Araxi another burger joint in Caracas [On The Road/BurgeReview: Caracas]

Yes I went to another burger joint in Caracas. This time Araxi Grill. Located in the shopping mall Galerias Sebucan. The menu, gourmet burgers and other bits and pieces. Highly recommended by Marisol. Three locations in Venezuela, two in Caracas, Sambil and Galerias Sebucan, and the other one in Sambil Margarita.

Menu

Got to the place, they have more than 15 burgers in the menu. Our choices the Araxi Burger. 300grs beef patty, garlic fried mushrooms, caramelised onions, and Swiss cheese. Maisol got the Chipotle burger. Beef patty, Swiss cheese, garlic fried mushrooms, tomato, red onion, avocado, and a chipotle/cilantro sauce. 

Chipotle

Araxi

The burgers were nice. Cooked medium, I would have preferred them medium rare to be honest. The flavours and combinations were good. Decent size of the burger, Good service. As side Plantain chips, nice flavour but weren't as crispy as they should. 

Burger time

Plantain chips

Decent place if you want a burger in Caracas.

Plantain reminds me the Seinfeld episode “The Mango” 

Kramer: All right now here's the list 

Jerry: All this? It's too much. What do you need five mangos for? 

Kramer: I like mangos 

Jerry: Avocado? I don't know how to pick out an avocado 

Kramer: Well they got to be soft 

Jerry: How soft? 

Kramer: Not too soft. Better too hard than too soft 

Jerry: I'm not going through this every week, I tell you that right now. And what are these? Plums? What is that? 

Kramer: Yeah now get the ones that are red on the inside 

Jerry: Well how do I know what they look like on the inside? What do they look like on the outside? 

Kramer: Oh! And get some plantains 

Jerry: Plantains? 

Kramer: Yeah 

Jerry: What the hell is a plantain 

Kramer: It's part of the banana family. It's a delicacy 

Jerry: You're not getting any plantains

Araxi

T: +58 212 435 1328

Burger Joint

Area: Sebucan

Caracas

Twitter: ARAXIGRILL

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Un Churrasco en Texas [On The Road: Houston]

Michael Cordua Texas restaurateur and self taught chef, born in Nicaragua, with 8 different places in the Houston area, many of them award winning, he's responsible for introducing Latin American cuisine non Mexican to Houston. My friend Reuter recommended visiting his upscale place Churrascos for a Latin treat. 

Cordua's place

Got to the place with a couple of colleagues, it has a colonial atmosphere, open spaces, vivid colours, Botero paintings, and a vast menu where everything looked appetizing. I basically took charge as my colleagues where Britons. We started with plantain chips, they were great, crispy, slightly salted, just like the ones back home. Then we got some Angel wings with brown sugar, habanero papaya sauce, and blue cheese dressing, outstanding, great flavour, and the presentation was spot on. 

Inside

Superb plantain chips

Wings the Latin way

Then I couldn't resist having a cup of chupe de camarones, a Peruvian lobster and shrimp bisque, with sherry, roasted corn, carrots, and smoked panela cheese, nice flavour but not so creamy as I'm used to. Then my main no other than the churrasco, Esquire Magazine's top 20 steaks in America, signature chargrilled center cut beef tenderloin, chimichurri, and crispy yuca cake, it was amazing, usually steaks in the US and specifically in Houston are pretty good but this one was outstanding, nice burnt coal flavour, perfectly cooked, the chimichurri gave the Latin twist, definitely one of the top I have had. 

Bisque

Tenderloin

Typical sides, rice, fried yuca, and fried sweet plantains

We ended with alfajores, miniatures dulce de leche cookie sandwiches, nice flavour. 

Alfajores

Overall an excellent meal, highly recommended, authentic Latin flavours. 

All these Latin American moments remind me the Seinfeld episode “The Race” 

George: You wanted to see me, El Presidente? 

Castro: Si, si, muevete, come here. I understand you are very interested in one of our players, eh? 

George: Si, si 

Castro: Ordinarily I would not grant such a request but I've heard you are, uh, how you say, Communista simpatico, eh? 

George: Muy simpatico, muy muy muy 

Castro: Well good, then you can have your pick 

George: Oh, oh! 

Castro: They will play for your Yankees 

George: Oh well, gracias El Comandante, gracias, muy muy 

Castro: And I would be honored if you would be my guest for dinner tonight at the Presidential palace. There will be girls there and, I hear, some pretty good food. Of course the problem with parties is you invariably have to eat standing up which I don't care for but on the other hand I don't like to balance a plate on my lap either. Once when I was at a party, I put my plate on someone's piano. I assure you, if I had not been a dictator, I would not have been able to get away with that one

Churrascos

T: +1 713 952 1988

Steakhouse / Latin American cuisine

Approx Damage: $70pp

Neighbourhood: Westchase

Houston

Twitter: ChurrascosWest

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