Empanadas & Hand Pies
Every dish below comes from a fictional SemFood restaurant. The prices are the ones you see in the app; nothing is charged and nothing is delivered.
Price range 98 items at 13 spots
- lowest
- $2.99
- median
- $6.49
- highest
- $49.99
The empanada, a half-moon of dough folded over a savory filling, came to the United States with Latin American families and now has its own shops in many cities.
Each country has its style. Argentine empanadas are baked, with beef, olives and egg; Colombian ones use a corn dough and are fried, with potato and meat, and come with aji sauce. Chilean pino and Puerto Rican pastelillos are other cousins. Fillings go from spicy shredded beef and chicken hogao to ham and cheese and spinach. Chinese menus have their own crispy hand pies, like crab puffs and fried rangoons.
They are usually sold by the piece or by the dozen. At the empanada shops on SemFood, from $2.99 to $49.99.


Guava & Cheese Pastelillo
Guava paste and cream cheese, dusted with sugar.
$2.99
Abuela Rosa's Pastelillos




Pizza Pastelillo
Tomato sauce, mozzarella and pepperoni in thin fried dough.
$3.49
Abuela Rosa's Pastelillos


Chicken Hogao
Shredded chicken stewed with tomato and scallion hogao, finished with cream cheese.
$3.49
La Esquina Empanadas







Chicken Sofrito Empanadilla
Chicken stewed in sofrito with a bit of cream cheese.
$3.99
Abuela Rosa's Pastelillos


Spicy Shredded Beef
Slow-cooked beef pulled apart and stewed with jalapeño and cumin.
$3.99
La Esquina Empanadas


















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Crab Empanadilla
Shredded crab in a sofrito sauce, a beach-kiosk favorite.
$5.99
Abuela Rosa's Pastelillos













Crispy Vegetable Parcels (4)
Golden pastries filled with cabbage, carrot and shiitake.
$7.90
Bamboo Grove



























Pork Belly, Molasses & Ginger (2)
Crisp pork belly glazed with molasses and ginger.
$17.99
Masa Madre Empanadas
Braised Short Rib (2)
Short rib braised in red wine with caramelized onion.
$18.49
Masa Madre Empanadas

Oxtail & Watercress (2)
Oxtail braised for eight hours, peppery watercress.
$18.99
Masa Madre Empanadas





Party Tray (12)
A dozen mixed pastelillos and empanadillas, cut and ready to share.
$34.99
Abuela Rosa's Pastelillos
