Hola! My name is Monica, but everyone calls me Mika. I am the chef & owner of Caja Caliente down here in sunny Miami. I was born and raised in Miami and my family is Cuban. All my dishes are inspired by my hispanic roots which you will see in a lot of my cooking. Growing up, my grandfather owned cuban restaurants and my mom owned a catering company. I guess you can say it runs in my blood! I graduated with a degree in business but knew I wanted to follow in their footsteps after college. I started a food blog called Mikabites when I was 20 which after sometime became a full blown catering business that I ran out of my mom’s garage ( I know...crazy)  After a few years of successfully running Mikabites I decided it was time to hit the streets in a food truck and that was when Caja Caliente was born in 2016. I always admired the L.A food truck scene and was inspired by the taco trucks out there. I decided to use all my  family recipes passed down to me from my grandfather and mother and created “The original cuban taco”. Imagine lechon, vaca frita, and traditional cuban recipes but in the vessel of a taco.