Orinoco- South End
Popular menu items
Empanada Verde
Made with 100% plantain dough and filled with forest mushrooms, piquillo peppers and Manchego cheese; with a fresh greens salad tossed with sun-dried tomato vinaigrette.
$12.15Antojitos
Empanada Single
Traditional Latin American turnover patties. Choose: cheese, mechada or domino, or verde.
$3.75 +Empanadas
Empanada Mechada
Venezuelan style stewed shredded beef with a fresh greens salad tossed with queso blanco, sherry vinaigrette and mojo criollo.
$12.15Empanada Verde
Made with 100% plantain dough and filled with forest mushrooms, piquillo peppers and Manchego cheese; with a fresh greens salad tossed with sun-dried tomato vinaigrette.
$12.15Juices
Main Dishes
Pabellon Criollo
Venezuela’s most folkloric dish: shredded beef, white rice, black beans and plantains.
$19.55Pepitos
Pepito Costillitas
Slow-cooked, boneless passion-fruit barbeque baby-back ribs, with pickled onions and vinegar coleslaw.
$11.79Pepito Medianoche
Pressed, slow-cooked pork sandwich with pickled onions, ham, Swiss cheese, salsa rosa and mustard.
$11.79Salads
De la Casa
Mix greens, tomato, red onions with sherry vinaigrette. grilled chicken, black beans topped with salty white cheese and avocado.
$12.09 +Ensalada Orinoco
Grilled chicken breast, fresh greens salad with red onions, green grapes, tossed in a sherry vinaigrette, topped with toasted almonds.
$12.09 +Ensalada Palmito
Heart of palm, fresh greens and red onions, tossed in a Cabrales cheese vinaigrette, with bacon wrapped dates.
$12.09 +Pepito Salad
Grilled beef/chicken with onions and red peppers, with a side salad of fresh greens, tomatoes and jicama with a sherry vinaigrette.
$10.65 +Remolacha con Quinoa
Roasted beets and quinoa tossed with mixed greens, red onions, in a sherry vinaigrette, topped with fresh goat cheese and pine nuts (add chicken 3.00).
$12.09 +Salsitas
Side Dishes
Antojitos
Cocas
Spanish flatbread, two types: Champiñones: sautéed oyster & shitake mushrooms with garlic, Manchego cheese, arugula, shaved black truffles, porcini glaze; or Guayaba: guava preserve, goat cheese, arugula, fig glaze
$11.45Empanada Single
Traditional Latin American turnover patties. Choose: cheese, mechada or domino, or verde.
$3.75 +Desserts
Empanadas
Empanada Mechada
Venezuelan style stewed shredded beef with a fresh greens salad tossed with queso blanco, sherry vinaigrette and mojo criollo.
$12.15Empanada Verde
Made with 100% plantain dough and filled with forest mushrooms, piquillo peppers and Manchego cheese; with a fresh greens salad tossed with sun-dried tomato vinaigrette.
$12.15Juices
Main Dishes
Adobo Smoked Churrasco
12oz quick-smoked strip-steak churrasco, char-grilled with a panela-red- wine-glaze, arugula blue cheese salad in a balsamic, dry mushroom/cranberry vinaigrette
$26.45Atun
Adobo-rubbed high grade yellow-fin tuna seared and served with arugula sun-dried tomato vinaigrette salad and toasted pepitas.
$26.45Cordero
Pistachio-panela-plantain crusted NZ lamb chops with mint mojo, arugula/Cabrales cheese salad.
$27.75La Primera Burger
Pork/chorizo patty, Manchego cheese, Peruvian criollo salad. rocoto aioli, chipotle ketchup. On a brioche bun with truffle-salted hand cut fries.
$19.69Pabellon Criollo
Venezuela’s most folkloric dish: shredded beef, white rice, black beans and plantains.
$23.00Panela Salmon
Panela marinated salmon, cook to order, served over Aji Amarillo creamed quinoa with jicama/arugula salad and broken olive vinaigrette.
$28.29Parrilla Caraquena
Orinoco’s grill plate with a seasoned 4oz strip steak, 1/4 marinated chicken, grilled chorizo, guasacaca, and yuca frita with signature mojo.
$27.75 +Pollo Verde
Adobo criollo marinated-halved chicken with oregano oil and grilled scallions, with malanga gnocchi in a trumpet mushroom cream.
$26.45Polvorosa de Pollo
Criollo chicken guiso in a polvorosa (flaky) dough pie, served with spring mix and mango chutney.
$19.69Roasted Portobella Arepa
Portobello-filled arepa made with sweet roasted corn and anise seeds—with sautéed wild mushrooms, sweet corn and spinach and huitlacoche sauce.
$21.85Salads
Ensalada Orinoco
Grilled chicken breast, fresh greens salad with red onions, green grapes, tossed in a sherry vinaigrette, topped with toasted almonds.
$12.09 +Ensalada Palmito
Heart of palm, fresh greens and red onions, tossed in a Cabrales cheese vinaigrette, with bacon wrapped dates.
$12.09 +Remolacha con Quinoa
Roasted beets and quinoa tossed with mixed greens, red onions, in a sherry vinaigrette, topped with fresh goat cheese and pine nuts (add chicken 3.00).
$12.09 +