If you have been out to try to eat a short while ago, you know that charge for cafe food, a lot like something else with a price tag, is skyrocketing. 20 bucks for a hen kebab, $28 for a chicken breast. Really do not even ask about the wings.
So even much more now than in other instances, persons want to get a enough bang for their buck. Or eight and a 50 % bucks with inflation.
So places like Maracaibo Mia, a Venezuelan restaurant in the Gateway District, give a good value – a box complete of food, far more than ample to fill you up, it’s possible adequate for two foods, for about fifty percent what a kebab would value. You just have to adjust your mentality to know that the excellent is likely to be commensurate with the value. Here we’re chatting about a meat with rice and beans and two sides for underneath 10 bucks.
Maracaibo is a Venezuelan port metropolis, the 2nd largest town in the nation. There’s a vintage taxi taxi in front of the cafe with Venezuelan tags.
The dining space is small, and food stuff is purchased at the counter just earlier the plexiglass-protected steam trays with all the many options.
The very best factor I sampled was the hen soup, which had significant hunks of potatoes and carrots slices and a brief cob of corn that somehow managed to continue to be crunchy, all in a a bit unctuous broth. For some explanation considerably of the chicken was however on the bone, but that was straightforward to offer with.
I envisioned the meat to even now be on the bone with the plate of ribs I also purchased, simply because, you know, rib is in the name. I experienced it with a mound of yellow rice loaded with black beans and accompanied by a number of dollar-size arepas. Really awesome seasoning in the rice.
I had plain white rice (simple taste, as well) with the roast pork chunks, which have been unusually dry. Also, it was the incorrect preference to ask for the beans be served on the facet because the side was a very small properly, so there weren’t almost as many beans as there were being with the rib platter that I requested be spooned over the rice.
And let’s encounter it – it is all about bean counting.
Maracaibo Mia is at 5691 S. Semoran Blvd., Orlando (map). It is open up for breakfast, lunch and supper day-to-day. The cellphone variety is 407-236-7131.