Orinoco: A Latin Kitchen

477 Shawmut Ave, Boston
(617) 369-7075

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Empanada De Carne Mechada
Roasted Portobello Arepa
Adobo Smoked Churrasco
Bacon Wrapped Dates
Trio De Empanadas
Pabellon Criollo
Parilla Caraque
Black Beans
Costillita
Tequenos

Menu

Featured items
Pabellon Criollo
Venezuela's most folkloric dish: shredded beef, white rice, black beans and plantains.
Cachapa
Traditional corn pancake served three ways...
Trio de Empanadas
Queso blanco, domino, and mechada empanadas with signature mojo.
Tajadas
Sweet plantains.
Yuca
Steamed or crispy with signature mojo.
Arroz con Caraotas
White rice and black beans.
Pepito Mixto
Grilled chicken and steak, sautéed onions and red pepper.
Pepito Carne
Grilled steak with sautéed onions and red pepper.
Tequeños
Guayanes cheese wrapped in crisp dough and served with chipotle ketchup.
Pepito Costillitas
Slow-cooked, boneless passion-fruit barbeque baby-back ribs, with pickled onions and vinegar coleslaw.
Tostones
Crispy green plantains mini-cakes with sun dried tomato vinaigrette.
Empanada Single
Traditional Latin American turnover patties. Choose: cheese, mechada or domino, or verde.
Rice
White rice.
Empanada Mechada
Venezuelan style stewed shredded beef with a fresh greens salad tossed with queso blanco, sherry vinaigrette and mojo criollo.
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).
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.
Ensalada Palmito
Heart of palm, fresh greens and red onions, tossed in a Cabrales cheese vinaigrette, with bacon wrapped dates.
Datiles
Bacon wrapped, almond-filled dates.
Maracuchitos
Queso Paisa wrapped in sweet plantains.
Black Beans
Black beans contain pork.

Antojitos
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.

Empanadas
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.

Main Dishes
Cachapa
Traditional corn pancake served three ways...
Huevos Fritos
2 fried eggs served on an open-faced arepa, Edam cheese and bacon/ham, side of yuca fries (Saturday and Sunday only).
Pabellon Criollo
Venezuela's most folkloric dish: shredded beef, white rice, black beans and plantains.
Resuelto
Perico (Venezuelan-style scrambled eggs), black beans, carne mechada, plain arepa.
Tortilla Jardinera
Vegetarian Tortilla (Venezuelan omelette) with 3 eggs, asparagus, spinach, mushrooms, goat cheese, garlic/cilantro mojo, side of yuca fries.

Pepitos
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.

Salads
De la Casa
Mix greens, tomato, red onions with sherry vinaigrette. grilled chicken, black beans topped with salty white cheese and avocado.
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.
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).
Ensalada Mixta
Mixed greens salad with sherry vinaigrette.
Pepito Salad
Grilled beef/chicken with onions and red peppers, with a side salad of fresh greens, tomatoes and jicama with a sherry vinaigrette.

Salsitas
Guasacaca
Venezuelan-style guacamole.
Mango Chutney
Mojo
Picante

Side Dishes
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.

Featured items
Pabellon Criollo
Venezuela's most folkloric dish: shredded beef, white rice, black beans and plantains.
Cachapa
Traditional corn pancake served three ways...
Trio de Empanadas
Queso blanco, domino, and mechada empanadas with signature mojo.
Tajadas
Sweet plantains.
Yuca
Steamed or crispy with signature mojo.
Arroz con Caraotas
White rice and black beans.
Pepito Mixto
Grilled chicken and steak, sautéed onions and red pepper.
Pepito Carne
Grilled steak with sautéed onions and red pepper.
Tequeños
Guayanes cheese wrapped in crisp dough and served with chipotle ketchup.
Pepito Costillitas
Slow-cooked, boneless passion-fruit barbeque baby-back ribs, with pickled onions and vinegar coleslaw.
Tostones
Crispy green plantains mini-cakes with sun dried tomato vinaigrette.
Empanada Single
Traditional Latin American turnover patties. Choose: cheese, mechada or domino, or verde.
Rice
White rice.
Empanada Mechada
Venezuelan style stewed shredded beef with a fresh greens salad tossed with queso blanco, sherry vinaigrette and mojo criollo.
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).
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.
Ensalada Palmito
Heart of palm, fresh greens and red onions, tossed in a Cabrales cheese vinaigrette, with bacon wrapped dates.
Datiles
Bacon wrapped, almond-filled dates.
Maracuchitos
Queso Paisa wrapped in sweet plantains.
Black Beans
Black beans contain pork.

Antojitos
Empanada Single
Traditional Latin American turnover patties. Choose: cheese, mechada or domino, or verde.
Tequeños
Guayanes cheese wrapped in crisp dough and served with chipotle ketchup.
Datiles
Bacon wrapped, almond-filled dates.
Trio de Empanadas
Queso blanco, domino, and mechada empanadas with signature mojo.
Maracuchitos
Queso Paisa wrapped in sweet plantains.
Sopa de Calabaza
Roasted butternut squash soup with coconut milk and tajada (does not contain cream).

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

Main Dishes
Cachapa
Traditional corn pancake served three ways...
Pabellon Criollo
Venezuela's most folkloric dish: shredded beef, white rice, black beans and plantains.

Pepitos
Pepito Medianoche
Pressed, slow-cooked pork sandwich with pickled onions, ham, Swiss cheese, salsa rosa and mustard.
Pepito Carne
Grilled steak with sautéed onions and red pepper.
Pepito Mixto
Grilled chicken and steak, sautéed onions and red pepper.
Pepito Costillitas
Slow-cooked, boneless passion-fruit barbeque baby-back ribs, with pickled onions and vinegar coleslaw.
Pepito Pollo
Marinated, grilled chicken, onions, red pepper, and salsa rosa.

Salads
Ensalada Orinoco
Grilled chicken breast, fresh greens salad with red onions, green grapes, tossed in a sherry vinaigrette, topped with toasted almonds.
De la Casa
Mix greens, tomato, red onions with sherry vinaigrette. grilled chicken, black beans topped with salty white cheese and avocado.
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).
Ensalada Palmito
Heart of palm, fresh greens and red onions, tossed in a Cabrales cheese vinaigrette, with bacon wrapped dates.
Pepito Salad
Grilled beef/chicken with onions and red peppers, with a side salad of fresh greens, tomatoes and jicama with a sherry vinaigrette.
Ensalada Mixta
Mixed greens salad with sherry vinaigrette.

Salsitas
Mojo
Guasacaca
Venezuelan-style guacamole.
Mango Chutney
Picante

Side Dishes
Tajadas
Sweet plantains.
Rice
White rice.
Arroz con Caraotas
White rice and black beans.
Black Beans
Black beans contain pork.
Yuca
Steamed or crispy with signature mojo.
Tostones
Crispy green plantains mini-cakes with sun dried tomato vinaigrette.

Featured items
Pabellon Criollo
Venezuela's most folkloric dish: shredded beef, white rice, black beans and plantains.
Trio de Empanadas
Queso blanco, domino, and mechada empanadas with signature mojo.
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
Cachapa
Traditional corn pancake served three ways...
Pollo Verde
Adobo criollo marinated-halved chicken with oregano oil and grilled scallions, with malanga gnocchi in a trumpet mushroom cream.
Tajadas
Sweet plantains.
Panela Salmon
Panela marinated salmon, cook to order, served over Aji Amarillo creamed quinoa with jicama/arugula salad and broken olive vinaigrette.
Yuca
Steamed or crispy with signature mojo.
Arroz con Caraotas
White rice and black beans.
Tequeños
Guayanes cheese wrapped in crisp dough and served with chipotle ketchup.
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.
Cordero
Pistachio-panela-plantain crusted NZ lamb chops with mint mojo, arugula/Cabrales cheese salad.
Espinaca a la Brava
Sautéed spinach with mushrooms, garlic and corn.
Tostones
Crispy green plantains mini-cakes with sun dried tomato vinaigrette.
Gnocchi
Malanga gnocchi in a trumpet mushroom cream.
Chorizo
La Primera Burger
Pork/chorizo patty, Manchego cheese, Peruvian criollo salad. rocoto aioli, chipotle ketchup. On a brioche bun with truffle-salted hand cut fries.
Empanada Single
Traditional Latin American turnover patties. Choose: cheese, mechada or domino, or verde.
Torta Fluida
Molten chocolate cake made with 100% Venezuelan dark chocolate.
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).

Antojitos
Tequeños
Guayanes cheese wrapped in crisp dough and served with chipotle ketchup.
Empanada Single
Traditional Latin American turnover patties. Choose: cheese, mechada or domino, or verde.
Trio de Empanadas
Queso blanco, domino, and mechada empanadas with signature mojo.
Datiles
Bacon wrapped, almond-filled dates.
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
Maracuchitos
Queso Paisa wrapped in sweet plantains.
Mini Costillitas
Apple cider, slow-steamed, baby-back ribs with guava BBQ, tapas-style.
Sopa de Calabaza
Roasted butternut squash soup with coconut milk and tajada (does not contain cream).
Sopa de Calabaza
Roasted butternut squash soup made with coconut milk, no cream, and tajada (sweet plantain).

Desserts
Torta Fluida
Molten chocolate cake made with 100% Venezuelan dark chocolate.
Quesillo
Homemade traditional Venezuelan custard with caramel.

Empanadas
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.

Juices
Passionfruit Juice
Papelón Con Limón (sugar cane juice & lime )

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
Cordero
Pistachio-panela-plantain crusted NZ lamb chops with mint mojo, arugula/Cabrales cheese salad.
Chuleta
Dry chile-spiced rubbed Pork Loin chop with orange mermelada and french fries.
Pollo Verde
Adobo criollo marinated-halved chicken with oregano oil and grilled scallions, with malanga gnocchi in a trumpet mushroom cream.
La Primera Burger
Pork/chorizo patty, Manchego cheese, Peruvian criollo salad. rocoto aioli, chipotle ketchup. On a brioche bun with truffle-salted hand cut fries.
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.
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...
Costillita
Apple cider juice, slow-steamed baby-back ribs with guava BBQ sauce & yuca fries.
Pabellon Criollo
Venezuela's most folkloric dish: shredded beef, white rice, black beans and plantains.
Panela Salmon
Panela marinated salmon, cook to order, served over Aji Amarillo creamed quinoa with jicama/arugula salad and broken olive vinaigrette.
Polvorosa de Pollo
Criollo chicken guiso in a polvorosa (flaky) dough pie, served with spring mix and mango chutney.
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.

Salads
Ensalada Palmito
Heart of palm, fresh greens and red onions, tossed in a Cabrales cheese vinaigrette, with bacon wrapped dates.
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).
Ensalada Orinoco
Grilled chicken breast, fresh greens salad with red onions, green grapes, tossed in a sherry vinaigrette, topped with toasted almonds.
Ensalada Mixta
Mixed greens salad with sherry vinaigrette.

Salsitas
Picante
Guasacaca
Venezuelan-style guacamole.
Mojo
Mango Chutney

Side Dishes
Tajadas
Sweet plantains.
Yuca
Steamed or crispy with signature mojo.
Espinaca a la Brava
Sautéed spinach with mushrooms, garlic and corn.
Rice
White rice.
Arroz con Caraotas
White rice and black beans.
Gnocchi
Malanga gnocchi in a trumpet mushroom cream.
Tostones
Crispy green plantains mini-cakes with sun dried tomato vinaigrette.
Chorizo
Grilled Asparagus
Grilled asparagus with chimi sauce.
Papitas Fritas
Truffle-salted hand cut fries.
Black Beans
Black beans contain pork.
Quinoa
Aji Amarillo creamed quinoa.
Fufu
Plantain purée (contains bacon).
Side Carne Mechada
Side Carne Pernil
Grilled Chicken Side

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Recent Reviews

Went here for the first time last night on a friends recommendation. Never tried Venezuelan food before but WOW we were absolutely blown away by the beef arepas and the mojitos . So delicious! We came on a Saturday and were seated immediately, and the food came out fast. Definitely coming back!
May 2024
Como venezolane les digo, la comida es SÚPER rica, y precios super razonables, la chica que me atendió muy amable también. Volvería sin pensarlo dos veces!

Vegetarian options: Arepa with cheese and beans, arepa with cheese, sweet plantain and avocado, tequeños, cachapa with cheese…
February 2024
We really enjoyed our dinner. Very comforting soup for the winter, the pork and orange (albeit quite sweet) was well cooked and the pork arepas had exceptionally juicy meat. The way they present the steak (like a scaffolding) shows attention. The servings were generous. The flan was done just right. The service was perhaps a bit disconcerting; since anybody could take the order, the team wasn't perhaps always clear on whether an ordered was passed. I look forward to coming...
January 2024

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Orinoco: A Latin Kitchen

477 Shawmut Ave, Boston, MA 02118
(617) 369-7075