Cachapas y Mas

If you don’t like options, avoid Cachapas y Mas, where the Venezuelan street food is varied, customizable, and uniformly delicious. At this Ridgewood counter-service restaurant—which has another location in Inwood—you can get cachapas, patacones, arepas, and Venezuelan-style burritos packed with your choice of filling. Try some shredded beef bookended by smashed plantains, or enjoy a sweet griddled cachapa stuffed with pernil and four kinds of cheese. Depending on how wild you get with the extras and add-ons, the food can seem cartoonishly excessive, so prepare to unhinge your jaw like Scooby Doo. There are a couple of tables inside, in addition to some sidewalk seating that’s great for a quick, casual, warm-weather meal.

photo credit: Cachapas y Mas