JERSEY CITY · FRIED TO ORDER

Puerto Rican Empanadas, Hot Out The Pan

Hand-pressed dough, family recipe fillings, nothing sitting under a heat lamp.

Bienvenidos

We fry it when you order it

Two sisters, one cast iron pan, and abuela's picadillo recipe. Every empanadilla is pressed by hand each morning and dropped in the oil the minute your ticket prints.

Hours
Tue–Sat 11am–9pm · Sun 11am–6pm · Closed Mondays
Find us
2418 E Colonial Dr, Jersey City, NJ 07302
Call ahead
(787) 555-0142
Buy Empanadas
Tray of freshly fried Puerto Rican empanadillas with lime and cilantro
Close-up of a Puerto Rican empanada broken open showing beef picadillo filling

Masa pressed at 6am

No freezer shortcuts. We mix, rest and roll the masa before the sun is fully up so the crust blisters instead of cracking.

Six fillings. One box.

Beef picadillo, pollo guisado, cheese, pizza, guava & cheese, and whatever the special is that day. Grab the box of six and settle the debate later.

Order A Box
Staff handing a bag of empanadas across the counter to a customer
My kids don't ask where we're going. They ask how many they get.

— Marisol, every Friday since 2019

Hand holding a hot empanada with steam rising

4.9 average · 1,240 reviews

The block agrees

Best empanadas outside of Ponce. The guava and cheese is dangerous.
Alexis R.
Ordered 4 trays for my daughter's quince. Everything was gone in 20 minutes.
Damaris V.
You can taste that it was made this morning. Crust is unreal.
Kevin M.