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A classic Venezuelan trio. Beans, plantains, avocado. Venezuela was doing plant-based before it had a hashtag
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Empanadas meet tacos, in name and in form. Three crispy Venezuelan empanadas, loaded with guacamole, passion fruit pico de gallo, and crisp lettuce
Ask what else goes into it besides what the menu lists.
2023 Charlotte BOB Award Winner. Crispy fried plantains stand in for bread, stacked high with your protein of choice — the sandwich that out-crunches everything else on the table
Ask what else goes into it besides what the menu lists.
Choose a protein, choose a meatless side, and build the arepa you've been ordering in your head all week
Ask whether the masa is made with lard, and to hold the cheese and crema.
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Cookies at the bottom, cookies on top, and sweet milk holding it all together. Bring a spoon, or don't, your call
Where tart passion fruit meets sweet milk under a blue spirulina wave. Three layers, one very short life
Fried in beef tallow until golden, filled with your choice of shredded beef, chicken, or cheese. The classic that convinced an entire country that a good handheld breakfast is fried stuffed dough wrapper
Venezuela's answer to the mozzarella stick. 3 Jumbo Venezuelan cheese sticks wrapped in golden pastry, fried in tallow until they practically squeak
A full pabellón, beef, beans, plantains, cheese; that traded the plate for a golden crust, twice the usual size
Crispy fried yucca dough, stuffed with melted Venezuelan cheese & a cool guacamole on the side for dipping
Fried until it crackles, seasoned just right — the pork snack Venezuelans have been perfecting since before pork belly was trendy, sided with fresh guac and fried green plantains
Venezuelans don't do minimalist burgers. Half pound Angus beef, bacon, smoked ham, American cheese, fried egg, veggies and a stack of sauces sided with extra crispy fries fried in beef tallow, because more is the whole point
Beef, chicken, and root vegetables simmered together until the broth remembers everything that went into it — the soup Venezuelan Sundays are built around
Ask any Venezuelan what they'd choose for their last meal — shredded beef, rice, black beans, fried egg, sweet plantains and llanero cheese, stacked into the dish that built a nation's appetite
Sirloin, chicken, Venezuelan chorizo and a cachapa con queso de mano, surrounded by yucca croquettes, fried plantains and mini arepas. Bring people. You'll need them
Crafted back in 1955 and named after Venezuelan Miss World Susana Duijm, built for everyone. Creamy avocado and shredded chicken salad inside Venezuela's most famous arepa filling, for good reason
Shredded beef under a mane of shredded gouda — "pelua" means hairy, and one look explains why. The name is a joke; the flavor is dead serious
The burger gluten-free eaters gave up on, rebuilt the Venezuelan way. Lean Angus, double cheese, lettuce & tomato and an arepa doing what a bun never could
Rich pork belly, sharp pickled onions, llanero cheese, fried arepa. Nothing on this plate is pretending to be light
Venezuela's national dish, shrunk into a single arepa — shredded beef, black beans, sweet plantain and llanero cheese in every bite
Grilled sirloin, queso llanero fried until it crackles, and bright chimichurri, all inside a savory arepa. Steak night, done the Venezuelan way
Maíz y queso, haciendo lo que mejor saben hacer. Masa de maíz dulce a la plancha hasta tostarse en los bordes, rellena de queso de mano derretido y terminada con queso llanero rallado y nata
Three small cachapas, 1 topped with queso de mano, shredded beef, chimichurri, 1 topped with shredded chicken, grilled cheese and coleslaw and 1 topped with fried pork belly, pickled onions, llanero cheese. All drizzled with Venezuelan cream
Queso de mano tucked inside, sirloin and chimichurri crowning the top. The most serious thing you can do to a cachapa
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Ceremonial matcha under a sky of blue spirulina cream, with marshmallow clouds on top. Drink it before the weather changes
Ask for oat, almond or soy milk instead of dairy.
Half purple, half green, entirely on purpose. Sweet ube cream meeting earthy matcha somewhere in the middle
Ask for oat, almond or soy milk instead of dairy.
Purple yam meets espresso in three layers. Stir once and watch it turn a color coffee has no business being
Ask for oat, almond or soy milk instead of dairy.
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Ask for oat, almond or soy milk instead of dairy.
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Sweet vanilla, sky-blue milk, smiley marshmallow clouds, whipped cream on top. The sky, but you can drink it