The slow-cooked family recipes blend ingredients and flavors. With a fresh take on Venezuelan dishes, the Pica Pica menu boasts a spirited selection of sweet, savory and spicy dishes centered on four core ingredients: corn, plantains, taro and yuca root. Food traffic has grown significantly since, as they вЂњquickly realized we were servicing a communityвЂќ flocking to the restaurant for playful spins on Venezuelan classics-all of which happen to be 100% naturally gluten free. The restaurantвЂ™s San Francisco Mission District location opened in 2010 and the Napa location was closed several years later to focus on it. The result? Traditional home-cooked Venezuelan food with вЂњa little bit of spice,вЂќ says Vermut, who has been stateside since college. From the very beginning, they were very intentional in creating a hand-crafted menu based on family recipes.

What do you love most about your family kitchen?ДЄdriana Lopez Vermut grew up with a family in the kitchen in Venezuela, including a father who ran two restaurants.Д«orn out of a love for family time in the kitchen and the opportunity to share little bites of their heritage, Vermut and her father, Leopoldo Lopez Gil, founded Pica Pica Arepa Kitchen in Napa in 2008. The Celiac Community Foundation of Northern California is highlighting regional gluten-free small businesses, how they are supporting the community and how we can support them in turn during the pandemic. A meal drive has kept this fast-casual restaurant on the front lines

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