It was absolutely amazing! Delicious! Ryan introduced me to this place yesterday, and I have to say that as soon as I had a bite, I knew that I have never had arepas until that moment.

A month or so ago, we went to Empanata Mama [...]]]>

It was absolutely amazing! Delicious! Ryan introduced me to this place yesterday, and I have to say that as soon as I had a bite, I knew that I have never had arepas until that moment.

A month or so ago, we went to Empanata Mama and it was all right. It was satisfying enough… and they had awesome Guac dip with chips. Ryan ordered an arepas and I really liked it. “You have never had arepas before?” Well… I have now. “No, I need to take you to this place downtown…”

So we went yesterday. We spent quite a bit of money eating out and we wanted something low key before we wasted away in a movie theater for 4 or so hours (I’m not even kidding). We went to Astor place and walked over to 7th and 2nd avenue. The place was TINY, but it was still 7pm and it was early. We found a tiny table, got to PBRs and ordered up front. The place was super cute.

We ordered the vegetarian arepas with avocado, cheese, and plantains. We ordered one with chorizo and spicy jalapenos. And finally we got a pork shoulder arepas with tomatoes and spicy mango. Delicious! Ryan wasn’t kidding, the real winner was the vegetarian arepas. It was creamy, and everything went together perfectly. They were better than the meat ones. Second place went to the chorizo, which you can imagine wasn’t hard. Delicious. The pork shoulder was also really juicy and flavorful. Also, I piled on the side sauce they had on every table. It was some sort of creamy ranch-like sauce.

The corn bread was light, crunchy, and at times fluffy. That’s what made this arepas better than Empanata Mama’s. Man. I some even now…

It was a perfect dinner before going to see a Wolverine and Star Trek double feature.