Pastelón is Puerto Rico's answer to lasagna. Sweet ripe plantains are sliced lengthwise, fried until they collapse into the kind of caramelized sheets that taste like banana bread, then layered with picadillo — the seasoned ground beef that runs through every Caribbean kitchen — and baked under a cap of cheese and beaten egg. It is sweet, savory, and dense in roughly equal measure.
Roosevelt Caesar — the chef who beat Bobby with this dish in 2022 — has a thin public footprint. We tell you what we can verify: the dish, the date, the result. The defeat is in the ledger regardless.
Bobby's version of pastelón, per the broadcast, missed the sweetness of properly ripe plantains. Pastelón made with green plantains is something else entirely. It is, mostly, wrong.