I’ll admit that the primary time I ever purchased something from the Pastelitos Papichy’s meals truck — which has been positioned in the identical plaza as LA Health and 5 Guys Burgers & Fries south of County Line Rd. and west of Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. in New Tampa for about two years — was just a few months in the past, once I first heard that homeowners Ruben Caridad and his son, Ruben, Jr., had been opening their first brick-&-mortar location within the Grand Oaks Plaza at 26242 Wesley Chapel Blvd. in Lutz (picture under).
However now, I’m positively a fan. And, contemplating that one in every of my daughters-in-law is from Venezuela, as are the Caridads, I most likely ought to have tried Papichy’s sooner. The whole menu is quite a lot of fried Venezuelan objects, from savory to extra dessert-oriented. Open for just a few weeks at our press time, the brand new location is the seventh Papichy’s for the Caridads, who even have their meals vehicles off Waters Ave. in Tampa and in Odessa (FL) and Orlando.
Since “Pastelitos” is a part of the place’s full title, I first tried a guava and cheese pastelito, which was crispy and scrumptious, however be warned that the guava jelly is molten-hot, however value it! A field of 25 assorted (there are also rooster, pizza, potato-&-cheese, floor and shredded beef varieties) mini-pastelitos is proven on the high of the web page.
Since then, I even have sampled the mini-empanadas (accessible in most of the similar savory varieties, in addition to full of ham & cheese, fish, black beans, bacon, seafood & extra), in addition to tequeños (cheese sticks) and my shock favourite — the mandocas (cornmeal doughnuts formed like teardrops). They’re all simply so good.
I used to be so impressed that I introduced 100 assorted Papichy’s treats to the Volunteer Day on the future dwelling of Sgt. Quincy Lopez in Wesley Chapel and so they had been all shortly devoured up. You positively ought to attempt Papichy’s when you haven’t already!
