Arepa And Co Haggerston

Really lovely place by the water! Bookings are evidently essential on the weekend, this place was heaving on the Saturday I went with a friend. Ordering was done by the app, which is nice for less faff around splitting the bill. The portions are generous and everything tasted very fresh. I don't think I've ever quite had yucca fries like those here, their texture was so wonderfully fluffy inside. I really enjoyed their fried chicken arepa in particular as well, that corn cream is excellent. Will happily visit again for a trip back to east London.

Food was so good! My friends loved it. Full of flavours, fresh, different from things we tried before. I recommend and Arepa (pork one was amazing 😋), a starter (fried chicken with guava or plantain with cheese both great). Finally, the guava juice is super! Friendly service and lovely location by the canals. I'll be back for sure!

I would definitely recommend the Arepas and Tequeños of this restaurant, they have a great approach to and a variety of Venezuelan dishes using the UK ingredient availability. The venue has an astonishing beautiful view and is decorated with a few folk traditional stuff (I like the evil masks by the walls) and coulors. If you like to share with family or friends, I would suggest cocktails (Guarapita, Cuba libre, etc.) I do like rum, so they have a PapeRum that basically is a nice jug cocktail. However, if you are more British/European style, they have a wide range of food and drink options representative of the Venezuelan/European cultural mix heritage. In a nutshell, there are many options such as vegan, vegetarian, or none of these, on their menu.

I was with my family on Sunday for lunch at this restaurant. It wasn't busy so we didn't have to wait long for our orders. Venezuelan style interior design, a very nice view of the water canal from the window, there were also tables outside. We ordered Yuca Fries, Bunuelos and Fried Chicken for starters (originally, Fried Chicken is slightly spicy, but we asked for it to be unspiced because our little daughter was going to eat it, and that's what we got). Yuca fries were delicious! Bunuelos was also very tasty as was the fried chicken. For the main course we took Arepa Pollo Frio and Arepa Pernil. Although the Arepas portions were not large, it was very filling and tasty. For dessert we ordered Tres Leches which was also ok but a bit too sweet for me. I think that lovers of very sweet desserts will definitely like it. The juices were very good! Unfortunately, the downside of the restaurant is that there is only one toilet that you enter directly from the restaurant, so most of the time we were in the restaurant, there was a queue for the toilet, and our table was right next to this queue, so people stood right at our table while we ate. It wasn't very comfortable. In addition, the toilet was dirty, there was no hand soap and toilet paper, although the staff also used this toilet and probably saw its condition. The staff was kind. Overally, the atmosphere of the restaurant was very pleasant, the food wad tasty, the prices were affordable, the downside was cleanliness of the toilet!