German P.
Yelp
Food is subjective, what's good for you might not be good for me. Everyone claims that every Salvadorian restaurant in the United States that they go to has the best pupusas, but if you've had the opportunity to eat pupusas in El Salvador straight out of a comal not a greasy grill, you'd know what cheese, beans and chicharron in a pupusa is suppose to taste like and this place is perhaps light years away from that.
The brother, his wife, wife's cousin and I stopped by on a Sunday afternoon. The place feels small, tables wobbly and in need of some sort of renovation. We ordered a few pupusas to eat there and a few to go, the waitress had a face on her like she seemed a bit uninterested in helping us out. As we waited, we had some improvised mariachis from the street come in and ask us all for tips after they played music we didn't want to hear and then we had a homeless man without one arm ask us for some money.
The pupusas arrived and we began, I ordered rice pupusas with cheese and let me tell you guys something, cheese in a real pupusa is meant to be stringy, non greasy and non smelly, it's a cheese called "quesillo" which here in the states we don't have. These pupuserias here have gotten lazy or simply don't care and they add mozzarella or anything else to cut corners. The cheese in these pupusas I had was swimming in grease, salty, non stringy and had a texture of mud.
The curtido is purple, who the hell came up with this dumb idea that the slaw for pupusas was suppose to be red or purple? REAL curtido is suppose to be the color of cabbage, with a bit of spiciness, pickled carrots, cabbage and small pickled ONIONS! Some of you reading this might think "hipster or food snob" and no, it just annoys me that restaurants like these want to pass off these things as pupusas and people that have never had a good pupusa in their lives come here to say "these are the best pupusas I've had"
I can't really give a review on anything else in the menu since we just had the pupusas and I wanted to leave this place as soon as possible, who knows if everything else on their menu is good, but as far as pupusas go, never again.