Flor's Kitchen

For some simple, traditional Venezuelan home cooking, head down to Flor's Kitchen (149 First Avenue or 170 Waverly Place between Sixth and Seventh Avenues). The ambience is relaxed, comfortable and low key, ideal for a quiet dinner. The menu offers empanadas (deep-fried, stuffed corn dough pastries served with guacamole and jalapeño dips - empanada de bacalao (cod empanada) is particularly good), ceviche and an appealing selection of beef, chicken and seafood entrées. Try arroz con pollo, slow-cooked rice with chicken in a tomato sauce, which comes cutely decorated with a smiley face made of olives and a half-slice of pepper. The plantains and yucca also sound yummy.

Empanada de bacalao

Arroz con pollo