Pochito Sydney

Chicken and mushroom empanada was great! Reasonable prices, casual atmosphere, great service!

Had the steak sandwich with a side of empanada goodness. Great tasting empanadas without the additional onions you’ll find in other places. Great food and service. Thank you!

Food was delicious and the service was on point. Waitress was super friendly and very attentive to our needs

You received a phone call around noon asking if you take orders for empanadas, which either yourself or your staff respond with no, we are not taking orders, but don't worry we will have enough by around 1:30pm. So the customer drives in from Liverpool and when they arrive to purchase empanadas you let them know you are sold out because they are all reserved for orders? So the customer then explains that she spoke with a male staff member on the phone and he stated you were not taking orders for empanadas and that it should not be a problem either way because there will be enough available for when you get there. When the customer recited the information they were told over the phone (and has the phone log to prove it), instead of simply apologising for the misinformation on behalf of yourself and/or the staff, you deny taking any phone calls from the customer and also adamantly deny that anyone else could have possibly answered the phone and given the customer the wrong information? A customer whom would not have come in all the way from Liverpool had they not been reassured that there would be enough empandas. Really? That's going to be your stance on your mistake?

Food is ok, small portions. The sandwiches are good but for the same price you can get a kebab full of meat and salad plus chips and coke. Good if you want to try something different but too expensive to go hungry or too often.

Great Chilean food!

Great food and excellent service.

Warm family place , full of flavour 😋good prices I recommend this place 100% splendid coffee !

We ended up here for lunch recently, when visiting Sydney for a book launch. Our dear friend Ms. TW picked us up from the airport, and swept us away for a Chilean street food lunch. We were in desperate need for food, as they don't feed you on planes anymore. Remember the good old days when they actually gave you a proper lunch or dinner? Nah, it's pretty dim in my mind too. Pochito specialises in empanadas and coffee, with other items like pastries and sandwiches. Hubby and I stuck to empanadas, while our friend Ms. TW chose the Bacan. Bacan is grilled chorizo on a roll, with slaw and a coriander salsa. She especially loved the salsa, coriander being a fave herb. She enjoyed the spicy, tangy sausage, and the fresh slaw. She felt this was a great combo of flavours and textures. I went for a garlic, cheese and prawn empanada. This was deliciously cheesy, though I wouldn't have minded a bit more prawn and garlic. But for such a good price, you really can't complain. I wolfed this down, so sadly there are no photos of the interior. The friendly waitress cum part-owner told us that all the pastry is house-made, and all the empanadas are handmade. Mr P. chose the chicken and mushroom version, which he loved. He said it had a fabulous, herby, white sauce, good pastry, and was just a great combo. Our friendly waitress who is also the part-owner Paulina, told him this was her grandmother's recipe. Or maybe her mother's? Oh Mr P., keep your head straight And I had alfajores - delicious, delightful, dulce de leche shortbread sandwiches - yep, I had to try this. And it was a delight - sweet, caramel-y, coconutty deliciousness, with a tender, crumbly shortbread. A sweet treat indeed. Hubby and Ms. TW went for Berlines. These are yeasty German doughnuts popular in Chile, and apparently so-called due to the large German influence from German immigrants to Chile during the latter half of the 19th century. I just know they are delicious. Look at all that squidgy caramel! And there we have the vanilla version. See the lovely black specks of real vanilla? What could be nicer? Yep, that's right - nothing:) Pochito is a friendly, homey café, with food that is from the heart of the owners Paulina and her mum Patricia. And clearly it is popular with the Spanish-speaking locals, and others too. Worth a drop-in after a lunchless plane flight, for sure.

Felt family run and authentic and was filled with people speaking Spanish which has to say something about the food. So is the food good, yep it is. Service was great too as they went out of their way to seat us even during a busy rush.