Delicious new things are happening at Chica. The Latin cuisine is a celebration of food that combines the traditional flavors found in countries across South America, including Venezuela, chef Lorena Garcia’s home country.
Garcia, the first Latin American female chef to open a restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip, shines the spotlight on bold flavors and rich traditions, including creations from her own family’s recipe books. The result is a menu packed with mouth-watering, depth-of-flavor dishes; and recently the restaurant has introduced even more deliciousness with a new weekend brunch menu.
A must-start order is Lorena’s arepa basket. The vessel is filled with little discs of goodness—various small arepas in flavors like beet, cilantro, black bean and cheese, served with a side of nata butter. Light and fluffy, these may have you fighting your tablemates over the last one.
Traditional breakfast dishes include a Latin twist on steak and eggs with the bistec con huevos, a 6-ounce strip loin, two eggs any style, papas bravas (breakfast potatoes) and a salsa criolla. (Let me just take a break here to mention that Chica’s papas bravas are some of the best you will ever taste in Las Vegas; you can order these as a side if it doesn’t come with your dish.) Another Latin twist on breakfast includes the chorizo and arepa Benedict, house-made Mexican chorizo and poached eggs piled on to those little arepa discs and topped with guacamole and a jalapeño scallion espuma.
Fans of seafood during brunch can dig into the seafood arroz negro, a bounteous dish filled with grilled shrimp, squid ink sofrito rice, avocado, Oaxacan pasilla cream, pickled onions and lime. Or try the flavor-packed mezcal-cured salmon tostadas served with salted cured cactus, guacamole and uni creama.
For a sweet bite, order the strawberry guava waffle, cut into a few light and fluffy triangles and served with a cream cheese whipped cream, toasted pepitas and a side of tangy guava sauce for dipping—all these flavors pair perfectly.
The brunch menu here is packed, so the previously mentioned dishes can be followed with other selections like the wagyu quesa-birria tacos, charred poblano quesadilla, Yucatecan breakfast gorditas, buñelo donuts, dulce de leche French toast and roasted street corn.
Libations include bubbles by the bottle, fresh, hand-pressed juices and specialty cocktails such as the Espress Yourself with Don Julio reposado, cold brew, Licor 43, Frangelico and agave.
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