{"id":406393,"date":"2026-09-21T17:58:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/406393\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T17:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:58:52","slug":"venezuelan-pop-up-carupano-kitchen-will-open-its-first-st-pete-restaurant-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/406393\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan pop-up Car\u00fapano Kitchen will open its first St. Pete restaurant this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Other offerings include La Reina Pepiada with avocado chicken salad; La Tropical with sweet plantains, avocado, and Venezuelan cheeses; and La de Chicharr\u00f3n, a fried arepa made with pork belly in the dough and filled with queso de mano.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Osorio\u2019s favorite is La Carupanera, which features Venezuelan chorizo and morcilla, or blood sausage, topped with tomatoes and garlic-cilantro sauce. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The restaurant also serves gluten-free empanadas filled with beef, chicken, cheese, seafood, or caz\u00f3n, which is marinated shark meat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The restaurant is named for Car\u00fapano, a small fishing town on Venezuela\u2019s coast where Osorio\u2019s grandmother grew up and operated an arepa restaurant, with her mother and aunts helping in the kitchen as children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The restaurant was ultimately short-lived, but cooking remained central to the family. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Osorio said preparing Venezuelan food gives her a way to share that history with customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cWhen I cook for people, I am bringing with me the ways that my mother, aunts, and grandmother cooked for me when I was a child,\u201d Osorio said. \u201cI can give a part of my entire world to somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Other offerings include La Reina Pepiada with avocado chicken salad; La Tropical with sweet plantains, avocado, and Venezuelan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-406393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}