Orinoco

477 Shawmut Ave
Boston, MA 02118

(617) 369-7075

Salads

  • Palmito
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    • $8.00
  • Hearts of palm, spring mix, jicama, cabrales cheese vinaigrette and bacon wrapped dates
  • Orinoco
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    • $8.00
  • Grilled chicken breast, spring mix, jicama, green grapes, sherry vinaigrette, topped with feta cheese and toasted almonds
  • Remolacha Con Cabra
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    • $7.50
  • Roasted beet tossed in a sherry vinaigrette with spring mix, fresh goat cheese, and pinenuts
Antojitos

Little cravings

  • Datiles
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    • $6.00
  • Bacon wrapped, almond-filled dates
  • Maracuchitos
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    • $4.50
  • Queso paisa wrapped in sweet plantains
  • Tequenos
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    • $6.50
  • Guayanes cheese wrapped in crisp dough and served with chipotle ketchup
  • Trio de Empanadas
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    • $8.00
  • Codfish, domino, and mechada empanadas with signature mojo
Arepas

Traditional venezuelan grilled corn pocket sandwiches

  • Domino
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    • $5.75
  • Black beans with palmizulia cheese
  • La Gringa
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    • $4.75
  • Edam yellow cheese
  • Guayanesa
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    • $6.00
  • Venezuelan creamy guayanes cheese
  • Mechada
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    • $6.00
  • Venezuelan-style stewed shredded beef
  • Pelua
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    • $6.50
  • Venezuelan-style stewed shredded beef with edam yellow cheese
  • Queso de Mano
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    • $6.00
  • Venezuelan hand-made cheese
  • Pernil
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    • $6.00
  • Mojo marinated pork with fresh tomato
  • Reina Pepiada
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    • $6.00
  • Shredded chicken salad, avocado, and tomato
Empanadas

Traditional latin american turnover patties

  • Empanada Mechada
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    • $8.25
  • Venezuelan style stewed shredded beef in a corn flour empanada with a fresh greens salad, tossed with queso blanco and sherry vinaigrette
  • Empanada Verde
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    • $8.50
  • Made with 100% plantain dough and filled with wild forest mushrooms, piquillo peppers, manchego cheese with a fresh greens salad tossed with sun-dried tomato vinaigrette and queso blanco
Main dishes

  • Asado Negro
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    • $13.50
  • Panela, onion slow-cooked beef roast served in its own sauce with rice and sweet plantains
  • Atun
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    • $15.00
  • Adobo-rubbed high grade yellow-fin tuna seared and served with arugula sun-dried tomato vinaigrette salad with toased pepitas
  • Pabellon Criollo
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    • $13.75
  • Shredded beef, white rice, black beans and plantains
  • Pollo Adobo
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    • $14.00
  • Adobo criollo marinated-halved chicken with oregano oil and grilled scallions. Add malanga gnocchi in a trumpet mushroom cream $5.00
  • Polvorosa de Pollo
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    • $14.50
  • Criollo chicken guiso in a polvorosa dough pie served with spring mix and mango chutney
Platos de la Casa

  • Mahi-Mahi
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    • $19.00
  • Plantain crusted mahi-mahi with rabo encendido and tomato escabeche
  • Churrasquito
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    • $19.00
  • 7 oz. beef tenderloin cut churrasco style, char-grilled with crab picadillo, grilled asparagus, and salsa chimi
  • Parrilla Caraquena
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    • $19.00
  • Orinoco's grill plate with a seasoned 5oz stripsteak, 1/4 marinated chicken, grilled chorizo, gusacaca, and yuca frita with signature mojo
  • Adobo Smoked Churrasco
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    • $19.00
  • 12oz quik smoked strip-steak churrasco, char-grilled with a panela-red wine glaze, arugula blue cheese salad in a balsamic, dry mushroom or cranberry vinaigrette
  • Cordero Tradicional
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    • $19.00
  • Pistachio-panela-plantain crusted NZ lamb chops with mint mojo, arugula cabrales blue cheese salad
Specials - Antojitos

New weekly specials are available thursday through sunday

  • Oysters Rodriguez
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    • $13.00
  • Oysters with fufu, horseradish cream and saute manchego spinach
  • Arepa Portobello
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    • $11.00
  • Arepa made with sweet roasted corn and anise seeds with wild mushrooms, sweet corn, saute spinach, huitlacoche cream, and roasted cubanelle pepper sauce
  • Humita
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  • Bolivian sweet corn tamale with shrimp escabeche, goat cheese nata and pepita pesto
Specials - Main Dishes

New weekly specials are available thursday through sunday

  • Panela Salmon
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    • $19.00
  • Panela marinated salmon, cook to order, served over aji amarillo creamed quinoa with jicama or arugula salad and broken olive vinaigrette
  • Parguito Frito
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    • $19.00
  • Whole, crisp, caribbean red snapper with roasted pepper or culantro mojo and patacones
  • Lomito Guayanes
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    • $19.00
  • Beef tenderloin grilled with a cabrales vinaigrette arugula salad and panela asado veloute
  • Costillitas
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    • $19.00
  • Slow, cranberry-pineapple juice steamed baby-back ribs with passionfruit BBQ sauce and yuca fritas
  • Robalo con Lechoza
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    • $18.00
  • Fresh stripped sea-bass with quinoa salad and papaya or rosemary or garlic mojo
Side

  • Arroz con Caraotas
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    • $4.25
  • White rice with black beans in a bowl
  • Tajadas
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    • $4.25
  • Fride sweet plantains
  • Tostones
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    • $4.25
  • Crispy green plantain mini cakes with sun-dried tomato vinaigrette
  • Yuca
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    • $4.25
  • Crispy or steamed with signature mojo
  • Grilled Asparagus
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    • $4.25
  • With chimi sauce
Desserts

  • Quesillo
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    • $4.25
  • Homemade traditional venezuelan custard with caramel
  • Torta Fluida
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    • $5.00
  • Molten chocolate cake made with 100% venezuelan dark chocolate
Drinks - Sodas

  • Coca Cola
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    • $1.50
  • Soda
  • Diet Coke
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    • $1.50
  • Soda
Drinks - Water

  • Saratoga Springs
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    • $3.00
  • Sparkling water

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