickets
misalsakitchen.com
205 Allen St
(at Houston)
Lower East Side, Manhattan
Instagram @misalsakitchen
No tickets or cover, but please tip the musicians. We always tip $20 (per diner).
Subways
(F) 2nd Avenue (3 blocks)
Previously
Trova legend Xiomara Laugart celebrates Mi Salsa Kitchen’s 1st Anniversary with Cuban Timba at Mi Salsa Kitchen in the Lower East Side on Fri, Feb 25 from 9-11pm. 🇨🇺
December 2021
Celebrate New Year’s Eve with Papote Jimenez (Los Hacheros) at Mi Salsa Kitchen in the Lower East Side on Fri, Dec 31. 🇵🇷
Chopping Sessions Thursdays are a Cuban Jazz jam at Mi Salsa Kitchen in the Lower East Side, Thursdays from 8-11pm. Donation. 🇨🇺
Papote Jimenez (Los Hacheros) sings Puerto Rican Salsa at Mi Salsa Kitchen in the Lower East Side on Sundays at 8pm. Donation. 🇵🇷
November 2021
Melvis Santa sings Cuban Jazz on Sat, Nov 20 at 8pm. No cover. @melvissanta 🇨🇺
Roman Diaz, one of the padrinos of New York Rumba, plays Cuban Rumba on Wed, Nov 10 at 8pm. 🇨🇺