La Pupusa Loca

The food at this place is delicious! I love pupusas and this place has the best pupusas in town. They have lots of cheese and chicharron. I usually eat there and today I tried to order some pupusas to go over the phone. It felt like ordering a pizza 30 min. Later I was eating some good pupusas, and watching my favorite TV show at my house. I highly recommend this place due to the quality of its food and the good prices. The outside of the place is really humble, but the customer service is as good as it can get.

I had heard of this place since I was a kid, but those who talked about it always said it wasn’t good. About 3 years ago my friend brought some pupusas over to the Starbucks she used to work at so we could all eat dinner and boy, was I surprised. I don’t know why ever listened to those who said it wasn’t good.
This place in my opinion has the best pupusas in town. They’re big and filled to the rim with whatever you choose. I personally enjoy the bean and cheese pupusas best, but all of them are delicious. When it comes to other Salvadoran dishes, I haven’t tried all of them but one I would like to recommend is the ‘Salpicón’.
This dish consists of beef that is finely chopped with radish, onion, and cilantro. This mixture is supposed to be a salty hence the ‘Sal’ which is salt and ‘picon’ means chopped. The saltiness you would expect is not there, it just has the right amount of salt to taste everything. The onion and radish are so fresh they pop when you bite into them and the cilantro brings it altogether. One thing you shouldn’t expect from the Salpicon is that it will either be slightly warm or cold. This dish is not meant to be hot. You do get rice and beans along with it which are hot and a small salad. Handmade corn tortillas come with it as well and these are always hot, crispy and soft on the inside.
The food is why I give this place a 5 star rating. Service I would give them 3 stars because they are a bit slow when it comes to them attending to you. I don’t blame the waitresses because there is only two of them since the place is small. I think they also have one cook? Not sure, either way just be patient and they try their best to get everything to you in a timely manner.
I’ve called many times for a to go order and they always have the food ready when I get there.

I’ve been coming here for 18+ years — hands down the best Pupusa place in town. You can hear the ladies slapping the fresh masa around.
Be forewarned:
— they are slow and décor sucks

Pupusas here are pretty good and made fresh to order. They are about $ 1.70 or so per pupusa which there are other places that offer it a tad cheaper. The pickled cabbage is in a huge jar kept at each table. They do have tamarindo and horchata waters but no Jamaica. Wasn’t too crowded and seems like they only speak Spanish but it wasn’t difficult to order. Waitress was friendly.

Was angling to avoid having to cook on a cold, cold Monday eve. Searched around on Unilocal for a bit, and was taken by the mention of the «mariscada» at this place – the fact that it’s close (a straight shot south on Hillcroft) didn’t hurt, either.
I stumbled in, only to find myself as the only customer on premises. Had a cheese pupusa just to see what the fuss was about these things – I’d never had pupusas, though I’ve had Colombian arepas, which are similar. Slapped on the obligatory cole-​slaw type stuff, placed at massive jars placed on each table, along with the red sauce provided – too much of it, apparently, as the pupusa collapsed under the weight of so much topping. I managed to eat it without seeming like too much of a klutz.
The same cannot be said for the mariscada, however. It comes with a couple pupusas on the side. Not having been schooled on the proper form, I started by dunking them in the soup, but eventually settled on breaking them up by hand and tossing them in the broth – personally, I recommend the latter.
The amount of seafood in the broth was generous – several shrimp, a couple shellfish, some chunks of fish, and half a small crab. No silverware other than a spoon was provided for this cornucopia of unpeeled shrimp and crab, so beware… you may find yourself getting down and dirty with your mariscada (at least I did). Overall, I think I acquitted myself reasonably well, except for the chunk of crab claw that flew out of my hand, up five feet into the air and landed into the next booth.
Save for the broth being a little salty, the food was good and reasonably priced. As has been stated in previous reviews, the décor is a good representation of the «hole-​in-​the-​wall» school, so I’d not angle to schedule any romantic dinners here. But for honest Central American chow, you could do a lot worse.

Had no clue what a pupusa was until I ate at this place & boy, was I taken by surprise! I tried two kinds of pupusa, the loroco & queso. They both had great texture & flavor! Not sure what it’s called but there is something (kind of like a pickled slaw) you eat with the pupusas that enhance the flavor also. It gives it a great kick of heat & tart.
Never in a million years would I have expected good food from an empty restaurant in such a secluded location.
When ordering pupusas, make sure to order the horchata too! It’s a perfect compliment to the meal but FYI, it’s not all you can drink

I found out about this place through
as well. I was expecting good food in a sketchy location & that is a exactly what we got. The appearance of the place is not very aesthetic but knowing that there is a hispanic woman cooking my food was the only comfort I had. My boyfriend and I are from Nicaragua and we were pleasantly surprised on how much the food reminded us of what our mom cooks which was a major plus. We ordered a pupusa mixta which was awesome, platanos with beans & creama (really good as well), a tamal de maiz (not bad but I would pass on it next time), my bf ordered the carne asada & it was really well seasoned & tasted great, it came with white rice, refried beans, and he substituted the salad for french fries which is a good idea b/​c the salad does not bring salad dressing, just lime slices. I ordered the carne guisada which was good, I think it may have needed just a, bit more salt but overall it was average. We also had horchata, we were expecting the Mexican version so we were caught off guard when it tasted more like pinolio than horchata but I would still say it was decent. I would love to come back here and order more pupusas & some of the other main entrees on their menu when ever I am in the mood for some good central american food. :)

A friend of mine had a
coupon for this place and a craving for good pupusas so we made a trip out to La Pupusa Loca tonight (Tuesday). Let me begin by saying that this is definitely a hole-​in-​the-​wall type place. I was glad that I found a parking spot right in front of the restaurant. There were people at only 2 other tables when we arrived and thus were immediately seated. The waitress that seated us didn’t speak English very well but was as sweet and helpful as she could be! And to make it more legit– she’s from El Salvador.
Since we had to spend at least $ 35 to use our $ 25 coupon, we ordered A LOT of food! We got the platano frito (crema y frijoles)– translated: fried plantain (sour cream and beans), pupusa de loroco, pupusa chicharron (pork pupusa), yuca con chicharron (cassava with pork skin), and a mariscada (seafood mix soup). We also ordered 2 bottles of water. This STILL didn’t total up to $ 35 so we ended up ordering another pupusa to-​go (yay, lunch for tomorrow!) to hit just over $ 35.
I’ve never had El Salvadoran food before so I had no idea what I was doing, but luckily my dining companion was much more knowledgeable and had actually just come back from El Salvador!
The platano fritos were a surprisingly good appetizer and the timing was perfect– just as we finished the platano fritos, the pupusas were brought out to our table. Each table had a huge jar of curtido, a Salvadoran cabbage salad. My friend taught me to put the curtido on the pupusas along with this red sauce that came with the dish. Delicious!
Now the most memorable dish for me would have to be the mariscada. OMG. They didn’t skimp on the seafood (huge shrimp, mussels, crab legs, and even an egg) but what really made it was the soup itself! SOOOO good.
The yuca con chicharron was good but not nearly as memorable as the other dishes. Also, I don’t normally eat a ton of fried stuff and that one is all fried.
This was my first time trying El Salvadoran food so it’s hard for me to really compare it to anything but I enjoyed it! I have a ton of leftovers too! Food was great and inexpensive. Service was good. We’ll be back. That gets 5 stars in my book!