The tamale is square and wrapped in banana leaves like a Chinese sticky-rice tamale, but it's twice as big. It also comes with five tostones on the side, which immediately puts it above any Italian risotto plate I've ever had. Imagine a mixed grill plus a mixed fried plate, heaped with rice and beans and topped with a fried egg, and you have about half the idea. You'll like the salty little steak and the sweet plantains together, maybe with the egg, or maybe save the egg for the rice and beans. Colombian beans are large, pink, rounded, and somewhat pasty, like big pinto beans, and stewed in a ham-flavored sauce.
Colombian rice is buttery rich.
These grilled platters also come with rice, beans, salad, and maduros, so you won't starve. Unusually, the coffee was somewhat weak. Colombian-restaurant coffee is typically exemplary. Our waitress was thoroughly bilingual and an expert on the menu. The two rooms of the restaurant are quite nice, with a chandelier and some handsome stucco work and green wall tile held over from the Chinese-Vietnamese restaurant that used to be in the space.