While it's possible I'm among the minority, I'm incredibly happy with the offerings here. In the last couple of years since moving from NYI, I haven't found many legit Venezuelan options until recently here at Sabor Venezolano. I'm pleased to report that the food lives up to the name and most everything was quite sabroso and very Venezuelan. The place is bigger than it looks from the outside, but seating is really limited to solo diners and small groups. There are counter seats toward the back and small cafe tables in the front. There are some refrigerated items for grab and go while ordering is done at the counter. I'd recommend calling ahead of time for faster pickup. If you're able to order in Spanish, do it. The food gets a thumbs up. Much of the menu is Venezuelan specific which includes cachapas, arepas, tumbarachos, patacondes, and tequeños. While they have a "menú Mexicano" that features quesadillas, tacos, burritos, and tortas, I'd avoid it if at all possible. The arepas might appear to be smaller, but they're packed. I personally loved their jamón y queso guayanés, in which the latter is a thick slab of gooey cheese. A similar arepa is their mechada y queso guayanés, which is equally tasty and I appreciate that they have cazón (#1) as an option. The pelua (beef + cheese) and reina (shredded chicken with avocado) will be my perpetual favorites and the cachapas with tequeños are also particularly hearty. The food is a bit pricier than most Venezuelan fare I've had previously, foodflation never surprises me anymore. Given how often I'm in the neighborhood, I already know that I'll be here more often than not. __________ (#1) Nothing like a little shark to get your day started. read more

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Solid Venezuelan food. If you are craving tequeños, an arepa, empanada, or such victuals, this is a solid spot. Counter service, order and they bring your food to your table. Ambiance is an ethnic strip mall restaurant, with Latin flavor. Salsa music playing, people coming and going is it what is. I'm a fan. read more

Calificación: 1/10 Una experiencia extremadamente decepcionante. La cajera parecía molesta solo por responder una pregunta básica--ni una sonrisa, ni un "gracias", ni una pizca de cortesía. Cuando le pedí a otro empleado un recipiente pequeño para llevar salsa, ni siquiera nos miró y solo nos dio uno, a pesar de que claramente éramos dos personas. La comida es cara para el tamaño de las porciones, el ambiente del lugar y, especialmente, el mal servicio. No pienso volver. Llevaré mi dinero a otro lado. Rating: 1/10 Extremely disappointing experience. The cashier seemed annoyed just answering a basic question--no smile, no thank you, not even a hint of courtesy. When I asked another staff member for a small to-go container for sauce, he didn't even acknowledge us and handed over just one container, despite clearly seeing there were two of us. The food is on the expensive side considering the portion size, the atmosphere, and especially the poor service. I won't be returning--I'll take my business elsewhere. read more

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I order to go on Uber Eats and it was great. I would come back here and try other food on the menu. I got the cachapa with fried pork and res a soup with rice. They put a good amount of meat in both dishes. read more

The food is ok, it could be better. The restaurant is not very clean and the service is not good. I'd go to another place instead. read more

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Carísimo Una arepa, una cabimera, una cachapa, un pastel, una empanada, un papelon, una parchita y una agua. $70. Lo que da más arrechera es pagar $70 por una verga tan mala. Con esos precios es para tener una experiencia culinaria, y es un abasto con unas mesas. read more

just answering a basic question--no smile, no thank you, not even a hint of courtesy. When I asked another staff member for a small to-go container for sauce, he didn't even acknowledge us and handed over just one container, despite clearly seeing there were two of us. Poor atmosphere, and especially the poor service. I won't be returning-I'll take my business elsewhere. Also greasy fatty cholesterol inducing food. read more

The food was good. I got an arepa with shredded beef and cheese. Simple and flavorful. I wish it had some lettuce and tomatoe but I'm glad it didn't have any mayonnaise or onions. We started with tequenos with cheese and guava, which I loved. The leftovers were great in the air fryer the next day with some coffee. My bf got a Venezuelan version of a Jibarito - a sandwich using fried plantains as the bread. It was a heavy meal, with shredded chicken, ham, lettuce, tomatoes, cabbage and mayonnaise. It was OK, but I don't like that much mayo or ham. The plantains were crunchy and huge. He took the top layer home and it was great as a breakfast with a fried egg. There's a lot on the menu and if you just walk in, like we did, it can be a little overwhelming to choose while they wait at the counter. I wish I would have reviewed the menu online ahead of time, but that might not have helped because it had items I didn't see on the menu in the restaurant. read more

Sabor Venezolano - Arepa, tequenos, passion fruit juice, and the plantain sandwich in the back. - Food Trucks Near Me - Houston, Texas

WHY DO MY PLANTAINS LOOK LIKE THIS??? I ordered from DoorDash and was so disappointed in my food!!! It tasted so bad, was burned and had clumps of crunchy rice. The beans had a "shell" of cheese on it. I tried to mix it thinking it would help but no, it was so nasty. This is my last time ordering from here. read more

De verdad q no me gustó las empanadas estaban quemadas y sin sabor malisimas Les falta mucho para ser una empanada venezolana read more

Realmente la comida no está nada buena ,todo todo malo ,el arroz la carne y hasta las tajadas son viejas, u con mal sabor,la presencia del personal no ayuda en nada ,el ambiente muy bonito ,pero si NOOO cambian de cocineras deberían cambiarle el nombre ya están dejando la comida venezolana en pena ,se tenía que decir y lo dije vine a comer con la mejor actitud y me fui decepcionada con mi familia read more

This is a great little place if you like affordable food with generous portions. I was looking for arepas and realized after getting them that they are differently than the Colombian ones. This Venezuelan version has loads of white cheese peaking out the little corn sandwich. It was very filling. We also tried the meat versions that are stuffed with your choice of meat. The tequeños are flaky breadsticks with melted cheese inside. You get five and they're also very tasty. This place is a great find to try a variety of food, come hungry! read more

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I had a horrible experience here and I was picking up an order door dashing, I'm not sure if the manager David didn't like black people or his mother never taught him how to treat a lady but it was absolutely disgusting the way he spoke to me and as a manager setting a really bad example for the rest of the team read more

After the Astros' victory in the 2022 World series, I really wanted to celebrate some Venezuelan dishes. You know Jose Altuve is from Venezuela. I visited Sabor Venezolano. I ordered a lunch plate. It was so good though I had no idea about Venezuelan cuisine. I especially loved arepa which is similar to pupusas in El Salvador. Regarding the name, Sabor Venezolano, sabor means flavor or taste in English. But it sounds like saboru(さぼる) in Japanese. Saboru means " I skip or ditch school in Japanese"! It is a good reason to go to the restaurant and don't go to school. LOL. read more

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Its a small place but the food is full of flavor, you want to try real venezuelan food this is a must! The service was great! The owner was always checking on us if we needed something else, he was really nice. I ordered the breakfast criollo and a cafe con leche, everything so delicious and my husband ordered an arepa. If you want a spicy sauce just ask for the habanero one that one is good! We will be coming back! read more

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UPDATE So as you can see below the owner chose to respond to my comment about the price of the food (which by the way $8 for a SMALL arepa is a lot to pay for just plain cheese.) However, did not want to own up to the quality of the food served. At the end of the day the food was bad. So if you pay $1 or $20 it still ended up in the garbage because it tasted and looked horrible. I gave them one star just so that I can post this review. I paid $22 for TWO arrepas. Unbelievable I thought maybe they are really big. Boy was I WRONG. The lady at the restaurant handed me a tiny small oily paper bag and before she gave me this tiny bag containing my $22 dollar worth of arrepas she asked me for PROOF that I was the one that actually purchased this item. Once at my desk I opened this package and took a look at the mess within. The arrepa was drenched in old oil cheese was congealed to the sides hard and crunchy the arrepa itself was lukewarm and the contents inside just thrown in there. It was the most unappetizing item I have EVER ordered in my entire life. After paying $22 I tried to eat this and could not. I had to spit the food out. My stomach was hurting after a few bites. In the trash is where my entire meal went. Save your money DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME!!!!!!!! read more

Sabor Venezolano - Nasty Food - Food Trucks Near Me - Houston, Texas

It had taken me a while to visit though I live five minutes away. I saw the price of an arepa, $7.50, but ordered one thinking it would be big. It's not. I'm a small eater and ate the arepa with cheese and avocado. It shouldn't cost more than $5. The passion fruit drink with lots of ice is $3.75. The place is casual. You order at the counter and food is brought to you. While the arepa was tasty, the $7.50 is outrageous. read more

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Great food and great service. We came from Austin and we loved it ! Las empanadas de carne mechada súper ricas read more

Wow, I haven't been this disappointed by a meal in a LONG time and my husband and I eat out often. We ordered a platter "bistec encebollado" with two sides one of black beans and coleslaw. Also ordered two SMALL empanadas and a can of soda. $27. When we did the math in the car, it did NOT add up! I'm Colombian, I speak fluent Spanish so it's not like she didn't understand a word I said. We waited 30 minutes!!!! The food was DISGUSTING!! The meat was extremely cheap quality, it couldn't have been more over cooked and was cold once it hit the table. Black beans were nasty, NO seasoning. I had to ask for onion and cilantro to give it flavor and when I did request that, they looked at me like I had a third f*****g eye. The coleslaw had no flavor just soaked in Mayo. The empanada had no flavor just gross chicken. Somehow my husband liked his ground beef one, that's the only positive thing I can say about our experience. Awful, unseasoned, low quality food. I feel robbed. They should be ASHAMED to call themselves "Sabor Venezolano" SAVE YOUR MONEY, DO NOT EAT HERE!! read more

Oh wow. These empanadas are so flavorful and delicious. I would highly recommend it to anyone who's open to trying new foods. This is a mom and pop shop so the service is slower but the vibe in the restaurant is very laid back. I got the beef empanadas and there are green sauce that u can pour over your empanadas. It's amazing. read more

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Really disgusting!!! I asked for a patacón and I got a big peace of meat not even shredded with a bunch of cabbage and ketchup. Terrible service , they didn't even want to open the door because they were celebrating a baby shower for the boss" , I mean what kind of owner does this to their restaurant. Super disappointed and absolutely never coming back . I used to come here before and I loved to food now is absolutely nasty . You can see the difference between the two picture before and after :( read more

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Great Venezuelan food and service at reasonable prices. The restaurant and restroom is clean! Go. Just go now! read more

I really really hate to give them 1 star because food is amazing! But when owning a restaurant customer service is #1 always. Even if the food isn't good, if the customer service is a 10 chances of you going back are better because you love the service. I went there for first time yesterday 1/22/23 and I got *Rice and beans with platanos * Empanadas de platanos y queso * yoyo * can't remember name of other All were amazing solid 9.2 the bananas were sweet and cooked perfect. The rice and beans iD give a 4.2 the rice is dry for my liking and beans need flavor. Other than that everything else was solid. Today 1/23/23 we decided to go back to get empanadas de queso y platanos that was the whole purpose of going today because we enjoyed them so much yesterday. We placed our order of 3 and went to our hotel 15 minutes away. My mother ate half before she noticed there's no platanos on there. I was eating my tequenos so I didn't know. She grabbed a knife and cut other in half to see if platanos were in there. NOPE! so she called and told the lady with glasses that they messed up her order and to my surprise the lady was very rude to my mother saying that's what we ordered. No it's not! We went there to get what we got yesterday. So after arguing back and forth the lady says to bring them back my mom agrees and she said she can only give us 2 because my mom ate half of other one. So she explained how she ate half and noticed there's no platanos. We ended up going back to get our new ones but I lost my appetite after that. They didn't taste good banana / platano wasn't sweet. Just overall horrible service from her. We are new to Houston from Chicago and we thought we found our new spot. After today we won't be going back. I don't care how good food is. You would think she would be nice and apologize for whosever fault it was on mixup and to make sure that we brought the other empanadas back was just disgusting. DO BETTER! read more

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This is a very nice little place close to town. Love the selection of cheeses The service is great too. read more

Great food a little pricer here but great food I love the pabellón de pollo deshebrado

Ordered this via doordash and was a little concerned by the reviews but I was pleasantly surprised! Everything was great. I ordered a cachapa, plantain and cheese arepa, and nutella tequeños. Only thing I probably wouldn't get again were the tequeños. I think I just prefer cheese and to dip into nutella but they weren't badly made, just not my preference! Cheese was wonderful and stretchy as it should be. I LOVE Venezuelan cheese and hate when people substitute shredded mozz. While I'd say this place is kind of pricy, it's on par with other places in the area and this whole order lasted me three meals so I can't really complain. read more

Sabor Venezolano - Tequeños nutella, cachapa, arepa de queso y platano - Food Trucks Near Me - Houston, Texas

Really good venezuelan food in general and not too expensive like other venezuelan places. I've tried tequenos, patacones, pabellon, reina pepiadas and much more and everything is good. Everything comes out pretty quick and the staff is attentive. Cool venezuelan stuff on the wall and always good music playing. Def recommend for a quick bite. read more

I came here bc I love the food at the truck but the service at the restaurant is the worst, me and my family walked in and none of the staff even say good evening or at least hi, they all saw us and literally ignored us being our first time at the restaurant we were expecting some guidance in how to order or what to do. RUDE PEOPLE. BAD SERVICE. That's the reply I get after talking about customer service. I will never support this business again. read more

They were stopped outside MFAH for their Thursday HH. My dining partner and I opted for the Venezuelan burger and Patacone. The burger was amazing - with little fries to add some crunch. The sauce it came with was kind of spicy though! (and I didn't have water on me...eek!) The patacone was a unique dish. The "bread" was actually made from plantains - double fried and super crispy. I opted for chicken, and it was quite a generous portion. Also had some cheese, ham, veggies inside. This was extremely difficult to eat however, b/c the fillings kept falling out, and this juice (tomato?) was spilling for the first few bites. I had to let it drain before I could eat with with my hands. Halfway through, I gave up and ate with knife and fork. read more

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Horrible! They give you bad food for delivery! I always order delivery and they always do that!! read more

Sabor Venezolano - Food Trucks Near Me - Houston, Texas

I've been craving Venezuelan food ever since I tried Gusto Gourmet and I found this food truck off of Yelp with pretty good ratings and usually those are the authentic stuff. It took awhile to order because everything was in Spanish and the communication was horrible, but I understand that it IS a Venezuelan food truck. The food was dried everything was dried, we had --Sifrina Arepas - (2/5) Shredded chicken, very bland but creamy and the chicken was dried. It was stuffed in a corn pocket sandwich which is an arepas. --Pabellon Arepas - (1/5) Shredded beef, very bland, very dried also in a sandwich made of corn. --Empanadas (chicken, shredded beef, and ham and cheese) they were exactly the same thing as the Arepas but in an empanada. The ham and cheese was the only thing I probably like and I didn't eat it till the next day. When they made it, it was literally a stick of mozzarella cheese in there so they never had melted the inside. I wouldn't give it another try, it's one thing if it's dried because maybe it was overcooked, but it also was bland! Mehhhhh. read more

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The service and food offered by this Venezuelan restaurant are unfortunate. I went on 02/025/2023 I ordered a beef soup to take away for my daughter and it only had zucchini and a bone. I ordered a cachapa for myself which cost $11 and was tiny in size. During the stay, the waiters brought multiple wrong orders, total chaos, and disorder in the service provided. The worst thing happened at the end when I requested a chicha (Venezuelan drink made from rice paste) to carry out, which was dispatched after a lack of respect and overconfidence on the part of the owner (first time I saw him). This is the type of Venezuelan with a lack of culture and education that darkens the brilliance of most of the Venezuelans who live in this country. My recommendation is not to go to this restaurant. read more

the food was fresh, hot, well-prepared, flavorful, and for the most part packaged well. the quesillo was great, but a good amount ofthe caramel liquid leaked from the to-go container and left other items sticky. i appreciated the foil over the papelón cup, and i'd recommend foil for the quesillo. i was pleasantly surprised by the generous size of the pabellón empanada. it was perfectly prepared. i added cilantro and it was amazing! the queso pastelito maracucho was delightful as a complement to the plátanos (plantains). the plantains were delicious. the tequeños nutella (5) were good, but not amazing like everything else. i don't know why i waited so long to try sabor, but i will definitely be a repeat customer! read more

i went to go pick my order of empanadas and i couldnt tell what was what and i have them the bag back to them so i could be able to tell what was inside of the empanadas and they gave the food back to me with a finger mark on the food. when i called to complain the manager was extremely rude and accused me of doing that myself. Besides the fact that their was finger marks in my food, that was the worst empanadas i have ever eaten in my life. i dont recommend eating here if you want to save your money. read more

Eh I liked this place a lot but after tonight's attitude from the person taking orders, it totally changed my perspective on the place. I take my review back. Nasty attitude. Response to owner: it was exactly when this was posted so, 10:15-10:30. Total disappointment. read more

Their sausage tastes like dog food. Fast food has better sausage than this place. The rest of your food is amazing but come on. The guy guy with glasses who took the order had too much attitude. Im sorry my profanity is not to your liking. read more

Got scammed for water. They offered us water by not disclosing that it cost money and took advantage of us by letting us offer water thinking it was free. read more

The food is good, but let's be honest $7.50 for an arepa ? You are ridiculous to charge that much. The arepa was over cooked, dry inside, too crunchy and they messed up my order adding white cheese instead of yellow cheese. Carne mechada was good, and cachapa was a bit bitter. The food I think is ok, not that great but of course you don't have a lot of competence near by therefore you abuse with the prices. Also, if you want to charge $7.50 for a ball of Arina pan, please relocate to a nicer lot. The lot they're currently in is dirty, there are homeless behind all those cars. I can't believe the city hasn't shut them down yet. read more

I've lived in Houston a little over a year now and I have yet to have bad service. Until today. I had read a few reviews on Google and Yelp before deciding on stopping by here, there seemed to be a common theme that the food was good but the service is lacking. I have to agree. There was no greeting as I approached the counter. It was a little awkward. 'Bienvenida', 'Welcome', 'Can I help you', algo. Something is usually said. I got nothing. I get that I don't look Latina ( I am) so maybe you didn't know which language to speak to me, but a smile or something to make me feel welcome would have gone a long way. I ordered arepas, empanadas, and a juice. No thank you or anything, you walked away and left the counter before I even completed payment. I waited for a bit, then decided to take a seat. I watched 3 young men receive their food, eat it all and leave. I watched as a man who came in 5 minutes after me was served and started to eat. I made eye contact with several employees and saw the kitchen clear out. Seriously? I finally ask one lady if the food was ready. I didn't have a difficult order. She checked receipts and then brought me out my order with an apology for la demora. If the place was packed with people I would be a little more understanding of poor service, but this was not the case. On a positive note the food was delicious as were the sauces that came with them. There's a reason there were so few customers at noon on a Friday and it's not because of the food. read more

Some of the rudest people I've come across. I call to ask to place an order, they say walk in only or online and hung up without another word. I arrive and am greeted by the cashier in Spanish, so I place my order with her in Spanish. She in turn, went to go ask someone else to take my order. And stood there in the back just staring at me as I stood there continuing to wait. 2 minutes passed before I chose id rather eat elsewhere. read more