El Arepazo Doral — Restaurant in Doral

It is not easy to find a good Venezuelan restaurant in Florida with true Venezuelan flavors. In this restaurant, you can find the most common Venezuela dishes.

Parking: The restaurant is located at a gas station, the parking lot is free but it is small.

Service: The staff was attentive and cordial. It has no waiter, you order and wait for the food.

Food quality: It is a true Venezuelan food (I know because I am Venezuelan). Portions are large. You will find the famous empanadas that can be stuffed with meat/chicken/cheese /cazon (type of fish), cachapas (it is a corn dough stuffed with cheese), arepas (Options: Yellow Cheese, Ham, Hand Cheese, Pernil or Grated White Cheese), tequeños, patacón, and pepitos (this is my boyfriend's favorite). Then you have different lunch options (a combination of meat, chicken, rice, pasta, and among others). We order cheese empanada (I love it), cachapa with guayanes cheese, and a pabellón criollo (one of the typical Venezuelan dishes. Rice, banana slices, meatloaf, and black beans).

Price: Prices are standard (you have to consider the fact that you are in Miami and everything there is more expensive compared to another part of Florida). We ordered 3 courses for $22.

Atmosphere: The restaurant is quite simple, it is large and spacious, it has enough tables and a bathroom, but do not expect something extraordinary.

Recommendation: If you have never tried Venezuelan food, I recommend typical dishes such as pabellón, patacón, arepa, empanada, cachapa, and tequeños.

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As a Venezuelan, I know this place it's very iconic, when it comes to our food in Miami. Way too expensive for the quality and sizes. Just around the corner you can find Pepitos Arepas Bar (which I'm not related in any way, but I love), where for the same price or less, arepas are almost double the size of Arepazos', not only the arepa itself but the filling. The cashier wasn't very familiar with the pricing (funny to say), she was going to charge us extra tomatoes, and when my mom re-asked surprised, the other girl corrected the cashier, telling her she wasn't supposed to do an extra charge for that. I'm still wondering where's the 'verde' of that attempt of 'salsa verde' they do. In addition, they charge $3 for a juice smaller than 12 ounces. 20 years ago maybe this was THE Venezuelan spot, but today I'm sure it's not. And I'm not expecting to be cheaper, but it needs to have a correlation price-size-quality, specially now when you can find Venezuelan awesome food in every corner. Service was pretty fast and people were very nice, I wouldn't say the problem is it's employees but the owners. They also have WiFi and the...

A good arepa MUST be hot or it is pointless. As a tourist of Venezuelan descent, here from the Bay area I was so jealous when I ordered thinking "I can't get this back home!" Now I can go home to California excited to have some good Mexican food where the prices are reasonable and restaurants under promise and over deliver. I would rather have had the food split into several rounds and have each item be hot than one set of multiple platters that were too cold to be enjoyable. Even if everything were perfect it would be almost too expensive. As it was (with the restaurant at less than 20% full Sunday AM) I had to make a special effort to finish my food because I would have preferred hot McDonald's to cool Arepazo. We all got cold Arepas! We got one hot empanada that was late to the table but was the only thing I enjoyed just because it was hot. Now I regret not complaining! The staff was SO confident that it was great a kid walked by and said "delicious right"? Next time I...