La Pupusa Loca

This place is delicious! I’m in love with salvadordean food and I went with my salvadoreña friend and she testified to the authenticity of this place. The prices are great and the food came out fresh and piping hot (although it did take a little while for us to get our food). Service was not the best but they seemed to be under staffed that day so I won’t hold it against them. I’ll definitely be back for the pupusas and the plantain 😋

This a good Salvadoran Restaurant. The Pupusas are amazing great flavor. The only problem is they take forever with your order. My suggestion is order over the phone. And go pick them up. I will still come to this place. Give them a visit. ☺

Long wait for food. Service was bland and there was no atmosphere. Too expensive for what they offer. Pupusas were good though. So yea. 3 stars. Togo is ur best option and only if u don't care about said waitresses.

The service is awful. Even when ordering in Spanish they did not get the correct order. The prices on the online menu are not the same as the prices in the store, which was frustrating. The Curtido was just ok and they charge $1.75 for each extra bag. The salsa tasted like tomato sauce. I had to use bottled salsa to eat it. The pupusa itself tasted ok but it was dry.

Very yummy tacos and delicious pupusa (especially the ones with cheese on them). Part of a little strip of stores, so decent amount of parking outside. Food was prepared quickly and came out very fresh! Friendly server. Pupusa with cheese was excellent!

First of all this pupusas are the best of the best, I have seen reviews that say that they are to greasy but that’s because of the pork, if you want them dry is not a real pupusa, Is an imitation, BUT I give them two starts for the reason that they take to long (and is normal) so if you want them to go or you are in a hurry call ahead of time and be patience (it will be worth it) but if you are use to fast food? This is not your place, I haven’t had the experience of ordering that late like some reviews say and had a very bad experience so can’t comment on that

The pupusas are $3.25, each . Talk about inflation. Don't get me started on the crema. That was $1.25 for one small thing of crema. Only came here cause the one down the street was closed. But never again.

Best pupusas I’ve had in Houston. I don’t mind the interior unlike other reviews. The place is clean and service is good.

I'm new to papusa's, but these were absolutely amazing. I ordered chicken and I found them to be well cooked and the flavor was out of this world. The wait staff was quick to attend to me. The decor pleasantly caught me off guard, it was way more "hip" than I expected for a Spanish:Latin restaurant. Felt more like something form midtown or height...yes really. Highly recommend!!

Make sure you check your order before you leave. Chequen su orden antes de irse. Porque la muchacha no escucha bien. Y después trata de echarle la culpa a uno. Y también se tardan en contestar el teléfono. La comida está más o menos. Nada de lo extraordinario

This place was recommended to us by a Salvadorian friend and we are very glad we visited it. The food is excellent and the service was equally nice. I would definitely recommend this establishment and I plan to return.

1 hora para que me dieran unas pupusas para llevar nunca mas buelvo....................................

Food is ok, horchata is horrible. Almost all of the tables where empty and dirty, nowhere to sit. They also took a very long time on my to go order. I asked the lady out on the register for an update and she said ten more minutes, without even knowing what I ordered. Once asked again she asked my name and said, oh you had the big order, well we had other orders as well so it's gonna be longer. Well they could've said that when I was ordering. They told me 30 minutes for my order and it took them one hour.

Two different locations to enjoy amazing pupusas. My favorite is the revuelta and you can never go wrong. Authentic and great prices.

Was convinced by my daughter to try this place out. Pupusas were not bad but was not worth almost the 40-45 minute wait. There was just one lady handling the dining area. We were not greeted or even looked at for the first 10 minutes, in spite of the fact that there were only 2 occupied tables.

Very disappointed with the service. I order a cup a water, 2 pupusas and 2 orders of fried plantains. They never brought my water and they took 40 minutes for my pupusas and one hour for my appetizer.

I like their food but they never answer the phone and its soo annoying the girl int front is rude as well so if you want something fast and want to place an order this is not the place for you .

Horrible service. There were dirty plates all over the place and the tile on the floor looked disgusting. We waited over 10 minutes to just be given a menu. Other than the food good I would not recommend for a dine-in experience. Order to-go if you must.

I don't know how this place has the amount of reviews it does, I mean positive ones. The food is ok to good, but the service is horrible. They seem as if you're bothering them to order. I came in to order food to go and no greeting really, then I asked about their shakes that they had on the menu because the picture looks good and the waitress explained that it was good but that it would be 5 mins to make. I said no problem, I'll wait. She looked shocked that I wanted to wait, almost as if she was expecting for me to say I couldn't wait. So she ran to the back, and when she came back, she said she couldn't make it because the ice cream is frozen . I would say she looked down on me from the start because I wasn't Hispanic. Little did she know that I speak fluent Spanish. Won't come back here anymore.

They intentionally wanted to turn me away because they wanted to close. Horrible service

I love coming to this restaurant to eat pupusas and the tamales! Last Saturday I ordered the mariscada and I was not disappointed! It was so delicious and the portion was huge!! I even had some to take home and eat! I would definitely order it again and continue to come here! Best Salvadoran restaurant!

The food at this place is delicious! I love pupusas and this place has the best pupusas in town. They have lots of cheese and chicharron. I usually eat there and today I tried to order some pupusas to go over the phone. It felt like ordering a pizza 30 min. Later I was eating some good pupusas , and watching my favorite TV show at my house. I highly recommend this place due to the quality of its food and the good prices. The outside of the place is really humble, but the customer service is as good as it can get.

I've been coming here for 18+ years - hands down the best Pupusa place in town. You can hear the ladies slapping the fresh masa around.. Be forewarned: - they are slow and decor sucks

A friend of mine had a restaurant.com coupon for this place and a craving for good pupusas so we made a trip out to La Pupusa Loca tonight (Tuesday). Let me begin by saying that this is definitely a hole-in-the-wall type place. I was glad that I found a parking spot right in front of the restaurant. There were people at only 2 other tables when we arrived and thus were immediately seated. The waitress that seated us didn't speak English very well but was as sweet and helpful as she could be! And to make it more legit-- she's from El Salvador. Since we had to spend at least $35 to use our $25 coupon, we ordered A LOT of food! We got the platano frito (crema y frijoles)-- translated: fried plantain (sour cream and beans), pupusa de loroco, pupusa chicharron (pork pupusa), yuca con chicharron (cassava with pork skin), and a mariscada (seafood mix soup). We also ordered 2 bottles of water. This STILL didn't total up to $35 so we ended up ordering another pupusa to-go (yay, lunch for tomorrow!) to hit just over $35. I've never had El Salvadoran food before so I had no idea what I was doing, but luckily my dining companion was much more knowledgeable and had actually just come back from El Salvador! The platano fritos were a surprisingly good appetizer and the timing was perfect-- just as we finished the platano fritos, the pupusas were brought out to our table. Each table had a huge jar of curtido, a Salvadoran cabbage salad. My friend taught me to put the curtido on the pupusas along with this red sauce that came with the dish. Delicious!! Now the most memorable dish for me would have to be the mariscada. OMG. They didn't skimp on the seafood (huge shrimp, mussels, crab legs, and even an egg) but what really made it was the soup itself!! SOOOO good. The yuca con chicharron was good but not nearly as memorable as the other dishes. Also, I don't normally eat a ton of fried stuff and that one is all fried. This was my first time trying El Salvadoran food so it's hard for me to really compare it to anything but I enjoyed it! I have a ton of leftovers too! Food was great and inexpensive. Service was good. We'll be back. That gets 5 stars in my book!

Pupusas here are pretty good and made fresh to order. They are about $1.70 or so per pupusa which there are other places that offer it a tad cheaper. The pickled cabbage is in a huge jar kept at each table. They do have tamarindo and horchata waters but no Jamaica. Wasn't too crowded and seems like they only speak Spanish but it wasn't difficult to order. Waitress was friendly.

I had heard of this place since I was a kid, but those who talked about it always said it wasn't good. About 3 years ago my friend brought some pupusas over to the Starbucks she used to work at so we could all eat dinner and boy, was I surprised. I don't know why ever listened to those who said it wasn't good. This place in my opinion has the best pupusas in town. They're big and filled to the rim with whatever you choose. I personally enjoy the bean and cheese pupusas best, but all of them are delicious. When it comes to other Salvadoran dishes, I haven't tried all of them but one I would like to recommend is the 'Salpicón'. This dish consists of beef that is finely chopped with radish, onion, and cilantro. This mixture is supposed to be a salty hence the 'Sal' which is salt and 'picon' means chopped. The saltiness you would expect is not there, it just has the right amount of salt to taste everything. The onion and radish are so fresh they pop when you bite into them and the cilantro brings it altogether. One thing you shouldn't expect from the Salpicon is that it will either be slightly warm or cold. This dish is not meant to be hot. You do get rice and beans along with it which are hot and a small salad. Handmade corn tortillas come with it as well and these are always hot, crispy and soft on the inside. The food is why I give this place a 5 star rating. Service I would give them 3 stars because they are a bit slow when it comes to them attending to you. I don't blame the waitresses because there is only two of them since the place is small. I think they also have one cook? Not sure, either way just be patient and they try their best to get everything to you in a timely manner. I've called many times for a to go order and they always have the food ready when I get there.

Was angling to avoid having to cook on a cold, cold Monday eve. Searched around on Yelp for a bit, and was taken by the mention of the "mariscada" at this place--the fact that it's close (a straight shot south on Hillcroft) didn't hurt, either. I stumbled in, only to find myself as the only customer on premises. Had a cheese pupusa just to see what the fuss was about these things--I'd never had pupusas, though I've had Colombian arepas, which are similar. Slapped on the obligatory cole-slaw type stuff, placed at massive jars placed on each table, along with the red sauce provided--too much of it, apparently, as the pupusa collapsed under the weight of so much topping. I managed to eat it without seeming like too much of a klutz. The same cannot be said for the mariscada, however. It comes with a couple pupusas on the side. Not having been schooled on the proper form, I started by dunking them in the soup, but eventually settled on breaking them up by hand and tossing them in the broth--personally, I recommend the latter. The amount of seafood in the broth was generous--several shrimp, a couple shellfish, some chunks of fish, and half a small crab. No silverware other than a spoon was provided for this cornucopia of unpeeled shrimp and crab, so beware... you may find yourself getting down and dirty with your mariscada (at least I did). Overall, I think I acquitted myself reasonably well, except for the chunk of crab claw that flew out of my hand, up five feet into the air and landed into the next booth. Save for the broth being a little salty, the food was good and reasonably priced. As has been stated in previous reviews, the decor is a good representation of the "hole-in-the-wall" school, so I'd not angle to schedule any romantic dinners here. But for honest Central American chow, you could do a lot worse.

Delicious Salvadorian food!!! If you want to try a very traditional Central America food, I recommend this place. It's a very humble place so don't expect something fancy.

I found out about this place through Restaurant.com as well. I was expecting good food in a sketchy location & that is a exactly what we got. The appearance of the place is not very aesthetic but knowing that there is a hispanic woman cooking my food was the only comfort I had. My boyfriend and I are from Nicaragua and we were pleasantly surprised on how much the food reminded us of what our mom cooks which was a major plus. We ordered a pupusa mixta which was awesome, platanos with beans & creama (really good as well), a tamal de maiz (not bad but I would pass on it next time), my bf ordered the carne asada & it was really well seasoned & tasted great, it came with white rice, refried beans, and he substituted the salad for french fries which is a good idea b/c the salad does not bring salad dressing, just lime slices. I ordered the carne guisada which was good, I think it may have needed just a , bit more salt but overall it was average. We also had horchata, we were expecting the Mexican version so we were caught off guard when it tasted more like pinolio than horchata but I would still say it was decent. I would love to come back here and order more pupusas & some of the other main entrees on their menu when ever I am in the mood for some good central american food. :)

them new waitress is a mess my whole fam went to eat and she mixed up all the orders and after i even told her they were wrong she took them back and STILL gave me the wrong ones you know what i said this bitch better get it right cause she dont know me haa they do make some good pupusas doee