Eat · Las Mercedes
Moliendo Café
A long-standing Cuban-Venezuelan restaurant in Las Mercedes, known for ropa vieja and strong coffee: a booked dinner table with your driver waiting outside, not a walk-in browse of the street.
Key facts
- Price
- unknown
- Hours
- unknown
- Walk in
- 12:00–14:00
- easiest window
- Seating
- chairs
- booking: unknown
- 28″ bags
- Painful
- Las Mercedes
- Getting there
- Las Mercedes (field-verify)
- 5 min walk
- Order: Cuban-Venezuelan (ropa vieja, strong coffee)
- Table seating
- Walk-in window: 12:00–14:00
- Queue risk: weekend dinner
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- Caracas and the central coast ↗Plan every road leg in this region for daylight: the coastal highway and the tunnels up to Caracas are the busiest and least safe after dark.
- Caracas ↗Between clusters use a driver arranged by your hotel or a reputable operator, agreed in advance; do not hail street taxis, do not walk from one cluster to the next and do not use the Maiquetía road after dark.
- Caracas ↗Keep phones, cameras and jewellery out of sight on the street; take only the cash you need for the morning.
Map & directions
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Plan
When you can walk in, what to order, how to pay
Walk-in windows
A walk-in lunch is only planned as primary when your arrival lands outside the “impossible” window.
On the ground
Facts
- Reservations
- unknown — Book through your hotel for dinner; confirm the current address the same day.
- Capabilities
- food
- Diet
- vegetarian: limited · gluten free: unknown · halal: unknown
- Getting there
- Las Mercedes (field-verify) · ~5 min walk
Cons
- Address, hours and current opening status not verified: ask your hotel to call and confirm the same day.
- Las Mercedes streets are not for an after-dinner walk; keep the driver waiting at the door.
Deep dive
Questions, nearby food and sources
Questions and answers
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Nearby
Straight-line distance; walk time adds 30% for streets.
- Sleep areaLas Mercedes100 m · 2 min walk
- ClusterLas Mercedes150 m · 2 min walk
- ClusterAltamira & Los Palos Grandes1.9 km · 30 min walk
- Sleep areaAltamira & Los Palos Grandes2.0 km · 32 min walk
- ClusterLos Caobos & Museo de Bellas Artes3.6 km · 59 min walk
- ClusterCasco Histórico & Plaza Bolívar6.1 km · ride, not a walk
Used as a seated rest node in Caracas in 4 days.