Pupuseria El Comalito

This place tastes pretty good. It’s inexpensive, but it still fulfills your cravings for Salvadorian food.

Great food. Carne Asada is good. The Salads could be better, but overall, I like this place. Friendly staff too.

Food wasn’t great. Not bad but not good. Served on paper plates with plastic knive and fork.

The food is okay, bad customer service, music extremely loud was horrible (reggaeton)

The food is good here. Very close to homemade to how my El Salvadorean friends make it. Portions are adequate. The food has lots of flavor and it’s fresh. It’s not like other places where theirs sit in a warmer. The mondongo soup sounds weird at first but it’s really good especially if your hungover but the only thing I dont like is they throw in huge chunks of potatoes but the soup base is so tasty and full of flavor and its not spicy. They even give you some tortillas on the side to go with it but I pass. Their pupusas are the bomb! Tastes just like how my friends mom makes them. I usually go for their chicken or their cheese on. I don’t care so much for the cole slaw. The tomato sauce tends to be a little watery but it goes well with the pupusas. Tamales are good, empanadas are good but most of all I love their horchata drink is the best i ever had. Service is good here. Wait staff are nice and efficient, I never have any problems here. My carry out orders are always right and it’s always ready as promised.

If you’re in the are this is a most visit place. Amazing Salvadorian Spanish food. The food is Amazing it’s good portion size. The carne asada (steak is great) the pupusas are on point can’t complain. The location is good there’s an outside balcony in the summer late evening the breeze is refreshing! Service is good the waiters are nice and polite. The only thing if You come on a busy day you’ll have to wait a bit for your food. Great restaurant!

Delish pupusas and great prices! Try the ones with the flowers, yummy. Plantains and chicken tamale were good as well. This might become a bad habit for me since it’s so close to my house…

The food is great but as for the customer service, HORRIBLE! Customer service has a lot to do for a pleasant experience anywhere! This place lacks that and more. Maybe a raise for their waitresses so their attitude and service can improve.

Being an aficionado to Central American cuisine, I enjoy great tasting pupusas. «El Comalito» demonstrated a 3 star performance based on food, environment, price range, parking, and costumer service.
In regards to food, there are no complains. The ingredients were fresh-​cut, cooked, and served adequately. Secondly, the environment is relaxing with sufficient space both indoors and outdoors. There was some trash laying on the floor at the outdoors patio, but nothing too serious.
Speaking in matters of product fee, a package of 6 pupusas (flavor-​varied), one fruit punch (beverage with authentic fruit slices on the top) and one medium sized horchata,; $ 17.00 should be more than sufficient. The restaurant maintains a generous condition in this aspect. It also provides a great variety in parking space, meaning that parking was not a hassle. Nonetheless, considering my girlfriend and I went to eat at nighttime, lighting was not sufficient. The parking lot needs more light poles to assure a safe environment for both staff and the clientele.
Lastly, costumer service was efficient, but not detail-​oriented. The waitress took our order quickly, but did not check on us during the eating process and took a ridiculous amount of time on bringing back the change from the paid bill. No harsh tone was ever applied on her voice, but had the the fence of walking out on the costumer half way through a sentence. In all honesty, this is the weakest area at the moment. This restaurant has a lot of potential, but needs to recognize the essential sense of costumer satisfaction. With this said, I recommend my adventurous food lovers to give «El Comalito» a go !

The food is ok, the prices are good, the place can use more attention, and the service and management need a complete makeover. Servers are inattentive, distracted, no sense of customer service. This place lacks of effective management. On one occasion I called in a carry out order, when I arrived to pick it up it was not ready, I was told by the manager that I must have made a mistake and probably called their other store. Regardless he never offered an apology or even show the slightest intention of remedy the situation. He said to me :” If you still want the food you pay for it and wait for it to be ready”. I will never spend another dollar here

Best pupusas!!! Love just the cheese the best but the squash and bean good too. And super affordable. Lots of ones for vegetarians. Slow service but yummmmy.

I’d never had a pupusa before, but they were great. They were like a cross between a pierogi and a soft shell taco. In any event, they were tasty. Thrilled to see a range of vegetarian options, I got one with salvadorian spices and one with beans. Both were good, but the spices one was better. The place was boppin. At like 1:00 on a Saturday it was like half full. Oh and the prices are great, I got two papusa, fries and a soda for like six dollars. It’s not something I’d eat everyday, but it works as great comfort food.

We were referred by a friend and loved it! Super cheap and very friendly! They gave us a steep discount when we said that it was our first time. We then went home that night and told our neighbors. They went that night as well and loved it! Yummy! Can’t wait to go back.

Delicious food for your money! I’ve been going to this place for a few years and have seen some changes on the remodeling and possibly new management. It looks a lot better now from the inside and out. The service is decent but the staff are not always English speaking so topping off your drink might require attention. I usually get the chicken tamales to-​go because they’re the best I’ve had! One time they ran out though but I ordered the Fried Tilapia which then became my favorite. I have dined in a few times and no complaints on the food as well as its plate presentation. If you’re on a date and looking to spend $ 30 for two entrees, two juice drinks, and three tamales – look no further!

Just left here with my boyfriend… Terrible service! We came before two large Hispanic families and were never given a menu, water, or a glance. Yet they already had drinks and appetizers. All the servers were just talking amongst themselves. Before we left we told them the service was horrible and they just stood there looking dumb! Definite case of prejudice against non hispanics!

Ive passed this place a million times without even realizing it. I was in the mood for some pupusas and this place satisfied my craving. The service was friendly, wasnt too packed, but I also went midday. I ordered 3 types– squash, beans/​pork anf a chicken one. I thought it was nice that they threw in an extra one that was just cheese. They are good sized as I was pretty full after eating just too. They are a bit on the greasy side though. The only thing I didn’t like was the little baggie of water down tomato sauce they gave me.

Unfortunately came to the wrong place I was craving some salvadorean food and I had a horrible experience with my family we walked in to the place and there was nobody to sit us down we waited 20 minutes before service once we got a hold of a server by walking to the front and asking one of the rude cashiers if we could get helped food was ok but service was horrible I would never recomend this rhw owner should feel embarrassed of thw preformace of its employee’s I work in a restaurant and this would be more than enough for termination please save your selfs a bad experiance an never come to this place

Affordable, healthy Salvadoran food in a relaxed atmosphere. My hen dish (gallina horneada) came with rice, garnishes of watercress, cucumber, radish and tomato, a bowl of curtido (salvadoran coleslaw), a bowl of red sauce, and two YUMMY gorditas (thick corn tortillas) on the side. My agua fresca — melon con pin~a (pineapple) — was delicious! No sugar added, just the juice of fresh fruit. My husband said his pupusas were really good — he had the revuelta, the queso con loroco, and the ayote (squash). He also said the horchata was alright, not great.
We visited on a Saturday night, so it was PACKED. The service was really slow, and my order came out 5 – 10 minutes ahead of my husband’s order.
It was a warm evening, so it was really nice to sit on the patio. I only wished they had a license to sell margaritas!
This is a solid option for satisfying comfort food in the Hyattsville/​Riverdale Park area (just up the street from Busboys and Poets). No frills, just good food.

It’ll put you in a «little coma». .. of deliciousness!
El Comalito is a pupuseria (Spanish for «place where they sell pupusas»). A pupusa (Spanish for «thing you can buy at a pupuseria») is. .. I don’t know, go get one for yourself. They’re really good. I think the secret ingredient is lard.
Also recommended is the chicharrones, which is pork that has had the absolute loving damn hell fried out of it, along with yucca that accompanied the pork on its nightmare hell-​journey. Their mutual torment results in a tasty dish that will have you rolling around your bed in agony.
I’m no pupusa expert — I’ve never even been to El Salvador (Spanish for «The Salvador»), but I’ve tried the offerings of a few of these places, and El Comalito (Spanish for «little coma») is my favorite.

Finally, a Papuseria in my neighborhood! This place is huge!
It’s housed in, what used to be, a stand-​alone Fast Food Restaurant with a drive thru. It is a newer restaurant, in old restaurant space. Every time I go, it’s packed with Salvadorian families. They have a wait staff and everything. Including the covered-​wrap-​around-​patio, this place must easily seat over 100. I usually get carryout.
It’s located right next to Shagga Ethiopian so, when I go here, I feel like I’m cheating on Shagga. But it’s worth it!
The papusas here are better than Irene’s, and perhaps better than most. Not all of them, (I didn’t care for their Revueltas) but the Ayote papusa is my favorite! The Ayote is a squash and cheese papusa that most places don’t carry. It’s Delicious! The Chicharron papusa is also good. They have several types of papusas that most places don’t, such as Zanahoria con queso and Chipilín con queso.
I also especially liked the Cabbage here, more that most places. It has a nice spicy kick to it.
Papusas are good cheap food, that are also easily re-​heatable, which is why I always order 8 of them at a time. They are usually only $ 1.50 each and 2 – 3 should be filling.
They also have Plantanos con crema and Tamales, along with soups, and milk shakes.
All in all, the papusas here are 25% smaller than most places, but have more filling… They’re also a little greasier too. But hey, Fat Is Flavor, and these papusas are mighty darn tasty. They are best when eaten while the cheese is still hot enough to burn you.