Fun and creative idea to eat Latin food inside a double decker bus. Let me clarify that this is a food bus, not a food truck. Meaning that you can actually eat inside this vehicle. You order downstairs, seats and tables are on the second floor of the bus. The whole bus kind of shakes whenever someone walks in it. The seats are covered in some kind of a hemp cover and are very worn. There are also a few tables outside the bus.
The arepa is a bit expensive and not filled up like a pocket. Just the flat corn bread and all fillings on the side. The vegetarian filling was mainly kidney beans and cabbage with spots of black beans, then avocado, salsa and sour cream on the side. They need to salt the food more, it's too bland and hardly any seasoning. I have had much better arepas in NC. Matt G - neither NC nor Cambridge are places renowned for their arepas! I don't know if it's a geographical difference because I have only had Venezuelan arepas and this was a Colombian version.
The empenadas were super hot in temperature, couldn't touch it for 10 minutes, never seen a snack so steaming hot. But rather this than cold. Just like with the arepa, you can get empenadas with vegetarian, chicken, beef filling and I think the price is the same. The dough is different from the Argentinian empenadas I have had, more like a fried coating rather than baked, if that makes sense.
Apart from arepa, empenadas, you can also get tostones. The menu is very limited, it's not a full dinner kind of place. They also have a weekly special which this time was a shrimp dish, which was too expensive at something like 2£ per shrimp. Also Colombian coffee on the menu.
The location is a bit odd and random. The bus is placed next to a retail parking lot on the outskirts of the city. On a sunny day, With Colombian pop loudly playing in the speakers of the bus you might even feel like you are in downtown Bogotá, who knows. read more