Courtesy, Patacon Pisao
Restaurants
Lower East Side
Patacon Pisao
Description
Come hungry since the fried plantain sandwiches (patacón) and arepas are huge. Then there’s la gorda cachapa, sweet corn cakes enclosing double-smoked bacon and a thick slab of melting mozzarella. Liliana Velazquez, from Maracaibo, Venezuela, started the business as a food truck in 2005, since expanding—with the help of her son Jonathan Hernandez—to brick-and-mortar shops in Elmhurst, Queens, and on the Lower East Side. Everything is made fresh to order and worth waiting for.
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Features
Cuisine
Latin American
Quick Bite
Cost
$$