Join us for lunch catered by El Cafetal, a local Colombian restaurant. El Cafetal recently sponsored and organized the First Annual Colombian Culture Festival in Meridian this summer. Enjoy a variety of culinary delights like the tamal, filled with veggies, meat and rolled in a banana leaf, while enjoying Colombian folkloric dancing from a local dance troupe. Get moving and learn how to dance cumbia or a traditional dance!
We’re pleased to support these female entrepreneurs that have persevered even after an arsonist burned down their business and many others within the beloved Boise International Market. Read more about Adriana and Triny in the Idaho Statesman:
El Cafetal Colombian Restaurant reopened Saturday in Nampa, serving traditional ethnic food like arepas (round, savory cakes made of corn flour), empanadas and bandeja paisa (plate of rice, beans, meat, avocado and fried pork belly).
Adriana Scarpetta and Triny Silva opened El Cafetal in the Boise International Market in January 2015, but the restaurant was among 16 businesses displaced by an arson fire just eight months later. Since the fire, the two women, from Colombia, have served their recipes out of a food truck. With a loan from the Montana & Idaho Community Development Corporation, the restaurant now has a permanent home.
After the grand opening, their hours will be 8 a.m.-8 p.m. at 3116 Garrity Boulevard, Suite 114, in Nampa. For more information, call
208-571-5551 or follow the restaurant on
Facebook.
