Items Ordered:
- Mix Plate - Coxinha (Brazil’s most popular street food (made with chicken)), Potato Croquette, Portuguese Croquette (potato salted Cod), Pastel Portuguese (dumpling stuffed with shrimp, coconut sauce) & Kibe (bulgur wheat, mint & ground beef)
- Brazilian Chicken Pot Pie – hearts of palm, olives & roasted corn
If you try to google this address, I think it's a little off. We walked up and down the street a little before we finally found this small place, serving Brazilian cuisine. I was starting to think it didn't exist - I'm sure glad that it does! It was a really cozy (pillows on the seat!) little restaurant on a street in the heart of downtown LA. We started off with an appetizer plate of fried goodness - my favorite was the Pastel Portuguese. Next up was the Pot Pie that I had read about so many times in the reviews! This was certainly not your Budget-brand Pot Pie, or even close to the "frozen gourmet" Marie Callender Pot Pies. What am I even thinking trying to compare it to frozen meals! This was the real thing - tender chicken with corn, simmering under a just-perfect crispy crust. It was rather large so I took home leftovers - what a delicious lunch the next day!
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