La Herradura Coffee Stable

In a little pocket of Chippendale fast becoming a much-needed enclave of wine bars and live music, you’ll find La Herradura Coffee Stable. Opening up just four weeks ago, this tiny cafe is more than just a coffee shop. Colombian owner, Zeidy, is also serving up traditional South American food. For me, this meant consuming my second lot of arepas in a month.

Colombian arepas are served up here as entrees with your lunch, or at breakfast time as a substitute for banana bread. I tried a cheese Arepa ($3.50) and an even more flavoursome Sweet Corn Arepa ($3.50). I smeared them both in hogao (a Colombian tomato salsa) and an even better flavoursome chilli sauce that’s ...read more