DON PAN – Restaurant

Collins Avenue's Venezuelan corner shop, where the bread counter and the hot kitchen share one room. Mornings bring cafe con leche, cortaditos and coladas alongside perico and scrambled-egg arepas, criollo plates and the Espanol breakfast. Later the arepa list widens to reina pepiada, guayanesa, rumbera and tuna, and cachapas arrive folded over guayanes cheese. Venezuelan empanadas run cheese, pabellon, cazon and mariscos; pepitos and steak sandwiches feed the later crowd. Cases hold cachitos, tequenos, pan de bono, guava and cheese pastelitos, dulce de leche cake and cuatro leches. Tuna salad and chicken Caesar round it out. Generous and unmistakably Caracas.

Cuisine: Restaurant