Tambo Cafe

Cafe · Oceanside

Tambo Cafe

Cafe · Oceanside

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1904 S Coast Hwy UNIT 101, Oceanside, CA 92054

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Bread and Cheese Eatery serves up a delicious lineup of gourmet grilled cheeses and cozy sides like curry tomato soup in a vibrant, casual atmosphere.  

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"South Oceanside is the new home of Tambo Cafe, a Peruvian cafe that opened on July 28. Owned by Iole Revilla and her husband, who also own Panca Peruvian Cuisine & Rotisserie in the same shopping center, Tambo is based off of the 'lonche' concept in Peruvian cuisine. Lonche essentially boils down to 'too late for lunch, too early for dinner,' Revilla says. 'So [in Peru] we get together in the late afternoon for some empanadas, sanguches, pasteles and desserts. Easy to eat, conversational type food. Similar to the American 'happy hour,' but with more of an emphasis on food. Tambo serves empanadas, tamales and sandwiches, like the vegetarian 'Tambo Sandwich' with pesto and mushrooms on pretzel hoagie bread. The restaurant also serves dessert, including ice cream made from lucuma, an Andean fruit. Tambo also sells 'party boxes' of empanadas, to go." - Jackie Bryant

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Cory Baehr

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My newest favorite. The sister cafe to South Oceanside’s Panca Restaurant this is the perfect spot for a light lunch or coffee and dessert. Three different tortas are offered ( this is like a deep dish quiche). The goat cheese and pesto is light and fluffy and the Swiss chard offering looks amazing. Cappuccino was very good, the coffee robust add flavorful. Family owned. Charming, great decor and attention to detail. Obviously the owners are artist as well is great chefs. They can make mini desserts for your next event or house party. I highly recommend stopping in.

Luis P.

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As an avid consumer of most Peruvian food, and having had more than my fair share of disappointing places, I was intrigued when I found out about Tambor Cafe, a sister property to the more senior, and well established Panca Peruvian restaurant, located a couple of doors down in the same small shopping center, in the beach city of Oceanside, CA. Having tried the most delicious Peruvian pastries, and savory creations, some of which were made by outstanding family members, like aunt Toto’s Chocolate Cake, Lemon Pie made with Peruvian lemons, which look like limes do here, with plenty of condensed milk and fresh eggs, etc., and Alfajores crispy on the outside with Manjar Blanco (called Dulce de Leche these days?, but hardly the same final product), I stepped into Tambo Cafe, nice catchy name, to buy what they offered to the tune of $105? Yes, it added up fast enough. Bought: 3 Dulce de Leches. Very popular these days, different countries version. Did not knew that Peru had its own version, but then again, I am talking many years back when I enjoyed their masterful creations. This one was tasty enough, certainly valued high, but our family gave it thumbs up, little size or not. Must be said they did not travel well, but tasty anyhow. 4 Stars. 2 Chocolate Cake, with dulce de leche inside, and chocolate fudge all around it. Another expensive winner, where very soon it was gone. 4 Stars. 4 Green Tamales, at $4 a pop, these ones made with corn husks, and greenish in color, with an agreeable taste, but overall rather petite. Being so close to Mexico, and also having tried authentic Peruvian Tamales elsewhere, these were good to finish, but not great. 3.5 Stars. 4 Tamales made with Banana Leaf, $4.50 each. Same case as the others, decently enough, steep priced, but in true fairness must be said that is what one would pay in a Peruvian restaurant by default. Being who we are, we kind of regretted buying $16 for the corn wrapped, and $18 for these, we concluded that more sweet would have pleased the crowd more. 3.5 Stars. Empanadas a total of 6, at $3.50 each. Another costly bad option, as we tried all the varieties except the veggie. Let’s just say that Empanadas competition is fierce in a radius of 60 miles, and these were nowhere near the top. 2.5 Stars. Alfajores, $3.50 each? We had eaten alfajores at Panca, but these were a tad smaller and considerably more fluffier, with a fair amount of dulce de leche. Some like fluffier, kind of the dough and sugar exploding in the mouth, others a little more crispy. 3.5 Stars. Service was friendly at the hands of wonderful Alec? She was patient and helpful throughout. Yes, expensive, but now a days, unless one is buying from the dollar menu, better be ready to pay an average of $5 combined. 3.5-4 Stars.

Ethan Harris

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Fantastic spot for lonche- "too late for lunch, too early for dinner." All sorts of tasty sweet and savory treats; everything I had was fantastic- tres leches, beef empanada, pasteles, and tamal.

diego frederic

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Amazing coffee!!! Had the special tres leches latte and the quality was definitely there even beyond my expectations... Surprisingly the sweets and sandwiches were also really tasty, all made from scratch and tasted like from my beloved country Perú! Finally a Peruvian place I enjoyed in San Diego. Will come back and try their restaurant next door as well "Panca". You can taste the passion and love!

April Nurse

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Cute little cafe with some seriously great food. We went in around lunch and had the place to ourselves with most people taking orders to go. Had one of the best lattes I can remember, thanks to their house made chancaca. The pollo empanada made me want to buy one of every type they had. Will be back soon especially when they get those dessert empanadas going! In the meantime that passion fruit mousse will do! Super friendly service and some funny and helpful staff make it even easier to commit to returning. See you soon.

Kareem Pinkston

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I, literally, stopped in here on a whim. It was a Sunday morning; before 9:30am and I really had no expectations from this cafe. I only stopped in because I saw that they do “Peruvian” style food from their sign. I walked in to a friendly greetings and an abundance of visual choices on their display. I, almost instantly, requested “pasteles”. This is a Hispanic dish that I’m familiar with and I wanted to taste their variation of it. I had two and one was the ‘Pastel de Poro’ and the other ‘Pastel de Acelga’. Meats, cheeses, breads and love. I tasted a combination of attention to flavors of a culture, often times, thought of as “lost”. I also enjoyed the reggae music that played in the background, the super-clean bathroom and the native-artistic decoration of this establishment. Sure, the seating could have been a tad more comfortable. But that’s forgivable considering the taste and quality of the food. Highly Recommend!

Thomas Huggins

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Super delicious food, and not too expensive. The empanadas are amazing!

John Tsumas

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Excellent service and tasty food. I tried the beef Empanada with egg and onion..awesome! For desert I had a Cocaditas a real homemade coconut delight! I highly recommend Tambo! John