El Migueleno Restaurant

I would come back again. This is a nice place if you want good Hispanic food for a reasonable price. I got the pupusas and tamale combo for $ 6.50+tax. I also got got the salvadorien horchata and it was really good! I would definitely recommend it. Growing up salvadorien I gotta say that the pupusas were made well, but the tamales could be better. The reason I gave it a 4 was because my roommate and I were harassed by a regular thier. the dude keep trying to hit on us eventhough we clearly weren’t interested. Although we were harassed that shouldn’t stop you from going to try it out. It’s a good place!

I got 2 pork and cheese pupuas and a chicken tamale for $ 6.50 + tax. It was my first time trying El Salvadorian food and it was amazing! The pupusas were so flavorful and the tamale masa was so soft.

The pupusas are great and cheap. The Salvadorian horchata is delicious. The waiter is relaxed and friendly. Overall, a great place to go for a low key meal with some friends.

Very delicious pupusa and tamal. Friendly people and great salvadorian horchata. Will definitely go back there!

Loved this place. I tried the pupusas and the tamales and they were very similar to what I was eating when I lived in el Salvador. The menu had many of the traditional Salvadoran plates and everything was really delicious. I would highly recommend it (but make sure to order the Salvadoran plates, it’d be a waste to order Mexican food in a Salvadoran place)

Good pupusas and inexpensive. I had the carne asada and they added some plantains for me which I love! Try the Salvadorian style horchata. It’s different and very good. One star less because of the bathroom cleanliness and condition. Other than that a great dinner.

WARNING!!!
THIS IS A MUST EAT AT RESTAURANT!
Just went here for the first time and the papusas were delicious! I tryed them all and it was great! I also tried a salvadorian soda that taste amazing! If I could give them more stars I definitely would MIGUELEÑOS IS A GREAT PLACE TO EAT!

This was recommended to us by a friend who has spent a lot of time in El Savador. Its a small restaurant but as soon as they brought our chips salsa and guacamole we knew it was going to be good! I had a plate with a chicken enchilada and tamale and my husband had pupusas and tamale. Everything was great! We will def be back!

Try the Pupusa. I’d never heard of it before, but it was great! Overall, a great experience.

Food is good, servings are generous, and not expensive. Lots of beer choices, but all of them are light. The venue is pretty clean.

Excellent food here. El Salvadoran quotation cuisine prepared well and great tasting. Very unique! I have come here several times and highly recommend it!

The best pupusas on town, revueltas, de loroco, Beans and chicharrón, delicious salvadorean horchata. Tamales, yuca Frita and much more.

Basically the only Salvadorean restaurant in Monterey bay. I’m happy to say that their pupusas are really good. Not as good as my grandmas or El Salvadoreno in SD. But it’s good enough to come back every two weeks for my cravings. Their menu is limited not many dishes I’m accustomed to eat that are regularly in a Salvadorean restaurant. There’s a bar and a couple of tables and a tv that is alway playing soccer games. I recently noticed that there’s more seats behind a wall. I wouldn’t recommend to sit back there unless you like to feel your in a basement or close to the bathroom.

Very disappointed. 20 bucks wasted. Beans we ok but rice were dry, Asada was salty, and definitely don’t order a burrito. Papusas and that’s it. You’ll be disappointed with anything else.

Not as good as it used to be…

PUPUSAS! OMG the best value for the most amazing pupusas.
Kinda hungry? Order two pupusas and a glass of water and you will pay about $ 4. If you are really hungry order 4 pupusas and pay less than $ 8.
Comes with amazing salsa and cabbage slaw.
A nice treat for cheap.

Food bordered on great. But I had to knock off a star or more due to the disappearing server, the increasingly loud atmosphere, and the Styrofoam take out containers.
Mid afternoon lunch. There was a big party of about 12 people in the middle of the restaurant. Quite a few of the people in the party were young kids, but they were pretty well behaved for most of our time there. Considering the fact that the kitchen was pretty backed up with orders, our food came out pretty quickly. I really liked our pupusas, and my gf liked her huevos rancheros. The chips & salsa were okay but nothing memorable. My fish dish [Filete Migueleno [grilled (freshwater?) fish, guacamole, green cheese enchilada, rice, a bit of salad, pico de gallo, salsa] was very good. The coffee was not very good, surprising considering the fact that they tout the coffee of San Miguel, El Salvador, on their menu and Facebook page.
Service was good for the most part, but then our server disappeared, and the lady taking over ignored us for quite some time. We were finally able to get our check and boxes (Styrofoam) for our leftovers, shortly after the kids in the restaurant and the soccer announcers on the TVs began getting exponentially louder & more obnoxious. Bad way to end a good meal.

Too often, the foods of Central and South America are overshadowed by the more popular fare of their neighbor, Mexico. While many of the same ingredients find their way into the dishes of Mexico, Central America and South America, each country gives these ingredients signature flair.
Around the Monterey Peninsula, you’ll find a number of taquerias serving traditional Mexican favorites. But look a little closer, and you’ll find spots that specialize in the food of other Central American countries.
One of the best examples is hiding in plain sight – El Migueleño, specializing in El Salvadoran food and offering many traditional El Salvadoran dishes, like pupusas, yuca and tamales.
The pupusas – stuffed masa fritters – come in three combinations: pork and cheese, bean and cheese, or loroco and cheese. The loroco and cheese was my favorite, the fluffy, fried masa stuffed with the earthy loroco vine.
The yuca frita included chunks of yuca root – better known as cassava or manioc root – lightly fried and served with chicharrones. The yuca was a little dry, and needed some sauce to cut the starchy root. I loved the spicy salsa on top, even if it was a little watery for my tastes.
I’m a big fan of tamales, and I loved the traditional El Salvadoran preparations on the menu – tamal de gallina and tamal de elote – stuffed with moist shredded chicken and potato or sweet corn, respectively.
The menu also includes more traditional Mexican dishes. I ordered enchiladas verdes, with a green tomatillo sauce and topped with sour cream and avocado. The portion was quite generous, especially considering the price.
Atmosphere and service were a little rough around the edges, but the value of the food more than makes up for the shortcomings in appearance.

This place has excellent food! The Pupusas everyone raves about are rave-​worthy! Very interesting, had never had them before and now I have come back 3 times!
Inexpensive food and good service! My husband and I both leave with our bellies full and to-​go boxes for under $ 20!
Don’t let the exterior of this place fool you! Stop in!
DO try the Pupusas! :)

Had a very pleasant lunch today with my gentleman friend after getting pedicures at our favorite spot around the corner Pro Top Nails (on Fremont Ave.). I ordered a Tecate to get things going and he orderd the Orchata (they didn’t spell it with an «h» for some reason, I know it’s silent in Spanish and all but…) We started with a Pork& Cheese Papusa and a Loroco & Cheese (a vine flower indigenous of Central America) and they were killer especially the pork one so I ordered 7 «para llevar».
I got the #14 a combo of one enchilada, one taco — soft or hard and a chili relleno served with a small salad, rice and beans. Everything was pretty good… I opted for chicken since our server liked chicken better and it was tasty but almost too healthy tasting for me (lacked a rich deep chicken fatty flavor)… which is good for people looking for healthy Salvadorean fare and my gentleman friend ordered the carnitas which too was tasty but again lacking the fatty flavor that I craved. His carnitast dish came with 5 nice sized somewhat large chunks of carnitas, salad, beans and a side of piping hot tortillas — flour or corn.
I ordered another beer and 2 Salvadorean Chicken Tamales, 1 Salvadorean Elote Tamale served with Salvadorean Sour Cream to go with my Papusas… why not?
Super friendly and very prompt service, I truly look forward to going back. Our young good looking waiter said that they started serving breakfast too… at 6am!!! 6am!!! I go to bed closer to 6am than anything…
Next time I’m definitely trying one of their soups… my partner said he used to come here all the time to get the Caldo de Siete Mares to cure a hangover. They offer the seafood combo soup, a shirmp soup and a beef one too.