Belen de la Cruz - Empanadas & Pastries - Marietta — Restaurant in Marietta

We were excited for the opening of this new restaurant coming to East Cobb as we need variety of cuisines.

Empanada: This type of turnover baked pastry filled with a wide variety of meat and vegetarian options, is fabulous for snack or quick meal that conveniently pack in a pocket of dough. This place has empanada down to science where the pastry that holds all the fillings together is airy and fluffy, but not too much dough or too much grease. With the outside layer as the base, you then choose variety of fillings for your liking: Ground Beef, Ground Beef 🐮 with cheese, White Meat Chicken 🐔, Ham & Mozzarella, Caprese 🍅🌿 (Mozzarella, Tomato, Basil) .... to vegetables like: Corn, Onion, Mushroom, & Butter Squash.🍆🍄🧅🌽

Service: On line service adding great convenience to both the restaurant, staff and especially the busy customers. There're not much space to dine-in, which is well design and fit the purpose at this odd time. In store order surprising doesn't take long to fill either. Good customer service as not much interaction between the staffs and customers cover up with masks. But overall, the food they offer is unique and most importantly,...

Such a sweet little place. First time I went there, I got myself an almond alfajore. It was excellent! Second time I got a coffee-flavored chocolate cake with dulce de leche. It was served in a closed container, so I assume I was meant to take it home. We chose to eat it right there, and we found that it was cold, hard and solid. In fact, I was nervous that the plastic fork would break into shards, so we ended up biting into it and eating it like a sandwich. Turns out that it was stored in the freezer. All good but it wasn't sufficiently defrosted, so it wasn't fun to eat. Pity! Such a nice pastry...

Update: Visited today, and it was the same experience. Except that we ordered a dulce de leche cheesecake this time. I don't think this dessert can be consumed frozen. We asked if it could be warmed, and they agreed. However, it was no fun to eat a hard, dense slice of...

Stumbled on this spot while visiting the Marietta area and boy am I glad I did!

Argentinian empanadas are not easy to make but Belen De La Cruz knocks it out of the park with the amazing flavors. My favorite ist their CHICKEN CHEESE and their HAM & CHEESE because trust me when I tell you... the flavor is 🤯

They also have many different types of treats and sweet pastries you can try. My favorites are their dulce leche cookies, the frolas (it's like a dulce de leche pie), and their oatmeal cookies WHICH do it have raisins 🙏

Their inside is very cozy and well put together, you can come in and relax while enjoying their meal. The team is very friendly as well and will help add on to the experience.

Highly recommend this place!!

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