text: I have been reading about this place for quite some time I have been wanting to drop by but it is in a part of town I almost never find myself in So last Thursday I got off work a little early and I asked the wife if she would like to try the place outnnNow let me preface what I am about to say by letting you know that I used to live in Venezuela birth place of the wonderful arepa I ate arepas every single day I lived there Breakfast lunch dinner Midafternoon snack I have had them cooked on a griddletraditional deepfried and baked And I loved them all I cannot ever remember getting one I did not like My favorites order was Dos arepas de pollo y un pepsi pronounced peksi down there from La Areparia Diecinueve De Abril in Cumana I would stop there at least once a daynnThat said it was to my ginormous disappointment that last Thursday I had my first bad arepannSorry folks a precooked arepa that is been sitting in a heating tray only to be tossed on the griddle at the last minute to be reheated is bad from the word go Add to that mushy bland pollo mechadashredded chicken and things do not get much better The carne mechada shredded beef was not much better or should I say not as bad The jugo de parchita was watered down to the point of being almost indiscernible as passion fruit juicennI promise I really had high hopes for this place Being the only Venezuelan restaurant in Las Vegas I was excited to try it But as much as it pains me to say Viva Las Arepas I know arepas and you are no arepa