Chulla Vida Restaurant 2405 Central Ave NE

Fried calamari and yuca, served with curtido, and tartar sauce.

Green plantain baskets filled with shrimp, house sauce, and curtido.

Green plantain baskets filled with shrimp, house sauce, and curtido.

Crispy fried pork belly pieces, with guacamole, and fried plantain.

Crispy fried pork belly pieces, served with ají criollo on the side.

Turnovers served with curtido and ají criollo.

Turnovers served with curtido and ají criollo.

Cheese turnovers, dusted with sugar.

2 stuffed potato patties served with eggs, avocado, sausage, and peanut sauce.

Fried sweet plantain. With Cheese Sauce.

French fries with beef frankfurter.

French fries with beef frankfurter.

French fries with beef frankfurter.

French fries with beef frankfurter.

Shareable appetizer platter: chicharron picado, empanadas, yuca petacones, salchipapas, and wings maracuyya.

Mashed green plantain dumpling balls served with cheese and two eggs.

Mashed green plantain with cheese, bistec, peppers, onions, tomatoes, and an egg.

Mashed green plantain with chicharron, cheese, Colombian sausage, cheese, sauce, and two eggs.

Guatita (beef tripe in peanut sauce), shrimp ceviche, and chicken stew, served with rice, avocado, and sweet plantain.

NY Steak, with rice, beans, sweet plantain, and curtido.

Ecuadorian fried rice with chicken, shrimp, pork, green onion, and eggs.

Grilled steak sautéed with tomatoes, peppers, and onions, served with rice, a sunny-side-up egg, French fries, avocado, and curtido.

Grilled steak with chicharrón, sausage, rice, beans, yuca cake, avocado, sweet plantain, and a sunny-side-up egg.

Ecuadorian-style fried pork, llapingachos, white corn, toasted corn, and curtido criollo.

Beef tripe stew with rice, sweet plantains, and curtido.

Flambéed Sirloin steak, peppers, onions, and tomatoes served with rice and French fries

Fried Pork (Fritada) served with seasoned rice, stewed beans, cheese sauce, and sweet plantains.

Grill Chicken served with seasoned rice, stewed beans, cheese sauce, and sweet plantains.

Grill Pork Chop served with seasoned rice, stewed beans, cheese sauce, and sweet plantains.

NY Steak served with seasoned rice, stewed beans, cheese sauce, and sweet plantains.

Pork chop, grilled chicken, sausage, NY Steak, fried yuca, fried plantain, and chimichurri sauce. (Serves 2)

Fried tilapia chicharrón, calamari, grilled shrimp, breaded shrimps, fried yuca, fried plantain, and chimichurri sauce. (serves 2)

Grilled chicken with rice, beans, curtido, and sweet plantain.

Fried Pork (Fritada) served with rice, beans, sausage, and fried plantain.

Grill Chicken served with rice, beans, sausage, fried plantain.

Pork Chop served with rice, beans, sausage, fried plantain.

NY Steak served with rice, beans, sausage, fried plantain.

Rib beef stew served with rice, and sweet plantain.

Chicken stew served with rice, and sweet plantain.

Free-range chicken in a rich peanut and plantain sauce, served with rice and sweet plantain wrapped in a banana leaf.

Sunny-side-up egg with rice and beans.

Served with fries.

Served with fries.

Fries with beef frankfurter.

Traditional fresh salad featuring tomatoes, red pepper, red onions, avocado, and cheese, served with a fresh lime vinaigrette.

Rice, beans, llapingachos, sweet plantain, yuca cake, and curtido.

Classic coastal Ecuadorian dish with yellow rice, vegetables, shrimp, snow crab, calamari, mussels, clams, langoustine, and baby octopus.

Grilled shrimp, fried calamari, shrimp ceviche, whole fish, breaded shrimp, fried yuca, fried plantains, and chef’s sauce. (Serves 2-3)

Shrimp in garlic sauce with wine, rice, onions, heavy cream, fresh parsley, curtido, and green plantains.

Breaded shrimp with rice, beans, green plantains, and curtido.

Traditional Ecuadorian ceviche with toasted corn, rice, and fried chifles.

A Peruvian signature dish. Fresh fish marinated in lime juice, accompanied by sweet potato, onions, choclo, and fried corn.

Shrimp in coconut sauce with rice, avocado, and green plantain.

Tilapia in coconut sauce with rice, avocado, and green plantain.

Tilapia, shrimp, calamari, and clams in coconut sauce with rice, avocado, and green plantain.

Pan-fried Pompano with rice, beans, green plantains, and salad.

Pan-fried tilapia with rice, beans, green plantains, and salad.

Fresh fish marinated in lime juice with peanut sauce, red onions, green peppers, cucumber, tomatoes, avocado & green plantain.

Ecuadorian farm-fresh hen soup with boiled egg, rice, yuca, and cilantro (free-range).

Traditional Ecuadorian soup, made with cow feet, chickpeas, yuca, and hominy.

Traditional Ecuadorian tuna fish soup with onions, tomato, toasted corn, served with chifles or rice.

Please call the restaurant phone number (612-315-5345) for today choices and pick your favorite soda.