Pisao Patacon Pisao · NYC
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The Short Version

Boilerplate.

Patacon Pisao is a Venezuelan street kitchen in New York City, serving twice-fried plantain patacones and family recipes from Maracaibo since 2005. What started as a single truck outside the Inwood nightclubs has grown to three counters across Manhattan and Queens, still smashing patacones into the early morning hours.

The Story

Twenty-one years, one corner.

In 2005, Liliana parked outside the Inwood nightclubs and fed the whole line coming out. Twenty-one years later the truck is on the same corner, and the last patacón of the night still comes off the press when the sun is coming up.

The recipes trace back to Liliana’s mother’s kitchen in Maracaibo. Everything on the menu, from the original patacón to the cachapa, still runs on that family formula.

In the Press

Coverage.

NY Mag

101 Best Sandwiches in New York

Bon Appétit

Best Meals We Ate, 2022

The Infatuation

8.6 · Inwood truck

The New York Times

The 2015 truck profile

Vendy Awards

Finalist 2010 · All-Star 2019

Grub Street + Thrillist

Best of Elmhurst · Best lunch, Inwood
Find Us

Three locations.

The Truck

431 W 202nd St
Inwood, NY 10034
917-971-9828

Every day · 12 PM to 6 AM

Essex St

139 Essex St
Lower East Side, NY 10002
646-678-5913

Sun to Wed · 12 to 11 PM
Thu to Sat · 12 PM to 2 AM

Elmhurst

85-22 Grand Ave
Elmhurst, NY 11373
718-899-8922

Sun to Thu · 8 AM to 11 PM
Fri + Sat · 8 AM to 12 AM

Get In Touch

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