HEALTHY DELICIOUS ECO-FRIENDLY
THE BEGINING
AREPAS EN BICI was born the 20th of April of 2020, during the mid-break of the Covid pandemic.
Venezuelan Chef Victor Aguilera, created an online Take-out and Delivery service for arepas and empanadas, with the mission of sharing a little piece of his home and childhood in Venezuela with the Bay Area.
The highly-skilled chef, combined his two passions; cooking and cycling to create an efficient and environmental friendly Venezuelan food delivery service. Delivering with his fixed-gear bike, this chef quickly caught the attention of the public and the media. Watch some of his media and publication appearances HERE.
PUSHING FORWARD
AREPAS EN BICI is growing! Per popular demand, we are now offering Dine-In through our POP-UPS. We are also offering catering services for public and private events.
AREPAS EN BICI has a lot of plans on the works. Our mission is to bring healthy Venezuelan street-food to everyone. Our arepas are GLUTEN FREE! Our traditionally made arepas are grain-free, Hallah, and celiac friendly. We also offer Vegan options, which do not disappoint.
“I started cooking at age four. Preparing arepas for breakfast for my parents, and growing up in large animal farms, I never though I was meant to be a chef. Fast-forward a few years later; I landed a job in a Japanese restaurant which started my love and interest in the culinary world. Now with all my experiences and techniques, I’m focusing on what I love the most, my home country’s food. As simple as it is, its warm, delicious, and unexplored. “
-Chef Víctor Aguilera
San Francisco
2020
“I’ve had long experience with the cycling world and has been cooking since 2007, I have pictured always a bike friendly small restaurant where you could come in an eat use the bike station if you needed to work on your bike, while having a polar and eating an arepa, so the dream started a year after I moved to San Francisco in 2017 had hit my 10 years cooking, and I made it on Cutthroat kitchen on the Foodnetwork channel, everything was heading in the right direction so when I got to the city I realized there wasnt Venezuelan food, San Francisco needs to see how delicious arepas really are, or everyone’s favorites tequeños.
After working for a year for Pinterest and the Academy of Art University as a line cook, I got tired of working for the man, I was use to running the line in Florida to be back in basics I was loosing my dream. I got home around 8.pm from my double and made 25 arepas, pack them up nicely and rode my bike around different bars in the city and sold them in less than an hour that really gave me hope, landed a job as an Executive Chef at Sabrosa and I took the job because I wanted to learn more about the business side, make mistakes with out spending my own money if I did, this past couple years my experience has grown a lot and unfortunately due to the situation everyone is going through I lost my job, and havent recieved any financial help. I dont like to wait for help but I do like to give it with that said I started Arepas en bici again with the goal that after all this is done I can pursue more, catering, private dinners, events and maybe my own spot finding the right people.
I am here for you and if you know anyone that’s hungry and struggling send them my way as i’ll make sure they get the arepas neccessary to help. 🙏🚲👨🍳"
-Chef Víctor Aguilera
First TV interview for Arepas en Bici
