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 by ezaguryk
It is like going to eat in the interior of the country but in the city the same taste
You do get economic prices and fast service.
Arepa of telita cheese
Arepa de pernil con aguacate (pork with abocato)
Cachapa con queso de mano (corn pancake with white cheese) Leave a Comment Theme: LocalPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: about averageAddress: Las mercedesPhone: 58-212-991.73.42Directions: At the end of Av. R?o de Janeiro. Las Mercedes just before the ramp
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 Maaaaaaangoooooooo!!! by carolinaEspada
Then you must comme to "La Holandesa"... I believe they have them all. And they sell 4 different sizes: small, medium and large... and then a tuppewarish thing to take home.
You can get there almost any tropical fruit juice: guanábana, guayaba (guava), mamón or quenepa, tangerine, etc.etc.etc.
My very favourite is MANGO juice... it always reminds me of how good is to be alive!!!
Jugo de mango. Mango juice. But, besides the juices, they also sell fruits, and candies, and icecreams. I go there just for the juice.
THIS TIP IS DEDICATED TO BIGBENBA, vt friend and FruitLover. Leave a Comment Theme: OtherComparison: less expensive than averageAddress: Avenida Luis Roche, Altamira.Directions: A block away from Clínica El Avila and Iglesia Don Bosco. In diagonal to the Embassy from Bolivia. In a corner, next to a flower shop called La Orlandesa. Dont get confused, the juice place is called La Holandesa.
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 PABELLON CON BARANDA by naive
local artist... by carolinaEspada
In Spanish:
1. carne mechada
2. arroz blanco
3. caraotas negras
4. platanos fritos
You can have that for lunch or for dinner... or also as a late big breakfast.
You can eat a "Pabellon con Baranda" in venezuelan typical local restaurants and even in big "areperas". If you dont know what an arepa is, please check my other page, the one that is called "It is round and made of corn flour".
Almost anywhere you can eat a fine "Pabellon con Baranda". You have to be really picky (like I am) not to be fully pleased by one. I usually get mad because they didnt add sugar to the black beans and I "demand" sugar-inmediately... POR FAVOR!!!
Since I coudent find a good picture of a "Pabellon con Baranda", I decieded to draw it and, while coloring the platains I became very very hungry... Leave a Comment Theme: LocalPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: about averageAddress: Any venezuelan restaurant or even a big "arepera".Directions: Just ask before you sit down: Do you have "Pabellon con Baranda"? = Tiene "Pabellon con Baranda"?
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This is one of my favorite Italian restaurants, it is small but the attention it is excellent the food home style is like eating in Italy. The Nona (Grandmother Italian) is the cooker the uncle is in the cashier, the husband is the waiter as you will see it is a very family restaurant.
Only work for lunch from 12:30 pm to 5:00pm
at night only with reservation
What ever you ask you will be wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Torteloni de Salmon
Pasticho (lasana)
Tortelone de tomate seco
Tallarines Salteados
Papardele di fingi Leave a Comment Theme: ItalianPrice: US$11-20 » Currency ConverterComparison: least expensiveAddress: En el HatilloPhone: 963.46.53/961.26.55
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 Lee as he appears on the
menu by carolinaEspada
This is a men, bussiness men restaurant. They will go for lunch, at 1:30 pm lets say. Stop at the bar for half an hour or a pair of whikies. They will read the menu and order from the bar and, later, the maitre will come to tell them that their table is ready. Then... they might leave the place at 6pm or 7pm... You know: whiky, meat and bussiness.
I go once a year. Only when I feel extremely carnivorous. When I have this eating-a-cow urge. Once a year... Not more than that.
"Medallones de Lomito" (filet mignon). Tender, juicy, etc...
Now, warning. At Lee Hamilton they have awful spelling. The guy that writes the menu doesnt have much clue about other languages. So, pretending to be chick and glamorous, he will write: "Gordon Blu", "Estroganof", and something you have to read out loud to see if you come out with its meaning: "Fish a la Bon Fan"... Bon Fan... Bon Fan... "Bonne Femme"? "Bonne Faim"? Who knows!!!
Some day I'm going to tell them that this is ridiculous and will suggest that they write the whole thing in Spanish... They dont need funny names for their food. They have excellent dishes. Leave a Comment Theme: SteakhousePrice: US$21-30 » Currency ConverterComparison: more expensive than averageAddress: Av.San Felipe #30 Esq.El Bosque. La CastellanaPhone: 58-212-261 0511 and 2638429Directions: You have to go in a taxi. This street is not near the subway or the busses lines... It is not in a down town area. Get a cab...Website: www.restaurantleehamilton.com Other Contact: leehamilton@cantv.net
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 "Roscon de Reyes" by carolinaEspada
It started as a Spanish pastry store but, with time (it has been there over and over the years) they have incorporated other tipes of pastries: french croissants filled with chocolate, italian little pizzas, and venezuelan "cachitos" filled with ham.
Today, January 6th, is one of the best places to go get a "Roscon de Reyes" (please check my local customs page and read all about the "LOS REYES MAGOS" = "Three Holly Kings or Wisemen" which we celebrate today).
We have been eating "Roscón" since last night. We will eat all day today. Tomorrow it will be the end. If you want to eat some more, you will have to wait a year long. Is a tradition.
It is round, big, with a hole in the middle (like a huge flat doughnut). The texture and flavor are pretty much alike the italian "Panettone". The one in the picture could be easily shared by 8 up to 12 persons. You can buy a small Roscón, a medium or a large... You eat it with hot chocolate.
When you eat it you must be very carefull. They always put a little "surprise" inside of it. (Like Mardi Grass cake with a tiny baby inside; but here you can get a little clown, a little angel, a surprise!). This year, VT member Sophie Roquefort, got the surprise (a little green frog), this means she is going to be very lucky and has to buy the Roscón next year... So, where ever she is, she has to buy one and share it!
FELIZ DIA DE LOS REYES MAGOS!!!
HAPPY THREE KINGS DAY!!! Leave a Comment Theme: BakeryPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: about averageAddress: Av. del Avila and, also, Av. Luis RocheDirections: That Avenue is called Av. del Avila, but not many people know that, they would say PRINCIPIO (begining) of the Av. Luis Roche. Metro Station: Altamira. Close to the Hotel Montserrat.
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 Mozart by carolinaEspada
But a warning. The people that work in Pasteleria Mozart have never been extremely friendly nor smily. Dont you pay attention. Their pastries are worth it.
Another warning. I do not recomend their chocolate section. Even if they taste delicious, they melt in your fingers. That means that the chocolate is not quite well "templado". It has an exquisite flavor, but needs a bit more of consistence. (This is for chocolate experts, as you see...)
Their classic, favorite of all times: "Profiteroles de Chocolate" (profiterols). But they also have "Milhoja Griega" (greek millefeuille); "Mousse de Amaretto"; Cheesecake; 5 different types of chocolate cakes; nuts pies; "Tiramisu" (delicate italian coffee pastry); "Baklaba"; fruit mousses and many more!!!
They also have breadish pastries like danish rolls, which we call "caracolas" ("caracol" = snail); apple strudels; nuts breads; "Stollen" a german sweet heavy and long lasting loaf; "Panettone"; "Florentiner" = chocolate, caramel, orange and almond cookies, etc, etc, etc.
And they make a delicious coffee. Any size, color and temperature you desire. Leave a Comment Theme: DessertPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: more expensive than averageAddress: In 2 big shopping malls.Directions: 1. Centro Comercial Concresa, just say El Concresa (Prados del Este) 2. Centro Ciudad Comercial Tamanaco, CCCT, (Chuao) Best way to get to both places is by taxi.
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 Salon Canton by ezaguryk
the place it is very nice the decoration is it different with all the others Chinese restaurants.
Have a big parking lot, you do not have to worry about your car
The service is one of the best ones!!!!!!!
There are 3 Salon Canton on town, one at las Mercedes, el Rosal and La Castellana, CCCT.
My preferred is the one is the one at the Castellana
La degustacion of the house: is not on the menu but you can ask for it. The dish consist on in 6 different plates where you can prove different flavors, shrimps, chicken, meat, noodles with different flavors (oyster sauce, honey garlic others) ribs
It is a Dish for two or tree persons!!!!!!!
You will like it........................ Leave a Comment Theme: Chinese/Dim SumPrice: US$21-30 » Currency ConverterComparison: about averageAddress: La catellanaPhone: 26709.07/75.95Directions: Av. Principal entre calles Los Chaguaramos y El Bosque, La Castellana. La CastellanaWebsite: Saloncanton.com
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 Dear friend Ramón and I
holding two hallacas by carolinaEspada
(You can also get vegetarian hallacas, but they dont taste the way it should. The real hallaca has beef-meat, pork and chicken... all together...)
That "thing" is folded into a rectangular shape; tied with "pabilo" (a string); and boiled for an hour.
It is presented, served, with part of the banana leaf on the bottom. Dont eat the banana leaf, it is not the "salad".
The hallaca is a mixture of flavors: salty, sweet, sour, etc.etc.etc... you dont have to be venezuelan to love it, but it requires that you develop the taste for it. it is very "different".
There is an expresion in Venezuela: "Las mejores hallacas son las que hace mi mama" = "The best hallacas are those that my mom makes".
In my case this doesnt applies: my mom doesnt cooks hallacas. It takes a lot of time to prepare them, and this is something that a family, a big family, does together in the begining of Xmas. 200 hallacas or more are prepared on one day, then placed at the refrigerator, and eaten during Xmas. Specially on the 24th and the 31st.
Is a Xmas venezuelan tradition. Xmas is not the same with out an hallaca. But you must eat it HOT.
Great with red wine (for those who like wine). I dont. Leave a Comment Theme: LocalPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: about averageAddress: In almost all venezuelan local food restaurants.Directions: For good hallacas go to good venezuelan local restaurant in late November and during December. Every year... But Im sure you will meet a friendly venezuelan that invites you to his mom's house to eat "the best" hallaca...
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 by SaringuisLeave a Comment Theme: Street VendorPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: least expensive
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