Pupuseria Lilian

Met a guy at sams club said this was the better of the 3 around here. And wow he fid not disappoint! $2 pupusas $2.25 tacos. Excellent service and horchata! Glad I came! Fair prices.

I've going to this place for many years, and it's become my favorite saldorean restaurant. I've tried pupusas from different places, but this one for me is top, they're so tasty, juicy and big; also the chicken, corn and pisque tamales, are delicious. I definitely recommend this place.

I purchased a Salvadorian breakfast and the food was awesome! The taste is great, seasoning to perfection! The service was good, friendly but cold. Service feels as in the "this is my job" attitude instead of "I like my job" attitude. Even though, I really like the food, I am not sure I will buy breakfast here again. The price for the breakfast was absurd! It was $11.91 which for the 2oz of sour cream, 3 1/4oz of beans, 1/2 of medium plantain and maybe 2 scramble eggs with tomatoes and onion is not worth it. Hopefully they can adjust prices so they don't loose more customers.

Food was on point. Service was great. Good atmosphere. Lots of people. You can tell they're doing things right.

Had lunch here with my mom and grandmas. Definitely felt like home and those home-cooked meals.

I love this 😀 place is incredible delicious salvadorean taste 😋 food and the service is so pleasant all the ladies, and the environment is very nice, there is parking lot, and background gospel music.. if you really enjoy salvadorean food and variety of different 🍽 delicious plates come here 😋...

THESE ARE THE ABSOLUTE BEST PUPUSAS IN TOWN! If you think you've had good pupusas and you have not tried these, you're missing out! They're incredibly delicious and everyone I've taken there has loved them!

I’ve been going to Pupuseria Lilian for 7+ years now and they are by far the best I’ve had! Great price, decent size, and super tasty. Their red salsa is the bomb!

Great papusas and coffee! Highly Recommend! Interior was clean and the staff attentive and friendly!

The service is spectacular, all the employees are super friendly and kind. The food is very authentic, my Salvadorian mother was delighted to find this place. It felt like I was eating with familia back home, I go back as much as I can.

Great food, Small but great atmosphere, Service with the waiters is fantastic, The vibe at this place is good, My favorite there is their "Pupusas Revueltas"! I'd recommend coming here!

When trying a new place I consider 3 things: -How the food looks in pictures -The reviews on Yelp -If at any point the outside looks like it's packed Out of all of these the food looked delicious, I passed by and it was a packed parking lot and the overall reviews were positive. So I tried it out and let me tell y'all it was delicious. The Plato Tipico was a little bit of everything.; Pupusa, Tamal, Cassava, chicharron, and plantains. Everything was a 10/10 in my books. Definitely would recommend!!

Waited over an hour and we still hadn't gotten our food yet everyone that came in aftwr us got food before us. Decided to leave not worth the wait I'm sure. The service was terrible no one came to get our order had to find a waitress. Won't be back.

The food was so good, and great pricing for the amount of food you get! 8.99 for their daily special and plenty of a la carte Very attentive staff, our server was super helpful with recommending menu items.

excellent service so friendly and helpful great food whether is pupusas or seafood they do know how to do it

I love this place so much, the lady who took my order was so nice even if she didn't speak much english, she was so patient with me and my husband we ended up getting pupusas which were delicious by the way.

Just don't go there. They are not coordinated, no one cares if you are waiting to get sit. Would say more things but I'll stop by review here.

Extremely dissatisfied with the food, customer service. I order a breakfast and the tortillas were stale. I order a fresh drink and it tasted like dirty water. (Sewage water) I expressed my concern with the server and lady at the register and she simply said, that's how things are made here. I was expecting a free meal but at least try to make things right. Do yourself a favor and don't come here.

We had the best Valentine's Day meeting ever, Great Pupusas and chicken soup, good service and family ambiance

Food is ok service and staff are horrible would have gone back but staff is just not good attitude ruins anything for them

I am very picky when it comes to trying new places. But my friend suggested this place once and it was absolutely delicious. I have been coming here at least once a week now, their pupusas are my new comfort food. -10/10 would definitely recommend. -Short waits -Excellent service -Reasonable prices

This place is a total dive in a nondescript area of industrial Garland, but the food is really good! We went on a Saturday night and were the only non-Hispanic people in the restaurant, which is fine. The service was friendly and our waitress spoke English just fine. We started with tamales--chicken for me, corn with crema for the wife--and they were excellent. I could eat those all day. The wife and I each got the "special" which is nay two papusas, rice, beans, and small salad, all for $5.50. It's a deal. I got one cheese and one chicken. I ate the cheese papusa, it was really stringy and gooey, but I was too full to eat the chicken. Rice was good. Black beans tasted funny so I only had one bite. I would return for the papusas for sure. Overall, if you are on the hunt for excellent Salvadoran food with extremely modest prices, this is the place. It gives new meaning to the term hidden gem.

Central American papuses with rice and beans $7 I eat whatever they wanna put in them. They are made fresh never sitting on the side and it always takes about 15 to 20 minutes. Dine in and take out all day long. Randomly closed on Monday I think

Excellent pupusas & curtido (cabbage salad). Honestly, prob the best I've ever had. We tried chicken & cheese, bean & cheese, & pork & cheese. They are about $2 each and comes with the cabbage salad, red & green salsas. We called our order in and it was ready for us in 20 minutes. Walking in you can literally hear the ladies in the kitchen hand making the papusas, patting out the masa in their hands and throwing them on the griddle. It smelled incredible inside and the place was packed at 1pm on a Tuesday. We'll definitely be back to try the other items on the menu, especially the tamales. Highly recommended!

Delicious pupusas! 4 pupusas with the salad, rice and beans was more than enough food for two people. We couldn't decide which of the 4 flavors we ordered was the best - they were all great! We will definitely be back! The restaurant offers both take out and dine in, with maybe 8 tables. The service was not the fastest, but the food more than made up for it.

This place had fresh, from the stove pupusa. The service is great. This was my first time having it and I loved it. Highly recommend the pork and cheese one. The spinach and cheese was a little bland but still yummy. I got the refried beans and rice as a side order and it was a great addition! Would recommend it for those who wants to try pupusa!

Incredible pupusas: bean and cheese; meat, bean, and cheese; cheese; all so delicious. Pupusa de Loroco y queso was such a great, unique offering. Loroco is a vine with edible flowers that was such a nice grassy contrast to the rich cheese, highly recommend. Tamales Fritos were like deep fried savory cornbread spears. Goodness this was a good meal. Spanish helps but certainly isn't necessary

Nunca habia comido unas pupusas tan deliciosas, viene de un mexicano que ama los tacos, estas pupusas merecen mas reconocimiento

If you're a papusa fan in the DFW area, I highly recommend this place! We came in on a whim on Sunday around two-ish. Walking in, you see what looks like about three Abuelas cooking in the back, and yes ONLY three women. We literally saw no men or outside cooks in the building, which we appreciated. The place was packed, however we were attended to quickly and the service didn't waiver once we were seated. Food: I always go to a Salvadoran restaurant for papusas, soo I decided to go all in and get the loroco and cheese papusa I so desperately had been wanting to try, but could never build up to it and let me tell you, I did not disappoint. I will say the spinach and cheese and bean and cheese papusas are my personal favorites. I also tried the elote tamal which isn't shown, but it was also pretty good with the crema, however it was a tad dry for my taste. The plaintains had just the right amount of caramelization and were fresh- definitely didn't feel like I was eating re-heated plantains made an hour ago. Needless to say we returned about four days later for some takeout and this is our new Papusa spot.

I really can't believe these reviews anymore. You people be lying. It is correct that when you go in there they look at you like what do you want. The outside looks nice, the the inside looks horrible. I ordered my food to go and it was just OK.

I've eaten here 5 times since ive found this place. Love the fish plate the most. Just ordered it today.

They reuse the drinks you don't finish! Be careful eating here, the food is actually pretty good but my wife and daughter witnessed some of the staff pouring back the left over horchata from the tables back in to the jug with the new horchata. Makes you wonder what they do with the food. I was disappointed to hear this because this was our go to Pupusa place when we were in the area.

I have to retract my last review of 5 stars and give this place 2 stars. Which is really unfortunate because I had recently left a great review and the food has always been delicious here, but it isn't worth eating here at the expense of getting food poisoning. Anyone who eats here can tell it isn't the cleanest establishment. Especially if you use the restrooms. Yet, for the price and the taste of food I looked passed it. My husband, and I have ate here about a total of eight times. So we decided to introduce this place to some family of ours about two weeks ago. It was a matter of 3hrs after eating that all 7 of us family members got really sick. It was awful and it literally took two full days for all of us to recover from the food poisoning. You can say I learned my lesson and will never look passed the cleanliness of an establishment ever again. The service isnt very good either. Again, we looked past that because their pupusas are delicious, I'll give them that.

Always hot tasty pupusas and I recommend trying the deserts! Always a packed house full of many ethnicities. It's a hole in the wall BUT these places always seem to have the best food! I call in my order and it's always ready for pickup! Try their horchata if you decide to wait on your order! Make sure to practice your order in Spanish if your ordering over the phone lol. Enjoy the Salvadoran goodness!

Pupusas are good but staff is rude. Says they close at 8 but door is locked by 7:50 and don't take orders over the phone 20 minutes prior to closing. I tried placing an order over the phone at 7:40 but they wouldn't take it unless I was in the door by 7:50 which I arrived by but had doors locked already. Let them know that I had called and I had arrived just on time and they let me in but, cook was rude about it.. nagging about having to take another order

Wow!!! Wow!!! The rivulets pupesas are down right amazing! First time here and will not be my last! What a great value for what you get!!!! Amazing!

What a great find! This place is not much to look at, but it is very authentic. They definitely serve up the best pupusas I've ever had. The menu is bilingual, but it definitely doesn't hurt to know Spanish. For those of you who aren't familiar with pupusas, they are basically thick corn tortiallas stuffed with a type of meat and cheese, and sometimes beans. After studying the menu, I decided on one pork and one chicken. After a short wait, a plate of pupusas with a cabbage slaw and salsa was brought to my table. As soon as you look at them, and get a little bit of the smell, you know you're in for something good. Everything on the plate is made from scratch, and the pupusas had just the right amount of char on them. I tried to eat them slow so I could enjoy them, but I'm pretty sure I devoured my plate in 5 minutes. Each bite consists of seasoned meat, gooey cheese, and good corn flavor from the dough. If you love corn tortillas, then you'll love pupusas. Oh, and did I mention that this place is cheap. No pupusa will run you more than $2 each, and 2, maybe 3 is all you need. Will be back whenever I'm in the area.

Yummy! I love the cheese pupusas and fried plantains! You may benefit from knowing a few basic Spanish words...

The staff is always super friendly and the food is delicious!! My first time here the cashier was super helpful explaining the menu and gave really great recommendations. This restaurant has become a staple in my house!!

Want to be the King of El Salvador? Roll into Pupeseria Lilian with a wad of twenties like I did...four o'clock on a Saturday...almost every table taken...clientele looking a little third world riff-raff-ish (ever seen the extras in Nacho Libre?)...only caucasian americano in the joint. Hell, for what I spent at Tei An, I'm paying the whole restaurant's bill right here, right now...in cash...the plump salvadoran waitresses gazing up at me as if I had a halo emanating from the back of my neck. They steal glances out in the parking lot to see if I have a pick up truck with my last name decal-ed across the back glass. Well that's my fantasy at least. In reality, I feasted on a late afternoon snack of two moist, savory pupusas with marinated latin cole slaw ($3), a Mexican sugar cane Coke ($2), a Sprite and hot chocolate ($1.50 each) for my boy, all for $8.17, plus tip. Are you freaking kidding me? These things are tasty, with a wonderful red sauce, and a good green one, served icy cold in squeeze bottles. I think you are supposed to open the steaming pupusa and stuff a little of the marinated salad inside and drizzle each bite with hot sauce. Ole. http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/dVLLgntv8XyP87HU412Urw?select=CARvxhPcywcJmzTNzsYbAA I'll be back to try one of everything. Oh, there are plenty of other items besides the $1.50 pupusas such as Salvadoran breakfasts (served all day), various tamales, and traditional plates like fajitas and carne asadas, etc. I'm pretty sure it's cash only. Oh, and you should have seen the actual look on the waitresses' faces as I dropped a freakishly large (in proprtion to my check) $5 tip on the table and gave them my best "how you doin" Joey smile as I walked out the door. I think I saw all of them swoon.

I have only had a better pupusa from a lady who used to sell them out of her apartment in Irving! This place brings my love for pupusas back... After trying pupusas at a ton of different places I thought I was over these great tasting discs of goodness. But then I decided to stop by on my my way home from work... Walked in just past 7 on a weekday and this place was empty. But it didn't take long to start filling up. So we ordered 2 of all the pupusas on the menu and 1 of each of the tacos as well. The tacos were tasty, with the lengua (tongue) being the tastiest. But the pupusas were freaking great! They are not labeled so you will have dig in and start eating. The first one was so good I really thought I was eating the revuelta, it was actually the carnitas. Both were just so damn good and had more than enough meat to keep me happy. Check it out you won't regret it...

If yur craving for some pupusas this is the place so darn good and their tamales the service was nice and friendly . The food yummy

This was a fun find so close to home! Everything is handmade fresh each day! The pupusa plate had so much flavor and texture to keep each bite interesting!! Mmm!

They're my favorite pupuseria. The first time I ever went I went with my father and everything was so delicious and the service was great. Ever since that day I usually always order take out and they never disappoint.

Fab! They're cheap - so try all the flavors! Seriously!! Do a sampler of them as singles and then you'll know your favorites for next time! You can add sides of rice and beans! Next time you can get a plate of just the ones you liked the best! Or like me - I like to get a bunch of flavors and share! Best horchata I've had this side of Mexico! Fresh! Bet you it's home made! Yum!! I had to wait for my order (which I love - fresh fried not heating lamp holding!!). Got to watch the line of ladies making them - wow! Lots of manual labor and skill goes into making these jewels of meat, cheese, beans, veggies or whatever and dough! Making that dough thin with lots of goodies inside is a fabulous art form!! Not too thin or they'll pop! Then slowly and patiently warming and toasting them on the flat top grill till they're ready for you to break open into oooy gooy goodness to be dunked in salsa before going tummy side!!! Mmmmmmm pupusas!!!!!

First time eating pupusas. They are so delicious! The service was great. The food is super affordable and hefty. I only ordered two vegetarian pupusas, but I wallowed out to the car .

I drive by this place almost every day on my way home from work and had been looking for a decent pupuseria, so I convinced my wife to stop in while we were running errands one day. It doesn't look like much, and sometimes you have to wait for parking to open up, but it is so worth it. We had pork and cheese pupusas, barbacoa tacos, rice, and beans. The food was amazing and inexpensive. Their black beans were better than I've had anywhere else, even Gloria's. We left full and very happy, for a more than reasonable price. I'll definitely be back again and again. (I deducted one star, because the parking situation needs improvement.)

Very bad customer service The guy at the counter super despises rude and cranky if he doesn't like his job I don't understand what he's doing there he gets a lot wrong with the orders after that they give incomplete bad orders and change them.

Amazing I'm so sad I barely found this place not only is it so affordable it's absolutely authentic and delicious! I get the cheese Papusas & corn tamales! Not to mention if u want something sweet order platano I go at least once a week !

The pupusas were great! Big and stuffed with cheese. Although, the tamales were less than preferable.. they were soggy and had a gelatin type of texture, the masa was still raw! It also had very little meat inside and could use more seasoning.

Wow! What a great find. We were just finishing up dinner with another couple when my husband said there was a pupusa place nearby that was highly rated on Yelp. Yea, that's how we roll...we finish dinner with another meal...LOL. It was just about 8pm on a Sunday night when we arrived and noticed the parking lot was almost full. Hmmm...this place must be good if there are a lot of people here. To the right of the entrance after you enter were a counter and a cashier station so we thought it was one of those places where you ordered and then grabbed a seat. Nope, counter area was for to-go orders only. Cashier told us to find a table and order there if we were eating in. We quickly grabbed a table as the place was getting busier. Our waitress came over and gave us menus. A few minutes later she returned and asked us if we were ready to order...totally in Spanish...after the brief deer in the headlights look we said "un momento por favor"....oh man she only speaks Spanish, we're going to have to bust out our Spanish skills from high school and college. Three of us had taken Spanish in school...we got this...LOL...OMG, I hope our orders come out right. Husband and I ordered a Taco de Lengua (beef tongue), a Pupusas Revueltas (pork and cheese), a Pupusa de Queso (cheese), and a large Horchata. Everything was delish! Husband loved the taco. It was tender, flavorful and a healthy portion of meat on the tiny corn tortilla. The pupusas were great and probably would have been even better if we had the pickled cabbage slaw that traditionally goes with them. Some tables had a jar of the slaw and some didn't...dang it we picked a table with no jar. We tried to ask our waitress for the slaw but she was so busy we couldn't flag her down and didn't want our hot freshly made pupusas to get cold. Even without the slaw they were tasty. Too bad we were pretty stuffed from eating at that pho spot nearby or we would have ordered more items. It was only $12 bucks for 4 people. Will come back for sure! BTW, we left close to 9pm and the place was packed with people. Several were waiting in line and more people were still walking in the door. They apparently close at 9pm but something tells me they're too popular to really close on time. We'll come early if we go again on a Sunday around dinner time.

Excellente!! I am Texan and my wife is Colombian so I grew up eating Tex-Mex. I came in here for a business lunch with a coworker and was blown away! Being familiar with Colombian food I somewhat knew what to expect but this was out of the world! Highly recommend it!

Just found this little gem as I was in Garland waiting on a friend. I live in Frisco and Pupusas are nonexistent there, so whenever I travel outside of town, I always search for one nearby. This one did NOT disappoint. I came in before 11:30AM and this place was already packed. Tables filled with people. I went to the register and the guy at the front was so helpful. I ordered the "Especial Del Dia - two Pupusas, rice, beans and a salsa - $5.50" UNBEATABLE! Pupusas were amazing. Definitely coming back for more!

First time visiting this place. Service was friendly and attentive. We both had the 2 Pupusa plate. We had pork,bean and cheese, a chicken and cheese snd a spinach and cheese pupusa. Plus a chicken tamal. All was excellent, hot and fresh. Restaurant is very clean which is amazing considering how busy they are. Cant wait to go back.

Best carnitas chiccarones ever! Crispy and fresh. I was worried about the size of the propusas but the we're nicely stuffed the very first one listed is on point! Perfect cooked plantains and the agua de Marañan yummy. We went on a Saturday the place was packed I expected a 20 min wait on the food, super surprised the service wasn't as long as the menu warrants. Fantastic little place, I'll be back! # lovepropusas

This place is in a sort of sketchy neighborhood, but the pupusas are to die for and are only $1.50 each, so it's worth it. I had the cheese, the bean and cheese, and the loroco and cheese, but my favorite was the chicharon pupusa. It was so savory and all in all, definitely one of the best pupusas I've had. I sort of wanted to hoard them all to myself like Gollum in the Lord of the Rings, but I digress. All of the pupusas were made to order and thus pipping hot. They went well with the curtido and red and green hot sauce. They were also a good size and surprisingly filling. My boyfriend got some sort of chicken sandwich which weirdly had beets on it. It was alright, but the pupusas were the real treat and I shall return for more in the future.

It's being a while since I've had a pupusa , I think over 10 years due to some bad experiences with 2 other places. I was ceaving something cheesy so scrolling down and searching on the "nearby " pupuseria Lilian came up, so my friend and I decided to give it a try. We Arrived around lunch time 1sh, and it was packed. It's a small place but still like 10 or so tables where you can dine in. We were able to get a table and a waitress gave us some menus but we already knew what we wanted. I ordered 2 cheese and 1 revuelta (mix with pork). My friend the same. It took a while to get our food but we figured because it was busy with dine in and to go orders. I was pleasantly surprised the pupusas were tasty, good size and not too oily (which was 1 of my concerns from the other places I've tried them). On table there was some cabbage/carrot salad? I don't know what they call it. And 2 choices of salsas, red and green. Not too spicy which it's great news for me. On the menu they also have tacos, Salvadorian breakfast plate, caldo, aguas frescas and more, but we only tried the pupusas. Another plus ,,, the price, for 6 pupusas and 2 drinks it was only $15~ !! We will be back next time we are craving some pupusas. 1 thing that I didn't like was that the "cabbage salad" was in 1 big container that they pass around from table to table. I would suggest that they serve smaller portions per table instead.

I've lived down the street from here for over 4 years, but made my first trip tonight. It did not disappoint! You can tell everything is scratch made and fresh. There is a language barrier, so it's a little tricky to place your order if you don't speak Spanish. I did a lot of pointing. But don't let that stop you! We ordered the pork and cheese pupusas as well as some bean and cheese. They are definitely the star! Great corn flavor, very filling. You can't beat the price either!! Goes great with the crunchy, tangy slaw they provide you. Great tasting red and green sauce as well. We also ordered some tacos, but other than the homemade corn tortillas they were served on, nothing to write home to. Stick to the pupusas! We got rice and refried black beans which were also amazing. Will definitely be coming back again.