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| - Fun little Colombian restaurant. The atmosphere is very kitschy, lots of knick knacks all over the place and the tables are picnic benches. The clientele appears to be half Colombian have white. Worth checking out but the food, while good, isn't out of this world and prices are a little high.
They have really great juice ($2.50) in a variety of flavours from standards like mango to the more obscure like Lulo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulo), which is my favourite. To start we had two types of plantains, arepa with cheese, empanada, and battered yuca fries. The yuca fries were the highlight and the empanada is the only one I wouldn't get again.
For mains we shared a tamale and the Bandeja Paisa. The tamale was decent and quite big. The Bandeja Paisa is a massive plate of rice, beans, avocado, plantain, egg, arepa, and three types of meat: sausage, beef, and chicharron (think chunky, fatty Spanish bacon). This thing is massive and contains a ton of meat. It's pretty good but there's not a huge amount of flavour going on.
For dessert we had two types of flan: caramel and coconut. Both really good but the coconut was amazing.
The staff messed up our order 2-3 times. No big deal and quickly fixed but worth mentioning.
Finally, I found the prices to be a little high for this calibre of food. It's pretty basic stuff without any frills and it came out to $25 per person including a couple juices. Not bank-breaking, but pricey for what you get.
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