Andina
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Venezuelan comfort food: arepas, empanadas, rice bowls
Venezuelan comfort food: arepas, empanadas, rice bowls
"A Venezuelan favorite catering the Top 100 Restaurants event in the San Francisco Bay Area." - Paolo Bicchieri
"A Venezuelan restaurant in Hayes Valley, San Francisco, closing but not shutting down permanently." - Paolo Bicchieri
"This La Cocina graduate and pop-up mainstay found a permanent home in September 2023 at the SF Jazz building on Franklin Street. That means Venezuelan fare, including numerous arepas, tostones, and plantains is in the neighborhood to stay." - Dianne de Guzman, Eater Staff
"It was at La Cocina where he met Victoria Lozano of Andina. The two hit it off and she encouraged him to come to her new outpost in Hayes Valley for his first pop-up." - Paolo Bicchieri
"Andina, the former Venezuelan pop-up, has taken over the food operations at the Hayes Valley spot (in the SF Jazz building) that’s also home to B-Side (B-Side manages the bar). The casual restaurant is serving what they’re calling “Venezuelan comfort food,” which here translates to a variety of arepas, snacks like tostones, empanadas, and pasteles, and rice bowls full of shredded beef or black beans." - Ricky Rodriguez