Hispa Restaurant

Yummy and authentic Latin foods. Loved the plantains. Good serving sizes. Nice friendly bar area even though no one was speaking English. Tricky to find.

My wife and I ate dinner here. It was excellent and the price was great. There were not a lot of folks in there so i felt compelled to write a review so more people would go and support this awesome restaurant.

Good food, friendly service. I picked several appetizers to make a dinner meal. It was the only way I could sample so many great choices.

All around pretty decent. Chips were light and salsa was excellent. Ceviche was awesome. Torta sandwich was excellent as was the carne asada. Mojito wasnt bad, just seemed like it was made with a touch of sour mix. Service was slow, But friendly. We will be back.
Oh, coke is bottled mexican coke. Made with real sugar, but is a preference thing.

this place is good but its hit or miss

Awesome dinner!!! We will be back! Very happy we tried Hispa. When we first walked in the surroundings were unassuming, but the service and food was delicious! I hope only great things for this restaurant!

This is a hidden gem in Edgewater. Excellent authentic food and a new chef that gives you other options. Margarita’s were very good too. We loved the place and the manager is determined to have a place for the community. We will be back!

What a great hidden gem! Chicken pupusas were best I have ever had. Chips were so light and crisp. Chimichanga was not as heavy as other places make it. Everything we ate was great! Didn’t try alcoholic beverages, but they do serve beer (I think) and margaritas, etc. Service was awesome and place was spotless!

The best restaurant in the greater Edgewater area! Everything I put in my mouth was excellent and the prices are outstanding. Papusas, tacos and the salsa are all James Beard level of excellence. Well done Hispa, keep up the great work.

Great happy hour, and authentic food! Delicious! I would go back!

I went here for lunch today with my in-​laws. I won’t be going back.
We arrived around 1100 and other than a few guys at the bar, we were the only ones there. Service was poor from the outset as nobody indicated where we should sit and nobody offered us a high chair for our child. I had to go back to near the bathroom and get that myself. (Side note, the bathrooms are single occupant bathrooms, the men’s room had no hand soap.) The music was loud and obnoxious throughout our meal as the likes of Eminem and Beyonce serenaded us.
We ordered our food and noticed that a few tables of Spanish speaking guys had arrived after we’d ordered. They were all eating before we were. The waitress herself spoke broken English and was largely inattentive. I don’t believe any drinks were refilled during our meal. She brought us what was requested and was pleasent enough, she just wasn’t going to go out of her way either.
The meal itself was just flat out bad. I ordered a pork dish that was listed as having a «tomato sauce». The sauce was a lot of diced tomatoes and a lot of juice /​broth under the pork. The rice was the best part of the dish and some flavorless pureed blackbeans rounded out the meal. The pork chop was inedible. It was an overcooked mass of bone, fat and gristle. I found about three bites of real meat before quitting the attempt and settling for stealing fries off my wife’s plates.
Based off the other reviews here, my experience seems to be the anomaly, but we were very disappointed and know there are better options in the area.

After hearing it was good we thought we would try it. It was very good. We had 2 different papusa’s and fajitas. It’s very authentic the service was wonderful. We will be back for sure.

So glad this little place opened in Edgewater as we were not going back to Plazuelas. Nice menu with a great selection and reasonable prices. Don’t expect to find dishes like Chimichangas or nachos here. instead you can enjoy offerings like tacos, fajitas and papusas. Hispa just got their liquor license, so if you want to get special pricing ($ 4) on jumbo margaritas go soon.
We went in for lunch so we ordered lighter than our usual dinner meal. The grilled calamari was good and had the tell tale sign of grill marks and grill flavor. The tomatillo salsa they serve with the chips was delicious — tangy and super fresh. For heat lovers, you may want to request some hot sauce as this is about as tame as you can get. Nevertheless we enjoyed it enough to get some to go. No jars here, as this is homemade so we got a nice sized portion for $ 2.99. We look forward to enjoying it during our football watching marathon this weekend.
The chicken torta had the nice soft roll and arrived topped with tomato, avocado, sour cream, pureed red beans and mayo. The side of fries that it came with absorbed too much not so fresh oil so that was a disappointment cause who doesn’t love a good crinkle fry? The sandwich was quite good though, with all the components blending together to give it a nice cohesive flavor profile.
We will definitely be back to enjoy a more substantial meal… maybe the carne asada, or the whole red snapper, or the roasted chicken…

My husband and I decided to give this place a try after seeing the reviews online. We’re glad we did! As the previous reviewer mentioned, the food is delicious, plentiful, and reasonably priced. Add good staff and the fact that it’s local, and it meets my five star threshold. I had the fajitas, which I really enjoyed because the corn tortillas were freshly made. I don’t remember the name of my husband’s dish, but it was equally good. We got takeout but the seating area is a nice, no-​frills sort of atmosphere. Highly recommended!

Had a great meal with some friends last Saturday night. They will get their beer and wine license soon but they allowed us to bring our own. Everything we ordered good! Seviche, grilled squid pupusa fajita carne asada open for lunch can’t wait to go back!

The Hispa Reataurant just opened a few weeks ago and we thought we would give it a try. It was amazing. I think once they get their liquor license, it will be the next popular restaurant. The corn tortilla’s are made thicker and are delicious. My husband had the Carne Asada and it was delicious. I had the Fajitas and it was fantastic. You get a lot of food and it is very resonably priced. We met the owner and he told us how he wanted to make this restaurant different and authentic. After dinner he gave us Tres Leches Cakes and did not charge us for him. The staff was also very friendly. Give this place a try. You won’t be disappoointed.

I’ve been encouraging the staff here at this gem of a sleeper in Edgewater to open their own brick and mortar restaurant for at least a year now and just last month they finally opened their doors. Previously the ‘restaurant’ consisted of one table, and 4 bar style chairs in the back corner of the market. This was how the restaurant came to be and ironically the kitchen is still in the same location but they expanded to the suite next door and installed tables, televisions, a bar (no liquor license yet — not sure if that is even planned), and restrooms to complete a storefront for the restaurant.
This is largely El-​Salvadoran but oddly enough the menu includes items like Chicken Al-​Fredo. I personally would never order something like this at an eatery such as this however it’s noteable that there are non-​latino dishes available including chicken nuggets and fries for the kids. I brought a party of 3 in last evening and our meal included chips and salsa when we were seated. The salsa was typical of these types of restaurants however I’m pretty sure this one had some mango in it — not hot at all but very nice and I’m sure the chips are made in house. My group ordered tacos de carne (2) ala carte. Hispa sells ‘street tacos’ consisting of a meat (chicken, beef, bean, or tongue only so far), corn tortillas (2 each), cilantro & onion, radishes, and green sauce picante. Don’t ask for cheddar cheese etc here — they don’t have it — this isn’t Taco Bell… I had 2 appetizers; grilled calamari with pico de gallo and the fried yucca with chicharrone that included some sour ‘slaw’ on the side and a spicy habanero sauce. As they draw most of their produce from the market next door the yucca was very fresh and fabulous. The chicharrone and calamari were also perfectly prepared and pleasingly presented. My wife got the chicken fajitas and requested ‘no picante’ (not spicy). The fajitas come with rice, refried red beans, and house made guacamole along with some corn or flour tortillas. I also had a horchata to drink (look it up if you don’t know) which came in a huge tall glass of the variety you might see at a german Oktoberfest. This was also delicous and works well to put out the habanero fire.
I’ve been here many times prior to the opening of the storefront restaurant — every dish has been amazingly delicious, reasonably priced, authentic by my standards (cooked by actual latino ladies), and beautifully presented. This place beats the pants off of fakes like Plazuelas and La Fiesta which are Taco Bell with waiters. This is REAL El-​Salvadoran cuisine. The market next door also has some of the most reasonable produce anywhere in the area. This business is a fine example of American capitalism at work. Oh and they DO speak English here which is a nice change — not many of these places do. Please give Hispa a shot — I couldn’t be happier to have them walking distance to my house — both the eats and the market!
Submitted this day not remotely humbly, D. Food Snob, Ph.D.