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2016-01-20
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This place came highly recommended by my favorite food blog (F. Yeah Noms), and I had business in CWB so it was a natural choice.The restaurant is at the very end of Haven Street and it's not the sort of place you'd just stumble across. Seating is very limited, it's a little cramped, and the food takes a while to arrive. But it's worth it.For a beverage I got some Colombian special lime juice. I'd tell you the name, but 33 doesn't seem to have a website, and only posts partial menus on their FB
The restaurant is at the very end of Haven Street and it's not the sort of place you'd just stumble across. Seating is very limited, it's a little cramped, and the food takes a while to arrive. But it's worth it.
For a beverage I got some Colombian special lime juice. I'd tell you the name, but 33 doesn't seem to have a website, and only posts partial menus on their FB page. I really wish I could tell you the name, because this beverage was terrible. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it was a great rendition and people who grew up drinking this would like it. But to me, it was foul and difficult to imbibe. Fair warning.
All the solid foods at this restaurant were great though. We got all three different kinds of arepas. These are corn-derived flatbreads filled with taco-ish fillings. First of all, the flatbread itself is fantastic. Crisp, but not crunchy, not strongly corny-flavored, it is rare for me to enjoy any bread product this much. I recommend the arepas.Well, not the chicken one. It's OK, but compared to the other ones it's nigh-tasteless. As I said, it is good, but the other two arepa flavors are divine.
The second one was mushroom, avocado, cheese, and maybe some other stuff (again, wish I had the menu). It came with a creamy white sauce. Everything went together really well. The mushrooms were earthy and umami-y, situated on bed of creamy avocado. The cheese was potent and tangy, and when you add in the sauce it's hard not to just wolf this thing down.
The slow cooked coffee beef one was, dare I say it, even better than the mushroom one. It doesn't have a noticeable coffee flavor, and it also comes with cheese and the cream sauce. I could try to describe it, but really, if you go here just order this. You can order other things, but make sure to order one of these.
Here's a close-up of the beef arepa. It's kinda blurry, sorry about that.
We also ordered the Bandeja 33, a specialty of the restaurant. It comes with corn, deep fried pork belly, chorizo, rice, a fried egg, some kidney beans and a piece of cornbread. And some avocado. Everything's very good. The chorizo is nice and crisp with a good flavor. The pork belly is deep fried goodness, but very fatty. The beans are juicy and tender. I can't really knock this, but I wouldn't get it if I came back. Why? Those arepas are just so good. There are some other things on the menu I'd like to try (empanadas, in particular), so I'm almost certainly going to come back. I have nothing bad to say about the place, I just have two very strong recommendations: avoid the lime drink and get the beef arepa. Maybe two beef arepas. And a mushroom one as well. And if you try the empanada, let me know how it is.
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