Jimmy RodrÃ*guez brings mofongo to Westchester

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Restaurateur Jimmy RodrÃ*guez and his daughter Jaleene

 

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Patrons tuck into a taste of Puerto Rico - in New Rochelle

Don CoquÃ*, a fine dining restaurant in
New Rochelle, feels like an actual Puerto Rican family's home in many ways. For the father-daughters team behind the eatery, it is.

Restaurateur Jimmy RodrÃ*guez, who's best-known for his chain of Jimmy's restaurants, and his daughters, Jaleene and Jewelle, own and run the Westchester County spot.

"It's not about a job for me, it's home. The restaurant is us," said evening manager Jewelle, 22. "When people come in and I tell them it's a 2 1/2 hour wait for dinner and they decide to stay, I'm honored and humbled every single time, because it's as if they're joining us at our home for dinner in our living room."

The RodrÃ*guezes have three generations and more than 30 years of experience in the restaurant business, beginning in the late 1970s when the late Jimmy RodrÃ*guez Sr. opened the family's first restaurant, Marisco del Caribe, a seafood eatery still in existence, under other ownership, in the Bronx.

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Afternoon dining at Don CoquÃ*.

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