Tropical Sensation Menu
When you step into Tropical Sensation, you're in for an exciting journey of flavors that transport you straight to paradise. This is more than just a meal; it's an experience. With a menu crafted to bring a tropical escape right to your plate, the Tropical Sensation Menu promises a vibrant and refreshing selection of dishes. Whether you're craving a light bite or a hearty feast, every item has been thoughtfully created to capture the essence of tropical ingredients-think juicy fruits, zesty spices, and fresh seafood, all blended together in perfect harmony.
Located at 953 Amsterdam Ave #1 in the heart of New York, this spot is the ideal place to unwind with friends or enjoy a casual dinner. The menu offers something for everyone, from the adventurous foodies to those looking for a comforting meal with a tropical twist. Each dish is designed to satisfy your cravings while delivering a burst of flavor that will leave you coming back for more.
1 / 4
Appetizers
Alitas De Pollo Buffalo/ Buffalo Breaded Wings
Homemade Buffalo Sauce Over Breaded Chicken Wings. -SPiCY- -PiCanTE-
Alitas De Pollo/Breaded Chicken Wings W/Guava BBQ
Breaded and fried chicken wings smothered in our guava-passion fruit BBQ sauce.
Mariquitas
Thin plantain and tortilla chips served with our fresh pico de gallo.
Croquetas De Pollo
Breadcrumbed and Fried. Ground chicken mixed with herbs and spices rolled with breadcrumbs then fried. The croquettes served with chipotle sauce.
Tostones Rellenos
Mini plantain cups filled with shrimp in Criollo sauce.
Calamares A La Molinera
Fried calamari served with chipotle and marinara sauce.
Empanaditas
2 beef, 2 chicken and 2 cheese patties.
Palitos De Queso
Battered and Fried Mozzarella Sticks.
Guacamole Sensacional
Our signature guacamole served with plantain and tortilla chips.
Ropa Vieja Tostones Rellenos
Our Signature Rope Vieja Served Over Fried Green Plantains
If you have any questions about your delivery order, please call the restaurant directly 212-222-0098
DO NOT CALL THE GRUBHUB NUMBER-CALL US 212-222-0098-If You Have An Issue With Your Order Or Delivery
Breakfast/Desayuno 212-222-0098
Tres Golpes Special Small
With mashed boiled green plantains , one egg, one piece of fried cheese and one slice of salami, longaniza, or ham. Please specify if you'd like pickled onions on top!
Tres Golpes Special LArge
With mashed boiled green plantain , two eggs, two pieces of fried cheese and two slices of salami, longaniza, or ham. Please specify if you'd like pickled onions on top!
Pancake Breakfast
2 Pancakes, 2eggs, 2bacon. No substitutions.
Veggie Omelette
Egg Omelette made with spinach, onions, peppers and tomatoes . No substitutions.
Americano Breakfast
(2) Eggs, (2) Bacon and your choice of home fries, french fries or Mashed Potatoes. No substitutions.
Spinach And Cheese Omelette
Spinach with Egg omelette. Served with your choice of cheese, home fries . No substitutions.
Extra Egg
Extra Piece Of Salami (1)
Extra Piece Of Longaniza (1)
One piece of fried Spanish sausage
Extra Piece Of Queso Frito/Fried Cheese
One piece of fried cheese
1/2 Cup Of Pickled Onions
Cafe Con Leche/Coffee With Milk
We only use whole milk
Salads
Ensalada Verde
Lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and cabbage.
Ensalada De Aguacate
Avocado, lettuce and tomatoes. Decorated with a bit of red onions.
Ensalada Tropical
Mixture of lettuce, tomato, avocado, cabbage and diced-up mango and pineapple.
Ensalada Caesar
Caesar salad made with romaine lettuce, Parmesan cheese, croutons and Caesar dressing.
Slice Of Avocado
Half a Haas Avocado Sliced
Chicken-Pollo
Chicharones De Pollo
Irresistible pieces of bone-in fried chicken. Served with your choice of side.Pictured here with tostones.
Chicharones De Pollo Sin Hueso
Irresistible pieces of boneless fried chicken. Served with your choice of side.Pictured here with tostones.
Medio Pollo A La Brasa
Slow-roasted half chicken. Served with your choice of side.
Pechuguines Tropicales
Breaded chicken breasts covered with mozzarella cheese, marinara sauce and pina-mango salsa. Served with your choice of side.
Filetillo De Pollo
Perfectly seasoned chicken breast strips sauteed with peppers and onions. Served with your choice of side.
Bistec De Pollo
Sauteed chicken breast with caramelized onions and salsa madre. Served with your choice of side.
Pollo Al Champinon
Tender chicken breast topped with savory mushroom sauce. Served with your choice of side.
Pechuga Al Fogon
Grilled chicken breast.
Whole Roasted Chicken (No Side)
Whole roasted chicken, no side order.
From the Grill 212-222-0098
Churrasco Criollo
Long Cut Skirt Steak Served With Our Chimichurri Sauce. Served With your Choice of Side. Pictured with Spinach Mashed Potatoes.
12 Oz. Rib Eye
Chuletas A La Parrilla
Two juicy pork chops perfectly grilled. Served with your choice of side.
Costillotas A La Barbacoa
BBQ spare ribs grilled and glazed with our signature guava BBQ sauce. Served with your choice of side.
Pechuga Al Fogon
Chicken breast grilled and served with our fresh mango pina salsa. Served with your choice of side.
Bistec Palomilaa A La Parilla
Thin cut grilled steak. Served with your choice of side.
Stews-Gusidados
Res Guisada/Beef Stew Order
Beef stew with potatoes and carrots
Pollo Guisado/Chicken Stew
Stewed chicken in a light tomato sauce. Served with your choice of side. Please call the restaurant for today's availability.
Beef 212-222-0098
Bistec Encebollado
Seared thin cut steak with caramelized onions. Served with your choice of side.
Masitas De Res
Fried boneless steak strips. Served with your choice of side.
Filetillo De Res
Sauteed steak strips with peppers and onions. Served with your choice of side.
Seafood 212-222-0098
Pargo
Perfectly seasoned whole red snapper, served broiled or fried with your choice of side.
Camarones Al Ajillo/Shrimp In Garlic Sauce
Sauteed jumbo shrimp in garlic sauce. Served with your choice of side.
Camarones A La Criolla/Shrimp In Creole Sauce
Sauteed jumbo shrimp cooked in creole sauce. Served with your choice of side. Pictured here with vegetables.
Camarones Al Horno (Broiled Shrimp)
Our jumbo shrimp broiled with your choice of side
Salmon Glaciado
Pan-seared salmon filet with sweet mustard sauce. Served with your choice of side.
Salmon Atlantico
Broiled salmon fillet with lobster-mustard sauce. Served with your choice of side.
Filete De Pescado
Broiled or fried filet of sole seasoned with garlic, oregano, salt and pepper. Served with your choice of side.
Pescado En Salsa De Langosta
Lightly breaded fried filet of sole (or broiled) served in a lobster sauce. Served with your choice of side.
Salmon Al Horno-Baked Salmon
Fresh baked salmon. No Sauce just simply broiled with herbs and seasoning.
Mofongos 212-222-0098
Mofongos
Traditional Caribbean dish of mashed fried green plantains or yucca (cassava), with garlic and olive oil and your choice of stuffing.
Signature Dishes 212-222-0098
Camarofongo
Mashed fried plantain dome surrounded with sauteed shrimp in a reduced garlic sauce.
Ropa Vieja Sobre Yucafongo
Slow-cooked skirt steak surrounding a fried and mashed cassava dome.
Picadera De Cerdo, Res Y Pollo
Platter of fried beef strips, pork loin strips and fried chicken chunks served with tostones.
Paella Caribena
Golden rice mixed with succulent lobster, shrimp, crab, calamari, clams and mussels.
Pork 212-222-0098
Chuletas De Cerdo Frita
Two juicy fried pork chops. Served with your choice of side. Pictured With Broccoli Mashed Potatoes
Pernil Asado
Slow roasted pork shoulder. Served with your choice of side.
Masitas De Cerdo
Boneless fried pork strips. Served with your choice of side.
Chuletas A La Criolla
Fried Pork Chops smothered in a creole sauce ofrustic onions, peppers and tomato. Served with your choice of side.
Chicharron De Cerdo
Fried pork rib belly.
Rice Dishes 212-222-0098
Locrio De Longaniza
Spanish yellow rice cooked with Spanish sausage.
Arroz Con Pollo
Chicken cooked in yellow rice.
Locrio De Camarones
Jumbo shrimp in yellow rice.
Pastas 212-222-0098
Lasana Tropical
Delicious Caribbean style lasagna.
Pollo Parmigiana
Chicken Parmigiana served with linguini.
Beregena Parmigiana
Eggplant Parmigiana served with linguini.
Camarones Parmigiana
Shrimp Parmigiana served with linguini.
Lunch Specials
1/4 Roasted Chicken Lunch Special
Served All Day for Delivery! (Depending on availability) 1/4 Roasted Chicken together with ONE side.
Stewed Chicken Lunch Special
Served All Day for Delivery! (Depending on availability). Pictured Here With White Rice And Red Beans.
Pernil (Roast Pork ) Lunch Special
Roast Pork. Served All Day for Delivery! (Depending on availability)
Lunch Of Beef Stew
Stewed Beef with Carrots Lunch Special. Served All Day for Delivery! (Depending on availability)
BBQ Ribs Lunch Special
Lunch of BBQ Spare Pork Ribs with passion fruit/guava BBQ sauce
Pepper Chicken Lunch Special
Sauteed chicken breast strips with peppers and onions!
Pig Feet- Patitas De Cerdo
Stewed pig feet in our light tomato sauce.
Stewed Pork- Masitas De Cerdo Guisada
Pork , slowly cooked in a rich onion, pepper & tomato sauce.
Lunch Special Fried Pork Chop-Chuleta Frita
One deliciously fried pork chop.
Fried Fish Filet Lunch- Filete De Pescado Frito Lunch
Panko breaded fish filet
Meatless Lunch-Lunche De Espagetti Con Arroz
Rice, Beans, Pasta and two pieces of sweet plantains in the same bowl-No animal products in our rice,beans or pasta. NO SUBSTITUTIONS
Sandwiches 212-222-0098
Bistec Sandwich
Sauteed steak sandwich with cooked caramelized onions served on hero bread.
Grilled Chicken Sandwich
Delicious Grilled Chicken Breast on a toasted Hero bread! Customize it to your liking!
Sandwich De Pernil
Our slow roasted pork shoulder, cut and toasted on hero bread. Please specify if you want pickled onions or not.
Ham And Cheese Sandwich
Ham and melted cheese toasted on a hero.
Cubano Sandwich
Delicious roast pork, ham, and Swiss cheese. Taste great with pickles but thats up to you!Please select from the drop down menu the condiments you would like in your sandwich.
Burger Capitaleno
Grilled cheeseburger served with cheese, raw onion slice,lettuce, tomatoes, and fries.
Cheese Toast- Tostada De Queso
Served pressed and hot on hero bread
Soups 212-222-0098
Sopa De Pollo
Home style chicken noodle soup with potatoes and carrots.
Sancocho
Traditional Spanish soup with cassava, plantains, beef and hen.
Mondongo
Rich and thick beef tripe soup.
Asopao De Camarones
Hearty rice soup with jumbo shrimp. One size only.
Sopa De Mariscos
Savory soup made with jumbo shrimp, clams and calamari. One size only.
Small Side Of White Rice
Beverages 212-222-0098
Coffee With Milk/Cafe Con Leche
Tea
Hot Chocolate (Made With Whole Milk)
Bottled Water
Can Of Soda
Avena (Blended Oatmeal)
Blended Oatmeal made with Whole Milk, Cinnamon, and Sugar.
2-Liter Soda
Juices-Jugos
Orange Juice
Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice-No Sugar Added!
Lemonade/Limeade Fresh Squeezed Daily
Freshly Squeezed Lemonade. Sugar is added
Passion Fruit Juice
Tamarind Juice
Morir Sonando
Fresh orange juice and evaporated milk.
Large Lemondae 32oz
32 oz freshly squeezed limes and lemons. We do add sugar!
Large PaSSion/ChiNoLa Fruit Juice 32oz
Milkshakes
Papaya Shake
Strawberry Shake
Banana Shake
Mango Shake
Mamey Shake
Mongola Shake
Passion fruit and mango.
Strawberry And Banana Shake
Pina Colada Shake
Contains milk, coconut, pineapple
Sammy Sosa Shake
Passion fruit milkshake.
Desserts 212-222-0098
Gelatin
Jell-O.
Tres Leches Original
Cake made with and surrounded by a combination of three milks.
Chocolate Cake
Flan
Smooth creamy custard.
Tres Leche De Chocolate
Delicious chocolate cake surrounded with a dulce de leche caramel sauce.
Tres Leche De Guava
Tres leche with a guava topping.
Red Velvet Slice Of Cake
Coconut Slice Of Cake
Dulce De Coco-Shredded Coconut In Condensed Milk
Shredded coconut cooked in condensed milk.
Tiramisu
Tiramisu is made of ladyfingers dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of eggs, sugar, and mascarpone cheese, flavoured with cocoa.
Carrot Cake
Pretty Good Carrot Cake
Pineapple Cheesecake
Cheesecake with pineapple topping
Sides & Extras!
Empanada
Choose One: Beef, Chicken, Mozzarella Cheese or Spinach&Cheese. (Beef Empanada is Pictured)
Side Of White Rice
Side Of Yellow Rice
Side Of Red Beans
Side Of Black Beans
Tostones/Crispy Green Plantains
Side Of Sweet Plantains / Maduros
Side Of Yuca Sanfaina
Cassava sauteed with peppers and onions.
Side Of Mampotlao
Mixture of rice, beans, bits of ham, chives and maduros.
Pico De Gallo 8oz Cup
Fresh tomatoes, onions, cilantro and pepper.
Side Of Vegetables
Sauteed broccoli, carrots, and cauliflower
Pure De Papa
Mashed potatoes. Can also be prepared with broccoli or spinach,'please specify in special instructions.
Extra Chimichurri Sauce
Extra Mojito Sauce
One ounce.
Extra Chipotle Sauce
Two ounces.
Extra Mayo And Ketchup Sauce
Two ounces.
Avocado Slice
Half hass avocado.
Queso Frito
Slice of fried cheese.
Pan Tostado
Toasted and buttered French-style bread.
Fries
potato fries
1/2 Cup Of Pickled Onions
Garlic Chopped In Oil/Vinegar
Two ounces
Half Cup Of Stew Gravy.
Please put in instructions if you want : Beef stew,Chicken stew, or Goat stew gravy. Quantities are limited.
Spaghetti
Dominican Style Spaghetti.
Breakfast Side Orders
Toast
Side Of Mangu
Mashed plantain puree. Please let us know if you would like onions on top.
Side Of Yucca
Boiled cassava. Please let us know if you would like onions on top.
Side Of Guineos (Boiled Green Banana)
Side Of Fried Cheese
One slice.
Side Of Salami
One slice.
Side Of Longaniza
One piece.
Side Of Bacon (3 Single Pieces)
Avena
Blended Oatmeal Made With Whole Milk, A Hint of Cinnamon , and Sugar
Ready to order? Kerbside pickup, delivery and dine-in are all available. π +1 212-222-0098