El Camion
431 W 202nd StInwood, NY 10034 917-971-9828
Every day · 12 PM to 6 AM
Counter only. Same corner since 2005.
PataconPisao
Venezuelan Street Kitchen · NYC
La Original · Desde 2005 · Hasta las 6 AM
Los Roques · Lago de Maracaibo · Caracas
La comida
Patacones
Cachapas
Arepas
Tacucho
Look at the food.
PataconesCachapasArepasTacuchoPlaceholders from the current Patacon Pisao menu library. Production-day photography replaces these one-for-one.
NYC’s original patacón · est. 2005
Pisao means smashed.
Green plantain, pressed flat, fried twice, stacked with Maracaibo family recipes. Born on a truck in Inwood in 2005. Still on that corner. Still smashing at 3 AM.
Clase rápida
Naturally gluten free · siempre
Qué es un patacón
Maracaibo’s answer to the sandwich. No bread anywhere near it. Two discs of green plantain do the job better, and they have since before we ever rolled into Inwood.
1
Verde
Green plantain, cut thick and fried once. Firm, starchy, zero gluten. The foundation.
2
¡Pisao!
The press comes down. You can hear it from the sidewalk. That sound is the whole brand.
3
Dorado
Fried again to deep gold, then stacked: shredded beef, black beans, fried queso, house nata.
La madrugada
The truck never closed before 6 AM.
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.
202nd St · tonight
12 PM
→ 6 AM
→ 6 AM
431 W 202nd St, Inwood
Every single day
Desde julio 2005
Los recibos
21 years of receipts.
NY Mag101 Best Sandwiches
Bon AppétitBest Meals We Ate, 2022
The Infatuation8.6, Inwood truck
The New York TimesThe 2015 truck profile
Vendy AwardsFinalist 2010 · All-Star 2019
Grub Street + ThrillistBest of Elmhurst · Best lunch, Inwood
“Others who try to look like us attempt to imitate our artful creation of the classic, but there is only one.”
Dónde
Three spots.
Hasta las 6 AM
Inwood, NY 10034 917-971-9828
Lower East Side, NY 10002 646-678-5913
Elmhurst, NY 11373 718-899-8922
Three spots.
One press.
Inwood, NY 10034 917-971-9828
Essex St
139 Essex StLower 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 AveElmhurst, NY 11373 718-899-8922
Sun to Thu · 8 AM to 11 PM
Fri + Sat · 8 AM to 12 AM
Two floors. Game nights live here.