Tuesday, March 3, 2015

El Paisa - @@@

I'm torn between a 3 and 4. The good was pretty tasty, I mean by far the juiciest steak I have had at a South American restaurant. The other stuff was just so so though, I have had better chicharron, beans were not special and not enough rice.

This place got really good yelp reviews and with Colombia coming up I wanted to whet my appetite. I ordered the standard bandeja colombiana which has rice, beans, salad, potato, yuca, banana, fried pork, and meat. Oddly no fried egg or avocado sadly. By far the winner was the steak, a sirloin well worth the $1 up charge. Oh yeah, this was $14. The steak was juicy and seasoned well, and with tons of juice on the plate I wish there was more rice. Instead the rice was on the side plate with everything else. Nothing really stood out to me on that plate but overall was good.

I also somewhat foolishly started with an arepa de chocolo, basically a large yellow corn bread with Colombian cheese and a side of chorizo. The chorizo was clearly homemade as it did not have a ground consistency but rather "chunks" of stuff in it. Sounds worse than it was, and it was freshly grilled to burn my mouth. The corn bread, not cornbread, was alright but much better than the dry arepas I have had in the past.

All in all, so full. Food was left on my plate and that is kind of rare. Would definitely come back, maybe to look for just the sirloin, rice and bananas. Good nonetheless and tons of food.

598 Dexter St
Central Falls, RI 02863