This is Porto's, the Most Popular Cuban Bakery on the West Coast - Cult Following
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- In this episode of Cult Following, host Serena Dai visits a massive new location in Buena Park, where thousands of people waited for hours to grab addictive pastries when it first opened. One of the biggest and busiest restaurants in the Los Angeles area is a Cuban bakery called Porto’s. No matter what time of the week, each location is packed with people looking for affordable sandwiches, potato balls, and cheese rolls.
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I'm a long time porto's fan so lemme break it down. The potato balls are served piping hot, the potatoes are soft and buttery, and the filling has a nice spicy tang to it. The guava/cheese pastry is flaky, buttery, and the filling is a great combination of soury sweet mixed with creamy from the cheese filling. The tres leches has a a great fresh taste (not too soggy) and has a nice milky vanilla sweetness from the 3 milks, (my favorite thing to get here). I haven't had the new sandwich but I can say that the cuban sandwich is pretty freaking good here. The pork is nice and tender, the ham is sweet and savory, the cheese is gooey and creamy, and the mustard ties it all together with a rich bitterness. However, the bread is what makes it all worth it because it is always fresh, soft, and buttery. Lastly, the plantains are crispy, not too oily, and have a shocking little sweet aftertaste that kind of lingers on the tongue. So there you go, folks.
thequazzman
You did a better job than the so called host!
thequazzman the guava/cheese pastries are so good. I went there in Glendale. Also a good Armenian restaurant raffi’s place is down the street.
Thank you. a comment more capable to describe food over a 6 minute long video.
No its mmmm sooo good and mmmmmmmmmmmm ooooo moist and makes a pucker face oooooo mmmmm delicious.
Don't be so pretentious and describe the actual food dude.
This girl needs to review her gastronomy dictionary. Myghad it's a pain to watch. She has no enthusiasm and seem not to appreciate the story behind Porto's.
Come on! Describe the food. Not only say "it is delicious". Cult Following is a good show idea but it needs a more solid host.
mangols12 to be fair if she used more complex language you would probably then call her pretentious like some other host on here
Cole Arnold
I never see someone calling Lucas pretentious and I think he describes his food pretty well.
Couldn't be more agree in this one!
Cole Arnold a more complex language is better than describing the food as delicious. I know you telling about Nick but come on he is a good host and that quirk made him unique as host. This host on the other hand.
Thank you that's what i said
her adjectives include: delicious, very moist, so good. literally that is IT!!! how does she still have this show?
"It's like fried mash potatoes with meat in the middle"
"It's so good"
"It's delicious"
You don't say??????
Betty Porto and family are amazing. So happy for their success. Awesome food, excellent episode!
my only issue with the host is her smelling the plate of food as someone is handing it to her, who the hell does that?
Sean
People who were
not taught the proper etiquette
apparently.
'It's Hugh Mungus' *triggered*
K3mp. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
K3mp that's what she said
When he said visiting Hialeah going to calle ocho and eating street food he brought back a ton of memories from my childhood!
Porto is the best bakery in my area of southern California.
"No laughing matter what she was doing in Cuba"
Man: proceeds to make joke and both laugh*
Been eating at Porto's for years!!!!!
Wow, this facility is incredible. Huge operation, super clean and super high quality.
Porto's really is extraordinary no doubt, best Cuban bakery including Miami ones.
Generally I think the episodes are getting better. What will make it much better is if Serena describes the taste of the food in more detail. Like what Lucas does on dining on a dime. Otherwise I think the content is good.
This series is more a discussion on cult restaurants with die hard fans, it's not one of our tasting/review series. Thanks for watching!
Eater what an apologist you are Eater! Dai dai dai:)
I see this so much "Just be more like Lucas". If you want Lucas, watch HIM. Every series being like Lucas/Dining on a Dime would be pointless.
Since you said it, you don't actually need a host at all. Because she's basically doing nothing now. So your purpose to just throw serena there and say every cult food is great ?
Yolanda Chang the thing is, whether this is a cult following episode or taste and review series, Serena's review is still limited and the same in both types. It's not that she has to be Lucas. People are asking her to improve her presentation, vocabulary and mannerisms to the level of popular hosts. Instead everyone e apologies for her and shove her lack of quality down our throats
Andrew and Steven from Worth It has been here.
She's still not upping her game!!!! But I think the bakery is great.
joyjoyoo the food is amazing but if I didn't know that she doesn't make it appealing it just seems like any other bakery 😑
Kay she's really skillful at doing that.
Porto's is legendary in LA. Always have to take people who have never been.
Anyone else triggered by the way she bites into food ?
supcharlie1774928847
EXACTLY!
You saved me from writing
this exact comment.
I am so annoyed by her
sniffing every single food
before tasting it.
( well, there
i said it /wrote it anyway...)
Maybe she's part
German Shepherd.
😡
yes !!!!!!disgusting
I'm getting an Eater version of Insider Food video that they're trying to create in these videos with this hostess. Insider food is a short video that shows appetizing but quick shots of foods and a short description of the restaurant/food. Typical Eater videos go more in depth with the history of the restaurant/food while also describing how the food taste. This type of videos with this hostess is, what I feel, to be a mixture of these two types of filming styles to try to appeal to the Insider Food audience but is pissing off the current Eater audience.
The lesson here: Change the hostess or change the video style because this isn't cutting it.
wait, wasnt Betty porto in a worth it Episode from buzzfeed?
mexican and cuban bakeries delicioso.
Why is host's talk kinda annoying?
The buena park location is pretty close to knotts berry farm. When I last drove by there, it was an hour wait and it wrapped around the building; it was near the opening though.
For cripes sake get a new host. These are so hard to watch because of her. The actual content is great. I could do a better job.i
She's a fine host. she lets the guest be the expert and doesn't talk over them or feel the need to lead them to keep talking with a "mmhmm" or "okay" after every beat. She researches cool places that I wouldn't have found otherwise. This was a great episode.
Christina
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I really enjoy the cult following videos and Serena as the host. This video was enjoyable to watch and sums up the topic nicely; the food was delicious. The camera work and editing were great keeping the viewers interested. Serena's style is unlike the other hosts and I like the manner in which she rates the food which is short and to the point and not over doing it with too many adjectives. However, I believe she'll be first rate if she just adds just a few choice words to describe what she is eating.
Potato balls are basically Polish/Ukrainian dish called Zrazy that somehow made it to Cuba;)
west covina location ever going to open?
Already open
betty sounds like naruto and i cant unhear it
"It's so good" "Its delicious" really, that's all you got?
honestly i've been to portos in downey and i was intimidated by how long the line was!!
Me encanta la comida cubana.
This place is amazing the food is delicious and the cafe itself is beautiful but this video doesn’t do it much justice.
Y'all went to knott's after this?
That guy's a pretty good host
I had the potato balls when I was dating a Puerto Rican girl. I miss the potato balls more than the ex.
We know who the Porto voting for!
Ham is pork and those sandwiches are now half as small and cost twice as much.
Looks so good. Thumbs up.
This host must have some connections... There's no way she's bombing this hard on so many videos and the management not firing her already. Related to the money?
God I miss this place. Soo good.
Porto's is the best! We go at least once a month. Mr. 305 approves, Dale!
My cousins works there and I’ve been there it’s so good but I wish it was in the bay
What I like about Cult Following is the **story** behind each locale and Serena is doing a great job and I enjoy her hosting. There, I said it.
...great. Now Portos is going to be even more packed than it is.
Please cut her some slack. She has her ups and downs, but ultimately 99.9% of all these comments are influenced by other haters. I'm genuinely curious of the results when someone does some sort of an experiment, with one group seeing the comments and the other without, then asking their opinion of Serena.
Tsz Chun Tang I think they got the poor girl fired.
Love how the comedian felt the need to make a joke out of the lady talking about how her mother risked serious prison time in Cuba selling food to her friends in order to support her family. For me personally, I don’t find much humor in that, but to each his own I suppose.
There’s also Los Angeles
Makes me wish I lived on the west coast.
She seems so disingenuous and the way she talks makes it sound like she's being sarcastic even when it at least seems like she's not trying to be. Like it literally felt like she didn't like anything she looked at or ate. Which is impossible at Portos, honestly, so I know it's not that.
Porto's has the best Cuban Chicken Cesar Salad
Which one is the host?
Good job^
that caucasian shirt ! Love it
She doesn't seem like she wants to be there.
She definitely came off that way to me too. Does not seem like a food lover in any way. I saw another review she did on a LA Taco spot that specializes in hard shell tacos and she said something to the effect of “hard shell tacos are not really my thing.” Why send a reviewer to a restaurant that already doesn’t like that type of food? All types of content on TH-cam, doesn’t matter how low the integrity level is. lol
Portos did not deserve this host
literally eating it rn
Worth it she's from worth it!!
Lol "pork and ham"
Falto el al pastor y chile wey
Chris Garcia IS THE MAN
This family is amazing no doubt about it, but this is not a Cuban-American dream it is the American dream to come to a freedom loving capitalist country and work hard AND be rewarded for that hard work.
America makes this happen no matter what the race and ethnicity of the person.
"Refugiados" wtf? They're called pastelitos de queso y guayaba.
There is always so many Asians/Philipinos in a Latino restaurant😂
I'm not going to jump on the hate train.
That said; if the show is going to feature specific foods, it's on the Host to at least explain whether it's good or not and what makes it so.
i LUV serenA !!!
Better than anything in Miami, NOOOOOO! Love Porto's though.
Yo shoutout to the dude wearing the Caucasians shirt
Serena is likely better behind the camera , not in front of the camera. She is stuck up, lacks enthusiasm, and I can't believe she works for Eater! Nick was once a skinhead I eagerly wait for his episodes!!!
Love this guys race baiting 'conversation starter' tshirt
that's a funny azz shirt
Gotta love that Caucasians troll shirt, where can I buy one?
Eater: let's have less video of that Filipino-Hawaiian guy that people love and have more videos of this host that everyone hates
Hearing that old woman talk makes me feel a bit ill.
You also gotta eat the sandwiches with too fingers... it’s more elegant that way!!!!
The guy would be better off replacing her tbh
Where's Joey Diaz?
Put the host in the vid , so I don't have to waste my time clicking it
No way any Cuban place on the west coast is better than Miami. Period
i guess you haven't had portos
I dont know about you guys, but I don't really care who hosts a food show, as long as theres some good shots of the food and the restaurant. I dont need them describing the flavours in detail, I can suss that out for myself roughly based off looking at the food and having a basic knowledge of what ingredients taste like, who cares who's presenting the show? Aren't you here for food?
It's the same with munchies' chef nights out - who cares how annoying the people are, I just want to see the food they're trying
I guess some of us find it hard to make it through these videos if the hosts are annoying and boring. Good for you if you can block them out.
Like wow, Serena Dai is so polarizing that her mere presence can completely derail the inevitable influx of political keyboard warriors from overtaking the comments with statements about communism and Castro.
Y all the dislikes?
What is that shirt he's wearing and looking every bit indigenous?
its a goof on the MLBs indians. its pretty hilarious actually
humongous what?
Honestly the host sucks but!!! She has improve since her first vid and I find that remarkable! Eater isn't gonna replace her so why not give her more time to improve instead of always hating her xD
Isn't ham pork???
psh ive been eating portos since it first opened in burbank, this shit aint new
I wish they had Lucas do this instead of this terrible host.
tesn tuyet v ngon thank hi
no cheese rolls.
Terrible host. "It's delicious." "It's so good."
Thanks for the insight Captain Obvious.
when she ate that cake i was like this is her chance.. say something good... "its so moist" god dammit i should have known
She makes food look unappetizing!
lol
Porto’s is a shell of itself since the covid coup
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Something doesn't seem right with the host.
The guest relates the food to a past experience
followed by
Host: "uhhhhh...its delicious.."
u know likes and dislikes dont matter , views and subscribers do right ? lol
In USA, fake foods reign.
As expected, bad hosting, bad food reviewing, and the frosting on the cake -- annoying.
this guy is not cuban he is americanXD what is with americans saying: I'm from that place or I'm from that other place but actually they are born and raised in the usaXD I'm spanish and if my son or daughter was born in the usa and lived in the usa I wouldn't say he or she is spanishXD