Truffles

St Kilda's home-style Colombian kitchen serving arepas, empanadas and bandeja paisa in a cafe setting.

A St Kilda cafe turned Colombian kitchen. a big, comfortable dining room with plenty of seating, occasional live singing on Sundays, and a warm, homely feel reviewers compare to 'a piece of Colombia' in Melbourne.

The chef, Marcela, personally visits tables to check on diners and explain unfamiliar dishes, and the venue doubles as a pastry-and-cake cabinet cafe alongside the full Colombian lunch menu.

Multiple Colombian reviewers, including recent arrivals from Colombia, confirm the food as genuinely authentic. dishes like sancocho, ajiaco and mute santandereano are repeatedly singled out as tasting like home.

Reviewers are split. most call the generous, homemade-style portions good value at reasonable prices, but several flag a Sunday surcharge and a few call the bandeja paisa overpriced for what arrived.

Summary drafted with AI from public reviews.