{"id":97462,"date":"2026-01-26T21:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97462\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T21:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:47:07","slug":"milanes-mobile-food-truck-owners-to-open-cuban-restaurant-in-mckees-rocks-this-spring-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97462\/","title":{"rendered":"Milanes Mobile food truck owners to open Cuban restaurant in McKees Rocks this spring \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">McKEES ROCKS, Pa.  \u2014 The owners of Cuban food truck Milanes Mobile are preparing to open a brick-and-mortar location in McKees Rocks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">First launched by husband and wife Carlos and Collyn Milanes as a food truck in the spring of 2025, Milanes Cuban Corner is set to open at 112 Chartiers Ave. in McKees Rocks Plaza this spring. The duo had received support from nonprofit Food 21 to put down roots in McKees Rocks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/blog\/the-next-move\/2015\/04\/attention-shoppersaldi-picks-up-local-grocery.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">next to the borough\u2019s Aldi supermarket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cWith our truck, I always try to describe it as more Miami style, Cuban food with a twist, but here we\u2019re really aiming to do more traditional meals,\u201d Collyn Milanes said. \u201cWe\u2019ll still do our completas, which translates to complete, like a complete dish and has yellow rice or picadillo, some black beans and then we put our garlic sauce and pico on it, which is not traditional, but that\u2019s the color and the flavor that I like to add. But here we\u2019re hoping to have more traditional food like ropa vieja and two different types of rice at a time, or have oxtail as a special here and there.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/01\/23\/milanes-mobile-cuban.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/01\/23\/milanes-mobile-cuban.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McKEES ROCKS, Pa. \u2014 The owners of Cuban food truck Milanes Mobile are preparing to open a brick-and-mortar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[47818,47817,44219,3313,47816,73,75,74,976],"class_list":["post-97462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-cuban-food","tag-cuban-food-truck","tag-food-truck","tag-mckees-rocks","tag-milanes-cuban-corner","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-restaurant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}