Mi Chalateca

One star because they charge a 99¢ fee on a $ 40 purchase for some cheap to make food.

Such bad customer service. So rude. The waitress rolled her eyes at the questions I had about the menu and walked away while rolling her eyes. Sorry to say but I didn’t try the food. This is not a food review… This is based on customer service.

Best pupusas I’ve had so far! I got camarones y queso and it was so delicious!
They served our party of 25 with excellent service!
–1 star for: nasty bathrooms, cleanliness, and overly sweet michelada.
Other than that everything was delicious!

First off my Pupusa experience is as listed
First time I tried pupusas was at a friends house when his momma made them for his bday party years ago… DANK
Second time… Hole in the wall spot in Oakland called Los Cocos… DANK
Third experience was over here at Mi Chalateca … DANK
So this is my third time coming here… I always get the pupusas, steak and cheese for me. I will say that the pupusas do not ooooze cheese like I have tried before but don’t get it twisted. These Pupusas are still succulent and tasty as all hell! Their cabbage is hella good too, I could literally sit there and just munch on the slaw if I wanted to.
I also get the burritos here… Bruhhhhhhhhh great find. The burritos are sooo good and priced REASONABLY… if you are reading this Mi Chalateca… please don’t raise the prices on my broke college ass. You guys are making America great again!
The carne asada is SOOO good though the way they marinate their meat… mmmmm
My girl got a pollo asada burrito soo good too…
BUT WAIT THERES MORE
Have you ever been to a taqueria and they had shitty, stale, nasty, hard, disgusting chips?
Well say no more fam…
they have the crispiest chips i have ever encountered in my lifetime of enjoying Latin delicacies!
AND THEIR SALSA… DUDE THEIR SALSA
So flavorful and really packs a punch to each dip of the crispiest chip you will ever crunch into
If you are in the area. EVEN if you are NOT in the area… and like latin food specifically pupusas come through to Mi Chalateca
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They serve the best pupusa’s in the city. Good options on the menu but the menu looks so clumpsy its hard to find which dish is what.
Service was good and quick. Try their tacos.

So good, we just happen to drive by this place and I now dream about it! It’s the best ! been trying multiple dishes and have not been disappointed once. Try it!

I had my first pupusa from La Chicana in Woodland, CA and it set the bar high. When I moved back to San Jose, I knew I would have to find another go to pupusa spot. I tried Chalateco’s first but its really like the McDonald’s of pupusas. It gets the job done but wasn’t something that left me awe struck. So Mi Chalateca was up next.
It’s definitely better than Chaleteco’s but not close to matching La Chicana. I ordered a cheese with pork and a bean, cheese, and pork (I think these are the ones called revueltas). My partner ordered a cheese and pork and a pork. Our server gave us the wrong plates but I was already half way through a pork and cheese one. There was no going back! Definitely really good and preferred it to the revuelta. I also ordered an horchata. It was OK. Nothing special but not too watered down.
I liked that it was a sit down restaurant. Its on the small side. One awesome thing about Mi Chalateca is that that they have a back lot you can park in. Big plus for being in the downtown area. You won’t have to worry about parking

I used to be a loyal customer for this restaurant but they have change their business in many ways.
I’ve the worse experience ever after not purchasing from them for about 6 months due to their shrinking food and increasing prices. Further, when I returned to purchase an order for to go I ordered 10 different popusas and I got cheated with only 8 plus most of the ones they gave me were only beans.
Poor business and lots to desire from how they used to be.
Too bad they are loosing their clientele due to poor decisions and lack of good customer care.

The food was delicious, especially the pupusas and fried plantains with lechera (you have to order it on the side). The pupusas came out really quickly. Our table waited no more than 10 minutes. The only reason they did not earn 5 stars was because their service was not very good. Our server did not come to our table except to take our order and serve our food. We had to call her across the restaurant to get her attention. This was really uncomfortable and inconvenient.

Stumbled upon this place via Unilocal.The neighborhood is not that great but the food was pretty good. Loved the different varieties of pupusas. I swear a quarter of the page was just that. I opted for the shrimp & pork/​cheese pupusa. What was awesome was that they leave a big container of slaw on your table. Some other places you would need to ask for more. I will come back and try the other foods. The menu was a lot to take in. So much to choose from.

One of the best Central American restaurants I’ve eaten at, no I’m going to say THE BEST! Awesome chicken burrito, and can’t say no to the plantains in honey.

Food was very good here, servers were friendly and nice. We will be back! We came across this place on our way to an Asian restraunt, we were not pleased with the Asian place, we kept driving around and noticed a colorful building (this one) it did not disappoint us.

Delicious food and great service, the waiters are always of help they look happy and fulfill your needs when there I highly recommend

The food here is good. I got pupusas on Tuesday and were amazing! The only thing that bothered me was the dirty menus. The michealada was more on the sweeter side.

Stopped in for a carne asada burrito, which comes with complimentary chips and salsa. The pupusas seem popular here, and come with a huge cartoon of cabbage. The regular size burrito was more than enough food, and I had leftovers. The décor is very loud, with electric lights running along the wall and TV screens in multiple directions. Bathroom is clean.

This place has some bomb papusas! They are very reasonably priced and delicious. They also have a number of different ones to choose from. It’s fairly busy especially late at night but not where you can’t sit down right away. The ladies here are super nice and helpful on choosing a papusa! Lol. I have already come back for more!

Well i was out and about in san jo for the weekend, i dont know the area to much so i asked a fellow Unilocaler for some tips on a place with good grub. She choses to remain anonymous so i wont bust her out.
She recommended this place she said they have some bomb food. So i took her word and headed out to that place. While driving up to their driveway i seen a big sign that said «Hella good tacos» i was like, ok so they are really confident about having some good food, i’ll be the judge of that.
If theres something that im really critique about, that would be on Mexican food just because i make mexican food and i like it a certain way.
Ok here i go, one of the waitresses was really nice the other one was a B!+(#. They would both come to the table on separate times. It was almost like if they were playing good waitress bad waitress.
The food was good. The popusas were good the pickled cabbage that goes on top of the popusa was kinda bitter and bland. I added salt to my cabbage. I also had 2 tacos cabeza (beef head) and lengua (tongue) sadly to say even tho they were good i couldnt tell apart which one was which because they were both greasy as hell.
Before eating i always go to the bathroom to wash my hands. It was weird because theres a mirror in front and behind the toilet. Thats weird like who the hell wants to take a deuce while looking at them selves? lol the rude waitress was just mean and apparently forgetful we asked for more salsa and she would forget, not bring nothing to the table. I asked for another knife because the one i had first got still had food on it. It was all dry and crusty, she brought another one and just threw it on the table. Over all i would give this place a 2^nd chance i wish i could give it 3 and a half stars but i cant because half stars aint a option i guess. The menu was big tho so i could always try something else thanks for the tip fellow Unilocaler Sara T. Oops lol didnt mean to bust u out lol
One more thing out front of the entrance there was a young girl selling bootleg dvds with her lil kids i bought a dvd hoping to help her out some. Support the young struggling mother buy a bootleg movie :)

Come here for the pupusas! :D The revuelta pupusa (pork, beans, and cheese) are yummy! I like to sometimes order the jalapeño and cheese pupusas too :) I usually order 2 or 3 pupusas and it’s very filling! It comes with a big container of pickled cabbage too! Oh, there’s also free chips and salsa. But they no longer have the salsa bar :(The tortas, burritos, and tacos are good too, but this place is best for their pupusas :)There’s indoor and outdoor seating, which is nice. The decorations in the restaurant is a bit different and strange to me. But I love coming to this place for pupusas! It’s only a short walk from SJSU and perfect for lunch or dinner! This place accepts cash and cards, but there’s like a minimum of $ 10 to use card!

Came here due to amazing reviews. We ordered empanadas, pupusas and a torta. The torta was good, not amazing, but good. I was actually surprised the torta was on real sandwich bread rather than a tortilla. The empanadas were not my favorite, which is shocking because I normally LOVE empanadas (I’ve tried the Colombian, Argentinian, and Mexican empanadas before and loved them all) but did not particularly like the fried banana empanadas they have here.
Now the pupusas alone are worth 5 stars. I would come here only for the pupusas. They are medium sized, have a good variety of flavors to choose from, and very savory. They come served with a tomato sauce and a cabbage/​veggie coleslaw type of topping. I recommend eating with the sauce and veggies!
Big downside: they charge a convenience fee for using credit card, no matter what the amount of the bill is, which is ridiculous in 2015! Seriously inconvenient for customers. They do have an ATM inside the restaurant though, which will of course charge you a fee unless you have a specific card that waives them…

My co-​workers and I have been looking for a place that makes good pupusas. We searched on Unilocal and found this place and decided to give it a try. Walked inside the restaurant at about 10:45AM and it wasn’t crowded at all, probably because it wasn’t lunch time yet.
The cashier in the front was very polite and welcomed us in. We took a minute to look at the menu before we decided to order. We both agreed that we wanted to try their pupusas, so I ordered two.
— Revueltas — mixed pork, fried beans and cheese. This one is my favorite of the two because it had a little bit of everything in it. Each bite had all three flavors and it was consistent.
— Chicharron — this one was stuffed with just pork and it was delicious as well. The pupusas was very moist and the meat was tender, not dry at all.
The pupusas were about $ 2.25 each and it came with a side of curtido (kind of like coleslaw) and hot sauce. The curtido had a strong oregano taste, but there was a balance, so it went really well with the pupusas. I’m a fan of this place and my fellow Unilocal reviewers were right, this place was delicious!