Orinoco- South End

Datiles

Bacon wrapped, almond-filled dates.

Empanada Single

Traditional Latin American turnover patties. Choose: cheese, mechada or domino, or verde.

Maracuchitos

Queso Paisa wrapped in sweet plantains.

Tequeños

Guayanes cheese wrapped in crisp dough and served with chipotle ketchup.

Trio de Empanadas

Queso blanco, domino, and mechada empanadas with signature mojo.

Empanada Mechada

Venezuelan style stewed shredded beef with a fresh greens salad tossed with queso blanco, sherry vinaigrette and mojo criollo.

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.

Cachapa

Traditional corn pancake served three ways...

Pabellon Criollo

Venezuela’s most folkloric dish: shredded beef, white rice, black beans and plantains.

Polvorosa de Pollo

Pepito Carne

Grilled steak with sautéed onions and red pepper.

Pepito Costillitas

Slow-cooked, boneless passion-fruit barbeque baby-back ribs, with pickled onions and vinegar coleslaw.

Pepito Medianoche

Pressed, slow-cooked pork sandwich with pickled onions, ham, Swiss cheese, salsa rosa and mustard.

Pepito Mixto

Grilled chicken and steak, sautéed onions and red pepper.

Pepito Pollo

Marinated, grilled chicken, onions, red pepper, and salsa rosa.

De la Casa

Mix greens, tomato, red onions with sherry vinaigrette. grilled chicken, black beans topped with salty white cheese and avocado.

Ensalada Mixta

Mixed greens salad with sherry vinaigrette.

Ensalada Orinoco

Grilled chicken breast, fresh greens salad with red onions, green grapes, tossed in a sherry vinaigrette, topped with toasted almonds.

Ensalada Palmito

Heart of palm, fresh greens and red onions, tossed in a Cabrales cheese vinaigrette, with bacon wrapped dates.

Ensalada Remolacha con Cabra

roasted beets twith a fresh green salad, red onions, in a sherry vinaigrette with fresh goat cheese and pine nuts (add chicken 3.00).

Pepito Salad

Grilled beef/chicken with onions and red peppers, with a side salad of fresh greens, tomatoes and jicama with a sherry vinaigrette.

Guasacaca

Venezuelan-style guacamole.

Mango Chutney

Mojo

Picante

Arroz con Caraotas

White rice and black beans.

Black Beans

Black beans contain pork.

Rice

White rice.

Tajadas

Sweet plantains.

Tostones

Crispy green plantains mini-cakes with sun dried tomato vinaigrette.

Yuca

Steamed or crispy with signature mojo.

Parchita

Passionfruit juice, 8 oz bottle.

Papelon con Limon

Sugarcane juice with lime, 8 oz bottle.

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

Datiles.

Bacon wrapped, almond-filled dates.

Empanada Single.

Traditional Latin American turnover patties. Choose: cheese, mechada or domino, or verde.

Maracuchitos.

Queso Paisa wrapped in sweet plantains.

Tequeños.

Guayanes cheese wrapped in crisp dough and served with chipotle ketchup.

Trio de Empanadas.

Queso blanco, domino, and mechada empanadas with signature mojo.

Quesillo

Homemade traditional Venezuelan custard with caramel.

Torta Fluida

Molten chocolate cake made with 100% Venezuelan dark chocolate.

Empanada Mechada.

Venezuelan style stewed shredded beef with a fresh greens salad tossed with queso blanco, sherry vinaigrette and mojo criollo.

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.

Family Meal-Costillita (4)

Passionfruit babyback ribs and yuca fries with mojo for 4 people.

Family Meal-Pabellon (2)

Shredded beef, rice, sweet plantains and black beans for 2 people.

Family Meal-Pabellon (4)

Shredded beef, rice, sweet plantains and black beans for 4 people.

Family Meal-Pollo Adobo (2)

Pollo Adobo rice & beans for 2 people.

Family Meal-Pollo Adobo (4)

Pollo Adobo rice & beans for 4 people.

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

Atun

Adobo-rubbed high grade yellow-fin tuna seared and served with arugula sun-dried tomato vinaigrette salad and toasted pepitas.

Cachapa.

Traditional corn pancake served three ways...

Cordero

Pistachio-panela-plantain crusted NZ lamb chops with mint mojo, arugula/Cabrales cheese salad.

Pabellon Criollo.

Venezuela’s most folkloric dish: shredded beef, white rice, black beans and plantains.

Parrilla Caraquena

Orinoco’s grill plate with a seasoned 4oz strip steak, 1/4 marinated chicken, grilled chorizo, guasacaca, and yuca frita with signature mojo.

Pollo Adobo

Adobo criollo marinated-halved chicken with oregano oil and grilled scallions...16.75 add malanga gnocchi in a trumpet mushroom cream (5.50).

Ensalada Orinoco.

Grilled chicken breast, fresh greens salad with red onions, green grapes, tossed in a sherry vinaigrette, topped with toasted almonds.

Ensalada Palmito.

Heart of palm, fresh greens and red onions, tossed in a Cabrales cheese vinaigrette, with bacon wrapped dates.

Ensalada Remolacha con Cabra.

roasted beets twith a fresh green salad, red onions, in a sherry vinaigrette with fresh goat cheese and pine nuts (add chicken 3.00).

Ensalada Mixta.

Mixed greens salad with sherry vinaigrette.

Guasacaca.

Venezuelan-style guacamole.

Mango Chutney.

Mojo.

Picante.

Arroz con Caraotas.

White rice and black beans.

Black Beans.

Black beans contain pork.

Chorizo

Espinaca a la Brava

Sautéed spinach with mushrooms, garlic and corn.

Fufu

Plantain purée (contains bacon).

Gnocchi

Malanga gnocchi in a trumpet mushroom cream.

Grilled Asparagus

Grilled asparagus with chimi sauce.

Papitas

Truffle-salted hand cut fries.

Quinoa

Aji Amarillo creamed quinoa.

Rice.

White rice.

Tajadas.

Sweet plantains.

Tostones.

Crispy green plantains mini-cakes with sun dried tomato vinaigrette.

Yuca.

Steamed or crispy with signature mojo.

La Primera Burger

Pork/chorizo patty, Manchego cheese, Peruvian criollo salad. rocoto aioli, chipotle ketchup. With truffle-salted hand cut fries.

Panela Salmon

Panela marinated salmon, cook to order, served over Aji Amarillo creamed quinoa with jicama/arugula salad and broken olive vinaigrette.

Roasted Portobella Arepa

Portobello-filled arepa made with sweet roasted corn and anise seeds—with sautéed wild mushrooms, sweet corn and spinach and huitlacoche sauce.

Parchita.

Passionfruit juice, 8 oz bottle.

Papelon con Limon.

Sugarcane juice with lime, 8 oz bottle.

Margarita 8 oz.

Sauza Gold tequila, passionfruit juice.

Caipirinha 8 oz.

Ypioca cachaca, lime juice, sugar.