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Antojitos
Little Cravings
Trio de Empanadas: cazon, domino, and mechada with signature mojo...$8.00
Tequeños: guayanes cheese wrapped in flaky dough and served with chipotle ketchup...$6.50
Maracuchitos: queso paisa wrapped in sweet plantains...$5.00
Datiles: bacon wrapped, almond-filled dates...$6.00
Arepas
Traditional Venezuelan grilled corn pocket sandwiches.
Domino: black beans & palmizulia cheese...$5.75
Guayanesa: Venezuelan creamy guayanés cheese...$6.00
La Gringa: sharp cheddar cheese...$4.75
Mechada: Venezuelan-style stewed shredded beef...$6.00
Pelua: Venezuelan-style stewed shredded beef with Edam cheese...$6.50
Pernil: slow cooked pork leg with mojo...$6.00
Queso de Mano: venezuelan hand-made cheese...$6.00
Reina Pepiada: shredded chicken avocado and cilantro...$6.00
Empanadas
Traditional Latin American turnover patties served with fresh tossed salad and our
three special salsitas.
Mechada: Venezuelan style stewed shredded beef...$8.25
Verde: made with 100% plantain dough and filled with wild mushrooms, piquillo,
manchego cheese and salsa verde...$8.50
Ensaladas
Palmito: endives, heart of palm, tossed with fresh greens in cabrales
vinaigrette with bacon wrapped dates...$8.00
Orinoco: grilled to order chicken breast, watercress, endives and green grapes tossed in a
mixed green bed with sherry vinaigrette and topped with feta cheese...$8.00
Remolacha con cabra: roasted beet tossed in a sherry vinaigrette with mixed greens,
crispy shallots, fresh goat cheese and pinenuts...$7.50
(add chicken $3.00)
Principales
Asado Negro: panela and onion slow-cooked beef and sauce with rice and
sweet plantains...$13.50
Atún: adobo-rubbed tuna with frisse, raddish and toasted calabaza seeds...$16.75
Pabellón Criollo: Venezuela’s most folkloric dish: shredded beef, white rice, black beans
and plantains...$13.75
Pollo Adobo: adobo criollo marinated-halved chicken with mojo and grilled scallions...$14.00
(add malanga gnocchi in a trumpet mushroom cream $5.00)
Polvorosa de Pollo: chicken guiso in a flaky “polvorosa” dough served with mixed greens
and panela delicada...$14.50
Platos de La Casa
Some of the daily specials we offer at night inlcude...
Adobo Smoked Tenderloin Churrasco: Smoked adobo churrasco with marinated tomato and red wine-panela glaze...$19.00
Beef Tenderloin Churrasquito: Churrasquito-style cut grilled tenderloin, with crab picadillo, grilled asparagus and salsa chimi...$19.00
Cordero Tradicional: Pistachio-panela-plantain crusted NZ lamb chops with mint mojo and a watercress blue cheese salad with dry mushroom vinaigrette...$19.00
Mahi-Mahi: Plantain crust mahi with "rabo encendido" and tomato escabeche...$17.00
Parrilla Caraquena: Orinoco's grill plate with seasoned rib eye steak, marinated chicken, grilled chorizo, guasacaca sauce and yuca frita...$19.00.
Especiales
We have weekend specials every Thursday through Sunday
Al Lado
On the side
Black beans: black beans in a bowl...$4.25
Espinaca a la Brava: sautee spinach with mushrooms, garlic and corn...$5.00
Grilled Asparagus: with chimi sauce...$4.25
Tajadas: fried sweet plantains...$4.25
Tostones: crispy green plantains mini-cakes with garlic mojo...$4.25
Yuca: sticks, crispy or steamed with signature mojo...$4.25
Postres
Quesillo: homemade traditional Venezuelan flan with caramel...$4.50
Torta Fluida: molten chocolate cake made with 100% Venezuelan
dark chocolate...$5.00
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