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| - Been here so many times. Always a great experience.
The food is unique and delicious on it's own, but they also give you these tasty sauces in squeeze bottles as an added bonus. You don't even have to ask for them..they just drop them on the table and walk away and let you go crazy. The waitress usually explains what's in said sauces, but I always forget and use them indiscriminately. I imagine someone with more refined taste buds would be able to select the perfect flavor combination and ratio of sauce, but I am not that person. Still good, regardless.
I usually get the veggie arepa. I read another review that called it bland, and, it could be, but I always, ALWAYS add pineapple and jalapeno (duh). Problem solved. Every time I eat here, I wonder why arepas aren't as mainstream as burritos. They're similar in theory, but so much tastier. Maybe because burritos have a tortilla that completely encloses it's fillings, and is, thus, easier to shove in our mouths without actually looking? An arepa is more like a sandwich made with thick corn tortillas, so you kind of need to look at it when you eat it.
When I went yesterday, I broke tradition and got the huevos rancheros. I've had many a huevos rancheros, but this was the best I've had in recent memory. It's served on a cheesy arepa (instead of the traditional tortilla) and comes with chorizo and peppers. Terrific.
Also, for a side, you should ask for fried plantains. For some reason, they don't usually offer them as one of the options, but whenever I ask for them specifically, they let me get them instead of fries, tortilla chips, or the soup.
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