El Chapin

We are relocating and will open soon in Oceanside any questions call 760−295−3919.We currnently have a Puertorican Restaurant in Vista. El Chapín abrirá pronto en Oceanside.

Although they closed at 8pm unaware to us as we walked through the door at 7:50 sat down and ordered the staff was super nice and friendly and not once mentioned the time they closed. The food was super good and fairly priced. We will definitely be back due to quality of food and most of all customer service.

Really good food! At first I was a bit resistant in going to this place but I’m glad I did :)
I ordered one pupusa with Queso con Frijol (cheese w/​bean) and one with Queso Loroco (cheese). Both pupusas were the BOMB! I was very pleased with size and the amount of cheese and beans in my pupusa. The cortido (vinegar/​cabbage) and the salsa were the perfect touch to the pupusas. Service was good :) food was good! And price was good :) thank you

The best looks great! They totally cleaned it up inside.
We love the Pupusas here and the sopas are so yummy… it takes me back to my Guate days.
We have been coming here for 2 years and since the new ownership the place is totally turned around. Me and my family live it here.

I went to buy tamales chapines for to go. The waitress did not know what the word chapin meant so i figure out she was new. Took for ever to place my to go order, the cash register was not opening so she wasn’t able to give me my change. i waited like 15 mins, during that time she was making phone calls so i decided to tell her I was gonna give her the exact change and to give me my tamales. When I was about to do that i saw a cockroach crawling by the menus, so I took my money and walk away, so discussing! Im sorry but not going back again… prices are to hight too.

I came here to try my very first pupusa. The pupusas were great. If this review were for the pupusas I tried I would have given them a 5-​star rating. I think they could do a better job of presenting/​decorating their plates because it didn’t visually do anything for me at all. Maybe this isn’t really part of the Central American culture, but I feel like this spot may actually attract more Americans if the inside was decorated nicer, and they had better presentation of their food and the type of plates that there food was served on. I was also charged for something I never ordered, otherwise I would’ve left at least a 3-​star review. The pupusas were good, but honestly there was really nothing about this place that would make me ever want to come back. I think your menus can be updated. If you have the money spend some of it on revamping your menu and making it look nicer and more appealing and easier to understand for the people who could be coming in there and spending their money. Those are the little details that I think can be improved. Everything was sticky on the menu, the table, etc. Also, during the time I went I felt like I was being waited on by a dishwasher not an actual server, so when I needed something it was difficult to get their attention and made me concerned that they were not only cleaning dirty dishes, but also waiting on me and my guest and making the orders all at the same time. I think this place just changed ownership so hopefully they will work things out.