La Antorcha Restaurante y Pupusería

Always on the lookout to try out new ethnic food experiences, I stopped in at La Antorcha Restaurante y Pupusería in Manassas this evening for dinner. I had attempted to scope the place out ahead of time — the only reference that I could find online to the restaurant had to do with the recent issues in Prince William County on illegal immigrants.
The place was empty. I suspect this has to do with the recent exodus of illegal immigrants from the county. I sat down and the girl at the counter brought me a menu — it was all in Spanish — no English at all. She appeared to know very little English as I was having trouble communicating with her. I got the sense that she thought that as soon as she told me the menu was in Spanish only — that I was going to get up and leave — I say this based on the way she retracted the menu from me as she stated this.
Well, I am not one to let something like a little language barrier stop me from experiencing good ethnic eats! So I tried to coax her into telling me something about items on the menu — this was a bit hard as she was not very forthcoming — so I rolled the dice and ordered something with beef in it. I have no idea what the heck it was. I also ordered water.
She brought me out a glass of ice and a bottle of water — which surprised me a bit.
About 15 minutes later my food came out. It was a dish of food divided into three zones (see the picture I uploaded — maybe one of you can tell me what this dish is). One third of the plate had a mixture of iceberg lettuce and diced tomatoes, the center third of the dish was rice with a beef and bell pepper mixture with an interesting, tasty sauce. The final third of the plate had a soupy black bean like sauce with small chunks of white in it that looked like feta cheese — although I am not sure what they actually were. There were two thick tortillas served with it — I believe these are called Pupuseria or something like that.
I tasted the food — it was tasty — but I wanted it a bit spicier — I asked her if they had hot sauce. A couple of minutes later she brought me a small bowl of a green sauce — I suspect it was some sort of green chile sauce — it was pretty good.
I squeezed the one half of lime they provided over all the food, then ladled the green chile sauce over everything.
The food was good. I am sad to see such neat little ethnic spots such as this suffer due to the loss of their customer base. I would have loved to have someone with me that spoke Spanish so we could have better communicated. I would love to hear Spanish-​speaking Unilocalers check this place out and tell me what they think of the place — or even meet me there for another meal!
When I went to check out — I handed her an American Express card — the sign in the window indicated they accept Amex — but the transaction kept coming back as «canceled.» I tried my Visa and that went through no problem. The hand-​written receipt she handed me indicated the bill total was $ 13.50 — the credit card receipt she handed me to sign was for $ 14.00. I was not going to haggle over 50 cents — especially with the language barrier issues — I tipped an additional $ 3.00.
Anyone up for a return visit that speaks Spanish? :-)