Lacto
Fast food
Juice bar
Beer/Wine
Caribbean
Spanish
Gluten-free
Latin

A vegetarian restaurant that serves Venezuelan and Caribbean food and tapas including plant-based stews, arepas, tequeños, patacones, and more. Also offers fruity cocktails and smoothies. Reservations via https://octotable.com/book/restaurant/369202/booking/new Open Mon-Thu 19:30-22:30, Fri-Sat 19:30-23:00, Sun 19:00-23:30. Outdoor seating closes at 10pm.


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28 Reviews

First Review by ElRabipelao

SonjaKritzl

Points +152

Vegan
01 Jun 2025

great place with tasty food

Nearly everything is vegan or can be made vegan. You also have many choices on the menu card. We had the tapas tasting platter, Arepa la rabiosa and tacos (combis). The food was delicious and the staff very friendly.

Pros: delicious food, nice place, friendly staff

Ina&Löff

Points +28

Vegan
04 May 2025

Great Spot, Great Food, Highly recommended

Great Atmosphere, non tourist spot, really nice service…awesome food

Pros: Food, Service, Atmosphere

D-F

Points +82

Vegan
14 Apr 2025

Absolutely great place for hanging out while enjoying great food

Higly recommended! It's definitely one of the highlights of the city, especially for vegan versions of tasty foods with a great vibe ☺️. I suggest you try the tacos and arepas, they're absolutely incredible! And well some tequeños of course 🫶🏻

Pros: Tacos 🌮🏆, Arepas, Tequeños

Jep Roller Dancer

Points +65

Vegan
24 Mar 2025

Super 🙂

Casi todo vegano y muy rico, local alternativo con encanto

EinatRaveh

Points +1013

Vegan
08 Feb 2025

Fun place!

Very cheerful atmosphere and friendly service! Place was packed at around 21 , try to reserve.
We got the tapas for 2 - nice variety of venezuelan dishes, was yammi and apt for bar food but not too junky.
Interesting decoration

Pros: Great atmosphere , Smiling service , Good food

pau292

Points +16

Vegan
04 Jan 2025

No muy buena calidad

A las setas crujientes les goteaba la grasa, no tenían sin sabor y la seta de dentro no se podía ni morder
La arepa Bomba vegana sabía normal, como a soja tex con tomate frito. Nada especial.
Sus bebidas con buenas y su salsa verde es muy rica

Hoahmi

Points +13

Vegetarian
25 Sep 2024

Very tasty food!!

We had the „Degustacion del Rabi“ big plate and every part of it was great! 10/10 The drinks were tasty, too. There is a nice quiet place to sit in the back of the restaurant. Staff was very friendly, too. There is really nothing bad I can say of the place…. We will be back, soon!

dustbug

Points +35

Vegetarian
19 May 2024

Nice place, friendly staff, good food & tasty drinks!

Nice place, friendly staff, good food & tasty drinks!

PlanetaM

Points +78

Vegan
28 Mar 2024

Rico!

Solo he ido una vez y pedí el plato de Degustación que tiene un poco de todo, me encantan las arepas y la salsa verde buenísima!

TFJENSSEN

Points +102

Vegan
24 Mar 2024

Good choice of vegan options

This is a quaint little Venezuelan arepa café with a good selection of vegan options. Unfortunately, I chose the Gringa burger which was rather inspiring. I noticed that their menu is only in Spanish and English and not in Catalan, which is never a good sign.

Pros: Atmosphere, Vegan options, Cocktails

Cons: No Catalan menú, Slow service

ElRabipelao

14 Aug 2024

This is not true. Menu is in Catalán. This is part of a hate campaign against foreigners in the Gracia neighbourhood. They have also graffitied our façade as well as to other restaurants, Saying "In Gracia, speak Catalan"

Luckily, most of our customers are catalans, and they are tolerant and very kind.

dangeunrei

Points +538

Vegetarian
21 Oct 2023

Genial!

Pedimos un menú para compartir que estaba riquísimo, así probamos un poco de todo.
El lugar tenía muy buen ambiente y la atención fue de 10!!

flaeder

Points +16

Vegan
12 Sep 2023

One of my best meals ever

It's a very cute decorated place in Gràcia. We shared the plate for two (vegan version) and got finger-licking good food. Especially we liked the sauces, the black beans and minced soy meat and the cole slaw. Also our non-alcoholic drinks were very good.
The amount of food was just right.

I totally can recommend the place if you're up for yummy Venezuelan food.

Hele_na

Points +24

Vegan
24 Aug 2023

Comida de 10

Los tequeños veganos y las setas crujientes son de lo mejor que he probado. Platos sencillos, deliciosos y local 100% vegetariano y vegano.

Updated from previous review on 2023-08-24

Vidi

Points +187

Vegan
20 Jul 2023

Me encanta todo de este local

El local es íntimo y hermoso, toda la carta esta muy muy rica y puedes veganizar practicamente todo pidiendo tu queso vegano. Siempre que puedo repito!

Pros: Comida venezolana vegana, Gran variedad de platos, Muy rico

Veganagram

Points +41

Vegan
13 Jun 2023

Solo atienden con reserva

Pero conseguimos hacernos con una mesa, gracias a una pareja alemana que se iba y nos cedió su sitio.

Pros: La comida, El local, La bebida

Cons: La lentitud de los camareros., La música: no tenía nada que ver con lo que venden, Me dijeron que una salsa no picaba y era 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

joerayme

Points +194

Vegan
24 May 2023

Great arepas

A friend and I shared the sharing platter here which was a good option—arepitas, tajades and guiso de carne were all good. However the falafel in the middle were incongruous and didn’t really work. If I went again I think I would get a couple of the individual dishes instead—my girlfriend’s arepa was good. I had the crema catalana for dessert which had a nice passion fruit flavour but was otherwise a bit underwhelming.

The bar was dark, loud, quite quiet at 8:30 on a Thursday night, and the service was functional rather than friendly.

Updated from previous review on 2023-05-24

Milkor

Points +17

Vegetarian
15 May 2023

Fantástico

Muy sabrosas las arepas. Ambiente fantástico. Muy buena música y excelente atención. Precios económicos. Me divertí bastante y volveré seguro.

Pros: Buen ambiente, Comida deliciosa, Buena música

Shellv

Points +263

Vegetarian
14 May 2023

El Rabepelao

Unique and delicious. Central American and Carribean novelties done vegan or vegetarian. A wealth of choices and a great selection of cocktails. Cozy, trendy, fun.

jenso

Points +421

Vegan
11 Apr 2023

Good selection of nice food

We tried three different Arepas, which were pretty good. Unfortunately, most of them are with meat replacements and it is difficult to tell them apart. the ceviche one was excellent though.
The restaurant is very charming but a big minus for having to pay extra for making the arepas vegan (vegan cheese).
Quite pricey too

Updated from previous review on 2023-04-11

Pros: Great selection, Atypical menu , Very charming place

Cons: Up-charge for vegans, Mostly meat replacements, Pricey

janto

Points +1854

Vegan
29 Jan 2023

Buen sitio para tomar algo y picar

Sitio especializado en cócteles y bebidas, donde tienen una selección de arepas muy ricas. El pan de arepa está riquísimo. Quizá las cantidades, algo pequeñas para el precio. Ambiente agradable en el local, y una terraza muy linda y acogedora para los meses cálidos.

Pros: Muchas opciones de platos veganos, Buen sabor

Cons: Algo caro, Cantidad del plato algo escasa

brokensword84

Points +26

Vegan
07 Oct 2022

Amazing place

Almost everything in the menù is vegan or has a vegan option. The staff is very friendly and price reasonable for what they offer.

Updated from previous review on 2022-04-18

Montse🌱

Points +2107

Vegan
06 Oct 2022

Excellent venue with a nice patio

The best part of the venue is the patio with lights that create a romantic ambience. But it closes at 22h.
Good vegan tapas. The mango ceviche is delicious.

Pros: Lots of vegan options, Nice and romantic patio

AleixPalahi

Points +297

Vegan
04 Aug 2022

Good food, messy service

Fully vegetarian Venezuelan menu, wonderful arepas and cocktails. The outdoor terrace closed at 10, we asked for a table specifically for dinner at 9.30 and they sat us outside, just to force us to move to a table indoors in the middle of the dish. When we came in cocktail in hand, there was a table with our food already served (probably for a few minutes already) that no one said was ours, we had to deduce it was based on the food that was served.

So, good food, but the service in our case was quite messy and could have been much better.

Pros: Fully vegetarian with many vegan options , Good food and drinks

Cons: Bad service, Drinks were quite pricey , Very dark indoors

kai2608

Points +36

Vegan
31 May 2022

Very good food and drinks

We had the vegan degustacion de rabi. It was overall very nice with a good selection la dishes. The only criticism was the mango ceviche. It tasted nice but it was bit of a let down. We were expecting something more punchy since they called it a ceviche but it was more of a simple mango salad. Would love if they included vegan tequeños in their menu.

OnaSánchez

Points +71

Vegetarian
15 May 2022

Comida deliciosa y sitio muy acogedor

Os recomiendo probar la degustación rabi para dos personas, así pruebas un poco de todo y además está delicioso 😍

Sara_moon

Points +267

Vegetarian
18 Feb 2022

Good

La comida fue realmente deliciosa! Probé las cuatro arepas, algunos eran mejores que otros, pero en general genial ¡experiencia! Me encantaría probar otro de sus, platos menú bastante grande y variado. #Veganuary

NatachaNóbrega

Points +1982

Vegan
28 Jan 2022

Missing vegan tequeños!

When I asked for vegan tequeños, they told me they don’t have it *yet*, cannot wait for the day I can come back and try them!

We went on a Saturday night, pretty busy, bar-ish kind of environment with loud music, just what you expect.

The food was really delicious! I tried the four arepas, some were better then the others but overall great experience! Would love to try another one of their dishes, pretty big and varied menu. #Veganuary

ElRabipelao

27 Oct 2022



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