Major Credit Cards Accepted. 132 Ninth Ave. Calidad's soups are characteristic of its approach. Beef-tripe soup has a dark, smoky flavor that seems to change and expand in the mouth. Eit's worth trying even if you don't like tripe.
Chicken soup is bold and fresh with big pieces of chiken, carrot and potato.
As with many Latin restaurants, the cafe' con leche is excellent and half the price it is at the fany coffe bar down the block. Out - Our Town Newspaper by Peter Nord Back before your time some great fighters roamed the earth. Sugar Ray Robinson was one of them. All the cigar-chomplng sages at Stlllman's Gym agreed that pound for pound agreed the he was the greatest fighter of his time. A restaurant on Ninth Avenue between 18th and 19th is Robinson's culinary equivalent.