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| Empanada menu, photo credit: Jerel Calzo |
This month was an RC first…takeout! It was a very fun (and cheap!) first, and Jerel, Michael, Cora, and Jude were wonderful hosts. We are waiting for an invitation to the opening of the “Family Restaurant.”
Jerel’s pick was Pikalo Empanadas & Sandwich Bar, a place that recently opened on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain. An empanada is a stuffed bread or pastry that is baked or fried.
There was such a large selection, it was hard to pick, but we managed to narrow it down to eight (yes eight) kinds to try:
- Shredded beef (Ropa Vieja)
- Codfish (Bacalao)
- Corn and cheese
- Conch (Lambi)
- Lobster (Langosta)
- Shrimp and cheese (Camarones and Queso)
- The Beatles (mushroom, spinach, cheese, onion)
- Crabmeat (Cangrejo)
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| The spread |
My favorites were the shredded beef, the corn and cheese, and the Beatles (mushroom, spinach, cheese, onion). Fried, stuffed doughy goodness. Yum. Since we cut each empanada in half or quarters (kitchen scissors were super handy for this!), the one “complaint” was that sometimes the filling was a little uneven (and sometimes we wished there was just more filling).
For dessert we had dulce de leche cookies (fro Pikalo’s) and cider donuts from the new Boston Public Market. And then I needed a nap. Great pick Jerel!
The damage
$16 per person (we are so frugal!)
The rundown
Pikalo Empanadas & Sandwich Bar (web site coming soon, so they say)
378 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain
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