This casual Venezuelan restaurant serves old-family recipes that blend dishes indigenous to the Andes & Caribbean. Don’t leave without trying the torta fluida, a Venezuelan molten dark chocolate cake. Read more.
Some favorites from our review: fried sweet plantains ($4.25) and the pepito de carne ($7), French bread stuffed with sautéed onions, grilled flank steak, red peppers, tomatoes, and sweet red sauce. Read more.
This is the kind of big, big-flavored, low-priced food that makes El Pelon a natural in this college neighborhood. Victory is theirs, and ours. Read more.
All your fave dim sum foods, and no waiting for the right cart to happen by. Try the shark fin dumplings (named for the shape - they're actually pork), the fried cruller in rice noodle, or the congee.
Venture out of the margarita comfort zone with the Fresca: the sweetness of strawberries is balanced with blood orange and passion fruit purees, poviding a tangy note. Mint gives it a fresh feel. Read more.